The Bells of St. Mary's
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
Director:
Leo McCarey
Writers:
Dudley Nichols (screenplay), Leo McCarey (story)
Stars:
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman and Henry Travers
TV movie filmed in Michigan
November 30, 2010 - AP
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GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A TV movie starring Golden Globe award winner Jane Seymour that was filmed entirely at a home in Ada will premier Jan. 8.
Executive producer Rob Gilmer tells The Grand Rapids Press his ‘‘Perfectly Prudence’’ crew had a ‘‘fantastic’’ time during filming at the west Michigan home owned by a Grand Rapids physician. The movie employed local crews from Sept. 13 to Oct. 1.
‘‘Perfectly Prudence’’ is a sequel to the 2008 film ‘‘Dear Prudence,’’ about a TV host who helps solve a murder. It will debut on the Hallmark Channel.
Gilmer said he hopes to write a third ‘‘Prudence’’ script and would love to film it in Michigan.
Seymour starred with the late Christopher Reeve in ‘‘Somewhere in Time,’’ filmed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in 1979.
"HUMAN RIGHTS SOLIDARITY MARCH LED BY ANDY GARCIA
By: Corriente Latina | 03.24.2010
Sunday, internationally acclaimed actor Andy Garcia will join hundreds across the country in a symbolic march in solidarity with victims of repression in Cuba. In Los Angeles, the march will take place in Echo Park at 2:00pm following the culmination of a 12-hour fast in honor of the late Orlando Tamayo Zapata. Tamayo was an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who died earlier this month after an 85-day hunger strike protesting the deplorable conditions in Cuban prisons.
“We are walking in silence, dressed in the white—the color of peace and absolute freedom—to show solidarity with the Cuban people, and especially the women in white (Damas de Blanco) suffering the abuses and injustices perpetrated by the repressive Cuban government, not only onto themselves, but also towards their husbands and sons, the imprisoned political dissidents fighting for human rights and democracy in Cuba.
Please join us in this march in support of the long-suffering Cuban people who deserve to enjoy the liberties that we so cherish.” –Andy Garcia "
HUMAN RIGHTS SOLIDARITY MARCH LED BY ANDY GARCIA | News
Explosive materials seized in Pulaski
By Kent Tempus, Leader editor
A potential disaster was averted after a man who for years built homemade
fireworks at his mother’s Pulaski home was arrested Friday night.
The amount of explosive materials found during a search earlier in the day
posed a serious threat to occupants of the residence and the residents in the
immediate area of the home, Pulaski Police chief Randal Dunford said.
“I feel we prevented something tragic from happening,” Dunford said. “One
simple mistake — or even static electricity — would have sparked those chemicals
and created an explosion.”
Authorities seized eight improvised explosive devices and about 300 pounds
of raw chemicals used to make explosive devices, along with other components
commonly used in manufacture of pyrotechnics.
“It was a very volatile and dangerous situation,” Dunford said. “We could
have lost several homes, and human lives. The potential for tragedy was
huge.”
The suspect, Jon D. Peplinski, 46, was arrested at his Green Bay home by
Pulaski Police officers about 9:20 p.m. Friday.
He was booked into Brown County Jail and is being held on three felony
charges — possession of explosives, possession of improvised explosive devices
and reckless endangerment.
"Wild horse roundup in Montona, Wyoming to start Thursday after judge denies effort to block it
Matthew Brown
September 2nd, 2009
Wild horse roundup in Montana, Wyoming planned
BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge has rejected a request to halt a roundup of about 190 wild horses in the Pryor Mountains along the Montana-Wyoming border.
The roundup had been delayed since Monday as U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan considered an injunction sought by two Colorado-based advocacy groups.
Sullivan denied the request Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management, which operates the 38,000-acre Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, says the roundup will begin Thursday.
The roundup will capture the range’s entire population, with 70 adult horses and their foals to be kept for adoption. The remaining horses will be freed after some of the mares are given a contraceptive vaccine.
Opponents say the roundup could end up ruining one of the most genetically pure herds of Spanish colonial horses in the country."
Wild horse roundup in Montona, Wyoming to start Thursday after judge denies effort to block it
"Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dies at 97 AP
By BETH HARRIS, Associated Press Writer Beth Harris, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 1, 6:21 pm ET
LOS ANGELES – Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97. Malden died of natural causes surrounded by his family at his Brentwood home, they told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He served as the academy's president from 1989-92."
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dies at 97 - Yahoo! News
"Movie tells story of Frechette's time with Dillinger
By Cory Dellenbach, Leader reporter
After today, people will learn more about John Dillinger’s love interest Neopit native Evelyn Frechette — better known as Billie Frechette.
Played by Oscar winning French actress Marion Cotillard, Frechette is Dillinger’s love interest in the movie “Public Enemies” that opens today country-wide.
“Unfortunately there’s not a full biography of Evelyn,” said Michael Chapman of Keshena, who served as technical consultant for the film. “There’s just glimpses of her here and there during this era. Nothing really flushes out the full scope of her life here or in Chicago living with her sister.”
Frechette was born in 1907 to a French father and a Native American mother. She lived on the Menominee Reservation, in Neopit, until the age of 13 where she also attended St. Anthony Catholic School (now Menominee Tribal School).
When she was 18, Frechette moved to Chicago, where she worked as a nursemaid and waitress. Frechette married Welton Sparks, who was sentenced to prison in 1933 for committing a mail robbery.
It was in November 1933 when she met John Dillinger at a dance hall.
It was believed, Chapman says, that Frechette was attracted to Dillinger because she had a big distrust of authority and federal officials and that helped bond them.
“There was something in those eyes that I will never forget,” Frechette told “True Confessions” magazine in an interview. “They were piercing and electric, yet there was an amused carefree twinkle in them too. They met my eyes and held me hypnotized for an instant.”
Frechette, who was then 26, described the 30-year-old Dillinger as a gentleman.
“John was good to me. He looked after me and bought me all kinds of jewelry and cars and pets, and we went places and saw things, and he gave me everything a girl wants. He treated me like a lady,” Frechette told the magazine.
Frechette, however, gave Dillinger minimal assistance on his adventures. She made purchases for him, such as clothing and cars, but for the most part, she performed the role of a housewife.
“There are lots of stories (of Dillinger) coming to the reservation. My grandmother would actually fry fish for them when they were in town,” Chapman said. “I heard another story where he had come and he had a brand new car and he was parked in Neopit and he had come out and kids were all over his car. He gave all the kids a silver dollar and they all ran home and got off his car.”
Besides being Dillinger’s lover and companion, Frechette did his cooking and cleaning. Only once did she drive a getaway car, when the St. Paul police had discovered their apartment — and that was only because Dillinger had been wounded in the leg, according to the magazine.
The two were reunited in Chicago after Dillinger’s escape from a prison in Crown Point, Ind. — an escape which she may have helped with smuggling money and maps to him during a visit.
Frechette was arrested by Department of Investigation special agents on April 9, 1934. Dillinger drove around the block several times before Pat Cherrington, the girlfriend of Dillinger gang member John Hamilton, convinced him that he would be killed if he tried to rescue Frechette.
During her trial in St. Paul, Frechette testified that during her D.O.I. interrogation, she had been slapped and deprived of food and sleep for two days. Dillinger became so angry, he vowed to kill Harold H. Reinecke, the agent in charge of Frechette’s interrogation. He later gave up his intention.
Frechette served two years in federal prison for harboring a criminal. After Dillinger’s death, she sold her story to True Confessions, True Romance and the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
Upon her release in 1936, Frechette toured in a theatrical show called “Crime Doesn’t Pay” with members of Dillinger’s family. She talked about her life with Dillinger, and answered the audience’s questions about him.
Frechette eventually had two subsequent marriages. She died of cancer on Jan. 13, 1969 in Shawano and is buried in the St. Anthony Church cemetery in Neopit."
