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Sinatra Hat

Jazz Appreciation Month Recalls Sinatra the Activist

Saturday, April 7th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

The act of a single person—even through music—can influence history. The Smithsonian We remember Frank Sinatra as perhaps the greatest singer who ever lived. Overlooked

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Hindenburg Fire

Fire and Ice—Hindenburg and Titanic
At the National Postal Museum

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. Fire and Ice, Robert Frost What is it about the two disasters—the Hindenburg

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goodbye

5 Reasons Not to Resign Publicly

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
by Susan Goldberg on Living Around

“Yeah, this is what I really think of you….!” Who hasn’t at one time or another fantasized about broadcasting to the world his/her frustrations with

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Tree-of-Life-2

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life—
A Dreamlike Exploration of the Universe

Saturday, February 18th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Great directors take risks and Terrence Malick is a great director. He’s also very smart—a Phi Beta Kappa Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar who

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roses

Beginners—Christopher Plummer’s
Oscar-Worthy Performance

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Christopher Plummer’s career spans seven decades, perhaps his best known role as Captain von Trapp in 1965‘s The Sound of Music. But this Canadian actor

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warhorse

War Horse Jumps from the Page,
To the Stage, to the Screen

Sunday, December 25th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

War Horse, written by Michael Morpurgo, has been produced for the stage in Britain and the U.S., and now Steven Spielberg brings the story to

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Kevin

Kevin Kline—Much Ado About an Extraordinary Actor

Saturday, December 17th, 2011
by Stephani E. D. McDow on Living Around

I was too young to understand Harold Cooper (The Big Chill) or Otto West (A Fish Called Wanda), but the hazy memory of both characters

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