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  • In lieu of flowers

    In lieu of flowers

     Feeling pensive after all of the holiday madness? Be sure to catch Seven Guitars, opening tonight at The Actors’ Group for a 17-day run. Set in the 1940s, this award-winning play is the perfect fuel for...

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  • Christmas in Charlottesville

    'Pearl Harbor Christmas' describes crucial first days of World War II

    Stanley Weintraub’s Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941, is a tightly-packed but readable account of the “12 days of Christmas” beginning two weeks after the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific...

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  • North Africa

    Rope of Sand (1949)

    Rope of Sand (1949)Director: William DieterleRunning Time: 1 hr. and 43 mins.Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Peter LorrePlot: Mike (Lancaster) comes back to North Africa and the sadistic Commandant wants to know aobut the diamonds that...

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