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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.
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! NY Daily News: We both have chills. Almost anticlimactic ...
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 ...
Peter Simpson Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer. Early life [ edit ] Hedges was born in West Des Moines, Iowa , where he was raised, the son of Carole (Simpson), a psychotherapist, and the Rev. Robert Boyden Hedges, an Episcopal priest.
The Heights by Hedges, Peter. Publication date 2010 Topics Married people -- Fiction, High school teachers -- Fiction, Adultery -- Fiction, Secrecy -- Fiction ...
Mar 4, 2010 · The Heights is Peter Hedges' first novel in nearly 15 years, and it comes more than 20 years after he wrote What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Although the book treads on familiar territory--struggling within the confines of marriage and child-rearing, temptation, fear of becoming one's parents, life under the social microscope--Hedges unfolds the ...
They are seemingly the last middle-class family in the Heights, whose world is turned upside down by Anna Brody, the new neighbor who moves into the most expensive brownstone in Brooklyn, sending the local society into a tailspin. Anna is not only beautiful and wealthy; she's also mysterious. And for reasons Kate doesn't quite understand, even ...
