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rt 'mill wi YARD i for '1 ASSOCIATED PRESS Rabbi David Niederman, executive director of the United Jewish Organization of Williamsburg, gestures toward the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the Brooklyn borough of New York Thursday, where a big Hollywood-style studio is planned to be built. To ensure that their kids grow up in the same sheltered environment as previous generations, local religious leaders are ready for a court fight to stop the planned $120 million development. Holy 'hood or Hollywood? A fight grows in Brooklyn over planned movie studio complex Gordon Green (nominated for Best First Screenplay) about the street children of a Southern town (who all were nominated jointly for Best Debut Performance). The awards have helped encourage small films since 1W5 and are handed out shortly before the Academy Awards. This year, the show will be hosted by offbeat director John Waters.

The Movado "Someone to Watch Award" is presented to a talented up-and-coming director of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The finalists are: Marc Forster, director of "Everything Put Dan McCormack, director of "Other and Mia Trachinger, director of "Bunny." The Motorola Producers Award is for individuals who demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films. The finalists are: Jim McKay, producer of "American Movie" and "Our Paul S. Mezey, producer of ''The Ballad of Ramblin Jack" and "Spring Tim Perell, producer of "Louis and Frank" and "Myth of and Diana E. Williams, producer of "I)ve Machine" and "Our Song." The DirecTVI FC Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of nonfiction features; a filmmaker of unique vision and talent who has not yet received significant attention.

The finalists for the 2001 DirecTVIFC Truer Than Fiction Award are: Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont for "Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin David Shapiro and Iaurie Gwen Shapiro for "Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal James Ronald Whitney for "Just, and Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen for "Benjamin Smoke." For a full list of the awards, go to the Independent Spirit Awards Web site at www.ifp.org. attend private schools. The Satmars have their own community centers and their own housing. Families will sometimes double up in a house rather than relocate to a more secular part of the city. Despite the rabbis' revolt, the project's developers were as quiet as a silent movie without the organ music.

Bernie Dushman of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. declined to comment. Two phone calls left for developer Madigan at his New Jersey office were not returned. But sooner or later, leaders in the Williamsburg community say, the developers will have to answer. "1 have never been to Hollywood," Niederman acknowledged.

"But it is only common sense that a person is impacted by what's in front of their eyes. As I say, there's a reason we live in Williamsburg." il Abraham Zimmerman, one of the opponents of the plan that was once backed by Oscar winner Robert De Niro and Miramax Studios honcho Harvey Weinstein. That high-profile pair was stunned in October 1999 when city officials spurned their offer and agreed to allow a partnership of New York Studios and Steiner Equities to develop the 15-acre site. Under their proposal, the decrepit property just south of Williamsburg would host a dozen sound stages plus other production facilities a touch of Hollywood on the East River. Construction is scheduled to begin this year.

Neighborhood Jewish leaders quickly blanched at the proposal and met with one of the developers, Louis Madigan, to express their dismay. "We hoped he would act like a mensch," said Rabbi David Niederman, executive director MOVIE between father and son as well. In a statement just released, Hoffman and the defendants announced they have "amicably" resolved the dispute. The terms and conditions of the settlement were not disclosed. Irish actor Colin Farrell may replace Matt Damon as Tom Cruise's co-star in the Steven Spielberg-directed thriller, "Minority Report." Timing is everything as "Minority" had been put on hold while Spielberg decided to first tackle which is based on a Countrv Buffet Prime Rib Patten Mills Fort Ann 793 Tonight I'tirty with KENNY THE A BACKSTREET BOYS I own al: vmn.

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Actor-director Jon Favreau, who starred in "Swingers," said it was an honor to also be on a nominating committee this year. In the back of the Hollywood nightclub the El Rey with his newlywed wife, Favreau said, "Only a few films have really wowed me this year, 'Traffic' and 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Pullman, quipping that he was presenting at a nightclub, said, "1 shouldn't be up here with a podium. I thought I should be up here with a "Chuck and about the childhood friendship of two young men, with one of them obsessed about their early boyhood sexual play, was nominated for Miguel Arteta's directing, Mike White'sscreenplay and Debut Performance, Best Feature under $500,000 and Best Supporting Female for Lupe Ontiveros. Best Feature went to "Before Night Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," "Requiem for a Dream" and "George Washington," a movie by 25-year-old David PUBLIC SERVICE AO Chapman Historical Museum Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Not in Williamsburg, though. Home to the conservative Satmar Hasidic sect since 1946, the Brooklyn neighborhood wants to prevent its children from an inculcation of show business' mores particularly its casual attitude toward sex. To ensure their kids grow up in the same sheltered environment as previous generations, local religious leaders are ready for a court fight to stop the planned $120 million development at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard. "It's like bringing Times Square into the middle of Amish country," complained Rabbi Abbie Hoffman's son, America, has settled a lawsuit that he launched against Lion's Gate Films, Abbie! Productions and producerdirector Robert Greenwald last August. The suit indicated that he objected to the way he was portrayed in their 2000 film "Steal This Movie." The film starred Vincent D'Onofrio as the late political activist Abbie Hoffman, and traced his 1960s antics.

America Hoffman claimed in the lawsuit filed in Superior Court that the movie falsely portrayed him as "a wimpy, quiet, sulking and effeminate mama's boy" and implied that he might be homosexual. According to the suit, the movie inaccurately portrayed the relationship in the C0FHE HOUSE Matt Sper.ce Downstairs Wpm Lost Episode mm MDLSMUtiO 792-6062 i rA tontA om. mm mw-j vui EDDY i TONIGHT i i Mil Mi i WPM-2AM AT 1 cy :) I of the United Jewish Organization of Williamsburg. "You know, before any action is taken, let's sit down and talk. Let's see the issues and come to an agreement." Hut the developers ignored subsequent phone calls and a letter, said Niederman, whose organization represents more than 150 neighborhood groups, synagogues and charities.

This perceived disrespect led to a recent get-together called by Grand Rebbe Moses Teitel-baum, spiritual leader of 100,000 Satmar Hasidim worldwide. Teitelbaum delivered a simple and succinct message to a collection of local religious leaders gathered in the library of his home: "Defeat that project." "This," Niederman says, "is a holy message that we will comply with." In Williamsburg, the 40,000 Satmars have created their own small universe within the big city. Some 10,000 students NOTES script by Spielberg's friend, the late director Stanley Kubrick. The delay gave Cruise time to commit to playing a disfigured womanizer in "Vanilla Sky." Farrell was singled out for his performance in Joel Schumacher's "Tigerland" and has since been cast in Schumacher's "Phone Kxth" as well as landing the lead role in "Hart's War." According to No Old McDonald's 234 Warren St, GF Our Food Made US Famous Our Live Music -4f 'y Makes Us Funl CRAB ATflSH PR1SQUETTE Venison Meat loaf The Fabulous "Area Code fodii ays a i ii ShowBizIreland.com., Farrell met with "Minority" co-producers Spielberg and Cruise, resulting in an offer of $1.5 million plus an unspecified share of back-end profits. 9 Wain 'MfVflsFaitj ''rwvte'x, th'vt 7923929 THEIIHOUR Karaoke 9:30 0PM 24 WW.S Weekend Specials WtiOpm Cheese Ravioli Hilh midllwlli Adirondack Pot Roast Melt Ijdtk threw, onionv hnrwrailnh uu(ti 0 Grilled Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich Ion hoajjie pepprn, oniiinundihrivlHiiiM Baked Haddock au gratin J92S Warm Peach Cobbler Ml r.

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