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Movies & Music : Movies & Music News

Paul Newman 1925-2008

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Hollywood has lost a legend.  An award-winning actor, director, a humanitarian.  Paul Newman has left an indelible mark on modern society with a career that has spanned over fifty years.

National Stay at Home Week?

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I just saw an advertisement for "National Stay at Home Week" - a tongue-in-cheek campaign by the television station ABC to promote their new fall shows and encourage people to conserve gas by staying home to watch. While this may be the evil twin to April's Turnoff Week, television is a...

Guess who’s birthday it is today?  The Blob at 50

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Bring out the black flowers and the red jelly, the Blob is 50 today.  This cult classic of an alien from space which moves like molassas, and dissolves everyone in its path, starred a then unknown, Steve McQueen, in his first movie. Check out the movie from the DVD collection in the Horror...

My Favorite Redhead--Shirley Maclaine

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Ok, I know I have a lot of nerve picking Shirley instead of Lucille Ball who is “America’s Favorite Redhead”, or even Carol Burnett who is everybody’s favorite funny lady. But I have my reasons, and it’s not because I’m a “New Age” nut or anything like that. Miss MacLaine is a great actress and dancer as well as a big movie star.

Self-check comes to movies & games

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In May, the library unveils a DVD dispenser featuring self-service check-out and check-in of box office hits from our DVD Express collection and video games from our Xbox and Playstation 2 collections.
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