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Invictus – A Movie Review

July 3, 2010 John Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman

The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

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An Italian Market and a Little Verdi-Doesn’t Get Much Better

July 1, 2010June 28, 2010 John Brindisi, Italian Market, La Traviata, Philadelphia Opera

Visitors to the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival got an authentic Italian treat back in April. Over 30 members of the cast of the Philadelphia Opera’s production of La Traviata slipped into the market in street clothes. They swung into action when the music for the famous “Brindisi” started playing through the markets public address system. Hundreds of shoppers got a wonderful surprise performance of one of the rousing pieces from Verdi to along with their Italian Market shopping.

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Busy Weekend

June 23, 2010July 8, 2010 John Birthday, Choral Music, Men's Chorus, Una Voce

This past weekend was rather busy around this household. The biggest event was Sunday when we had our niece’s 4th birthday party here at the house. Saturday night we attended the Una Voce Florida Men’s Chorale concert. The concert title was “Harmonia Mundi” or music of the world. After the concert, we went over and picked up the nephews to spend the night. Whew! As soon as everyone left Sunday and all the trash was stashed, I sat down in my favorite chair, and was out light like a light for about two hours.

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The Blind Side-A Movie Review

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010 John Adaptation, Biopic and Sport, Comedy, Drama, John Lee Hancock, Lily Collins, Quinton Aaron, Ray McKinnon, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw

Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.

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The Road-A Movie Review

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010 John Action/Adventure, Drama, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation, Viggo Mortensen

An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. It imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of — a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.