Check out our tribute to Ray Milland
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Carol Channing: Almost at Rest
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When Carol Channing passed away at the age of 97 last January, her publicist, B. Harlan Boll, and a group of her associates set about fulfilling her dying wish — that her cremains be sprinkled in the alley between the Curran and Geary theaters in San Francisco. She had been raised in that area and […]
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Beyond Blue: Depression Can Be Fatal
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Depression has been called the common cold of psychiatric disorders. At any given time, as many as 20 million Americans may be suffering from it. Estimates for worldwide numbers top 300 million. Recent surveys indicate that less than 40 percent of the population consider themselves to be “happy.” Last year’s 47,000 suicides and 70,000 fatal drug […]
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Twas the Night of a Christmas Mystery
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Not many poems could provoke a quarrel that would last more than a century. But “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” more popularly known by its first line, “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” is not just any poem. It is arguably the most famous American verse ever composed. Since it was first published, anonymously, on December […]
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The Real Story Behind “It’s a Wonderful Life”
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It’s a Wonderful Life, the Frank Capra holiday classic, began as a story on a Christmas card. Respected civil war historian and novelist Philip Van Doren Stern came up with the basic idea one morning while shaving. He immediately wrote a two page outline that, remarkably, resembles the final screenplay of the film. A small town […]
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