It wasn't that he demanded to be the center of attention. He also performed in shows at Prescott Park and the Seacoast Repertory Theater in Portsmouth, and was in a Papa Gino's commercial when he was 12. Zoom.' He performed at the theater and was a counselor at its summer camp. Nathan's friends at Peacock Players Inc., a children's theater in Nashua, nicknamed him 'Mr. It was kind of like a ventriloquist, only he wasn't a ventriloquist, and it was very funny,' she said. Jones, and they would tell jokes to each other. 'He had a dummy that would sit in his lap - that was Mr. One of her favorite memories was of a skit called 'Mr.

Nathan was also very talented as an actor, Taylor said. He was also a really good team player.'Īlthough the show sought children with a 'kid next door' demeanor, it quickly became clear that Mr.

'Jared was just a wonderful, wonderful kid,' Taylor said yesterday. He was on the show for one season and would have been invited back had he not reached adolescence, said executive producer Kate Taylor.

Nathan was 13 when he was selected for the 1999 revival of 'Zoom,' a public television show made by WGBH-TV in Boston that debuted in the 1970s. Nathan's roommate at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass. He was released on $500 cash and $1,500 personal recognizance bail. Police have arrested the driver, Gabriel King, 19, of Hudson, Mass., on a charge of aggravated drunken driving. Nathan was a passenger in a Toyota Camry that crashed into a tree and overturned early Thursday morning in Hollis, authorities said.

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