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Courtesy of Hot Schatz PR a What: Old Tucson Studios 70th anniversary celebration.

Plant Walk - Learn about and identify the many native plants of the Adriana Hess Wetland Park, noon-1 p.m. Nov.

The upcoming Roland Emmerich film 2012 is yet another Doomsday film, and we decided to take the time to look at every kind of natural disaster movie and pick out the most memorable from each category.

The Night of the Hunter . I'd say this was unlike any movie you've ever seen, except 1) I haven't seen every movie you've seen, and 2) there are times it reminds us of other films.

Well now. The community theater season has definitely, undeniably begun. The Hampton Theatre Company, celebrating its 25th year, has mounted an impressive and absorbing production of William Inge's 1953 capturing of Midwestern angst, "Picnic." It was a good choice.

When the group now known as the Hampton Theatre Company chose their first play for production in 1984, founders Jimmy Ewing, his mother, June Ewing, and Jim Irving decided to go with a classic: "The Diary of Anne Frank." Adapted by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich from Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," the show had won the Tony Award for ...

It began with "Golden Boy," starring Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden. It ended with "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," an animated flick.

WHEN A MOVIE script calls for a man in a torn shirt to tell a woman, "Beat it, baby, I'm in a pretty bad mood,'' you can generally assume that not only he, but the movie, should be avoided.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON Films at Williamsburg Library Theatre series - this week playing "Executive Suite " starring William Holden and June Allyson .

August 23, 2009, 6:50 AM / Tony Baksa may have selected the perfect play for the first performance of Hamburg Theater Under the Stars: "Picnic." The 1953 play by William Inge, which was made into a 1955 movie starring William Holden and Kim Novak, will be performed at 7 p. m. Sept.

August 23, 2009, 6:50 AM / Tony Baksa may have selected the perfect play for the first performance of Hamburg Theater Under the Stars: "Picnic." The 1953 play by William Inge, which was made into a 1955 movie starring William Holden and Kim Novak, will be performed at 7 p. m. Sept.

Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds' opens Friday, so we're wondering: What's the best World War II movie ever? We've narrowed the field a little: Like 'Basterds,' it has to be set behind enemy lines in Europe.How about 'The Dirty Dozen,' that classic story of an assassination plot against the Nazis?Or a great story of POWs, like Steve ...

The characters in the newly released Julie & Julia , which ordered up more than $20 million at the box office during its opening weekend, are based on real-life foodies Julie Powell and Julia Child.

This week's picks include a psychological thriller by Roman Polanski , a burning skyscraper with a Blu-ray update, and a JFK-inspired coming-of-age story.

By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor Old favorite movies don't always just wind up on DVD or Turner Classic Movies - sometimes they wind up at the Enzian Theater.

Beginning Sunday, the Carolina Theatre will spend a week showing David Lean's 1957 war classic "The Bridge on the River Kwai," starring William Holden and Sir Alec Guinness.

Arnold Myint and the Zeus entertainment team have unveiled the name of their much-anticipated Church Street enterprise : Suzy Wong's House of Yum.

Roger Ebert called it "clunky and awkward." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said "everything that made it hot stuff in 1955 seems dated today." The contemporary film critics aren't likely to take in "Picnic" when Friends of the Fox bring the movie to the Bob Hope Theatre on Friday as part of its classic cinema series.

Lt. Commander Ken White spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war.

"The Miracle at Morgan Creek" In Preston Sturges's high-energy screwball, a nice small-town girl - the awesomely named Trudy Kockenlocker - wakes up after a farewell dance for soldiers and finds herself married and pregnant.