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The 1946 Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" has become such an American icon, it's almost impossible to think of anyone but Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore in the movie's leading roles.
News Type: Opinion — Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:11 AM EST Images courtesy RKO Radio Pictures and Angel's Corner (Zuzu's official website). Child actress Karolyn Grimes played 'Zuzu' in the movie, and starred in fifteen other films in...
For someone who has released only two albums in the last eight years, Pound has a remarkable amount of creative drive. Such experimentation is the lifeblood of "Theirs & Ours" - a 13-song album that plays like a home-recorded...
MIKE WELLMAN is the author of "Far From the Trees" [Outskirts Press] and works as a staff writer for the Des Moines public schools. wellmen@mchsi.com • November 26, 2009 Fortunately, if that's the word, our lifestyle had...
Too much food. The funny thing about Thanksgiving...is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a...
Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Manchester-area residents will have a more somber Thanksgiving this year after learning that Dr. Wieslaw E. Walczak died on Saturday. Dr. Walczak apparently fell to his death while hiking Tuckerman...
Stupak is as Stupak does Signal I'm cheering for health care reform, even though I'm resigned to a debate heavily influenced by special interests. This chapter of American history would turn Jimmy Stewart's Mr. Smith into a...
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE The Filibuster: A Platform for Prima Donnas to Obstruct Democracy It's time to get rid of the filibuster in the United States Senate. The filibuster is a senate rule where if there is less...
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't see this one coming. The legislation now in the Senate would require insurers covering abortion to "segregate" federal dollars and the policyholders' dollars so that the government, in what can...
Filibusters are far more common than most realize, but they don’t look much like Jimmy Stewart vehicles anymore. If you’ve been hoping to see Sen. Joe Lieberman star in a sequel to “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” this holiday...
