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"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore," Dean Martin used to sing to audiences across the world.  No doubt some eyes will widen later this month as the suave superstar's daughter, Deana Martin,  will rekindle memories of her beloved father at the 11th annual Silent Auction and Concert at St. Agnes Academy's Siena Performning Arts Center. "Deana Sings Dino" is the name of the tribute Deana Martin will present. The program will feature songs her father made famous including, "Volare" and its enchanting lyrics, "Volare, OH OH. E Cantare, oh oh oh oh, No wonder my happy heart sings, your love has given me wings." Deana Martin was front and center for much of her father's brilliant career in night clubs, television and the cinema. She was a regular player on NBC's "Dean Martin Show" and became familiar with her father's famous friends, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop---known worldwide as "The Rat Pack." Ms.

The Dyersburg State Community College Theatre Department will present Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers, Thursday through Saturday, March 22nd -24th.

Written by Simon in 1991 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the play was made into a movie in 1993, starring Mercedes Reuhl and Richard Dreyfuss.

Though labeled as a comedy, the play is a hybrid of comedy and tragedy, as the reasons for the eccentricities of the family are revealed, while still masked by the humor. The play centers around the Kurnitz family at the close of World War II, and the action takes place in the apartment, located just above the candy/ice cream store of the family’s matriarch, Grandma Kurnitz. Grandma Kurnitz is a German Jewish immigrant who has no friends, and does not appear to want any.