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It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore is a holiday classic which regularly appears a week before Christmas. In this Christmas story, George Bailey, a regular man who, in a moment of despair and shame, thinks of committing suicide. Instead, he rediscovers the love of family and how his life made a dramatic difference to many in his community.

Former President George Bush narrated and described the scenes in the It’s a Wonderful Life film for the visually impaired through a service called Descriptive TheatreVision. When there was a pause in the action, Bush would describe what’s going on - NBC Friday, 8 p.m.

Besides being able to watch it on TV or DVD’s, you can also listen to It’s a ‘Wonderful Life’ on the radio as plays. The Ojai ACT Art Center Theater, a nonprofit community ensemble, will be presenting a live radio show of this classic story for two weekends, Dec. 14 to 16, and 21 to 23. The show includes keyboard music and advertisements about local businesses.

Source: www.OjaiACT.org

“It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” also opens the 2007-2008 of MTC MainStage, the Westport-based Music Theatre of Connecticut’s Professional Equity Acting Company. Opening night will be December 15 and the show runs through December 23.

Source: WestportNow.com 

This weekend, the Historical Society of Porter County invites fans to dress as their favorite “Wonderful Life” character and attend a showing of the film at the Porter County Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Life is indeed wonderful. Let’s celebrate life and this wonderful season!

Posted by Aiden

A Goofy Movie remake is underway. David Lynch, director of Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and Mulholland Dr. has agreed to remake the animated Disney movie.

The original “A Goofy Movie” is an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1995 featuring the characters from The Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop. The movie, which could also be considered a “road film” (A film genre in which the action takes places during a journey) uses the voices of Bill Farmer as Goofy and Jason Marsden as Max is about father-son relationship between Goofy and Max as they struggle to find common ground despite Max’s persistence in having his own life and winning the girl of his dreams. A direct-to-video sequel, titled An Extremely Goofy Movie, was released in 2000.

So how’s the new A Goofy Movie different than the original? I mean, if you’re recreating something it’s usually because you wanna improve it, right? Well, a movie reviewer said, “The blue tones, soundtrack, editing and selection of shots make this version of A Goofy Movie seem surreal, spooky and totally unlike anything released from Disney, with the exception of The Black Cauldron.”

I have to agree. After watching the trailer of the new Goofy Movie I get the feeling that remake of this Disney animation is kind of eerie… in fact, it’s probably appropriate for Halloween? Watch the trailer and judge for yourself.

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27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl is a romance flick about Jane who lives the “always a bridesmaid” lifestyle with no happy ending in sight until… her little sister Tess cpatures the heart of Janes boss, whom she has been secretly in love with.

Katherine Heigl, Emmy winner of Grey’s Anatomy is getting married in a couple of weeks and makes the cover of Vanity Fair. She looks really glamorous. However, the star of the upcoming “27 Dresses” also made a rather stunning comment about Knocked Up, another movie that helped her earn $6 million…

“It was a little sexist… It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys… I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”

I guess that’s one of those things that make you go “hmmm…” Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion and be candid about it.

Regardless, I look forward to Heigl’s “27 Dresses” which will open in theaters January 11, 2008.

Posted by Aiden