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Approximately one billion Valentine cards are exchanged each year. It’s the largest card-selling occasion of the year next to Christmas. • Most Valentine’s Day cards (83%) are purchased by women. However, the number of cards purchased by men (currently 17%) is gradually rising, thought by some sources to be due to the fact that men often purchase two cards for their siginificant others...an amusing one and the obligatory romantic one which they believe is expected of them. • Half of all consumers prefer to receive a humorous Valentine, followed by a romantic greeting (31%) and then a more risque form of card (8.2%). • February 14 is the most important holiday for florists, accounting for 32% of annual sales. • 73% of people who buy flowers to send on Valentine’s Day are male. • 36% of males and 28% of females put off their Valentine’s Day shopping until February 14 or the day before. 64% of consumers will plan to do their shopping a week or more prior to the date. • The chief colors associated with Valentine’s Day are pink, red and white. Pink is a delicate, almost innocent shade of red and is also connected with Saint Valentine, whose burial was said to have caused the pink almond tree to blossom. Red is a symbol of warmth and feeling, the color of the heart, while white represents purity and faith, a faith between two who love each other. February Monthly Observances Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month American Heart Month Bake for Family Fun Month Barley Month Beat The Heat Month Cricket World Cup Dog Training Education Month February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month From Africa to Virginia Month Grapefruit Month International Boost Self-Esteem Month International Expect Success Month International Hoof-care Month International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month Jobs in Golf Month Library Lovers Month Love The Bus Month Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month Marijuana Awareness Month National African American History Month National African American Read-In National Bird Feeding Month National Black History Month National Care About Your Indoor Air Month National Cherry Month

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National Condom Month National Children’s Dental Health Month National Haiku Writing Month National Hot Breakfast Month National Laugh-Friendly Month National Mend A Broken Heart Month National Parent Leadership Month National Pet Dental Health Month National Prevent A Litter Month National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month National Therapeutic Recreation Month National Time Management Month National Weddings Month National Women Inventors Month North American Inclusion Month (NAIM) Pet Dental Health Month Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month Relationship Wellness Month Responsible Pet Owner’s Month Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month Spay/Neuter Awareness Month Spunky Old Broads Month Sweet Potato Month Wise Health Care Consumer Month Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month Youth Leadership Month cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Valentine’s Day Ideas Ideas to Spread Love on Valentine’s Day Hey beautiful friends, Valentine’s Day is the one day of the year more than any other where people focus on sharing love. Traditionally it is associated with romantic love. I’d like to share a few Valentine’s Day ideas for spreading love around the world. What would happen if we chose to see every person as our Valentine, just as many of us used to do in primary school with our schoolmates. What if we chose to recognize that every person has a tender heart that wants to be loved?

Every person in the world has a heart. Every heart has a place within that wants only to love and be loved. Let us connect with that place of love in our own heart and in the hearts of all around us.

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Let us take a moment now to open to the heart connection we share with all people through love.

I invite you to take a moment to sit with these beautiful words. When we recognize and acknowledge that everyone we meet has a place in their hearts that wants only to love and be loved, we can begin to be powerful force for transformation through love in our lives and world.●

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inamagic President Beth Roose Editor Fina Florez Graphic Designer Fina Florez Contributing Writers & Photographers: Beth Roose Step Above Photography Karen L. Richard Photography Address: 22777 Franz Rd, Suite 4212 Katy, Texas 77449 We are accepting images for the April/May editions of CinaMagic Magazine.. Our themes are Easter, Spring, Flowers, Kentucky Derby, Mothers Day and Graduation. All images are due by March 6th 2015. You must provide images that are 8.5x11 and 300 DPI.. In addition, all model releases must be included in the submission folder you provide via dropbox or wet transfer. I look forward to reviewing your images for consideration in CinaMagic Magazine. Please send them to nationalpark4u@yahoo.com

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Top 10 Most Popular Films for Valentines Day 10. Bridget Jones Diary Renée Zellweger, who I loved in Jerry Maguire but lost interest in thereafter, plays a London-based publicist who spends most of her day bingeing, watching TV, guzzling wine, chain-smoking, and jotting down thoughts in her diary. While you would expect the contents of a woman’s diary to be juicier, the movie is still charming. Zellweger is smitten by none other than Hugh Grant, who portrays her arrogant boss and provides a lot of laughs.

9. Addicted to Love While some critics have bashed this movie, it is nonetheless funny, sweet and a great pick to enjoy with a loved one. Unconventional by many standards, Matthew Broderick joins Meg Ryan in a quest to get their respective lovers (played by Tcheky Karyo and Kelly Preston) back — and guess what happens in the process...

8. My Best Friend’s Wedding Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney plan to get married if neither of them walks down the aisle by age 28. While the two former college lovers approach the magical deadline, Mulroney pops in to announce that he is engaged to Cameron Diaz. What ensues is a prime example of the lengths women will go to, to break people up and follow their hearts.

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7. The Wedding Singer Adam Sandler plays a hilarious wedding singer who eventually meets a catering-service waitress, portrayed to a tee by Drew Barrymore. The rest is nostalgic, funny and downright odd. But what else do you expect from SNL alum Sandler and the kooky former wife of Tom Green?

6. Singles Written and directed by Cameron Crowe (of Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky fame), this quirky film follows the lives, loves and losses of a group of twentysomethings, trying to find their Mr. and Miss Rights. Check out what your woman loves to hear and what to avoid at all costs, while you crack up with your sweetheart. Cuddle up to your honey...

5. French Kiss Meg Ryan is cast as a woman who sees her fiancé (Timothy Hutton) fall for some French babe. As she decides to trek over the Atlantic in a quest to get him back, she seeks the assistance of a Frenchman in the form of Kevin Kline. While his performance as a French man was questionable, his skills to help her win Hutton back were not.

Spending Valentine’s Day at home with your girlfriend, cuddling up on the couch and enjoying each other’s company? If so, just make sure you plan accordingly by having one of the following 10 movies in your DVD player. 4. Notting Hill If ever a movie was based on coincidences, saccharine and fairy tales, it would be Notting Hill , starring Hugh Grant (who seems to be the main man of choice for these romantic flicks) and Julia Roberts. Inspired by Roman Holiday , this film provides the answer to what would happen if the most famous woman in the world falls in your lap (in your dreams...) and in your bookstore.

2. Last Tango in Paris Almost 30 years after its release, this movie’s unconventional sex scenes and Marlon Brando’s acting will still make you sit up and take notice. Brando portrays a recent American widower who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young betrothed Parisian woman. The film’s raw portrayal of sexual violence led to various levels of censorship in different venues.

3. Emmanuelle Now we’re talking. This sexy film is the screen adaptation of Emmanuelle Argan’s controversial book that tells the tale of a diplomat’s wife and her journey into sensuality, sexuality and erotica. One night in Bangkok will never sound the same as Emmanuelle slips into delirium.

1. Like Water for Chocolate A woman’s rejection forces her to turn to a culinary world. She discovers that she can do magic with the dishes she prepares A foreign film, this one is quite appealing to all the senses and will really whet your appetite. Once it ends, you may be as hungry for food as you will be for...● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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isillusioned veteran Frank McCloud arrives on the island of Key Largo, Florida to visit the family of George Temple, who died under his command in Italy during World War II. At the rundown Hotel Largo where George’s wheelchair-bound father James lives with George’s widow, Nora, Frank encounters Curly Hoff, Toots, Angel and Gaye Dawn in the bar. Learning from them that the hotel is closed for the off-season, Frank searches out the Temples, who greet him warmly and insist that he stay the night. Nora explains that their guests offered her father-in-law so much money to open the hotel for them, that he could not turn them down. Later, a hurricane warning is issued and as Nora fastens the shutters in preparation, the telephone rings. Curly tells the caller that the Temples are not around and adds that Sawyer, the local police officer, has not been seen either. When Temple objects, the men pull their guns. In response to the activity, the men’s leader comes downstairs for the

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first time since Frank’s arrival, and Frank recognizes him as deported gangster Johnny Rocco. Rocco has entered the country illegally from Cuba in order to make a delivery of counterfeit money, but his contacts have been delayed by the approaching storm. Meanwhile, he and his men have captured and beaten Sawyer, who was searching for the Oceola brothers, Seminoles who had escaped from jail. When Rocco, impressed by Nora’s feisty spirit, makes a pass at her, she spits in his face, and Frank stops him from killing her with some fast talking. Mocking Frank’s heroics, Rocco throws him a gun and, holding his own gun on Frank, tells him that he can rid the world of Rocco if he is willing to die in the process. To the disappointment of both Nora and Temple, Frank refuses to shoot. He throws the gun down and Sawyer grabs it and tries to escape. Rocco kills Sawyer, revealing that the other gun was not loaded, a fact that Frank had no way of knowing. Rocco then demands that Gaye, his alcoholic former mistress, sing a song before she can

have a drink. She is too desperate to sing well, and when Rocco still refuses to give her a drink because her singing was “rotten,” Frank takes pity on her. Rocco slaps him and once again, Frank does nothing. The full force of the hurricane then hits, terrifying Rocco and giving Nora a chance to challenge Frank about his disillusionment. After the storm passes, Rocco discovers that his boat has disappeared. He orders Frank to take Temple’s boat and transport him to Cuba. Before they can leave, a second police officer comes looking for Sawyer and finds his body on the shore, where it washed up during the storm.

Rocco blames the murder on the Oceola brothers, who are on the island to turn themselves in on Temple’s advice, and when the Indians try to escape, the officer murders them. As the gangsters prepare to leave, Gaye begs Rocco to take her along, and while she clings to him, she grabs his gun from his jacket pocket and slips it to Frank. After he sets course for Cuba, Frank maneuvers the boat to knock one man overboard and shoots the others, including Rocco. Although he has been wounded, Frank radios his position and then calls the hotel to tell Nora and Temple that he is coming back home.●

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ormer football star Brick Pollitt arrives at his family home in Mississippi to celebrate his father’s birthday and, while drunk, attempts to jump hurdles late at night, only to fall and break his ankle. The next morning, constricted by a heavy ankle cast, Brick drinks in his bedroom, while in the backyard his brother Gooper, Gooper’s wife Mae and their five raucous children prepare for the birthday party. After Brick’s wife Maggie argues with one of Mae’s spoiled children, she retires to the house to see Brick. Maggie observes that Mae’s sixth pregnancy is a sure indication that Gooper and Mae intend to claim all the family inheritance of their father, wealthy land owner Big Daddy Pollitt, who has been in questionable health. Maggie then reveals that Gooper has suggested that Brick be committed to an alcoholic sanitarium. Although she vows to oppose Gooper’s recommendation, Maggie implores Brick to stop drinking. She points out that if Brick is committed, they will be powerless to prevent Gooper from carrying out his plans to deprive them of the inheritance. When Brick rebuffs Maggie’s flirting, she pleads to know why he consistently rejects her. After Maggie describes her pent-up frustration as akin to that of “a cat on a hot tin roof” with nowhere to go, Brick callously advises her to find a lover. That afternoon, Gooper, Mae and the children drive to the airport to meet Big Daddy and his wife Ida, who have been away consulting numerous doctors. Annoyed by the shrill greetings of Gooper’s family, Big Daddy is delighted to see Maggie, who has driven in separately. Before returning home, Ida insists that family physician Dr. Baugh announce that cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

Big Daddy’s exploratory surgery revealed only a spastic colon. Back home, while the birthday celebration begins, Maggie runs upstairs to tell Brick of Big Daddy’s positive test results and entreats him to make an appearance at the party. Brick refuses and continues drinking. Disappointed, Maggie declares that she cannot live without Brick, but when she embraces him, he flees, locking himself in the bathroom. Moments later, Ida bursts in to the bedroom looking for Brick and demands to know if he is still drinking. She then remarks that Maggie’s continued childlessness and Brick’s alcoholism are indicative of a failed marriage. Dr. Baugh then intervenes, asking to examine Brick’s ankle. Once alone with Brick, Dr. Baugh confides that he has lied about Big Daddy’s condition, which is fatal. The doctor admits he told Gooper the truth, but decided to spare Big Daddy and Ida to let them enjoy the party. After the party, Maggie brings Brick some tea only to find him packing. Startled, Maggie asks about Dr. Baugh’s visit and Brick admits that Big Daddy is dying. Distressed, Maggie accuses Brick of running away from reality. Despairing over Brick’s continued remoteness, Maggie speculates that her relationship with Brick collapsed when she tried to tell him that his longtime friend, Skipper, was a bad influence. Furious, Brick forbids Maggie to mention Skipper. After the last of the guests depart, Big Daddy asks to see Brick. Finally alone with his son, Big Daddy admits that he loathes the shrewish Mae, her unruly children and Gooper. Although he still suffers from pain in his stomach, Big Daddy confides his desire to start life a new life, as he has long since wearied of Ida. Big Daddy then demands an explanation for Brick’s excessive drinking and observes that the behavior began after Skipper’s death. Angered, Brick lashes out at Big Daddy, insisting that Skipper was the only reliable person in his life. When Big Daddy asks what Maggie thought of Skipper, Brick says that he should ask her. Maggie responds to Brick’s summons and uneasily tells Big Daddy that Skipper despised her for coming between him and Brick. She points out that Brick was so devoted to Skipper that he formed a football team for him, because he was not good enough to play for a legitimate professional team. After Maggie declares Brick’s life revolved around Skipper, Brick angrily accuses Maggie of having gotten Skipper drunk to sleep with him and demands to know what happened the night that Skipper committed suicide. Maggie relates that when Brick’s team, led by Skipper, had a dramatic loss, Skipper went on a violent drinking binge. When she was summoned by the hotel management, Maggie considered seducing him to make Brick acknowledge his friend’s weak character, but fearing the result might backfire, she left the room after attempting to calm the drunken Skipper. Soon after, Skipper jumped out of his hotel room window. Maggie asks Brick what the dying Skipper meant when he wondered why Brick, who

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was too sick too attend the game, had hung up the phone on him. Furious over Maggie’s story, Brick searches for another liquor bottle and insists on returning home, but Big Daddy demands that Brick complete Maggie’s story. Acknowledging that Skipper phoned him to declare he had slept with Maggie, Brick admits that he was more appalled by his friend’s weakness than his wife’s alleged infidelity and hung up on him. Brick hastens outside into the rain in an attempt to flee, but Big Daddy follows and contends that Brick must get over his failures and live his life. Brick retorts that his life would be a lie, but the greater untruth is Big Daddy’s assumption of his own future. Stricken by the implication of Brick’s barb, Big Daddy staggers back to the house. Dr. Baugh follows Big Daddy to the basement where he confirms Brick’s remark and provides Big Daddy with morphine to control the pain. Meanwhile in the family room, Gooper and Mae hover around Ida, insisting that they must discuss vital family matters. Aggravated, Mae blurts out Big Daddy’s condition and Ida collapses in dismay, while Maggie comforts her. Mae insists that Brick is unfit to handle any part of the family’s vast property and must be cut out of Big Daddy’s will while Gooper tearfully pleads with Ida to acknowledge that he has been a devoted and faithful son to Big Daddy. After drying off, Brick goes down to the basement to apologize to Big Daddy. Although suffering from frequent attacks of pain, Big Daddy asks Brick why he had to lean on Skipper, instead of his own father. When Brick declares that Big Daddy was never available and only provided material things, never emotional support, Big Daddy insists he wanted to give his family everything he never had. Overcome by a sudden attack, Big Daddy refuses the morphine, but when he cries out, Maggie rushes to the basement in alarm. There she finds Brick crying and destroying all of the useless junk Big Daddy and Ida have accumulated over the years. After Maggie returns upstairs, a recovered Big Daddy maintains that his own father, a hobo, left him nothing. Brick reminds Big Daddy that his father clearly loved him because he always took him on his travels. Recognizing their mutual mistakes and hoping to make the best of Big Daddy’s time left, father and son are reconciled and go to the family room where Gooper and Mae continue to harass Ida. Maggie then announces that her present to Big Daddy is the news that she is pregnant. Mae shrilly accuses Maggie of lying, but Brick confirms Maggie is telling the truth. Pleased, Big Daddy tells Gooper that he will talk to his lawyer the following day and, summoning Ida, retires. Mae accuses Brick of having turned Big Daddy against them, but, recognizing the truth, Gooper orders Mae to be silent. Brick retreats upstairs where he calls to Maggie. In their room, when Maggie thanks Brick for supporting her lie, Brick announces there will be no more lies between them and then embraces his wife.●

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n Melbourne, Australia, at the turn of the twentieth century, American vaudevillians Harold Gridley and George Cochran are forced to flee the music hall in which they are performing when the fathers of two country girls they have romanced threaten them. While George sits comfortably in the dining car of a train, Harold is outside, clinging to the trestle. The fathers are also on the train, and when they spot George, he jumps out the window and lands with Harold in a sheep pasture. Hiding among the animals, the two entertainers eventually end up in Port Darwin, sporting bushy beards, and head for an employment agency. The only job available involves diving for Prince Ken Arok’s sunken treasure, work that has already claimed the lives of four men. Desperate, Harold and George accept, and the next morning, the now clean-shaven duo sets sail for Ken Arok’s South Sea island, Vatu. Upon arriving there, Harold and George meet Ken Arok’s exotic cousin, Princess Lalah MacTavish, whose mother was Vatu and father Scottish. Despite vows to avoid women and stay out of trouble, both Harold and George become infatuated with Lalah. After privately arguing with Ken Arok

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about using the unsuspecting Americans to dive in waters infested with a giant squid named Boga Ten, Lalah invites her guests to an honorary dinner at the palace. Harold and George are entertained by a troupe of dancers and, in turn, entertain Lalah with a Scottish song and dance. Lalah then shows the Americans a Hindu rope trick, during which they all climb a rope into the clouds, and coaxes a beautiful dancer out of a small basket with a magic flute. Afterward, George and Lalah enjoy a romantic walk together, and Lalah warns him about the squid and Ken Arok’s ruthless pursuit of the treasure, which sank with her father’s boat years before. Eager to have Lalah for himself, George tricks Harold into volunteering for the next day’s dive. While underwater, Harold locates the treasure box but is immediately accosted by Boga Ten. Harold eludes the beast by slipping out of his diving suit, and once he is safely back on board with the treasure, Boga Ten yanks Ken Arok off the boat with one of its tentacles. After the now-rich Lalah, George and Harold set sail for Bali, Lalah admits that she is in love with both of them. Distracted by Lalah’s dilemma, Harold lets go of the boat’s steering wheel, and the boat

strikes a reef and starts to sink. The three seek refuge on the nearest jungle island, where Harold is almost eaten by a crocodile and becomes suspended in an animal trap. That night, while George sleeps in an abandoned hut, Harold proposes to Lalah. Still unsure, Lalah declines to respond and soon is being courted by both George and Harold. Later, while they are all asleep, a curious male gorilla enters the hut, then fights with a tiger lurking outside. The tiger kills the gorilla, and the next day, the gorilla’s grieving mate sees Harold and picks him up lovingly. To save Harold, George starts to sing to the ape, but after dropping Harold, the gorilla embraces George. Just then, local warriors shoot darts at the men and the gorilla, causing them to laugh and shake uncontrollably. The natives cart Harold, George and Lalah off to their village and prepare to kill them and shrink their heads. When the medicine man, Bhoma Da, realizes that Lalah is the daughter of his old friend, however, he is persuaded to host a two-groom wedding instead. George and Harold learn separately that they are to marry Lalah and each gloats privately about his victory over the other. As wedding preparations get

under way, Lalah is brought before Chief Ramayana, who reveals that he is in cahoots with Ken Arok and has given him the treasure box in exchange for Lalah’s hand in marriage. Laughing off Bhoma Da’s warnings that the volcano god will spite him, Ramayana orders that George and Harold be wed to each other and have their heads shrunk. Wearing large masks, George and Harold cannot see whom they are marrying and fall unconscious after drinking drugged wine. When they wake later and find themselves in the same bed, they realize what has happened and learn about Lalah’s fate from a guard. With only minutes to live, George asks Harold’s forgiveness for all the tricks he has played on him, and Harold embraces his friend. At that moment, the volcano starts to erupt, and the villagers run in terror. In the confusion, Harold and George escape, rescue Lalah and grab the treasure box. Upon reaching the beach, George and Harold demand that Lalah choose between them, and she picks George. The dejected Harold then pulls out Lalah’s flute and makes Jane Russell emerge from a basket. Russell, however, prefers George and walks off with him and Lalah.●

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uring World War II, Casablanca, Morocco is a waiting point for throngs of desperate refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Exit visas, which are necessary to leave the country, are at a premium, so when two German couriers carrying letters of transit signed by General DeGaulle are murdered and the letters stolen, German Major Strasser and Louis Renault, the prefecture of police, are eager to find the documents. Strasser is particularly concerned that the letters not be sold to Victor Lazlo, the well-known Czech resistance leader, who is rumored to be on his way to Casablanca. That night, Renault and Strasser search for the killer at Rick’s Café Americain, a popular nightclub run by the mysterious American ex-patriot Richard Blaine. Earlier, Ugarte, a shady dealer in exit visas, had asked Rick to hold the stolen letters temporarily, explaining that he has a buyer for them and with the money from their sale, he plans to leave Casablanca. Although Rick fought on the side of the loyalists in Spain, he has grown cynical, and when

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Renault advises him not to interfere with Ugarte’s arrest, Rick replies “I stick my neck out for nobody.” He makes a bet with Renault, however, that Lazlo will manage to leave Casablanca despite German efforts to stop him. After Ugarte is arrested, Lazlo and his companion, Ilsa Lund, arrive at Rick’s. Ilsa recognizes Sam, the piano player, and while Lazlo makes covert contact with the underground, Ilsa insists that Sam play the song “As Time Goes By.” Reluctantly, Sam agrees, and a furious Rick, who had ordered him never to play the song again, emerges from his office to stop him. Rick is taken aback when he sees Ilsa, whom he knew in Paris. Later, after the café is closed, Rick remembers his love affair with Ilsa: After a brief happy time together, the Nazis invade Paris and, worried that Rick will be in danger because of his record, Ilsa advises him to leave the city. He refuses to go without her, and she agrees to meet him at the train station. Instead of coming, though, she sends him a farewell note, and Sam and Rick leave just ahead of the Nazis. Rick’s thoughts return to the present with Ilsa’s

arrival at the café. She tries to explain her actions, but when a drunken Rick accuses her of being a tramp, she walks out. The following day, Lazlo and Ilsa meet with Renault and, there they learn that Ugarte has been killed while in police custody. After Rick helps a young Romanian couple win enough money at roulette to allow them to leave the country, Lazlo, suspecting that Rick has the letters, asks to buy them. Rick refuses and, when Lazlo asks his reasons, suggests that he ask Ilsa. Angered when Rick allows his orchestra to accompany a rousing rendition of “La Marseillaise,” Strasser orders the closing of the Café. That night, while Lazlo attends an underground meeting, Ilsa meets Rick and explains that she stayed behind in Paris because, on the day Rick left Paris she had learned that Lazlo, her husband, whom she had married in secret and thought dead, was alive. Now realizing that they still love each other, Ilsa tells Rick that he must made decisions for both of them. Meanwhile, the police break up the underground meeting, and Lazlo takes refuge at Rick’s. Before he is arrested, he begs

Rick to use the letters to take Ilsa away from Casablanca. The next day, Rick sells the café to his competitor Ferare, the owner of the Blue Parrot, and tricks Renault into releasing Lazlo from prison. They head for the airport, but Renault has managed to alert Strasser, who hurries after them. At the airport, Rick tells Ilsa, who thought that she would be staying with him, that she is to leave with Lazlo because she gives meaning to his work. He then tells Lazlo that he and Ilsa loved each other in Paris, and that she pretended she was still in love with him in order to get the letters. Lazlo, who understands what really happened, welcomes Rick back to the fight before he and Ilsa board the plane. Strasser arrives just as the airplane is about to take off and when he tries to delay the flight, Rick shoots him. Renault then quickly telephones the police, but instead of turning in Rick, he advises them to “round up the usual suspects,” and the two men leave Casablanca for the Free French garrison at Brassaville. It is, Rick says, “the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”●

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rphaned Danny Barker arrives at Matt Hodgkins’ farm and is warmly greeted by Matt’s wife Carrie. Matt and their son Arthur are rude and unfriendly to him, however. Matt keeps Danny working hard, but no matter how he tries, Danny cannot convince Matt that he will not be a burden. Danny has adopted a dog, which he has named Shep, but because Matt does not like dogs, Danny keeps him hidden on the farm. After Arthur discovers Danny’s secret, Matt finds a dead chicken and is sure that Shep killed it. Shep actually caught the skunk that killed the chicken, but Matt refuses to listen to Danny’s explanations and tries to shoot the dog. That night, Danny sneaks out of his room and runs away with Shep. Nearby, John Latham and his wife discuss John’s father, Carter J. Latham, whom Mrs. Latham wants to send to the old soldiers’ home. Overhearing their conversation and realizing that he is unwanted, Latham tells John that he has decided to go to the old soldiers’ home and leaves that same day. Meanwhile, Stanfield, the lawyer who is handling Danny’s parents’ estate, visits the Hodgkins’ farm to see Danny and is shocked to learn that he has run away. When Matt complains about the financial burden of caring for the boy, Stanfield informs him that Danny’s father left a large estate, and adds that in light of Matt’s attitude toward Danny, the courts would never let him adopt the child. Along the road, Latham befriends Danny and Shep and the three join forces. Latham reveals that he knows Danny’s identity, but when Danny

explains that he ran away because he was unwanted on the farm, the sympathetic old man agrees not to return him. When Latham makes a trip into town for supplies, however, he wires Stanfield that Danny is safe and that he will bring him home in time for school. Eager to earn the reward for Danny’s return, the telegraph operator notifies the sheriff, who dispatches a deputy to follow Latham and thereby discover Danny’s whereabouts. While Latham is away, Danny meets Lorna Herrick, whose father, the district attorney, owns the property where Danny and Latham are camping. Unknown to the children, Lorna is the intended victim of kidnappers, who are plotting to prevent Herrick from indicting Lefty Monahan, one of their gang. Latham and the deputy witness the kidnapping, and while the deputy goes for the sheriff, Latham and Shep follow the kidnappers. When one of the kidnappers returns from a trip into town, Shep hops on his car and thus discovers their hideout. Shep then helps untie the children, while Latham waits on the road leading to the hideout and directs the posse there. After the children are rescued, a hearing is held to determine Danny’s future. Although Hodgkins tries to adopt Danny in order to obtain his inheritance, the judge listens to Latham’s testimony against Hodgkins and, after the Herricks offer to adopt Danny and Shep, awards the child to them. Happy that Danny will live in a good home, Latham sneaks out of the courtroom, but the Herricks hurry after him and make it clear that he, too, will be a member of their family.●

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n a rainy night, Nicholas Carlos Collini arrives at the Laramie Trailer Park in Colorado and pounds on the door of his trailer before noticing the “for sale” sign. In the park manager’s office, Nick meets Mr. Tewitt, who is thinking of buying a trailer. Nick urges Tewitt to avoid such a purchase for the sake of his marriage, adding that he has been searching for his own wife for the past three days. Nick describes how the trailer came to blight his life: Two months earlier, in Los Angeles, Nick laughs uproariously when his fiancée Tacy proposes buying a trailer, but she tearfully insists that a trailer would be the only way for them to have their own home while Nick travels on business. Tacy shows Nick a brochure for the fully furnished “Bungalette” model and says a honeymoon in a trailer would be very romantic. They attend a trailer show and look at the Bungalette, which turns out to be disappointingly small. Tacy is then dazzled by an enormous, very expensive trailer and persuades Nick to buy it. The salesman recommends that they have the trailer professionally moved to Colorado, where a job awaits Nick, but Tacy insists that pulling it themselves would be much more fun. Nick buys a new car and has it modified for hauling a trailer, and the mechanic gives the inexperienced Nick a quick lesson in driving with a trailer. Nick and Tacy get married and leave on their honeymoon, although Nick finds driving with the forty-foot, three-ton trailer nerve-wracking. Eventually they arrive at the Breeze Bay Trailer Park, but as Nick attempts to carry Tacy over the threshold of their trailer, they are beset by meddling neighbors who think that Tacy has injured her ankle. Late that night, the neighbors finally leave, and the overbearing Mrs. Hittaway tells Nick she has given his wife a sleeping pill. The following morning, Tacy convinces Nick to leave the noisy trailer park and set up camp in the woods, but the trailer gets stuck on the enbankment of a deserted logging road and has to be towed out. The newlyweds then head off to visit Tacy’s aunt Anastacia, and Tacy’s huge family is waiting to greet them and have a look at the trailer. After bragging about his driving skills, Nick destroys most of the front yard while trying to back the trailer into the driveway, and the couple depart the next day after returning the check Anastacia gave them for their wedding to cover the damages. Nick and Tacy return to the open highway, and soon come to enjoy domestic life in their trailer. One day, Tacy insists on doing the driving, which leads to the couple’s first big fight. They later make up, and Tacy proposes that she simplify their life by starting to prepare their dinner before they stop for the night. However, Tacy’s first attempt to cook an elaborate meal in the trailer while Nick is driving is a messy disaster. The following day, Nick tells Tacy he has received a cash offer for the trailer, but she refuses to consider selling it. As they approach their final destination in Colorado, Nick tells Tacy they must lighten their load before tackling the 8,000-foot ascent. Tacy is loathe to part with the collection of heavy rocks they have acquired as souvenirs during their travels, and without telling Nick, decides instead to distribute them evenly throughout the trailer. The Collinis nervously begin the hair-raising ride up the steep, narrow mountain road. After barely surviving their perilous trip, Nick discovers the rocks in the trailer and begins hurling them over the side of the mountain, despite Tacy’s screams of protest. Back in the rainy trailer park, Nick tells Tewitt that after he and Tacy drove down the mountain without speaking, he unhooked the car and drove away. Tewitt encourages him to apologize, but Nick stubbornly blames Tacy for everything. When Tacy returns to the park, Nick goes to see her, but she greets him coolly. He starts to drive away, but Tacy runs after him, and the couple blurt out their apologies before returning to their trailer.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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utterfly McQueen is best remembered as Prissy, the maid with the high squeaky voice who didn’t “know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ babies” in the classic “Gone With the Wind” (1939). Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, FL, she began her acting career when producer-director George Abbott hired her for the Broadway show “Brown Sugar” in 1937. McQueen became a permanent member of the Abbott Acting Company. During her stint with the company, she gained her famous nickname after dancing a butterfly ballet in a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. She earned her greatest stage recognition in “What a Life” and during its run was offered the role of Prissy. While the part verged on stereotype (a dimwitted slave), McQueen brought a comic pathos to her portrayal. Like many black actors in 1940s Hollywood, McQueen found few challenging roles and was usually relegated to playing domestics. Among her better known films are Vincente Minnelli’s “Cabin in the Sky” (1943), Michael Curtiz’ “Mildred Pierce” (1945) and King Vidor’s “Duel in the Sun” (1947). McQueen effectively retired from acting in the early 1950s. She worked at various jobs including acting as a ladies’ companion, selling toys at Macy’s and hosting her own radio show in Augusta, GA. In the mid-’60s, McQueen began working as a waitress in Harlem, NY and later as a receptionist at Mount Morris Park Recreation Center where she also taught children tap dancing and ballet. At the age of 64, she earned her bachelor’s degree from City College of New York. She made occasional appearances in films and TV specials in the 70s and 80s. Her last feature appearance was in a small role in Peter Weir’s underrated “The Mosquito Coast” (1985). On TV, McQueen appeared regularly during the first season of “Beulah” (CBS, 195051) opposite Ethel Waters. She also played small or featured roles in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (PBS, 1986) and in two ABC specials for children, “The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody” (1978) and “The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid” (1979) which earned her a Daytime Emmy. Her final TV appearance was in the TV remake of “Pollyanna” entitled “Polly” (NBC, 1989). McQueen died in December 1995 from complications caused by burns sustained in a kerosene fire in her Georgia home.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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harlton Heston’s career as a commanding male lead has provided a one-person Hollywood trek through the pages of world history and a forceful, conservative vision of a world in which America always wins. The Northwestern University acting student’s first film appearances were in ambitious amateur 16mm productions of “Peer Gynt” (1941) and “Julius Caesar” (1949), both directed by fellow student David Bradley. After WWII service, he and his wife Lydia Clarke worked as models in New York and ran a theater in Asheville, North Carolina before Heston found success on Broadway in Katharine Cornell’s production of “Antony and Cleopatra” (1947). He also made a vivid impression on early TV, especially in a flurry of dashing romantic leads (Heathcliff, Rochester, Petruchio) on the famous drama anthology “Studio One”. By the time he went to Hollywood to act in William Dieterle’s moody film noir “Dark City” (1950), Heston was already a star, listed in the credits ahead of the more established Lizabeth Scott. Over the next four decades he rarely had less than top billing. With his role as the ill-tempered circus manager in his second film, Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952), Heston began his reign as the actor of choice for Hollywood epics. Solidly built, with a lithe walk and boasting an iron jaw, a granite-carved profile and sonorous voice, he could intimidate opponents with just a glare. Few actors could dish up righteous anger with such force, yet even though many of his screen creations could be unpleasantly hostile, the power of his presence invariably commanded respect, conveyed integrity (even in villainous roles) and often managed to be likable. There was something timeless about his rueful expression and his brand of gritty heroism. At the same time, though, he glorified a concept of the power of the individual which was perfectly in step with middle America’s vision of how the world should be. Consequently, even though Heston never quite disappeared into his roles, he was perfect for Hollywood’s writing of an Americanized world history picture book and its equally splashy renditions of the Bible. Heston’s take on Buffalo Bill in “The Pony Express” (1953) was the first in a long line of historical and Biblical characters that have included Andrew Jackson (“The President’s Lady” 1953; “The Buccaneer” 1958), Moses (in DeMille’s landmark second version of “The Ten Commandments” 1956), El Cid (in the 1961 film of that title), John the Baptist (“The Greatest Story Ever Told” 1964), Michelangelo (“The Agony and the Ecstasy” 1965), General Charles Gordon (“Khartoum” 1966), Cardinal Richelieu (“The cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Three Musketeers” 1973 and its 1975 sequel), Henry VIII (“Crossed Swords” 1977) and Sir Thomas More (“A Man for All Seasons”, TNT 1988). Indeed, he seemed to possess the power to transform fiction into fact when his Oscar-winning turn in “Ben-Hur” (1959) elevated the story of a Jewish charioteer transfixed by the sight of Christ to the stuff of legend. As French critic Michel Mourlet infamously rhapsodized, “Charlton Heston is an axiom of the cinema.” Less indecisive and rebellious than Robert Mitchum, less Everymannish than William Holden, Heston, like these fellow 50s icons, was frequently called on to suffer, and frequently with his shirt off. Perhaps it all started with Moses making bricks, but Heston was still stripping down to either get down to work or be punished well into the 80s. As historical epics gradually became passe in the late 60s, Heston made more Westerns, war sagas and, interestingly, science fiction films to take up the slack. 1968 marked a banner year with two fine landmark roles: the anguished hero of the highly entertaining, futuristic “Planet of the Apes”, and the aging, reflective cowpoke of “Will Penny”, one of his finest films. The 70s brought the cult classic sci-fi pic “Soylent Green” (1973) (“It’s people!!”) and a series of routine roles in “Battle of Midway” (1976) and “Gray Lady Down” (1977) titled major, colonel or general. Some later parts, though, traded in wastefully on his iconic value, for instance, his cameo in “True Lies” (1994). Though hampered by budgetary restrictions, Heston directed his first feature in 1971 with a decent adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” and did double duty again with “Mother Lode” (1982), which was written and produced by his son Fraser. After a fifteen year absence, the actor returned to the small screen as the star of the CBS miniseries “Chiefs” (1983) and later found work as a series regular on the primetime soap opera “The Colbys” (ABC, 1985-87) before settling into a succession of starring roles in telefilms. He directed and starred in a 1988 TNT remake of “A Man for All Seasons”, reprising his stage role as Sir Thomas More. Heston

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went on to essay iconic fictional characters Long John Silver and Sherlock Holmes in two TNT movies adapted and produced by his son. “Treasure Island” (1990) and “The Crucifer of Blood” (1991). Although features allowed him to portray God (“Almost an Angel” 1990) and provided ample opportunity for him to use his marvelous voice as a narrator (e.g., “Armageddon” 1998), Heston continued to find his best roles on TV, adding to his gallery of historical figures with a turn as Brigham Young in TNT’s “The Avenging Angel” (1995). Throughout his career, Heston has been active in the industry, serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild (1966-71) and chairman of the American Film Institute. During the 80s, he was head of President Reagan’s task force on the arts and humanities, and remained active in charity work (e.g., The Will Rogers Institute) and politics, earning a reputation as a staunch Republican and a supporter of the National Rifle Association (NRA). He assumed a higher profile in 1998 with a guest appearance as himself on NBC’s “Friends” and as the NRA’s newly elected president. Later that year, he made the rounds in support of the re-release of Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” (1958), in which he had starred as the virtuous Mexican government official (sans accent but sporting some nifty black hair) opposite Welles’ supremely debauched police captain. Heston, who had been responsible for Welles getting the directing assignment, received a “special thanks” credit on the re-edit fashioned from a 58-page director’s memo and has repeatedly avowed his agreement with Cahiers du Cinema that “Touch of Evil” is “beyond any question the greatest B movie ever made.” Heston made a cameo in 2001’s “Planet of the Apes” remake as Tim Roth’s father, meaning his role was so small he can in no way be blamed for the film’s many flaws. This was one of his rare appearances in film or television, though he has stayed active in his political causes. In 2002, he lent his voice to an animated version of “Ben-hur” which was produced by his son Fraser and shortly after announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.●

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umphrey Bogart was born on December 25, 1899, in New York City. He began his career on Broadway in the 1920s. This led to B-movie parts in 1930s Hollywood. Bogart’s turning point came in the 1940s, with his legendary roles in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. He married several times throughout his life, with his last wife being actress Lauren Bacall. He died in 1957 at the age of 57 to esophageal cancer. Childhood Hailed by many as the greatest male movie star of all time, Humphrey Bogart was born in New York on December 25, 1899. Bogart, whose surname comes from the Dutch for “keeper of an orchard,” was born into a wealthy and prominent New York family, descended directly from New York’s first Dutch colonial settlers. His father, Belmont DeForest Bogart, was a respected and socially prominent heart surgeon. His mother, Maud Humphrey, was an accomplished painter and artistic director of The Delineator, a woman’s fashion magazine. One of her drawings of Humphrey Bogart as a baby was used in a national advertising campaign for Mellin’s baby food and briefly turned the infant Bogart into a national sensation. Bogart later recalled, “There was a period in American history when you couldn’t pick up a goddamned magazine without seeing my kisser in it.” Although she would paint young Humphrey many times throughout his childhood, Maud Bogart was by all accounts an intense, work-obsessed woman who was never especially close to or fond of her son. As Bogart himself put it, “If, when I was grown up, I [had] sent my mother one of those Mother’s Day telegrams or said it with flowers, she would have returned the wire and flowers to me, collect.” The Bogarts owned a summer retreat on Canandaigua Lake, one of the most beautiful of the “finger lakes” in upstate New York, and it was there that Bogart passed his happiest days as a child. He spent his summers at Canandaigua playing chess and sailing, both lifelong hobbies that occasionally bordered on obsessions. Bogart attended the prestigious and socially elite Trinity School in New York City, where he was a disinterested and poor student. His bad grades, his effeminate name, the overly ceremonial clothes his mother made him

wear and his ineptitude for sports made Bogart the frequent butt of his classmates’ jokes. One recalled, “Bogart never came out for anything. He wasn’t a very good student ... He added up to nothing in our class.” Despite his poor performance in school, in 1917 Bogart’s parents decided to send him to Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts—the rigorous and storied private boarding school where John Adams had once served as headmaster. Predictably, Bogart failed to meet the school’s high academic standards and was expelled in May of the next year. Enlisted Life Young, restless and unsure what to make of his life, Bogart enlisted in the United States Navy, only weeks after his dismissal from school, to fight in World War I. He recalled his thinking at the time: “War was great stuff. Paris! French girls! Hot damn! ... The war was a big joke. Death? What does death mean to a kid of 17?” Perhaps the most notable occurrence of Humphrey’s naval service was a scar he acquired above the right corner of his upper lip that would later become the defining feature of his tough guy appearance. Although accounts vary, the most widely accepted story is that Bogart received the scar while escorting a handcuffed prisoner. The prisoner asked him for a cigarette, and when Humphrey reached into his pocket for a match, the prisoner smashed him in the face with his handcuffs and attempted, unsuccessfully, to flee. Bogart was honorably discharged from the navy in 1919 and once again faced the question of what to make of his life. A year later, he met a stage actress named Alice Brady who landed him a job as the company manger of a touring production of The Ruined Lady. A year later, in 1921, he made his stage debut as a Japanese waiter in a production of a play called Drifting. Bogart’s one line, uttered in his best attempt at a Japanese accent, was “Drinks for my lady and for her most honored guests.” Despite his son’s miniscule role, upon seeing the show for the first time Bogart’s father leaned over and whispered to the person next to him, “The boy’s good, isn’t he?” Hollywood Career That little taste of life on stage was enough for Bogart to resolve to become an actor, and cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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for more than a decade he struggled to get his acting career off the ground, landing only minor roles in shows such as Nerves and The Skyrocket. Then, in 1934, Bogart finally delivered his breakthrough performance in Robert Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest. He portrayed Duke Mantee, an escaped killer, and so fully embodied the role of the villain—stooped posture, dangling hands, dead stare—that the audience reportedly let out a gasp of horror the first time he walked on stage. After delivering an equally riveting performance in the film adaptation of The Petrified Forest two years later, Bogart carved out a niche as one of Hollywood’s go-to actors to play criminals. His early gangster and crime films included The Great O’Malley (1937), Dead End (1937), Crime School (1938) and King of the Underworld (1939). Bogart felt limited playing such similar roles in film after film. He managed to break free from typecasting with his portrayal of the smooth, cunning and honorable private eye Sam Spade in the 1941 film noir masterpiece The Maltese Falcon. As it turned out, the film allowed Bogart to prove his versatility as an actor just in time to be cast in the leading role in the 1942 war romance Casablanca. Bogart played Rick Blaine, an American expatriate struggling to rekindle his relationship with his Norwegian lover (Ingrid Bergman) in the midst of World War II. Casablanca won three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director) and is now ranked among the greatest films of all time. Also one of the most quotable films of all time, Casablanca ends with the unforgettable words, spoken by Bogart, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” One of Hollywood’s most popular actors in the wake of Casablanca, Bogart continued on to a long and distinguished Hollywood career that included over 80 films. His most celebrated performance after Casablanca came in the 1951 film The African Queen, in which he co-starred with Katharine Hepburn and for which he won his first and only Academy Award for Best Actor. Bogart said after receiving the award, “The best way to survive an Oscar is to never try to win another one. You’ve seen what happens to some Oscar winners. They spend the rest of their lives turning down scripts while searching for the great role to win another one. Hell, I hope I’m never even nominated again. It’s meat-and-potato roles

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for me from now on.” His most notable later films included The Caine Mutiny (1954), Sabrina (1954) and The Harder They Fall (1956). Final Years In 1956, while still in the prime of his career, Bogart was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Surgery failed to remove the cancerous growth, and Bogart passed away on January 14, 1957. He was 57 years old. While Humphrey Bogart was already one of the top movie stars in the country at the time of his death, his acclaim has grown enormously in the decades since his passing. Called “the Bogart Boom” in reference to the title of a series of Playboy articles chronicling the phenomenon, during the 1960s Bogart’s films became the objects of superlative critical praise and his personality the object of cultish adulation. Both because of and despite his cavalierly anti-Hollywood persona, Bogart remains timelessly cool in a way few celebrities have ever been able to achieve. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly named him “the number one movie legend of all time”; in 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the greatest male movie star of all time. Bogart’s friend and biographer, Nathaniel Benchley, summed up the actor’s life: “[Bogart] achieved class through his integrity and his devotion to what he thought was right. He believed in being direct, simple, and honest, all on his own terms, and this ruffled some people and endeared him to others.” Personal Life Humphrey Bogart was married four times during his life. He married his first wife, Helen Menken, an actress 10 years his senior, in 1926. They divorced after less than a year of marriage, and in 1928 Bogart married another actress, Mary Philips. Their marriage also dissolved when Bogart made the move from New York to Hollywood, and in 1938 Bogart married his third wife, Mayo Methot. Theirs was a tumultuous and fiery union— they were known in Hollywood as the “Battling Bogarts”—until they too divorced in 1945. Less than two weeks after his divorce from Methot, Bogart married Betty Perske, better known as Lauren Bacall, his young and extraordinarily beautiful costar in To Have and Have Not. They had two children together, a son Stephen and a daughter Leslie. Bogart and Bacall remained together until his death.●

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graceful leading lady of British and American film for over six decades, Jean Simmons was an Oscar-winning actress whose outward fragility belied an emotional power wielded with skill and precision in such film as “Great Expectations” (1946), “Hamlet” (1948), “Spartacus” (1960) and countless others. A novice when she made her debut in 1943, she quickly blossomed into a talented dramatic performer under the direction of such noted filmmakers as David Lean. After leaving the UK for America, she starred in a wide variety of features, ranging from musicals like “Guys and Dolls” (1956) to stark dramas like “The Happy Ending” (1969), directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks. Though her screen appearances diminished in the 1970s, she remained active on television, where her star power illuminated productions like the epic miniseries “The Thorn Birds” (ABC, 1983). Still active in films and television in her eighth decade, she remained an enduring talent from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Born Jean Merilyn Simmons on Jan. 31, 1929, she was raised in the London suburb of Cricklewood by her father, former Olympic gymnast Charles Simmons, and his wife, Winifred. During World War II, the family was evacuated to the village of Winscombe in Somerset, where her father taught physical education and Simmons received her first taste of performing by joining her sister in singing for local audiences. After returning to London, her father helped her enroll in the Aida Foster School of Dance, where she was discovered by director Val Guest, who was looking for new talent to star in his upcoming feature, “Give Us the Moon” (1943). Her big break came as Estella, the headstrong love interest to Charles Dickens’ hero Pip in “Great Expectations” (1946). Some four decades later, Simmons would return to the novel for a UK television adaptation (Harlech Television/Walt Disney Television, 1989) that cast her as Estella’s tragic guardian, Miss Havisham. Prior to “Great Expectations,” Simmons had not regarded her acting career with much seriousness, but praise from the film’s director, the legendary David Lean, spurred her to take a deeper interest in her craft. The change in focus seemed to have had a positive impact on her, as she soon began landing more substantive roles in features, starting with Michael Powell’s “Black Narcissus” (1946), where she played a young Indian girl who seduces Sabu’s naïve Young General at a nun’s cloister in a remote part of the Himalayas. Two years later, she won the greatest praise of her early career as the doomed Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier’s “Hamlet” (1948). Olivier had spotted the 18-year-old in “Great Expectations” and committed to casting her in the film, despite the fact that she had never read the play, much less had any experience with Shakespearean text. He ar-

ranged for her to be privately trained, which resulted in a remarkably delicate, nuanced performance that yielded her an Oscar nomination and a Volpi Cup from the 1948 Venice Film Festival. However, not all the press swirling around her breakthrough performance was positive; rumors began circulating that a rift between Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh, had been created because she believed he was having an affair with Simmons. Gossip wags were quick to point out that Olivier had spurned Leigh’s interest in playing Ophelia due to her age - she was 33 at the time of filming - and replaced her with a much younger woman who looked remarkably like her. Though no actual romance occurred between Simmons and Olivier, his marriage to Leigh began to falter soon after the release of the film. The scandal appeared to have little effect on Simmons’ career. By the following year, she was top-billed in a wide variety of British product, from adventure-romances like the 1949 version of “The Blue Lagoon” to thrillers like “So Long at the Fair” (1950) and “Cage of Gold” (1950). She was also caught up in a romance with actor Stewart Granger, who was best known for his athletic roles in swashbucklers like “Scaramouche” (1952), and was some 15 years older than Simmons. Both actors were under contract to producer J. Arthur Rank, who did his best to dissuade the relationship on the grounds that Granger was still married, which turned out to be false. The pair was forced to keep their love secret until 1950, when Simmons and Granger were married in Tucson, AZ. The event took place at the home of a lawyer friend of producer and industrialist Howard Hughes, who developed an interest in the young actress that was motivated by his twin interests - profit and attractive actresses. Hughes bought Simmons’ contract from the Rank Organisation and immediately began hatching plans to make her the toast of Hollywood. Simmons’ introduction to American filmmaking came via the overwrought historical epic “Androcles and the Lion” (1952) with Victor Mature. Simmons immediately made plans to evade Hughes’ clutches, but found that his influence carried greater weight than expected. After refusing to sign a new contract that would extend her connection to Hughes for seven years, he blocked her chance to appear in “Roman Holiday” (1951) in the role that would win Audrey Hepburn an Oscar. She eventually completed the number of pictures Hughes required of her in the original contract, including the semi-classic noir “Angel Face” (1952) with Robert Mitchum. Hughes reportedly told director Otto Preminger to spare her no quarter on the film, which included a scene in which Mitchum was required to repeatedly slap Simmons across the face. After several bruising takes, Mitchum turned and belted the notoriously difficult filmmaker, asking “Would you like anothcinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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er take?” Not surprisingly, Preminger stopped. Eventually, Simmons refused to sign Hughes’ second contract, which resulted in him announcing to Hollywood that anyone who hired her for a film would essentially be entering into a legal conflict with him. Her career in Hollywood seemed doomed, but Simmons and Granger sued Hughes and won in an out of court settlement. She quickly returned to work in a string of notable roles: Queen Elizabeth I in George Sidney’s “Young Bess” (1953), which earned her the National Board of Review’s top acting honor; Richard Burton’s beloved in the epic “The Robe” (1953); and as actress-writer Ruth Gordon in a 1953 adaptation of her play “The Actress,” opposite Spencer Tracy. Some of her efforts were more critically acclaimed than others - few had good things to say about “The Egyptian” (1954), which reunited Simmons with her “Robe” co-star Victor Mature, or “Desiree” (1954), which cast her in the title role opposite Marlon Brando’s Method-driven Napoleon - but the success of both films at the box office was a testimony to her popularity among moviegoers. In 1955, Simmons and Brando made for the unlikeliest of movie musical duos in “Guys and Dolls,” based on the hit Broadway musical. But both shined in their respective roles as Sarah Brown, the Salvation Army worker who falls for Brando’s gambler with a heart of gold, and Simmons impressed by using her own singing voice in a cast filled with heavyweight vocalists; most notably Frank Sinatra. She won a Golden Globe for her performance, which was only topped by the personal joy of giving birth to a daughter, Tracy Granger, born that same year. However, her personal happiness would be short-lived. Though her career was going strong with Golden Globe-nominated performances as a virginal new employee at a flashy New York nightclub in “This Could Be the Night” (1957) and as a woman struggling with her mental health in “Home Before Dark” (1958), as well as box office hits like the William Wyler-helmed Western “The Big Country” (1958), her marriage to Granger was on the rocks. Money troubles and schedule conflicts were the source of the friction, which came to a head when Granger nixed the couple’s chance to appear together in Wyler’s adaptation of “BenHur” (1959). The following year, Simmons was cast as the love interest to Kirk Douglas’ “Spartacus” (1960) for director Stanley Kubrick. Though not Douglas’ first choice for the role - he had intended for English actors to handle all the Roman roles, and Simmons’ character was a slave - her powerful turn as the proud Varina was a clear indication that she was made to play the part. Its success at the box office was followed by another hit, “Elmer Gantry” (1960), where she earned numerous nominations, including the BAFTA and Golden Globe for her portrayal of an ambitious and seductive female

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preacher. Though praised for her performance, she was shut out of the Oscars, which instead went to star-producer Burt Lancaster and co-star Shirley Jones. Simmons did walk away from the production with more than just another hit film - she also fell in love with its director, Richard Brooks. Despite his reputation as one of the toughest filmmakers in Hollywood, the 30-year-old Simmons saw through his rough exterior. She asked Granger for a divorce in 1960 prior to both departing to work on features - she to England to make the comedy “The Grass is Always Greener” with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr; he to northern California to make “North to Alaska” (1961) with John Wayne. When both pictures were completed, the divorce was final and Simmons married Brooks that same year. Following her marriage, Simmons would begin to appear less frequently on screen. After “The Grass is Greener,” she was completely absent from features until 1963’s “All the Way Home,” an adaptation of James Agee’s A Death in the Family. The films that followed in its wake could be charitably described as colorless - “Life at the Top” (1965) was an inferior sequel to “Room at the Top” (1959), while “Mister Buddiwing” (1966), “Divorce American Style” (1967) and “Rough Night in Jericho” (1967) were passable entries in the thriller, comedy and Western genres, respectively. More successful was the Emmy-winning TV version of “Heidi” (NBC, 1968), though its reputation was overshadowed by the network’s notorious decision to pre-empt a Jets-Raiders game in overtime with the film. In 1969, Simmons enjoyed her strongest part in over a decade courtesy of Brooks, who wrote and directed her in “The Happy Ending,” a marital drama about a middle-aged woman who struggles to escape the confines of her loveless marriage. Summoning the full bore of her talents, she raged beautifully in the feature, and foreshadowed the many features about independent women that would follow in the 1970s. She received Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for her work, as well as the renewed respect of audiences and critics alike. Sadly, her own marriage to Brooks would come to an end just seven years after the film’s release, though by her own admission, they remained friendly until his death in 1992. The role would prove to be her last major lead on film, and for much of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons could be seen on television in countless miniseries, TV movies and episodic dramas. The most significant of these was the monster miniseries success, “The Thorn Birds” (ABC, 1983), which made excellent use of her aristocratic bearing by casting her as Fee Cleary, a former woman of means whose child out of wedlock has consigned her to a dreary fate in an arranged marriage to a Irish sheep farmer. She earned an Emmy for her powerful performance, and soon found herself a regular in major TV

miniseries and productions like “North and South” (ABC) and a remake of “Inherit the Wind” (NBC, 1989), which reunited her with her “Spartacus” co-star Kirk Douglas. During this period, Simmons also went public with her treatment for alcoholism at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1983, and spoke about how she hoped her admission would serve as inspiration for others struggling with addiction. In 1989, Simmons was cast in a US/ UK production of “Great Expectations” as Miss Havisham, the melancholy caretaker of Estella, whom she had played some four decades before. She again earned lavish praise for her performance, which focused as much on the character’s ruined dignity as her spiteful nature. More television followed in its wake, including some turns in offbeat productions like the short-lived revival of “Dark Shadows” (NBC, 1991) and an impressive turn as a race-baiting Admiral on a 1991 episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (syndicated, 1987-1994). She also

enjoyed a fine supporting role in the 1995 all-star feature “How To Make an American Quilt,” which cast her alongside Winona Ryder, Alfre Woodard, Anne Bancroft and Ellen Burstyn. Simmons made the most of her part, a long-suffering wife of an unfaithful artist. She later shared a Screen Actors Guild nomination with the film’s cast in 1996. As the 20th century passed into the new millennium, Simmons was still active in features and television, and even made in-roads into a new medium voice-over work in several animated projects. She lent her distinctive voice to “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” (2001) and to the English dub of “Howl’s Moving Castle” (2004) by acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Her long and distinguished career received its proper respect in 2003 when she was made an OBE (Officer of the British Empire), as well as a Fellow of the British Film Institute for her outstanding contributions to film culture.●

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eanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 - January 14, 1965) was a singer and actress best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, such as Rose-Marie (aka Indian Love Call) (1936). Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born in Philadelphia and made her professional debut at the age of six, singing “Old Mother Hubbard” in a charity opera at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music. At the age of 16, accompanied by her father, she went to see her older sister, Blossom Rock, perform on Broadway, New York. An audition was arranged by her sister for a part as dancer in the chorus of another production. Jeanette got the part and was given permission by her parents to take the job. Of her start in Broadway, many years later she told Ed Sullivan, “I got a crick in my neck and $40 a week”. Jeanette MacDonald performed on Broadway a further nine years, progressing to leading roles in Yes, Yes, Yvette (1927), Sunny Days (1928), Angela (1928) and Boom Boom (1929), before she was chosen by the Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch to play the lead in his new film musical The Love Parade in 1929. It wasn’t until Irving Thalberg lured her to Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1934, that she had her biggest hits including The Merry Widow (1934) (with Maurice Chevalier), Naughty Marietta (1935), the above-mentioned Rose-Marie, and Maytime (with Nelson Eddy). The latter, where she ages from a young girl to an old woman, is said to have been her favourite. On very rare occasions she was given roles that allowed to extend her range as a dramatic actress, however she was still expected to sing. Cast opposite Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936), she was given some key dramatic scenes, but also contributed several obligatory musical numbers. She didn’t confine herself to operetta, appearing in stage productions of grand opera, including Charles Gounod’s Faust in 1943 and 1951, the latter being her last full length opera perfomance. In 1937, Jeanette MacDonald married Gene Raymond, with whom she co-starred in 1941’s Smilin’ Through. Although they were married until her death from heart disease in 1965, they were unable to have children. Jeanette died in Houston, Texas and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. After her death, rumors began to emerge that Jeanette MacDonald had an off-screen relationship with Nelson Eddy. Sharon Rich, purportedly a friend of MacDonald’s sister Blossom, wrote two books supporting these rumors with excerpts claimed to be from letters and an unpublished autobiography by MacDonald. However, another recent biography, Hollywood Diva by Edward Baron Turk (2000), ISBN 0520222539, denies there was any such affair.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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ucille Ball is best known for her portrayal of Lucy Ricardo, a scatter-brained housewife who went from one hare-brained scheme to another, trying to share the limelight with her entertainer husband, despite her lack of talent. The real life Lucille Ball was almost the exact opposite; Lucille Ball was a talented actress, dancer, entertainer, clown, first female head of a movie studio, brilliant businesswoman and world-famous star of stage, screen, radio and television. Lucille Ball – childhood years Lucille Desirée Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, U.S.A. to Henry Durell Ball and Desirée Hunt. Her father died before Lucille Ball was 4 years old, and she was raised by her mother and grandparents. Lucy and her brother Fred inadvertently caused much grief to their grandparents in their teen years, when a friend of Fred’s was injured in a shotgun accident, resulting in the boy’s paralysis. Lucille Ball’s beloved grandfather was sued over the incident, found responsible due to not supervising his grandchildren’s use of his rifle, and was forced to sell the family home to make restitution in 1927. Lucille Ball – early forays into acting Earlier, Lucille Ball enrolled in the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in 1927, where she was overshadowed by by a classmate — Bette Davis. After being told that she had “no future at all as a performer,” she returned home. By 1930, however, the desire to be a performer rose back to the surface, and Lucille Ball moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actress. She found success in modeling, first as a fashion model for Hattie Carnegie, and then as the “Chesterfield Girl.” Lucille Ball became such a fan of Chesterfield cigarettes that years later, during the filming of the “I Love Lucy” series, she put Chesterfield cigarettes in her sponsors’ Phillip Morris cigarette boxes in order to smoke her favorite brand without annoying her sponsor. Lucille Ball – Queen of the B’s In 1933, Lucille Ball moved to Hollywood, seeking to become an actress. She succeeded, becoming a contract player for RKO during the 1930’s and for MGM during the 1940’s. She became known as “Queen of the B’s” due to the volume of B-movies that she appeared in, starting with “Roman Scandals” in 1933. It was during the filming that she was required to shave her eyebrows for the part of a Roman slave girl — and they never grew back. Other films of note that Lucille Ball made during the 1930’s include a bit part in the move Top Hat, The

Three Little Pigskins with The Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, Room Service with the Marx Brothers (their only RKO production) and Stage Door. in 1940, where she met a young Cuban entertainer named Desi Arnez. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Later that year, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz eloped. As Lucy said, “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” Despite their clear love for each other, their marriage was not easy. In addition to Lucy’s failed attempts to start a family (she had miscarriages in 1942, 1949 and 1950), Desi had a wandering eye, and was unfaithful to Lucy (Desi writes about this with surprising candor in his autobiography, ( “ A Book.”) In addition, Desi Arnaz was drafted in 1942, with distance putting an additional strain on their relationship, as well as making it easier for Desi’s philandering away from Lucy’s watchful eyes. However, Desi was later classified for limited service due to a knee injury, and worked in Los Angeles organizing and performing in U.S.O. shows for wounded soldiers. Lucille Ball divorces Desi Arnaz — for the first time Even so, Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz in 1944, although they reconciled almost immediately afterwards, leaving many in the media at the time to label it as a publicity stunt. After the end of World War II, Lucille Ball’s marriage continued to be strained, as Desi toured the country with his band. Lucille Ball’s professional life changed, however, with the leading role in the CBS radio comedy, “My Favorite Housewife.” In “My Favorite Housewife,” Lucille Ball played the part of Liz Cugat (later changed to Liz Cooper), a scatterbrained wife of a midwestern banker, who was in turn was oppressed by his boss, played by Gayle Gordon. The radio show was a success, and CBS wanted her to star in a television version of the show. Lucy agreed, but insisted on having Desi Arnaz cast as her on-screen husband. Birth pains for “I Love Lucy” — and for Lucille Ball Studio executives balked, feeling that viewers wouldn’t accepts a Cuban bandleader as an acceptable head of a “normal” American household. Lucille Ball persevered, however, and in 1951 she and Desi Arnaz formed their own production company, Desilu, to produce the series. Lucy didn’t want to move to New York, and so filmed the sitcom (as opposed to the lower-quality, less-expensive Kinetoscope) — in compensation for the expense, CBS gave Desilu all rights to the finished cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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product, providing them with a fortune in future syndication revenue. However, CBS executives were not impressed after viewing the pilot episode of the sitcom, titled “I Love Lucy.” To prove them wrong, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball toured the country in a vaudeville act, demonstrating the viability of the pilot to packed audiences. The CBS executives relented, and “ I Love Lucy” went on the air, to become one of the most successful and beloved sitcoms of all time. Another success in Lucy’s personal life occurred in 1951, with the birth of her daughter, Luci Desirée Arnaz on July 17th. Lucille Ball, the Communist Party and Joe McCarthy In 1953, in the midst of filming the most popular sticom on television, two separate events happened to challenge Lucille Ball in unexpected ways. The first, and most potentially damaging, was Lucy being subpoened by Joseph McCarthy’s House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. In 1936, at the insistence of her beloved grandfather, Lucille Ball had registered to vote as a member of the Communist Party. Lucy was unpolitical and uninvolved in any political party, but the nearly 20-yearold registration returned to haunt her in that politically paranoid time period. Lucy testified truthfully, disavowing any connection to the Communist party. As her husband Desi Arnaz said at the time, “The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that’s not legitimate.” (Lucy was born a brunette) “I Love Lucy”‘s first TV pregnancy The second major event of 1953 changed the face of television forever. Lucille Ball became pregnant with her and Desi’s second chilod. “I Love Lucy” was in full swing by this time, and one of the most popular programs on television. Lucy was not about to take a hiatus from the show during her pregnancy, and planned to write “Lucy Ricardo’s” pregnancy into the script, which made the executives at CBS apoplectic. Not only didn’t the network executives want to show a pregnant woman on television, they forbad uttering the word “pregnant” on the air. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz contacted a Catholic priest, a Proestant minister and a Jewish rabbi about their plans for the series — none of whom found anything objectionable. The network executives relented, but still forbad the use of the word “pregnant.” Instead, they used th word “expecting,” with lots of comic play with the word due to “Ricky Ricardo’s” accent pronouncing it as “spectin’.” Regardless of the outcome of Lucy and Desi’s pregnancy, it was decided that “Ricky and Lucy” would have a baby boy. The episode with the birth of the baby became one of the most viewed episodes of

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all time — and became even more popular when Lucille Ball gave birth to a baby boy, Desi Arnaz Jr., shortly after. Lucille Ball and baby Desi Jr. made the cover of TV Guide later that year. Despite the births of their children and the advantage of working together, the marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz continued to fray. In an attempt to rescue the situation, they stopped “I Love Lucy” in 1957, and replaced it with “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” which ran from 1957 to 1960. Lucy hoped that the different format, with less intensive time requirements for them both, would help. However, the Desilu studio kept growing (some of its’ most famous products include Star Trek,The Andy Griffith Show and Mission Impossible), requiring more of Desi’s time and contributing to his drinking. In addition, Desi and Lucy co-starred in two movies during this time period, “ The Long, Long Trailer” (1954) and “Forever Darling” (1956), but even with all of the increased time, their marriage unravelled. Lucille Ball divorces Desi Arnaz On March 3, 1960, the day after filming the last episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz. As Lucy said later, “Desi was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die. But I don’t regret divorcing him. I just couldn’t take it anymore.” The divorce became final on May 4, 1960. Lucille Ball, first female studio head Despite the failure of her marriage, Lucille Ball’s life and career continued. She returned to television in 1962 with “The Lucy Show,” which ran until 1968. She also bought out Desi Arnaz’ interest in Desilu, becoming the first female head of a film studio. Interestingly, Desilu had previously purchased RKO in 1957, the film studio where Lucy had started in Hollywood years before. On November 19, 1961, Lucy married Gary Morton, remaining married to him until her death. In 1968, she began another successful sitcom, “Here’s Lucy” (1968-1974), as well as co-starring with Henry Fonda in the movie Yours Mine And Ours. In 1974, Lucille Ball made her final movie, “Mame.” She also began winding down her television career with a series of annual specials: • Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974) • Lucy Gets Lucky(1975) • A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason (1975) • What Now, Catherine Curtis? (1976) • CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976) • Lucy Calls the President (1977) • Lucy Goes to Nashville (1978) • Lucy Moves to NBC (1980)

During the mid-1980s, she attempted to revitalize her television career. While a 1985 dramatic made-forTV film about an elderly homeless woman,” Stone Pillow” was well received, her 1986 sitcom “Life With Lucy” (which also co starred Gale Gordon), was a failure, and was canceled after less than two months. Other than a few miscellaneous awards show appearances, she was absent

from the public eye for the final three years of her life. Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989, of a ruptured aorta at the age of 77 and was cremated. Her remains were interred in the Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, but were later moved by her children, Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Lucie Arnaz to the Lake View Cemetery, in Jamestown, New York.●

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all, strapping leading man who, after gaining stage experience, began a film career in the late 1930s. Granger and co-stars Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Phyllis Calvert immediately became major stars with their appearances in the melodramatic period romp, “The Man in Grey” (1943), and for the rest of the decade Granger reigned as one of Britain’s premiere leading men. With his strong profile, his deep, dulcet voice and a shock of wavy hair he typically appeared in historical romances and actioners for Gainsborough and Rank including “Fanny by Gaslight” (1943), “Madonna of the Seven Moons” (1944), “Caravan” (1946), “Blanche Fury” (1947) and “Saraband for Dead Lovers” (1948). Signed by MGM in 1949, Granger spent most of the next seven years playing virile swashbucklers and great white hunters in stylish if sometimes derivative remakes of classic Hollywood adventures including “King Solomon’s Mines” (1950), “The Prisoner of Zenda” (1952), “Scaramouche” (1952) and “Beau Brummell” (1954). His stardom slipped late in the decade and, after co-starring with John Wayne in the rowdy comedy-drama “North to Alaska” (1960), Granger ventured to Europe, where he continued playing leading roles in routine action films, among the more interesting of which was Robert Aldrich’s dull but intermittently campy epic, “Sodom and Gomorrah” (1962). TV beckoned Granger in the 1970s and 80s: he starred for a season in the gritty western series “The Men from Shiloh” (1970-71), played Sherlock Holmes in an enjoyable adaptation of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1972), and made a stalwart Prince Philip in “The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana” (1982). Granger also returned occasionally to the stage, his last appearance being his well-received work opposite Rex Harrison and Glynis Johns in “The Circle” on Broadway in 1991. Granger was married to character actress Elspeth March and later, from 1950 to 1960, to actress Jean Simmons.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Valentine’s Day Party Ideas

ith February 14 drawing nearer and nearer, you’re all geared up for the Valentine’s Day celebrations, right? Dedicated to the memory of the kind and noble Saint Valentine, this is the time to spend some wonderful hours in the company of your sweetheart and also with your loved ones. The occasion deserves a grand celebration and probably the best way is to throw a grand Valentine’s Day bash. Yes, we’re aware that it’s easier said than done. But that’s why, to assist you in planning and holding a perfect Valentine’s Day party, here we provide you with some cool Valentine’s Day party ideas that will help you throw a perfect Valentine’s Day Party bash. Check these out! If you like our Valentine’s Day Party Ideas do not forget to and send this page to your friends and loved ones. Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is the occasion to have some fun with your friends, close ones and the love of your life. Check out some exciting tips to arrange a perfect Valentine’s Day Party:

Invitation

Before you send in the invites, list out the names of all those guests whom you want to invite for your Valentine’s Day party. Inform your friends beforehand whether it will be a day party or over-night party. Provide the names of all the invited ones as your guests may want to know who are the ones you invited other than themselves. You can reveal your ingenuity with the invitation cards but you would do well to relate them with your dominant party theme (though your invitations may also stand apart on their own). Send out cards in the shape of a heart or cupid, or with the shape of a heart on the front. It’s even better if you can make some invitation cards yourself for your Valentine’s Day party. You can make them quite attractive by designing them with pictures of famous lovers and putting in some famous love quotes. Tie each card with a red satin ribbon, put inside a small red box filled with candies and stick an invitation note to it. Deliver your invites personally. Make sure that your send your invitations at least a week or two weeks before the party, as most people have a habit of planning their Valentine’s Day in advance. If you want to send an online party invitation. cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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The venue of your Valentine’s Day Party depends as much on you as on your guests. You can throw a party at your shack, provided your celebrations are a family affair and you have the confidence that you can make all the necessary arrangements for it. If you want to make your jubilations a little different, you can invite your sweetheart/friends to watch a romcom at the theatre nearest to your home and give them a treat thus. You can also arrange a picnic on the lines of a camp at some good location, one that is safe and nice to spend time at.

Party Decorations

Your Valentine’s Day Party decoration depends mostly on the nature of your celebration. If you’re planning a special Valentine’s Day evening for you and your honey, a handful of candles and a bouquet of red roses are enough to set the mood. But if you’re throwing a Valentine’s Day bash for your friends and family, your bash needs a good theme and better decorations. A brilliant decoration goes a long way to set the mood for a party and make it an outstanding one. A Valentine’s Day Party is no anomaly. It would be wise to decorate your house according to the theme of the party. But your party zone can also be adorned traditionally. Place heart shaped candle stands and flower vase at different corners and windows of your home. Decorate the ceilings by hanging heart shape balloons, cute stupid cupids and paper hearts with the help of yarn, string or streamers. Red, pink, purple and white are the are the traditional Valentine’s Day colors. Cut paper hearts of various sizes from construction papers of aforementioned colours and write messages like “Be Mine”, “My Love” or “I Love You” on them. Add some sequins for that extra colour and sparkle. Scatter the cutouts randomly over tabletops and beds. Cover your table with a white table cloth or sheet and put little candy hearts with sayings like “Love is God” at one side of the table. These will be your party favours. Fill candy bowls, champagne flutes and martini glasses with colorful treats. Place a happy Valentines Day banner on the main door. Buy some of Valentine’s Day cards and stand them up across a fireplace mantle or on your drawing room table, or tape them to the bathroom mirror. And last but not the least, place a statuette or cardboard cutout of a frolicking, arrow-toting Cupid on your dining table. No Valentine’s Day party is complete without this item. To add to the mood of your party, play some nice romantic songs and spark the mood for romance. Prepare garlands of valentine flowers and place them all over in your sweet home.

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Party Themes A theme is one of the prime requirements for any party. Once a theme is decided, decorations are done accordingly. A popular Valentine’s Day party theme is the slumber theme. Planning a sleepover party is a great idea though it is suitable mostly for kids. Another common theme these days is to dress up like celebrities or in some fancy dress. You can even announce a prize to the best dressed up person. Pick a theme and just run with it.

Party Ambience

Creating the right ambience for your party is a must for that is what goes on to make the time a memorable one. Dress up your party zone according to the theme of the party. Choose your bed sheets, table covers and curtains in colours like red or pink that goes with the mood of Valentine’s Day. If you have plans to pass the occassion cozying up to your sweet one, you can hire DVDs of some popular romcoms(for movie suggestions, click here). So will some nice romantic music. But if you want to celebrate the time with your friends and family members, groovy numbers or dance tracks will be the best. Make sure, however, that the music for your party suits the taste and preferences of your guests.

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The best way to win hearts is by pleasing the tastebuds and hence, what you dish out at your party is an important factor. If you prefer to party with your friends and family, hit your favorite joint with your them and order what you enjoy the best. If your guest list includes vegetarians, make adequate provisions for them. If you want to restrict the celebrations to yourself and your sweetheart, go in for a romantic candlelight dinner. If you are eating out, your menu should include dishes like oysters and chicken or fish in champagne sauce. For desserts, chocolate recipes like chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate truffles, chocolate fondue or chocolate heart-shaped cookies are just great.

Party Favors

It is always nice to send your guests home with a small gift or party favour. End the festivities on a sweet note and keeps the memory of the party alive for your invited ones. These party favours can range from little candy hearts and chocolates to small cupid dolls. Purchase heart shaped boxes to pack sweet treats and heartshaped chocolates for your guests to take home. Hand out party favors according to the theme of your party.●

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Chicken Piccata Craving for Italian? Try these Chicken Piccata recipe and serve it with pasta, polenta or rice. Enjoy! Ingredients Yield: 4 servings 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (6 ounces each) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup chicken stock 3 to 4 tablespoons capers, drained 2 to 3 tablespoons lemon juice Sliced lemons Preparation Preheat oven to 350Â°. Cut chicken breasts in half crosswise. Pound with a meat mallet to 1/2-in. thickness; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place flour in a shallow bowl. Dip chicken in flour to coat both sides; shake off excess. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Brown chicken in batches, adding additional oil as needed. Transfer chicken to an ungreased 13x9-in. baking dish. Add stock, capers and lemon juice to pan, stirring to loosen browned bits from pan. Whisk in butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, until creamy. Pour sauce over chicken. Bake 5-10 minutes or until no longer pink.â&#x2014;? cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Moroccan Vegetable Soup Makes: 6 servings, about 2 cups each Active Time: 35 minutes / Total Time: 1 1/2 hours Ingredients 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, finely diced 2 teaspoons ground turmeric 1 pound beef stew meat, (such as chuck) or lamb stew meat (shoulder or leg), trimmed and cut into 1/2-inch cubes 6 cups reduced-sodium beef broth, or water 1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes 2 small turnips, peeled and diced 2 carrots, diced 2 stalks celery, leaves included, thinly sliced Pinch of saffron threads, (see Ingredient Note) 12 sprigs flat-leaf parsley, plus more leaves for garnish 8 sprigs fresh cilantro, plus more leaves for garnish 1 large zucchini, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice 2 ounces angel hair pasta, (capellini), broken into small

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pieces (about 1/2 cup), or orzo, preferably whole-wheat 1-2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper Preparation Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion and turmeric; stir to coat. Add meat and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Add broth (or water), tomatoes and their juice, turnips, carrots, celery and saffron. Tie parsley and cilantro sprigs together with kitchen string and add to the pot. Bring the soup to a boil. Cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook until the meat is tender, 45 to 50 minutes. Stir in zucchini and cook, covered, until soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Add pasta and cook until soft, 4 to 10 minutes, depending on the type of pasta. Discard the parsley and cilantro sprigs. Season with salt (start with 1 teaspoon if you’re using beef broth; add more if you’re using water) and pepper. Serve sprinkled with parsley and/or cilantro leaves, if desired.●

Slow Cook Veggie Lasagna Makes: 8 servings Active Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 2 hours on High or 4 hours on Low Ingredients 1 large egg 1 15- to 16-ounce container part-skim ricotta 1 5-ounce package baby spinach, coarsely chopped 3 large or 4 small portobello mushroom caps, gills removed (see Tip), halved and thinly sliced 1 small zucchini, quartered lengthwise and thinly sliced 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes 3 cloves garlic, minced 15 whole-wheat lasagna noodles (12 ounces), uncooked 3 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella, divided Preparation Combine egg, ricotta, spinach, mushrooms and zucchini in a large bowl.

Combine crushed and diced tomatoes and their juice, garlic and crushed red pepper (if using) in a medium bowl. Generously coat a 6-quart or larger slow cooker with cooking spray. Spread 1 1/2 cups of the tomato mixture in the slow cooker. Arrange 5 noodles over the sauce, overlapping them slightly and breaking into pieces to cover as much of the sauce as possible. Spread half of the ricotta-vegetable mixture over the noodles and firmly pat down, then spoon on 1 1/2 cups sauce and sprinkle with 1 cup mozzarella. Repeat the layering one more time, starting with noodles. Top with a third layer of noodles. Evenly spread the remaining tomato sauce over the noodles. Set aside the remaining 1 cup mozzarella in the refrigerator. Put the lid on the slow cooker and cook on High for 2 hours or on Low for 4 hours. Turn off the slow cooker, sprinkle the reserved mozzarella on the lasagna, cover and let stand for 10 minutes to melt the cheese.â&#x2014;? cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Shrimp Saganaki An easy weeknight dinner for four with tender-crisp shrimp and plenty of sharp feta cheese. Makes: 4 servings Active Time: 30 minutes / Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients 12 jumbo shrimp, (6-8 per pound), peeled and deveined, tails left on 2 tablespoons lemon juice, divided 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium bulb fennel, cored and finely chopped 5 scallions, thinly sliced 1 small chile pepper, such as jalapeño or serrano, seeded and minced 1/2 cup Chardonnay, preferably Greek 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese, preferably Greek Freshly ground pepper, to taste Preparation Toss shrimp with 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a medium bowl and sprinkle with salt. Heat oil in a large skillet (or “saganaki” pan) over medium heat. Add fennel, scallions and chile pepper and cook, stirring, until soft and beginning to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour in wine. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Place the shrimp on top of the fennel mixture, cover and cook until the shrimp are pink and just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat. Transfer the shrimp to a plate. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon lemon juice, feta and pepper to the pan and stir until the cheese begins to melt, about 1 minute. Serve the shrimp atop the fennel mixture. Tips & Notes Ingredient note: Shrimp is usually sold by the number needed to make 1 pound. For example, “6-8 count” means there will be 6 to 8 shrimp in a pound. Shrimp that size are usually labeled “jumbo.” Prawns will also work well in this recipe.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Strawberry-Cucumber Juice Makes: 2 servings Serving Size: about 10 ounces each Active Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients 6 fresh strawberries, hulled 1 large cucumber, peeled and cut into chunks 1 large red apple, cut into eighths 2 medium carrots, peeled Ice (optional) Preparation Working in this order process strawberries, cucumber, apple and carrots through a juicer according to the manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s directions.

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Fill 2 glasses with ice, if desired, and pour the juice into the glasses. Serve immediately. Tips & Notes No juicer? No problem. Try this DIY version of blended and strained juice instead: Coarsely chop all ingredients. First, place the soft and/or juice ingredients in the blender and process until liquefied. Then, add the remaining ingredients; blend until liquefied. Cut two 24-inch-long pieces of cheesecloth. Completely unfold each piece and then stack the pieces on top of each other. Fold the double stack in half so you have a 4-layer stack of cloth. Line a large bowl with the cheesecloth and pour the contents of the blender into the center. Gather the edges of the cloth together in one hand and use the other hand to twist and squeeze the bundle to extract all the juice from the pulp.â&#x2014;?

Apple Nut Crisp Makes: 8 servings Active Time: 50 minutes Total Time: 1 1/2 hours (including cooling time) Ingredients 5 medium-large crisp, tart apples, such as McIntosh, Empire, Granny Smith or Cortland, peeled and thinly sliced (about 6 cups) 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, or Splenda Granular 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided 2/3 cup whole-wheat flour 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats, (not instant) 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed 1/3 cup coarsely chopped hazelnuts, or walnuts

Preparation Preheat oven to 375Â°F. Coat an 8-inch square (or 2-quart) deep baking dish with cooking spray. Combine apples with granulated sugar (or Splenda), lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a large bowl. Toss to mix. Transfer to the prepared baking dish, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, combine whole-wheat flour, oats, brown sugar and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a medium bowl. Mix to blend. Using your fingers (or a fork or pastry blender), cut in butter until evenly distributed and there are no chunks. Stir in oil, apple juice concentrate and nuts; toss well until evenly moistened and clumpy. Remove the foil from the baking dish and scatter the topping evenly over the apples. Bake uncovered until the topping has browned and the fruit is soft and bubbling, about 30 minutes more. Let cool for at least 15 minutes before serving.â&#x2014;? cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Ginger Baked Apples with Oats & Pecans

Not there is anything wrong with apple pie, but for something different, try this recipe. Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream. Makes: 4 servings Active Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 50 minutes Ingredients 4 McIntosh, Cortland or Empire apples 1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar 1/4 cup chopped pecans 3/4 cup apple cider, divided 1 tablespoon finely chopped crystallized ginger Preparation Preheat oven to 375Â°F. Remove the stem and core of apples with a melon baller, leaving the bottoms intact. Combine oats, sugar, pecans, 1/4 cup cider and ginger in a small bowl. Fill each apple with about 2 tablespoons of the filling and place in an 8-inch-square (or similar-size) baking dish. Pour the remaining 1/2 cup cider around the apples. Cover the dish with foil. Bake the apples until tender, about 20 minutes. Uncover and continue baking until the apples are very soft but still hold together, 10 to 15 minutes more. Let cool about 5 minutes before serving.â&#x2014;? cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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Lemon Meringue Tart Makes: 2 servings Active Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 2 1/2 hours (including cooling time)

Ingredients All-purpose flour, for dusting 1 large egg, at room temperature, separated (see Baking Tip) 2 tablespoons plus 4 teaspoons sugar, divided 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1/4 cup water 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare Crust for Two. Dust a work surface with flour and turn the dough out onto it. Dust the dough with flour and roll into an 8-inch circle, dusting with flour as necessary to prevent sticking. Transfer the crust to a 6-inch tart pan with 1-inch sides and removable bottom (see Sources or Equipment Tip). Press the crust into the bottom and up the sides, folding the overhanging dough back into the pan to form double-thick sides. Prick the bottom and sides with a fork. Bake the crust until lightly browned, 20 to 22 minutes. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes. Increase the oven temperature to 425°. While the crust is cooling, whisk egg yolk and 2 tablespoons sugar in a medium bowl until thick and pale yellow, about 1 minute. Whisk in cornstarch until combined. Bring water, lemon zest and lemon juice to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from the heat. Whisk about half the lemon mixture into the yolk mixture in a slow, steady stream. Whisk the combined mixture back into the remaining lemon mixture in the pan. Return the pan to the stove and cook over low heat, whisking constantly, until thickened and puddinglike, 1 to 3 minutes. Pour into the prepared crust and spread evenly to the edges. Beat egg white in a small bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until soft peaks form. Beat in the remaining 4 teaspoons sugar in a slow, steady stream until stiff peaks form. Beat in vanilla. Mound the meringue over the warm filling; spread to the crust’s edges, forming peaks with a rubber spatula. Bake the tart until the meringue is lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature before serving. Tips & Notes Baking Tip: To warm an egg to room temperature, either set it out on the counter for 15 minutes or submerge it (in the shell) in a bowl of lukewarm (not hot) water for 5 minutes.● cinamagic FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015

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