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Passover and Easter on video
In home video's 1980s and '90s heyday, Easter emerged as a prime selling holiday. Religious epics, holiday-related classics and children and family holiday specials were marketed as "basket stuffers." As with Christmas and Thanksgiving, Easter (as...
Tags: Movies, Family, Val Kilmer, Passover Seder, Arts and Culture
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Film review: 'Oz The Great and Powerful' lacks brain, heart and courage
Special to The Herald-MailI was talking with my mom the other day and we agreed that 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" was my first favorite movie. When I was a toddler I would make her impersonate the characters for hours on end, I owned toy models of all the characters, my first...Tags: Movies, Rachel Weisz, Zach Braff, Halloween, Entertainment Events
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'Oz the Great and Powerful' explains the man in the Emerald City ★★ 1/2
In show business, like all business, very often you spend money to make money. Director Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful" is Disney's latest attempt to spend $200 million to make a billion worldwide, on the order of Tim Burton's "Alice in...
Tags: Movies, Rachel Weisz, Jack the Giant Slayer (movie), The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), L. Frank Baum
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Mayor, council members sworn in
The Town of Hancock held the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected mayor and council members Monday. Mayor Daniel Murphy was sworn in by Clerk of the Court Dennis Weaver and then presided over the swearing in of new council members Homer...Tags: Movies, William Shakespeare, Early Learning, Ceremonies, Soups
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Jackie Scott, a standout local blues singer, to kick off new live series at Hampton History Museum
Mike McGrann, formerly marketing chief at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, has changed jobs and is now working for the Hampton History Museum. Looks like he's brought his love of live music to his new post. Next month, the Hampton History Museum will...
Tags: Movies, Arts and Culture, Casablanca (movie), Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Petroleum Industry
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Free 'Starry Starry Night' in Ormond Beach
Each January for the past 23 years, the City of Ormond Beach has celebrated art and culture with a Friday Night gallery walk called "Starry Starry Night." The 2013 edition of "Starry Starry Night" will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. this Friday, Jan. 4....
Tags: Dr. Seuss, Movies, Entertainment, Arts, Human Interest
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Film review: 'Rise of the Guardians' fails to be a holiday hit
Special to The Herald-Mail"Rise of the Guardians" is a humdrum animated film that I'm sure is supposed to be the start of a hot new franchise. The premise is that legendary children's characters, often believed to be imaginary, are in fact real and moonlight as superheroes. I...Tags: Movies, Rise of the Guardians (movie), Entertainment, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law
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Plan for downtown theater calls for restaurant, bar
Tribune reporterStar Cinema Grill has signed a lease to take over the former Arlington Theaters in downtown Arlington Heights, officials announced Friday. The Houston-based company in the upcoming weeks will go before the Arlington Heights Village Board to seek a...Tags: Movies, Olive Garden, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking
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Murray is the anchor, but plot adrift in 'Hyde Park on Hudson' ★★
The music’s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient “Hyde Park on Hudson,” starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood,...
Tags: Movies, Samuel West, Laura Linney, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Radio
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'Cirque du Soleil' comes to town, but it's a might tedious ★★ 1/2
Cirque du Soleil movies are a lot like ballet films — long on beauty and artistry, short on story. "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away" is a 3-D catalog of the wonders of the Cirque company's Las Vegas shows, from "Believe" and "Mystere" to "O" and...
Tags: Movies, Enya, Entertainment, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (movie), Cirque du Soleil
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Weekend calendar - Dec. 14
Christmas at the Pry House Learn what Christmas was like during the time of the Civil War. Have your photo taken with Civil War Santa Claus Jim Tent. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Pry House Field Hospital Museum, 18906 Shepherdstown Pike, Sharpsburg. $3...Tags: Movies, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Christmas Music (genre), Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions
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'Won't Back Down' gets a D+ for a public school polemic ★ 1/2
Bored and visibly sneering as she fiddles with her cellphone while sitting at her desk, the grade school teacher barely takes notice of the sweet young girl challenged by learning disabilities. The student stands nervously before the blackboard,...
Tags: Movies, Public Schools, Waiting for Superman (movie), Viola Davis, Teaching and Learning
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