Articles for tag: Barbara Hershey, Facing the Giants

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Movie Review: Beaches

The movie “Beaches” (1988, rated PG-13) begins at the boardwalk on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1958, and ends many years later at a beach house in California. It is the story of two friends with very different personalities and career goals, and how that friendship endures despite distance, a love triangle, ...

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DVD Movie Review of the “Black Swan”

Being that I know absolutely nothing about ballet, except that the women are very skinny and that the men often wear tutus, I expected that The Black Swan would be some kind of wimpy art film that would bore me to death: Was I ever wrong. Natalie Portman delivers a knock-down performance as the “Swan ...

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God’s Best Kept Secret – Who Built the Stairway to Heaven?

Only God knows 130 years later, who built the Miraculous Staircase inside the Loretto Chapel of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to marvel at the mysterious structure, and many more come in pilgrimage to celebrate the miracle. The people of Santa Fe in 1898 believe it was St. ...

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Little Known Facts About Singer/Actress Bette Midler

Ordinarily she loves to be in the spotlight, but Bette Midler recently got herself some attention she could have done without. She had over 230 trees cut down on vacant land near one of her properties in Kauai, Hawaii. She also had a road built on land that was zoned for conservation. Because she didn’t ...