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Filmmaker Spike Lee In Philly Campaigning For Kamala Harris Filmmaker Spike Lee In Philly Campaigning For Kamala Harris
Filmmaker Spike Lee In Philly Campaigning For Kamala Harris Filmmaker Spike Lee will be in Philadelphia to support Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 30, according to the Harris-Walz campaign. Lee — known films like Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Mo' Better Blues — will be joined by Harris-Walz Co-Chair Jasmine Crocket to rally Black Philadelphians in support of Vice President Kamala Harris at 11 a.m., a campaign news release states. The event is also meant to highlight Pennsylvania Democrats’ New Way Forward agenda to expand opportunity, according to the news release. State Senator Vincent Hughes and Philadelphia Co…

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by Merriell Moyer
News
Teen's Coming-Of-Age YouTube Video That Won Jim Thorpe Film Fest Becoming Hollywood Movie Teen's Coming-Of-Age YouTube Video That Won Jim Thorpe Film Fest Becoming Hollywood Movie
Teen's Coming-Of-Age YouTube Video That Won Jim Thorpe Film Fest Becoming Hollywood Movie A young director's short film on YouTube with more than 7.3 million views that was filmed across New Jersey will soon be made into a major motion picture. According to Deadline, TriStar Pictures — a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment — purchased the rights to Wesley Wang's "nothing, except everything" following a bidding war. It will be produced by Darren Aronofsky and his company, Protozoa Pictures. The 12-minute 50-second movie is about a graduating high schooler navigating a "world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7," according to the IMDB desc…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NJ Actress, 32, Killed In Double Shooting Overcame Rare Disease NJ Actress, 32, Killed In Double Shooting Overcame Rare Disease
NJ Actress, 32, Killed In Double Shooting Overcame Rare Disease Carley Elbert was no stranger to pain. The 32-year-old New Jersey actress spent years of her life battling a rare illness, Mast Cell Disease. Elbert shared her struggles with the hundreds of people who followed her journey, spreading awareness about the illness in a Facebook group called Hope For Carley. Her last post in the group was a TikTok video she made last November. In it, Elbert celebrates being a Mast Cell Disease survivor, bouncing along to music in her car. While Elbert survived years of pain and hospitalizations, her life ended tragically and suddenly this week, when the Atlan…

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by Chris Spiker & Cecilia Levine