A 70-Year-Old Story Comes To Life In New Book By Westchester Author

You know how you hear your grandparent's stories over and over but then one day you finally listen and realize there's something incredible there? In a way that's what happened to Yvette Manessis Corporon . When the Yonkers resident first wrote "When the Cypress Whispers" in 2014, a novel about the deep bond between an American woman and her Greek grandmother, she wove in the story her "ya ya" had always told her: about how the people of Erikousa, a small Greek island, hid a Jewish family during World War II.

Ben Stiller draws from his experiences as both a father and a son in two new character-driven films

... of being a father or being a son." Stiller is talking on the phone while sitting in the back of a car somewhere in Yonkers, N.Y., in the middle of a tech scout for "Escape at Dannemora," an eight-part Showtime series he is directing that stars ...