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The weekend's free movies at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony focus on overcoming obstacles or getting over on somebody.

Back in 1963, a sitcom named "The Patty Duke Show'' defined what a girl could be.

We know The Miracle Worker is a wonderful play about Helen Keller. We've come a long way since the 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

It started in 1904, when the title song was written. Then jump to 1941, when Sally Benson wrote a series of articles for the New Yorker about her family life around the turn of the last century.

The Anglo-French passenger jet Concorde in flight. Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009.

CELEBRITY BENEFIT CONCERT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009 AT 7:30 PM Celebrities will be coming to San Francisco this Monday for a concert benefiting two equal rights organizations: Marriage Equality USA and Garden State Equality.

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

It can't be done without Helen. A successful production of 'The Miracle Worker' depends on a convincing portrayal of Helen Keller as a child living without sight or sound.

Meg Roe promises to strip The Miracle Worker down to its beautiful bones. The production that Roe is directing runs at the Playhouse from tonight to October 31, but William Gibson's script started life in 1957 on television's dramatic anthology Playhouse 90.

Sentimental? Yes. Done a thousand times? Yes. Still, despite the folderol of the script, The Miracle Worker usually packs a punch - if the production manages to find a good Helen Keller.

Get on board with one of the funniest comics around, as Pam Ann takes her airline humor on a US tour next month.

It's somewhat disheartening as a television addict to think about how poorly shows I adore from just a few years ago may be as alien-seeming as The Patty Duke Show was to me when I experienced it last week.

Patty Duke shot the 1960s' TV sitcom "The Patty Duke Show," in which she played identical cousins, at a time when there were no computers for special effects.

More and more TV on DVD is being released, and the DVDTalk review panel is committed to covering as many sets as they can.

F or baby boomers, revisiting TV series from their youth can be daunting. Will the shows make one wax nostalgic for one's childhood, or hang one's head in embarrassment? Thankfully, two vintage titles being released via Shout! Factory -- "The Patty Duke Show: The Complete First Season" , out last week, and "Mister Ed: The Complete First Season" , ...

Here are some of the latest TV shows to land on DVD, led by the debut of a 1960s sitcom with Patty Duke in two roles.

Video Event of the Week: Is Warner Home Video's deluxe 70th Anniversary box-set Blu-ray edition of The Wizard of Oz perhaps a contender? Might Shout! Factory's The Patty Duke Show: Season One , featuring all 26 episodes of the 60s sitcom about some weird girl who loses control over a hotdog, conceivably make the cut? Or against every norm of decent ...

Feature: "Away We Go" , "Filth and Wisdom" , "The Girlfriend Experience" , "Management" , "Monsters vs.

Series: They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike: Brooklyn cousins are both played by teen Oscar winner Duke in a sitcom that was a '60s hit for ABC and an '80s hit for Nick at Nite.