Julie Harris News

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2009 with 29 to follow. The moon is full.

Eight classic productions from television's "golden age," the 1950s. These teleplays were performed live and featured the work of writers like Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, and Ira Levin, directors like John Frankenheimer, Delbert Mann, and Ralph Nelson, and actors like Paul Newman, Julie Harris, Jack Palance, and Rod Steiger.

Shirley Jackson is best known today for her literature class standard, "The Lottery," but her 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House , is widely regarded as one of the best modern ghost stories; the 1963 film adaptation, called simply The Haunting , brings Jackson's eerie tale of fear and psychological collapse onto the big screen.

Susan Nest will portray 19th-century New England poet Emily Dickinson in the one-woman play 'The Belle of Amherst' at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Room 102, Ghosh Science Center, Worcester State College.

BELFAST : With Halloween approaching, Belfast Free Library's series of Friday Flix in October offers classic tales of terror, each highlighted by great performances from some of cinema's finest actresses.

The drama spilled out to the lobby Sunday evening after actress Jane Fellows' performance of "The Belle of Amherst" at Mt.