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Holiday
movies: which should we see or avoid? By NATHAN LERNER With a deluge of holiday movies being released after Thanksgiving, itís tough for the consumer to keep track of them all. Which ones are appropriate for family viewing, and even more importantly, which ones are worth spending time with? Here are my capsule reviews of several recent releases... by
Len Lear As
we got out of our car in front of Horizons Café,
a friendly couple about 40-ish walking out of the restaurant
immediately engaged us in conversation. “Is this
your first time here?” “Yes.” “You’re
gonna love it. We eat here every Friday night. We drive
quite a distance, but we haven’t found any other
place like this in the suburbs.” A half-hour later, as we were asking some questions of owner/chef Rich Landau, an elderly man walked over to our table and said to him, “I love this place. I’m so glad... Is Christmas making politicians more compassionate? By BOB FLES The Swami notes the usual tiresome
Christmas complaints being dragged out again
this year. He hears complaints about incessant
Christmas-all-the-time music on popular radio
stations; complaints about laid-off engineers
popping up in Santa suits in malls before Thanksgiving;
complaints about barrels of cold “holiday”
commercialism extinguishing the softly glowing
embers of “holy day” significance. Nonsense. This seasonal jingle... by SHARON SEXTON Bill Guttentag, who grew up in West Mt. Airy, returned to William Penn Charter School last Friday to talk with students about his work as executive producer of NBC’s Crime & Punishment, which he described as “the ultimate reality show.” A 1975 graduate of Penn Charter, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker recalled that he took his first film class at Penn Charter... by MEGAN WARD When the cast members of Mount Saint Joseph Academy’s
Les Misérables huddled before their November 14 performance, they had an especially
encouraging face in the circle: Renee Veneziale,
an ’86 graduate of the Mount, who had
played the part of Eponine in the first national
tour of “Les Mis.” Veneziale, who grew up in Roxborough and currently resides in New York City, returned to the Mount to lend her support and enthusiasm to the “Les Mis” cast and crew.. Letters | Opinion | News | LocalLife | This Week | Sports | News Makers | About Us |