Popular Culture
- The 1993 movie, Amongst Friends by Rob Weiss, was filmed and set in the Five Towns.
- The television show, Entourage, features a fictional show titled Five Towns, in which Johnny Drama stars as a character. The producer of the show was supposed to be actor-director Edward Burns, who in real life grew up in Valley Stream but attended Hewlett High School. When shown on Entourage the Five Towns is portrayed as a gritty industrial area.
- Karen Hill, who married Mobster Henry Hill - whose life was immortalized by Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy and Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas - hailed from Five Towns, and the newlyweds initially lived there with Karen's parents
- In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 debut novel V., he mentions the Five Towns, however, he includes Malverne as being part of the group.
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