In the broadest terms, the winter holiday season begins Thanksgiving week and extends through New Year’s Day or so, incorporating Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, New Year’s Eve and Day, and a gauntlet of festive gatherings in between. And since holidays require a lot of planning, we are well …
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Holiday Season Programming From PBS and Nickelodeon
Still buried in the first half of November — heck, I was out mowing the lawn and blowing leaves in a t-shirt and 65-degree breezes Saturday, in Northeast Ohio! — PBS and Nickelodeon have both announced their December holiday programming. I know this stuff is scheduled months in advance – …
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A long-lost 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, Beyond the Rocks, will receive its U.S. re-premiere with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla at the motion picture Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, November 29. Made when Valentino was at the apex of his …
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After a year in which his public actions led many to believe he is an unstable, doctrinaire, shameless, manipulative, tawdry, manic, controlling publicity-monger, Tom Cruise has hired a new publicist to replace his sister and fellow-Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette, after apparently being rubuffed in efforts to fire himself. For example, …
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