Sunday, December 2, 2012
"Boardwalk Empire" is a hit television show that shares the same name—and a few facts—as the nonfiction book that inspired the HBO series.
What's in a name? When it comes to comparing Nucky Johnson, Atlantic City's real-life politics and racketeering boss, to HBO's fictionalized "Nucky Thompson" in the series Boardwalk Empire, the answer is more than just the TV character's fictionalized name. Author Nelson Johnson, who literally wrote the book on the real Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, says HBO's Terence Winter has said the fictionalized character created for the TV version of Boardwalk Empire is 70 percent drawn from Johnson's 2002 book of the same name. When I told Johnson, a state Superior Court judge whom I've known for more than two decades, that it strikes me that the percentages are more like 60 percent fiction and 40 percent fact in the HBO series, he laughed and quickly …
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Nelson Johnson, author of the book "Boardwalk Empire," spoke in Galloway on Saturday.
The Murphy Writing Seminars' Winter Prose and Poetry Getaway is now in its 19th year, but this was the first year it was held at Seaview Resort in Galloway and in conjunction with Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Fittingly, with the workshop's move from Cape May to Atlantic County, one of the county's foremost historians, Nelson Johnson, of Boardwalk Empire fame, spoke on Saturday evening. He was introduced by former Press of Atlantic City reporter Thomas Peele, who had consulted with Johnson when Peele was a reporter in Atlantic City and Johnson a lawyer. Peele praised Johnson's work on the book, Boardwalk Empire, which inspired the HBO show of the same name. "There was a painstaking amount of research in this 20-year passion …
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
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To the shrill sounds of whistles, cheers and catcalls, with waves and camera flashes everywhere, the 40th graduating class of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey began accepting their diplomas Saturday morning. Among the graduates is Louis Anthony Rose, a Galloway resident and business major. While his degree hasn't yet resulted in a business career—he's working at a casino restaurant for now—his mother, Theresa Rose-Clementi of Egg Harbor City, described her son's graduation as "joyful." His pick of majors came as a surprise. She thought given his math skills, he might have picked a more technical major, but she thinks a Stockton business major should be able to use the degree in a variety of jobs. Sounding every bit the mother, …
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El Patron
2:45 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
BoardWalk Empire one of the best shows. I love the old school Mobster Movies and to have a show with Nucky, AL Copene, and Lucky Luciano this show has the big shots, of the old times. GREAT SHOW more ›