Good News on the Doorstep

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NUTLEY-BELLEVILLE COLUMBUS DAY PARADE

If you have the time or interest, click on the link below to experience the Indian Summer Day of October 9, 2011 and the pagentry of the 29th Annual Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade.

It has it all: DooWop in the background, floats, bands, and comments from the honorees. My less than profound interview can be found around minutes 17-23 or so, if you have the patience.

http://www.rlsmedia.com/videos/nutleybelleville-2011-columbus-day-parade?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150355477797350_19141858_10150355580167
 

All in all, a great job done by the loyal and dedicated Parade Committee. It was quite a trip!

Joe Cervasio

Jersey's James Lepore and His Novels

An old friend popped up a couple of months ago when he discovered my two novels and the screenplay in process for Bad News on the Doorstep. James Lepore and I go way back to the Fall of 1964 in Essex County High School Football, he at Essex Catholic, and I at Belleville. After graduating from Boston College and then Law School, a career as an attorney followed for Jim, ... then the writing bug took a bite at him. The rest is history: four published novels you can't put down.

Jim and I now exchange ideas about writing, story-telling, and life, and his wisdom on all has been priceless to me. Check out his first exciting book, A World I Never Made, and I promise you'll go off and get the other three.

Joe Cervasio

BAD NEWS ON THE DOORSTEP, THE SCREENPLAY

As many of you know, the screenplay for Joe Cervasio's first novel, Bad News on the Doorstep, has been under construction for several years now. With partner, writer/producer Ralph Greco, Jr., final edits are now being done as readers on both coasts register in with their reactions. Ten objective participants, including one actor, one writer, and several protential producer attachments are now engaged in this preliminary reading stage.

"Bad News on the Doorstep," the Screenplay by Joseph Rocco Cervasio and Ralph Greco, Jr., copyright, 2010 by Joseph Rocco Cervasio and Ralph Greco, Jr., is a more realistic look at the true story that inspired the novel. While it is based fully on the fictionalized memoir, Bad News on the Doorstep, copyright, 2004 by Joseph Rocco Cervasio, fans of the novel will discover behind the scenes events not revealed in the original book. And according to early reviews by the screenplay readers, you will enjoy the screenplay/visual project, even more.

Stay tuned, or call Mr. Cervasio or Mr. Greco with questions and/or interest in the project.

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Joe Pesci, Daffodils, and The 11 Secrets of Arimathea

Joe Cervasio attended Joe Pesci's 10th annual Celebrity Skins Game for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System yesterday. Joe and his friends have raised hundreds of thousands to help this great system service more than 200,000 children in need of medical assistance, each year!

How did Joe put his successes together to make such a contribution? Take a look at his Bio some day from barber to Academy Award, ... and he did it one DAFFODIL at a time, ... indeed, evoking Secret #1 of The 11 Secrets of Arimathea.

Take a look below:

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Joe Pesci, from one Belleville guy to another, .... Job Well Done, and thanks for the examples, one at a time.

Joe Cervasio for Diversified Global Strategies, LLC.

IVY LEAGUE TO ASK CORNELL FOOTBALL TO LEAVE?

 

http://web.insidecornellfootball.com/bigred/

... after you see the new Cornell Football Website, it's not hard to imagine the Big Red leaving the other Ancient 7 in the dust. Just maybe??!!!

Indeed, a Perfect Storm is brewing on the most beautiful campus in America, amidst Wrestling, Lacrosse, Hockey domination over the years in the Ivies and now in the national ranks.

Our friends at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have already taken notice, ... for a variety of reasons.

Most of us would never condone leaving the hallowed Ivy League in football, ... but just maybe some day soon there will be those who may ask us to take a hike, ... take a look at the new Cornell Website, and form your own prophecies relative to Big Red Football's future.

http://web.insidecornellfootball.com/bigred/

Charles Grodin Remembers Nicky Melito/Nicky Arnold

For a heartfelt reflection back on the talent of the late, great Nicky Arnold, go to the except from Charles Grodin's wonderful book, I Like It Better When You're Funny.

My Belleville High School classmate who passed away in 1999 was an incomparable talent for whom Charles Grodin had the utmost respect.

See www.readersread.com/excerpts/ilikeitbetterwhenyourefunny.htm

Joe Cervasio, Diversified Global Strategies.

PS: Stand by for Nicky's return as Craig Francello in the screenplay adaptation of Bad News on the Doorstep, by Ralph Greco and Joseph Rocco Cervasio, copyright, 2010.

Don't Miss "Lombardi" on Broadway and HBO

Much is learned from the Broadway play and the HBO special on the late, great coach, Vince Lombardi. Most of all was his concern for the misinterpretation of ... "Winning isn't everthing, ... it's the only thing." The good coach was really speaking of focus, commitment, and concentration, which is surely the winning way of performing that guarantees success in all endeavors. Focus on the field on what you are doing, leave it all there, and there will be no regrets.

Well, Secret #1 in Now or Never: The 11 Secrets of Arimathea, is all about such focus on the moment. While there is so much to respect about the iconic coach from the NY/NJ area, if only his own focus did not blurr as he contemplated the uncertainty of his future games, while ignoring his deteriorating physical condition.

Perhaps, like so many flawed heroes, his own limitations serve his legacy as they teach us today; i.e., Do as I say, not as I did.

Still, in the end, the Super Bowl Trophy is named the Lombardi Trophy... rest in peace, great Coach. 

Reader Compares "Bad News on the Doorstep" to "Bronx Tale."

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Gerald Corbo just finished reading your book, was very moved, loved it & i`m not a book reader, am available 4 the movie, liked it as much as, a bronx tale! best to u & yours & may god bless ya`s all. CORBO

Well, "New friends are like silver," my late mother once told me. "But, the old, ... like gold."

Gerry Corbo and Joe Cervasio go way back to the fifties and days of old summers, ... perhaps bumping into each other at Charlie Buccino's Italian Deli on Franklin Street in the Silver Lake section of Belleville, picking up a pound of balogne or some Giordano rolls; and those endless double sessions of football practice at Belleville High.

So, this reader's review is a bit prejudiced. "Gerry does know the true story, ... Bad News'... characters are hardly fictionalized. Unlike a reader from Southern California, my old friend's imagination took him on nostalgic rides with each word." Author Cervasio concludes, "Yea, old friends are like gold."

Bad News on the Doorstep is now available in Kindle format. Just go to www.amazon.com and search Cervasio Bad News on the Doorstep. Joe's second book, Now or Never: The 11 Secrets of Arimathea, can also be ordered there. 

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Tina Cervasio and Ed Marinaro in the News and on Imus In The Morning

There was a time, not so long ago, when Joe Cervasio's older daughter Tina Cervasio referred to legendary Cornell All American and Hollywood actor Ed Marinaro as ... "Uncle Eddie." With her dad and Mr. Marinaro being friends since Cornell and still close exchanging business strategies and family stories regularly, Tina refers to her trip to "Uncle Eddie's" when interviewed about her career decisions.

 

"Yes, Ed's hospitality and tour guide spirit back in the New Year's week of December '85/January '86 gave her the idea it should be sports broadcasting," remembers Joe. "We were in California for the UCLA-IOWA Rose Bowl, Ed invited my wife Maria, Tina and our younger daughter Corrine for one of his brunch specials at his home in Beverly Hills, ... and the rest is history. His graciousness, the trip the next day to the set of 'Hill Street Blues'--Ed's employer for some special years--and then the Rose Bowl made Tina's decision... at the ripe old age of 12!"

 

Read about Tina's present work at MSG with the Knicks in Mike Lamberti's complimentary article (Star Ledger and Belleville Times/Nutley Sun sports editor):

 

http://www.northjersey.com/sports/80875972_Cervasio_s_work_praised_by_colleagues.html

 

And watch Ed on "Imus in the Morning" today on Fox News. Don't forget Ed starring in "Blue Mountain State." It's on Spike TV, commencing Tuesday, January 12 at 10 PM. But according to "Uncle Eddie", while you will roar, the kids better be sleeping by then. http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3964967/ed-marinaro-on-new-spike-tv-show/

 

 

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PS: another key to Tina's career? Her appearance a couple of years ago standing in for Sid Rosenburg as sports anchor, ... on "Imus in the Morning"!!