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June 1, 2003

Film Revives Great Neck Controversy

It's the day before Thanksgiving 1987. The Friedmans are looking forward to a holiday together when police shatter the apparent peace of Great Neck's Piccadilly Road - conducting a raid that ultimately would put Arnold Friedman and his youngest of three sons, Jesse, then 19, behind bars.

January 16, 2003

Toward An Elusive Truth

Three years ago, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, having spent a successful decade in the business world, decided to return to movies with a documentary about children's party clowns. "I thought it would be fun to follow one of these people into their lives," he recalled recently. "I was really trying to make a pretty light film."

May 28, 1989

The Secret Life Of Arnold Friedman

IN THE SPRING of 1986, about 100 people - most of them former students of the guest of honor - crowded a hot, second-floor television studio at Bayside High School in Queens to honor a science teacher named Arnold Friedman.

January 25, 1989

Teen Gets 6-18 Years For Child Sex Abuse

Jesse Friedman, who admitted sexually abusing children during computer classes taught by his father in their Great Neck home, was sentenced yesterday to 6 to 18 years in prison, despite an impassioned defense plea that he was a victim of his father's abuse.

December 21, 1988