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'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer,' 'Fly Me to the Moon'
"Fly Me to the Moon," a 3-D-animated tale of insects who want to be the first flies on the moon, seeks to instill in kids a sense of wonder at space exploration. Whether it succeeds is really in the eye of the beholder.
Three young flies in 1969 hitch...Tags: Santa Monica, Minority Groups, Cape Canaveral, Robert Englund, NASA
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In visa dispute, businesses face summer worker gap
Sun reporterWith Congress at an impasse over visas for seasonal laborers, the owners of Eastern Shore businesses that have counted on foreign workers to pick crabs, wash dishes and can corn are bracing for a difficult summer ahead - with consequences that they warn...Tags: Government, National Government, Nancy Pelosi, Personal Data Collection, Public Employees
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Marion M. Kolaczyk, Marie Lotito, Guy Warren Reinhart, Leigh Williams
Published March 29, 2008 Marion M. Kolaczyk (nee Miller) of Melville on March 27, 2008. Marion was born in Canarsie Brooklyn, and lived her early life in Greenpoint. She graduated from Long Island City High School and began working at Underwriters...Tags: Roxbury, Greenpoint, Melville, Long Island, Clubs and Associations
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'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer' doesn't live down to its billing
Sentinel Movie CriticJon Knautz and writer John Ainslie have cooked up a "midnight movie" that doesn't quite live down to its billing. A slice of cheese stuffed with stunt men in rubber suits, it's a horror comedy that is all too content to rest on "We got Robert Englund...Tags: Roger Moore, Chemistry, Robert Englund
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Films from around the world at the Florida Film Festival
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Saturday, March 29, 1:45 p.m.–3:40 p.m. at Regal Saturday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.–6:25 p.m. at Regal Albert Lamorisse's brilliant 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon serves as inspiration. A little boy and his baby...Tags: Film Festivals, Ethics, Family, Roman Polanski, Jim Broadbent
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Complete schedule of screenings at the Florida Film Festival
Most of these films have not been rated; choose responsibly. End times include possible Q&A.
Wednesday, April 2
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11 a.m.–7 p.m. Ticket Sales
ENZIAN THEATER
1:30 p.m.–3:10 p.m. Goliath
4:15 p.m.–6:10 p.m. The Cake...Tags: Film Festivals, Sales, Wildlife, Natural Resources, Enzian Theater
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The hills are (sometimes) alive with the sound of movies
What a difference a song makes. And what a difference a movie can make for a song. Take "Singin' in the Rain." It has been ukulele ditty (Cliff Edwards in the 1920s), comedy (Jimmy Durante in the 1930s), swing (Judy Garland in the 1940s), ode to joy...Tags: Ingrid Bergman, Samuel Barber, Elmer Bernstein, Jimmy Durante, Petroleum Industry
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Work-visa limit snags Shore employers
Sun StaffFor the first time in more than a decade, many Maryland businesses are warning that there won't be anyone to pick the crabs, shuck the oysters or trim the hedges. Thousands of temporary workers essential to keeping many summer industries humming will not...Tags: Government, National Government, National Security, Personal Data Collection, Wayne T Gilchrest
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Crab industry gets back to business
Sun StaffHOOPERS ISLAND - Just a few months ago, Harry Phillips wouldn't have bet a nickel that his crab processing plant would still be in business - much less humming along, turning out mounds of creamy steamed crabmeat. In March, Maryland's Eastern Shore...Tags: Government, National Government, Labor Day, Chesapeake Bay, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Crab pickers turn to House for seasonal-worker visas
Sun StaffKENT NARROWS - Buoyed by a victory in the U.S. Senate this week, Maryland's seafood processors turned their attention yesterday to winning House of Representatives approval for a visa program they say is crucial to the survival of the Chesapeake Bay's...Tags: Government, Lower House, National Government, Personal Data Collection, Chesapeake Bay
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Crab factory
Sun ReportersBy 9 a.m. the crab boats have already been coming and going from the pier for close to five hours, with migrant Burmese workers laboring to unload, sort, weigh and steam crabs that are destined for dinner plates on the other side of the world....Tags: Beach Vacations, Sales, Petroleum Industry, Consumers, Political Candidates
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Home beckons for crab pickers
sun reporterFISHING CREEK // Five months after coming to this marshy village on the Chesapeake Bay to take jobs picking crabs in a processing plant, Trinidad Tovar Tovar and a dozen other workers headed home to Mexico yesterday, their luggage bulging with trinkets,...Tags: Government, National Government, Dorchester County, Personal Data Collection, Chesapeake Bay
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