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Not interested in the football scores? Here are seven Thanksgiving classics to watch on the small screen.

What will you rent this Thanksgiving when the tryptophan kicks in and no one wants to move from the sofa? Vote on your holiday favorites and let us know what we missed in the comments.

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.

Note to Antoine Walker, the former NBA star who owes three Las Vegas casinos $822,500: When your card has a picture on it and the dealer's has a six, you are not required to ask for another card.

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.

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

Remember spoofs before the Wayans brothers? It's time to remember the good old days of, er...slightly more respectable parodies like the 1987 film Spaceballs , in which Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, and John Candy poke fun at beloved sci-fi films like Star Wars and Star Trek .

EA for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Rated M for mature. Tim Schafer, the acclaimed writer and producer of "Brutal Legend," loves heavy metal.

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 .

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

The concept has since gone from merely a Windy City-based cabaret theater to an additional outpost in Toronto and training centers in those cities and Los Angeles.

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.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan have been tapped to pen "Brewster's Millions," the latest take on the George Barr McCutcheon novel set up at Warner Bros.

Brewster's Millions is set for a remake, although technically the Brewster's Millions you are probably thinking about is a remake itself, whether you're thinking of the 1985 or the 1945 version.

Daily Horoscope: August 12 Feeling sorry about past behaviour, Virgo? Thinking about making some reparations? Definitely do that, but don't be too hard on yourself.

This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday.

This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday.

To hear John Hughes died, for some, was like hearing that a slice of your formative years were somehow removed from you...not a huge portion, but just enough to feel it.