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Friday, September 25, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 39
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School scandal film named best at Emmy Awards ’Bad Education’ wins outstanding TV movie prize for native Mike Makowsky BY R O S E W E L D ON “Bad Education,” the film based on the embezzlement scandal that plagued the Roslyn school district in the early 2000s, was named the best television movie or miniseries of the 2019-20 television season at the Creative Arts Emmys Awards on Saturday night. The film won over four Netflix productions: “American Son,” “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend,” and “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.” Writer, producer and Roslyn alumnus Mike Makowsky is listed as a recipient of the award, and in a statement to Blank Slate Media referred to a tweet he had written on the win. “My teachers at Roslyn were the first adults to encourage me to pursue creative writing,” Makowsky said. “Years later they were my primary sources and
first readers on the Bad Education script. They deserve all the thanks I can give (and they *probably* deserved a better title for the movie too).” The film, which premiered on pay-cable network HBO on April 25 following a successful run at the Toronto International Film Festival, is based on Frank Tassone, who headed the Roslyn school district for 12 years, beginning in 1990, and took it to a ranking of No. 4 in the country. After the quiet dismissal of Assistant Superintendent Pamela Gluckin, played in the movie by Allison Janney, a story on the dismissal was written by then-senior Rebekah Rombom and published in the school newspaper The Hilltop Beacon, leading to parents finding out and Tassone’s subsequent resignation in June 2002. Rombom was thanked in the film’s credits, and the role inspired by her was played by actress GeralContinued on Page 51
PHOTO VIA INSTAGRAM, COURTESY OF JOJO ANAVIM
Flower Hill native and mixed media artist Jojo Anavim in his pop-up gallery on Old Northern Boulevard in the Village of Roslyn. See story on page 2.
NYC man charged with driving drunk in Roslyn BY R O S E W E L D ON
Nassau County Police Department. Detectives said that Bryan A Manhattan man was arrested early Sunday morning Ramirez, 27, of 125 Seaman for driving while intoxicated Ave. in the Inwood neighborwith two children in the back- hood of Manhattan was operseat of his car, according to the ating a 2002 gray Acura trav-
eling westbound on the Long Island Expressway near exit 37 around 4 a.m. in Roslyn. “Defendant Ramirez was observed by officers making multiple lane changes unsafeContinued on Page 51
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