It turns out that the Asbury Park Press isn't the only Gannett newspaper grabbing a local angle on MTV's popular new reality TV series, Jersey Shore. Among the eight twenty-somethings sharing a beach house and getting falling-down drunk (when they aren't horizontal in a tanning bed) is one Nicole Polizzi, 22 (left), from the Poughkeepsie Journal's Marlborough community in central New York State. She's better known to her growing fan base as, of course, Snooki."The princess of Poughkeepsie,'' New Yorker magazine TV critic Nancy Franklin says in the issue out yesterday, "is a tiny and very peculiar 22-year-old who is out of control is so many ways (she had the distinction of being the first housemate to overdrink and then vomit; that happened within the first 24 hours) that she's doomed to have her own show one day."
The series is filmed mostly in Seaside Heights, N.J., and in Neptune, home base for the Park Press. The Poughkeepsie Journal weighed in with its own coverage last week, interviewing Polizzi for a story about life after the clock started ticking on her 15 minutes of fame. (Hint: shopping trips to the Poughkeepsie Galleria mall aren't what they used to be.)
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Jim, one tiny factual point: "Jersey Shore" is actually filmed in Seaside Heights, NJ. Seaside is the colloquialism used to refer to both Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, though most of the bars and such are in the Heights.
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