Tuesday, November 30th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Dream Horse @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Biography/Comedy/Drama/Sports 1 hour, 53 minutes Rated PG (2020) The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by a small town Welsh bartender (Toni Collette) with no equestrian experience.…
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Film: Tuesday, November 23, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Home for the Holidays
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> Tuesday, November 23rd at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Home for the Holidays @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy/Drama/Romance 1 hour, 43 minutes Rated PG-13 (1995) A requested film for the Thanksgiving season. A forty-year-old single woman flies home to spend Thanksgiving with her wild, wacky, dysfunctional family. Starring…
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Film: Tuesday, November 9th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, On the Rocks
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Tuesday, November 9th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of On the Rocks @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy/Drama/Romance 1 hour, 36 minutes Rated R (mild profanity) (2020) A seventies-something retired art dealer (Bill Murray) is a happy-go-lucky flirtatious ladies man with a roving eye. His married daughter (Rashida Jones) suspects her…
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Film: Tuesday, October 26th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Lost City of Z
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Tuesday, October 26th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of The Lost City of Z @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Biography/Drama/Adventure 2 hours, 21 minutes Rated PG-13 (2016) Charlie Hunnam stars in a true-life adventure about British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious indigenous city…
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Film: Tuesday, October 12th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, In the Heights
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Tuesday, October 12th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of In the Heights @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Drama/Musical/Romance 2 hours, 23 minutes Rated PG-13 (2021) A film version of the hit Broadway musical, with music and lyrics written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (‘Hamilton”). It’s “West Side Story” with a happy,…
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Film, Great Performances
Daily Bread for 10.9.21: Michael Gableman Brilliantly Reprises a 1940 Film Role
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 6:21 PM for 11h 18m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1936, Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit…
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Film: Tuesday, September 28th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, A Quiet Place: Part 2
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Tuesday, September 28th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of A Quiet Place: Part 2 @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Drama/Thriller/Sci-Fi 1 hour, 37 minutes Rated PG-13 (2020) After the death of her husband (John Krasinski), Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) finds herself on her own, with two young teens,…
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Film: Tuesday, September 14th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Queen Bees
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This Tuesday, September 14th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Queen Bees @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy/Drama/Romance 1 hour, 47 minutes Rated PG-13 (2021) After reluctantly agreeing to move into a seniors retirement home, Helen (Ellen Burstyn), an independent widow, learns it’s much like high school — full of…
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Film: Tuesday, August 31th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Phantom
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?? This Tuesday, August 31st at 1 PM, there will be a showing of The Phantom @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Action/Adventure/Fantasy 1 hour, 40 minutes Rated PG-13 (1996) It’s “Saturday afternoon” at the Seniors in the Park Bijou! 400 years ago a young boy survives a pirate attack off the African coast…
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Film: Tuesday, August 24th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Emma
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?? This Tuesday, August 24th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Emma @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy/Drama/Romance 2 hours, 4 minutes Rated PG (2021) A requested film: Jane Austen’s beloved costume comedy. In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.…
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Film: Tuesday, August 10th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
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?? This Tuesday, August 10th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy Rated PG-13 1 hour, 47 minutes (2021) Two best friends, Barb and Star, leave their small Nebraska hometown for the first time ever, to go…
Documentary, Film, Science/Nature
I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It
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?? Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences was met with hostility from teachers and male students. Undeterred, she went on to…
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Film: Tuesday, July 27th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Little Things
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?? This Tuesday, July 27th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of The Little Things @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: (Crime/Drama/Thriller) Rated R (Violence, profanity, intense scenes) 2 hours, 8 minutes (2021) A burnt-out California deputy sheriff (Denzel Washington) teams up with a crack LAPD detective (Rami Malek) in the search…
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Film: Tuesday, July 13th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Judas and the Black Messiah
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This Tuesday, July 13th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of Judas and the Black Messiah @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Biography/Drama/History Rated R (Violence, profanity) 2 hours, 6 minutes (2021) In 1966, William O’Neal (the Judas) is offered a plea deal by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Illinois chapter of…