The Day the Earth Stood Still News

That message -- plus the slimmest of shots at an eleventh-hour reprieve -- was announced to the people of the world last week.

But the upbringing that he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith are giving their own children Jaden and Willow could hardly be more different.

Once upon a time: Deeply concerned about Earth's increasingly advanced weapons - and its inhabitants' increased tendency to use them - a distant planet sends a diplomat, Klaatu, to preach disarmament.

All of Washington, D.C. is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House.

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society and the Rehoboth Beach Public Library invite film and literary enthusiasts to a special screening of the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," starting at 4 p.m., Wednesday, May 8, upstairs at the Rehoboth Beach Public Library.