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NY's Idina Menzel Had One Stipulation Before Agreeing To Showstopping 'Wicked' Cameo NY's Idina Menzel Had One Stipulation Before Agreeing To Showstopping 'Wicked' Cameo
NY's Idina Menzel Had One Stipulation Before Agreeing To Showstopping 'Wicked' Cameo Thank goodness it all worked out. While it may be true that no one mourns the wicked, fans certainly would have mourned the absence of New York native Idina Menzel had she not made her scene-stealing cameo in the spellbinding new “Wicked” movie. The musical fantasy film – a two-part adaptation of the Broadway stage musical that was loosely based on the 1995 novel – tells the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Menzel, who grew on Long Island in Syosset, was the first actress to portray its protagonist, Elphaba, a role for which sh…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies
Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies A retired priest who served as a pastor and college faculty member on Long Island and was a prolific sculptor has died. The Rev. Harold Erwin Buckley died Saturday, May 11. He was 94.  Buckley was born in Brooklyn on March 31, 1925, to a mother, Elizabeth, and a father, Jeremiah, both immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland.  He was the middle child in a family of five, his sister Elizabeth and brothers Jeremiah, Eugene, and Robert.  Buckley became interested in the priesthood as a teenager, went to Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in 1942 and was ordained t…

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by Donna Christopher