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Well get to Mel Winters and Dorothy Pooles Thanksgiving miracles in a moment.First you need to know why we were giving away frozen turkeys at a Shawnee supermarket.Because were big-hearted, thats why.

Reading an announcement made today from the U.S. Department of Transportation on expanding the role of the Federal Transit Administration in ensuring public rail and bus safety, I chuckled at a veiled reference, likely unintended, to the 1987 cult movie classic starring Steve Martin and John Candy.

Looking to relax at home over the holidays? Need a good movie recommendation? Here are our five favorite Thanksgiving movies, out now on DVD, that are worth considering.

I'm not sure what I have more contempt for. Sarah Palin's pathological lying or the people who can say with a straight face that Sarah Palin is qualified for anything other than a reality show contestant or the the Edie McClurg role in a remake of Planes, Trains & Automobiles .

It seems like when the holiday season rolls around everyone wants to get into the spirit of things and some of the best movies are those that are centered on the holidays.

Article by Brian Holcomb : 2009-11-09 10:56:16 Chicago ad executive Neal Page just wants to get home to his family for Thanksgiving, and it suddenly seems as though the entire universe is standing in the way of his one simple goal.

The Eastman House this month celebrates the late filmmaker John Hughes, the cinematic pied piper of adolescent America in the late '80s. Hughes virtually invented the teen film of the modern era, creating a formula of clever, cynical teens who overcame angst-ridden lives by being wittier and way ahead of their parents, teachers and other adults.

Steve Martin has admitted that his own personal movie highlights happened much earlier in his career.

Our review of Planes, Trains And Automobiles , published December 4th, 2000, is also available.

Ch. 2 political editor Mike Flannery has listed his longtime 17-room mansion in Beverly for $1.25 million.

Steve Martin has announced details of his first UK music gig as a musician. The actor, who has starred in films including 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' , 'Father Of the Bride' and 'The Pink Panther' , will play London 's Royal Festival Hall next Monday .

Check out Bob's weekly column in the Chicago Tribune this coming Sunday about Mike Flannery, a Chicago broadcast journalist who has covered politics for decades, placing his house in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood on the market for $1,250,000. Also featured: actor Steve Martin's house in the movie "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," which just sold for ...

With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it's time to order those DVDs for family films guaranteed to delight young and old.

Last night I was at the benefit concert for Central Dallas Ministries at the Meyerson Symphony Center, featuring Steve Martin and bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers .

In 1987 John Hughes took a huge risk. The man who had spent three years profiling the lives of teenagers did the unthinkable: He wrote and directed two movies featuring adults: She's Having a Baby and Planes, Trains & Automobiles .

Johnny Carson once whimsically stated that "I am thankful that I eat only one thing that falls out of a turkey." Be that as it may, once you have finished your fowl food feast, give thanks for what you are about to receive ... hopefully a perfect score on this Thanksgiving Day trivia quiz.

By DNA Smith EDITOR'S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Oct.

The letters in the title of " Planes, Trains and Automobiles " roar across the screen like a streamliner, and the movie itself has the same confidence.

The Friday rush hour before Labor Day had scarcely begun, but there was already a laid back lull that had settled on Hollywood; anyone who cruised past Pink's Hot Dogs on September 4 at just the right evening hour would have found one of the shortest lines in the stand's history.

This Friday and Saturday evening , The New Beverly Cinema is celebrating the life and remarkable talent of writer-director-producer John Hughes with a double feature of what many consider to be his two finest films: FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF and PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES.