Ben like George is a movie star who has turned director in a number of previous films and is set to assume the same position again. In fact after The Tender Bar Ben's docket includes directing. The Tender Bar is in pre-production starring Ben Affleck. A boy grows up without a father but is surrounded with unlikely surrogates: the patrons who haunt a pub in Manhasset, Long Island where his. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak-and eventually from reality. In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving.

© Ty Albushies All eyes were on George Clooney and others coming out of the Wakefield Bowladrome Monday

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Tuesday, April 6. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• A Worcester Board of Health member accused police Chief Steven Sargent of lying about racism in the department during a public hearing on Monday.
• A Natick woman charged in connection to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot had her case pushed back by two months due to the enormity of the investigation.
• 'The Tender Bar,' a movie directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, was on location in the Wakefield.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Today's Top Story

The latest sightings of George Clooney and Ben Affleck in Massachusetts were reported in Wakefield, where film crews shot at an old bowling alley Monday.

Clooney is directing the film adaptation of 'The Tender Bar,' a 2005 memoir by J. R. Moehringer, and production is on location at several places in eastern Massachusetts. Scenes have also been filmed in Beverly and Watertown since principal photography began Feb. 22. Filming is set to finish later this month, and will include some scenes filmed in Worcester.

In addition to Affleck, the film features 'American Horror Story' star Lily Rabe and 'X-Men' actor Tye Sheridan. Christopher Lloyd, Sondra James, Max Martini, Michael Braun, Matthew Delamater, Max Casella, Rhenzy Feliz, Ivan Leung, Briana Middleton, and Daniel Ranieri round out the rest of the top-billed cast.

Development began in 2013, but production did not get the green light until Clooney signed on as director after Amazon Studios picked up the rights last July. The film is about a boy seeking replacement for his father, who disappeared shortly after his birth, and bonds with his uncle and the patrons at a bar.

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Tuesday's Other Top Stories

Delay in Capitol riot case against town meeting member: A Natick woman charged in connection to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot had her case pushed back by two months due to the enormity of the investigation, according to federal prosecutors. Suzanne Ianni, an elected Town Meeting member, was arrested by the FBI in January and charged at federal court in Boston. Prosecutors are prioritizing cases against defendants being held in jail; Ianni was released after her arraignment.

Chief accused of lying about racism in department: More than a hundred residents and city officials attended a Worcester Board of Health public hearing on racism and police brutality Monday night — an event some members of the board had been trying to hold since the summer. During the meeting a board member accused Chief Steven Sargent of lying about racism in the department.

3-month bridge closure in Sudbury: A section of a major north-south route between Route 20 and Hudson will close in June for nearly three months. The town is rebuilding a bridge, a project that has been in the works since 2018.

Cue the next debate in the coronavirus pandemic: Northeastern University will require all students returning to campus this fall to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus before their first day of class. Northeastern is the first major Massachusetts school to announce a mandatory vaccination policy. That could be a hot topic in coming months as more schools and organizations consider mandatory vaccinations.

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'I am running for a full term as Mayor to ensure a better, stronger city for every Bostonian.'

—Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey announcing her plans to run for a full term.

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$500: The amount a North Andover woman charged for unlicensed, silicone butt injections between 2004 and 2019. Gladys Araceli Ceron, 72, pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of 'delivery for pay of an adulterated or mis-branded medical device received in interstate commerce with the intent to defraud or mislead.'