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BHB Ten 2010 – This Year’s Most Notable Brooklyn Heights Residents

By on December 28, 2010 7:00 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights

This year’s BHB Ten is an interesting bunch.  Some have added “flava” to Brooklyn Heights, while other have made it more beautiful, more interesting and dare we say more fun.  Some have dedicated themselves to preserving the area’s unique historic character.  We know there will be a lively discussion about who made this year’s list… and those who did not.  The list, after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Hedges’ Brooklyn Heights Novel Coming to Big Screen

By on April 6, 2010 7:49 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

Brooklyn Heights based author Peter Hedges will adapt, direct and produce the film version of his novel The Heights. Variety reports that  Focus Features acquired the film rights for the Brooklyn Heights based novel.  This project reunites the author with Focus head of production, John Lyons who produced Pieces of April which was written and directed by Hedges.

No word on if the film will be shot here but given the fact that Hedges curated the BHA’s “Hollywood in the Heights” event it’s probably a safe bet that it will.

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Peter Hedges Talks (and Walks) The Heights with the NY Daily News

By on March 12, 2010 9:07 am in Brooklyn Heights

Boerum Hill resident/ Brooklyn Heights based author Peter Hedges is featured in today’s NY Daily News.  He gives a walking tour of Brooklyn Heights and talks about his nabe-based novel The Heights.

Tickets for Homer Fink’s Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour on 3/27 are on sale now!
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Peter Hedges: More on The Heights

By on March 1, 2010 10:22 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

Russ Jolly shot this short promotional film for Peter Hedges’ upcoming novel The Heights.   Hedges spoke to BHB on Saturday and he’ll be reading from the book at Book Court in Cobble Hill on Thursday (3/4) its official release date.

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Peter Hedges Talks The Heights

By on February 27, 2010 4:09 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents

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On Saturday morning, BHB had the opportunity to chat with Boerum Hill resident/Brooklyn Heights based novelist, playwright and filmmaker Peter Hedges.   His credits include the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, writer-director of Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life as well as an Academy Award nomination as co-writer of the screenplay for About a Boy.  His third novel, The Heights, goes on sale this Thursday (3/4).

The Heights is the story of Tim and Kate Welch and what happens the year Kate goes back to work and Tim, a history teacher at the prestigious Montague Academy, takes a year sabbatical to watch their two young sons. Add a charismatic new neighbor and a newly famous old lover and The Heights proves a smart, witty and thoughtful meditation on family, fidelity and The Magic Kingdom. Continue Reading →

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Peter Hedges’ Novel, The Heights, Set For March Debut

By on February 12, 2010 10:19 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Events

BHB photo by C. ScalesNovelist, screenwriter, director and actor Peter Hedges, whose studio is on Montague Street, has completed a new novel, The Heights, set in–where else?–Brooklyn Heights. Publishers Weekly reviewer Sandrea Talarico calls it “spellbinding”: Continue Reading →

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Peter Hedges Emcees “Hollywood in the Heights” as BHA Launches Centennial Celebration

By on January 21, 2010 4:48 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents
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Multi-talented Peter Hedges–novelist, screenwriter, actor, director, and Oscar nominee–lives in Boerum Hill but works from his studio on Montague Street. Yesterday evening he was master of ceremonies for the opening event of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s year long centennial festivities, “Hollywood in the Heights”, a video presentation and panel discussion about movie-making in our neighborhood. The event was held before a capacity crowd at St. Francis College auditorium, and began with brief introductory remarks by BHA President Tom van den Bout and Borough President Marty Markowitz. Continue Reading →

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BHA Announces Year Long 100th Anniversary Festivities, Launches New Website

By on December 22, 2009 3:47 pm in Brooklyn Heights

The Brooklyn Heights Association will be celebrating its centennial with a series of events in 2010, it was announced today.  Details of the celebration have been revealed on the group’s new website which launched today:

TheBHA.org: ‘Celebrating a Century’ — A Yearlong Series of Events: And this year there will be more than ever happening on the BHA front. Our Celebrating a Century event series has something for everyone — beginning on January 20th with Hollywood in the Heights, a unique and comprehensive look at how the scenic neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights has been portrayed in film, hosted by Peter Hedges, Brooklyn resident and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and novelist (Pieces of April, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy). And check out our Centennial Events update link for more on everything on tap — from a pub crawl later in the year to historical and architectural walking tours to concerts and special events at the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The Auster Agency is working with the BHA to produce and to promote the events.

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Nabe Director… In Real Life

By on October 26, 2007 10:37 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxyCzYGaZ0Y[/video]Director Peter Hedges lives and works in Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill. His new movie, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell opens today: Continue Reading →

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