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Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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Anachronisms: Johnny tells Baby that the Schumacher's were involved in the thefts and that by "fingerprinting their water glasses" it was discovered that they were wanted in Arizona. In 1963, there was no automated interstate fingerprint database, and any fingerprint searches at that time had be done manually, and would have taken weeks, not just a day as depicted in the film. The FBI's NCIC (National Crime Information Center) was not created until 1967 and AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) was not created until after 1980.See more »
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Radio disc jockey:[on radio] Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby:[voiceover] That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
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37 out of 65 people found the following review useful.
guilty pleasure, 3 August 2004
Author: charest58 from Capitola, CA

I first saw this movie with my fiancée many years after it came out. I thought I would hate it, but to my surprise it is so cheesy that it's great. We've spent many hours reenacting parts of the movie ("Sylvia?!Yes Mickey?" or "I'm sorry you had to see that Baby. Sometimes in this world we see things that we don't want to."). My financee cracks up every time I imitate Neil. Also the music is classic and fun to sing along with, especially on road trips. Of course I don't admit any of this to my male friends. It's like a guilty pleasure. I seriously watch Dirty Dancing once a month or more and it is just as good every time. Jennifer Grey is also so cute in this movie. Its too bad her career never really took off.

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30 something stockbroker falls for HS beauty while hiding from the mob.
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Being a child of the 80's, I enjoyed Hiding Out on several levels. I think that Annabeth Gish is a beautiful woman and love the way she smiles during this movie. She is lucky in the characters she played while a younger actress. She was a good actress then and she is a great one now. Jon Cryer is a good actor but he doesn't seem totally comfortable in this role. Perhaps that is a good thing, since he is a fish out of water character here. The high school kids were pretty believable, especially Keith Coogan. His is pretty much the same character from Adventures in Babysitting, just grown up now. This is pretty amazing since both movies came out in 1987.

The ending is bit contrived but entertaining just the same. Hiding Out is a really good movie and worth the rental fee if you want some 80's nostalgia or too see something safe for the whole family. I have watched it numerous times and still look forward to seeing it again.

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10 out of 13 people found the following review useful:

A Totally Predictable Festival of Clichés

Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
24 November 2004

The young couple Lori Peterson (A.J. Cook) and her husband Tom Peterson (Matthew Harrison) moves from Chicago to a suburb, to live in a huge house. Their neighbors Helen Schmidt (Theresa Russell) and Carl Schmidt (James Russo) welcome them with a dinner party at their house and the two couples start a good relationship. When Tom travels to Los Angeles on business, Lori stays alone at home and realizes that Carl is a violent man and might have killed his wife. She decides to investigate what might have happened to Helen. 'The House Next Door' is a totally predictable festival of clichés. It seems that the studios have some sort of previously prepared combination of screenplays with this sort of flick, and releases them with a minor participation of some known actors and actresses, like Sean Young and Theresa Russell, a beautiful cover and posters to the video rentals to attract the attention of viewers. Later, they release it to an open or even cable TV channel, and nothing else. Just as an example, this type of movie is very common and typical in the Saturday 9:00 PM session of TV Globo (the greatest open channel in Brazil). 'The House Next Door' is a watchable and very forgettable flick. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): 'Vizinhos Lado a Lado Até a Morte' ('Neighbors Side by Side Until Death')

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:

Some good acting wasted on a weak script

Author: Ed-Shullivan from Canada
11 November 2013

This thriller is very watchable due to the high caliber acting of three of the main characters. A J Cook (Jennifer Jareau on TV's Criminal Minds) and Matthew Harrison play Lori and Tom Peterson who have been married for two years and decide to leave the big city of Chicago and move to a smaller community in the countryside, where they believe their lives will be safer and more like the lives of the people on that old television series The Andy Griffith Show which took place in the quaint little town of Mayberry.

Little do they know that they have moved next door to a very militant neighbor who associates with a group of degenerates that like to party at his house. James Russo is the neighbor from hell named Carl Schmidt. Carl is married to Theresa Russel's character Helen Schmidt who is a stay at home mom with two young children. Helen appears to be abused both verbally and physically by her ex military husband Carl.

Two other characters that come in to play are Lori Peterson's hip girlfriend Monica played by Sean Young who comes to town to visit her good old friend Lori, and the not so nice, and corruptible skirt chaser Sheriff Vernon Crank played by Frederic Forrest.

Yes, the script is very predictable, but the musical score suits the scenes as they play out, and A J Cook, Theresa Russell and James Russo are all good actors who hold the movie up quite well to the bitter climax. Even the director Joey Travolta (yes he is John Travolta's brother) does an admirable job pulling off a pretty good thriller. One could do a lot worse than watching this 95 minute thriller, so sit back with your popcorn and leave at least one light on for this two and half star thriller.

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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful:

Thou shalt LOVE the B-Movie!

Author: cinematicheroes from Staten Island, N.Y.
6 September 2004

As a writer and a filmmaker myself, I try not to be ultra-critical when you consider all of the elements that go into making a film. When viewing this one, I quickly realized that John Benjamin Martin's script didn't have the same quality of writing of a William Goldman script, and for the most part it certainly lacked the dialogue of a Quentin Tarantino ... or even a Jon Favreau script, for that matter. But, if you're looking for a semi-fun, serviceable B-thriller, this will do fine. In fact, it's the perfect Friday Midnight Movie when you just want to veg-out with a BIG tub of buttered popcorn!

In fact, a little over four years ago, a similar film - WHAT LIES BENEATH - was released starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. Was it a better movie? Sure, but not that much better when you consider all of the variables involved: HOUSE NEXT DOOR was made with a lot less dough than WHAT LIES BENEATH was. And HND certainly lacked both the A-list stars and the BIG-Studio backing of 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks. In fact, I would go so far as to say that director Joey Travolta did the best he could with what was given him.

And one of the things given him in this film is a fine performance by James Russo, who is at his utmost-creepiest, playing Carl Schmidt, the next door neighbor of Lori Peterson (played by A.J. Cook). Russo's performance - along with Travolta's direction - actually makes this film not only watchable, but enjoyable as a "guilty pleasure." As does the performance of Sean Young, who also does the most she can with the supporting role of Monica, Peterson's long-time friend. It's priceless to hear her utter lines such as, "It's crazy - I mean like get in the car and move to Arizona crazy!" Frederic Forrest, who garnered a Best Supporting Actor nomination in 1980 for his performance in THE ROSE, also lends credibility to the cast.

And again, I felt Travolta's direction, which seems to get better with each new film, helps to offset the movie's notoriously low budget.

As was the case with WHAT LIES BENEATH several years back, THIS film is filled with the obvious cheap thrills you'd expect from a movie of this nature, but again, that's part of the reason that makes THIS the perfect Friday Midnight Movie!

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:

Some neighbors can be very deceiving. You really have to watch the ones that bring a lot more then memories home from the war !

Author: hereatgraceland from United States
27 September 2006

I can be very picky when judging a suspense-horror type movie. I can honestly say I enjoyed House Next Door very much. Mainly because the type of suspense shown in the movie was believable. We've all experienced weird neighbors, not to this extent, but its something we can relate to. To me this is far more enjoyable then a typical Stephen King sci-fi weirdo picture ! I found the story was well written, well directed and the acting was superb. It goes to show you Producers don't need idiots running around with a chainsaw and hockey mask chasing bare breasted women in the middle of the night. The movie was clearly written and stuck to the point right up until the final climax. I purchased this older movie the other day and I know I'll end-up watching it again in the near future. I recommend you do the same. You will not be disappointed. I'll give it an 8.

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Suspenseful with a little humor.

Author: Jessica A. Gihon (jagproductions) from Vancouver, BC
10 December 2001

I had the opportunity of being invited to the Vancouver screening of `The House Next Door'. The movie was very well done; it kept everyone in the audience on the edge of their seats wondering... why doesn't she leave? Vancouver composer John Sereda did an outstanding job on the films soundtrack. It was "Dramatic, Dynamic, Suspenseful, and it Rocked you"... It is definitely a movie worth seeing... and a soundtrack worth hearing.

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Young married couple move into their first home and find their neighbors are rather unusual.

Author: lewwarden from United States
7 December 2008

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This could have been turned into a better than average garden variety thriller with a different ending. In fact, I suspect the original script may have been written that way. Certainly the opening scene which found the new bride hovering between dream and reality -- and perhaps a bid daft -- was an excellent set-up for an ending in which after the terrified woman calls the cops, having made one of the more macabre discoveries of terror spoofs, the knock on the door reveals the police officer, suspensefully followed by the unbloodied "victims" who stagger over from the party next door to console the poor woman, victim of an over-stressed imagination or really off her rocker. Too bad about the ex-marine who only wanted to do what randy marines like to do to available women, but the life of a fighting man is fraught with hazard.

I thought the shovel banging on a wooden box was a real blunder. Whether dead dog or murder victim, no killer would put the body in a box to bury it.

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9 out of 19 people found the following review useful:

This movie sucks big time!

Author: pifas from Guadalajara, Jalisco. México
4 July 2002

This is the story: my wife and I ran into The house next door at the video rentals, she picked it up and read at the back cover that this is one thriller in the vein of Hitchcock's The rear window. We both decided to watch it not because of the so-called reference with the masterpiece of cinematographic voyeurism, but for spend a little time of relax with a movie not so complicated, just as I guessed by seeing the front cover. But, once we watched it -in two periods, because we both fell asleep-, all I could think was that this is such an insult for the Master of all suspense and thrills. This movie it´s nothing but a big fat bunch of crap! I think I've never felt so bad after watching a movie. Of any kind.

Every little thing in this so called film is horrible: the acting, the screenplay, the suspense (?), the directing, I mean, everything it´s awfully done. It´s a real pain to sit thru' this movie because we never get to feel any connection with the characters; they're as unidimensional as only a blank paper can be; all is constructed under the simplicity of the easy -and predictable- scare; the scenario, the holes in the story, the stupidity in the lead roles unable to see what's coming, and run away when there's still plenty of time. By half the movie we already knew who was who and who did that and this. Was there any enigma to solve? Nope! Maybe just to find the missing mystery, because any episode of Scooby Doo has more of it -and tension- in it´s 30 minutes, than in the 90 plus that lasts this torture titled The house next door. I still can't understand how does this kind of garbage get to be done and reach for the cinemas; bad luck we found it, but good one that we only had it for rental. Anyway, once the movie finished, I felt like going back to Blockbuster and ask for my money back.

I'm aware that the tone in this text it's one in anger, but that is because I am. But, really, if you appreciate your time or mental health, don't you even get close to this movie. No matter what the back cover says -what else could the distribution company do?-, this movie stinks!!!!!

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Not enough thrills to overcome predictable situations.

Author: jaykay-1 from Los Angeles, CA
1 March 2002

This conventional woman-in-jeopardy suspencer, screened at the American Film Market in February, has enough predictable situations to place it in the lightweight horror category.

A young Chicago couple, married two years, move into their country dream home only to discover their neighbors are not all they appear to be. The young wife (A.J.Cook) is left vulnerable when husband (Matthew Harrison) has to spend two weeks in LA on business. James Russo provides so-so excitement as the heavy-next-door.

While Joey Travolta directs competently, we don't get to know enough about the characters to make us care very much what happens to them in the situations they are placed.

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Waste of talents

Author: tomppatomppa from Tampere, Finland
6 August 2003

Actors are not bad in this film as a matter of fact acting is very good and believable. Also the filming is quite good as much as I can say something about it. But when the actually story is sooooo foreseeable all the way to the end then you just can't enjoy the film. Sorry :[

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Suspensefull. If you have never seen a movie before.

Author: Skreee from Germany
21 August 2002

This is slightly less suspensefull then having somebody tell you the plot of "Rear Window". All scenes are done by the book, with no big mistakes, but with no imagination or heart either. The actors save the movie from being downright rotten.

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What a shame to see Jackie Chan's talents wasted with a bunch of kung fu wires to leap in the air with. The whole joy of watching his movies is the sheer talent and relentless energy he demonstrates while doing all of his own stunts. Leave the wires to those who really need them.

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an action packed movie, El Fiscal de Hierro "THe Iron Prosecutor" is a fictionalized account of famous Mexico City lawman Salvador del Toro Rosales who was sent in the early 70's to lawless Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to clean up the city and rid it of the violence and drugs that plagued it then (and now). He fought against drug trafficking matriarch Simona Reyes Pruneda and her gang of bloodthirsty criminal sons.

In El Fiscal de Hierro, attorney Eduardo Lobo is sent to the city of Monterrey to battle the evil Ramona Pineda and her sons who commit all sorts of crimes. No bribes and no bullets can stop the mighty "Iron Prosecutor", even though his fight and dedication to his job costs him the life of his son at the hands of Pineda.

Cheesy acting and violent shootouts, typical of Mario Almada's movies, this movie is pretty enjoyable if you enjoy macho movies full of violence and butt kicking lawmen who never have to reload and their guns always have bullets!

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Truly the BEST ever incarnation of Spiderman and the best animated show EVER!!! Compared to previous animated Spidey's this was bold move, taking it in new, more mature and realistic directions. The 60's and 90's shows seem tame and childish in comparison.

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Movie- Sambho Siva Sambho Release date- 14 January 2010 Rating- 4.5/5

Sambho Siva Sambho is undoubtedly a film that deserves to be watched, and that too not just once, but multiple times. This film is the best of Ravi Teja and all actors involved in making this movie. It's a big, big, big problem of some critics to pan a movie that brings message for the society. But forget the critics' reviews and watch this movie. Believe me you won't be disappointed.

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Member Care Specialist
Florida Blue - 233 reviews - Jacksonville, FL 32224
Perform research, request additional information from the provider, member and/or supporting plans if necessary, and make decisions to return, pend, pay or deny...
Specialist, Truckload Operations
Estes Forwarding Worldwide - 16 reviews - Jacksonville Beach, FL
Perform miscellaneous job functions to assist with operations, sales efforts, contracts and billing. The Specialist, Truckload Operations reports directly to...
27D Paralegal Specialist
National Guard - 9,810 reviews - Jacksonville, FL 32221
The Paralegal Specialist provides legal and administrative support in such diverse areas as international law, contract law, defense legal services, and...

Local Contract Specialist

CGI - 1,261 reviews - Jacksonville, FL
CGI Federal, a leader in providing business process outsourcing services to public housing authorities throughout the US, is looking for individuals to fill the...

Contract Support Specialist - CSS - FDOT District 2

TRC Companies Inc - Jacksonville, FL
TRC is seeking Contract Support Specialists to support Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 2 construction projects....

Billing Specialist- Independent Contract

Helping Hands Inspire Happy Hearts, LLC - Jacksonville, FL
We are currently seeking a Billing Specialist who is familiar with insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid....
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Contract Monitoring Specialist

Episcopal Children's Services - 16 reviews - Jacksonville, FL 32256
Assist in the distribution and maintenance of provider contracts. To ensure School Readiness contracts are complete with all necessary documentation and to...

Document Control Specialist

PGR Consultants, LLC - Jacksonville, FL
$30,000 - $42,000 a year
\*\*\*POSITION REQUIRES SECRET CLEARANCE\*\*\*\* Section C.3 Statement of Work (SOW) Required Skills and Knowledge: * Laptop and/or Desktop computer
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Work at Home - Call Center Specialist

Hertz - 2,900 reviews - Jacksonville, FL
All internal transfers from Agent to Specialist positions will be lateral, unless otherwise mentioned in the interview....

Specialist, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Duval County Public Schools - 148 reviews - Jacksonville, FL
$42,880 a year
Oversees translation vendor contracts. Ensures improvement of instructional methodology among classroom teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages....

Sr Field Service Specialist

Honeywell - 4,411 reviews - Jacksonville, FL 32256
O Verify system functional performance to ensure proper operations according to contract requirements including:....

Online Reputation Management Specialist

Campers Inn RV - 19 reviews - Jacksonville, FL
Ability to use a computer and related devices, such as a keyboard or mouse or other related equipment, throughout the workday while seated at a desk or...

Billing Analyst

Macquarie Group Limited - 26 reviews - Jacksonville, FL
This included ensuring the invoicing accurately reflects usage / contracts; The Corporate Operations Group (COG) brings together specialist support services...
Product Consultant
Florida Blue - 233 reviews - Jacksonville, FL 32224
Oversees the annual member rate increase process to ensure we update benefit plans (member contracts) and rates timely and in compliance with State and Federal...
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InHome Medical Solutions - Jacksonville, FL
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GHNS Illinois Budget (2/28/08)

Here are the top Illinois stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at Please check in the evening for changes to story lineup, including breaking news.

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Ministry has high hopes for wind turbine

ROCKFORD – The top of a two-story building in the middle of the city doesn’t seem like the ideal place for an electricity-generating wind turbine, but Rockford Urban Ministries is hoping to defy expectations. The nonprofit group wants to install a turbine, plus a solar power array, on the roof of its building by year’s end. The electricity generated will power the first floor, home to the ministry’s headquarters and its Just Goods fair-trade store. By Sean F. Driscoll of the Rockford Register Star.

STATE BRIEFS: News from around the state. Will be posted by 5 p.m.

OLD FIREFIGHTER PENSIONS. Rep. Donald Moffitt, R-Gilson, is pushing legislation that he says would correct an injustice by ensuring that firefighters who retired before July 1971 have their pensions calculated in the same way as newer retirees. His legislation, which cleared an Illinois House committee today, would affect a maximum of 29 retired firefighters who are age 81 and older and would cost, at maximum, about $325,000. By Adriana Colindres of the Statehouse Bureau.

Burn barrels troubling to health officials

ELDORADO – The use of burn barrels in rural Illinois has officials concerned about the possible side effects of the smoke. By Brian DeNeal of the Harrisburg Daily Register.

Koehler wants civil union law passed

PEORIA - State Sen. David Koehler is proposing legislation that would legalize civil unions in Illinois and entitle unmarried couples - including those of the same sex - to the same protections and benefits currently afforded to traditional married couples.

FOIA INFORMATION RETURNED: PEORIA – Personal information provided in error as a result of a Freedom of Information request has been voluntarily returned to the city intact. The information has been shredded, and officials were assured that the information was not compromised, copied, or distributed. From the Peoria Journal Star.

ISU THREAT: Illinois State University officials are investigating a written threat on a stainless steel toilet paper dispenser stating, "ISU is the next NIU." A new Web site has been announced to keep university community updated on security issues. By Steve Stein of the Peoria Journal Star.

BEST VIEW IN SPRINGFIELD: This is the final week for the restaurant and jazz club on the 30th floor of the Hilton Springfield. The plan is to convert it into a banquet hall. The club was a hot spot for a long time, but the smoking ban has cut down the crowds. It’s hard to step outside when you’re 30 floors up. By Bruce Rushton of the State Journal-Register. Will be posted this evening.

BRITT: Toon on ZZ Top performing at the State Fair with no power. Will be posted this afternoon.

GRANLUND: Toon on the media’s lovefest with Barack Obama. Will be posted this afternoon.

CASEY LAUGHMAN: If we’re going to have extra February, we deserve a holiday

CHUCK SWEENY: Honor students’ memories with memorial, not hall

It’s entirely appropriate for Northern Illinois University to want to build a memorial to the five students killed and others wounded by a severely disturbed gunman at Cole Hall. But the university and Gov. Rod Blagojevich have a novel idea of what that memorial should look like.

DEIRDRE REILLY: What’s to blame for our killer youth?

When I sent my middle son to college, I had the normal worries associated with a loved child’s departure from home – would he eat enough? Rest enough? Study enough? One thing I never asked myself, though – is he fast enough if he had to outrun a gunman? This, sadly, is what American parents now are facing when it comes to their college students attending schools all over the country.

EDITORIAL: Lift U.S. embargo on Cuba
A citizenry that thinks nothing of buying goods from communist China at the nearest Wal-Mart ought to support lifting the trade embargo on communist Cuba with the opportunity that a change in leadership has presented there. A central Illinois that goes as Caterpillar goes ought to back being able to sell Cat equipment there. By the Peoria Journal Star.

MIKE NADEL: Mike Nadel is off.

ILLINI: CHAMPAIGN – Illinois basketball notebook. By John Supinie. Will be posted this evening.

BU will allow Ruffin to play

PEORIA - Bradley University president Joanne Glasser announced Wednesday night that guard Daniel Ruffin was reinstated to the basketball team. By Leslie Fark and Kirk Wessler of the Peoria Journal Star.

JANE MILLER: Johnson knows Vegas involves luck

Jimmie Johnson has won the last three races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but he'll be acting this weekend as if he has never won there.

In preparation for celebration of the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Freeport Journal-Standard sits down with the Railsplitter for a Q&A. (Okay, it’s actually Freeport resident George Buss, who will be playing Lincoln at all of the debate celebrations this year. But it’s as close as anyone’s going to get.) By Ryan Blackburn of the Freeport Journal-Standard.

DRAWING FROM THE PAST: Man honors late wife with drawings of houses

Kevin Kupper founded his business, Architectural Images, thanks to encouragement from his wife, Holly, nearly two decades ago. More than three years after her death, Kupper carries on with pen-and-ink drawings in his wife's memory. By Ryan Ori of the Peoria Journal Star. Will be posted Friday for use in weekend editions.

REACHING OUT: South Side Mission program focuses on elderly poor

Peoria's South Side Mission is trying to help out a group that is often overlooked -- the elderly poor. By Clare Howard of the Peoria Journal Star. Will be posted Friday for use in weekend editions.


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Album review: Bloc Party, The Nextwave Sessions (Frenchkiss)

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The Nextwave Sessions is a five-track EP continuing Bloc Party's development from indie guitar band to a more exporatory outfit equally capable of drawing from R&B and electronic dance music. Opener "Ratchet" is the standout, a twitchy indie-funk groove unlike anything they've done before, its teetering guitar riff driven along by a sinuous, elastic bassline. Its infectious urgency gives way to a rapt romantic ballad, "Obscene", borne on slow, tremulous hihat and pulsing keyboard motif, then the hustling, "French Exit". The only failure is the routine indie chugger "Children of the Future".

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Spain led a series of sales falls in Europe's major car producing countries, official figures out this week have shown.

Car sales in Spain fell by 37.6 percent in October, said Spanish automakers' association ANFAC, the fourth month of double digit declines.

Italian sales dipped nearly 29 percent, according to the country's government, one of the worst falls in recent history.

In the UK, officials confirmed November 4 that October registrations were down 22 percent, the steepest decline since May 2009, although the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said that the 2010 market would still be slightly up on 2009's overall sales.

Buyers in Germany, Europe's largest market, were equally reticent to part with their cash with overall registrations down 20 percent on last year according to figures from German automakers' association the VDA.

In France, the small scrappage bonus still in place did nothing to improve sales figures and October's registrations fell 18.7 percent compared to the same period in 2009.

The news is particularly bad given the uptick in sales across the Atlantic - October demand jumped 13 percent year-on-year.

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Amid the TV turmoil, it's always good news at CNBC

Advertising may be falling off a cliff across the industry, says Raymond Snoddy, but there's no slowdown at the global business channel
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It really has to be a very ill wind that blows no one any good. Turmoil in the world economy and dangers of recession in many regions equals good news for CNBC, the specialist business television channel.

As some of the established UK media companies look at double-digit advertising falls, and move to cut costs and jobs, CNBC revenues for Europe, the Middle East and Africa are 39 per cent ahead year-on-year so far in 2008.

That follows compound growth of 29 per cent over the past three years – and the channel's audiences are also growing.

Mick Buckley – who runs CNBC Europe and is CNBC president and chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa – remains optimistic, despite the gloomy current events, about prospects for the rest of 2008. "I would hope that we have significant growth," he says, adding: "There is no sign of any slowdown."

CNBC, which this month celebrates its 10th anniversary, can apparently buck the dismal trends in the media because it is international – and because its target audience is largely the upmarket men whom advertisers still want to reach, even in recessionary times. For advertising purposes, the company says it only measures viewers who are in the top 20 per cent income bracket.

Its ratings are boosted by big-name anchors such as Maria Bartiromo – aka "the Money Honey" – who recently landed an exclusive one-on-one interview with the Republican shooting star Sarah Palin, presidential candidate John McCain's running mate.

CNBC's audience is measured daily in the States, and the channel has just had its best July figures for five years. The latest London numbers aren't in yet but the company believes something similar has been happening in Europe.

"I think in bad times people still need to find solutions, whether it's a debt makeover segment we are doing or an investment clinic. People still need to make decisions about their businesses and about their wealth. Probably their senses are more acutely attuned," says Buckley.

As far as advertisers are concerned, he believes they want more "bang for their buck" in difficult times.

"With television audiences fragmenting globally, they really appreciate the high quality of the targeted audience we give them. Really there is no wastage. If you are targeting AB adults, particularly AB men, then CNBC is probably the best buy in television," claims Buckley.

Formerly an executive vice-president for news channels at Turner Broadcasting in London, he believes this is not a traditional sort of recession, when everyone suffers equally and simply waits for things to get better.

"Advertisers in the Middle East are not having a hard time at the moment. They are looking to develop their infrastructure. They are looking to create sustainable brands, for instance in the aviation sector," says Buckley. "So it is not like previous recessions where everyone stops spending and nobody loses brand share. If a Western airline stops spending [on advertising] now, an airline in an emerging part of the world will take their market share."

More surprisingly, given the credit crunch, CNBC has also noticed that big international banks based in Western Europe have continued to advertise, presumably because of worries that they too might lose market share if they cut back on advertising.

Looking across the first decade of CNBC Europe, a number of important changes stand out. When CNBC started, Europe was like a regional story focusing on Brussels, harmonisation, European directives, consolidation.

Ten years on, business is unambiguously a global story. "We weren't doing a lot of stories about the Middle East, China or India 10 years ago," notes Buckley.

At the same time, the explosion in digital technology, and broadband in particular, has increased CNBC's distribution. The broadcaster's programming is now available in more than 400 million homes worldwide.

Over the decade, monthly viewing figures have risen gradually from 1.7 million to their present 6.7 million, with growth continuing at the rate of around 10 per cent a year.

There has also been an important cultural change. At the outset there wasn't much appetite for business television news. Now more and more people are interested in business, encouraged not just by globalisation but by more personal worries about issues such as ageing populations and managing pensions.

And the arrival of business entertainment shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den has highlighted business ideas.

Two years ago CNBC Europe recognised the increasingly global nature of business by setting up Worldwide Exchange, a two-hour programme that airs between 9am and 11am UK time but which is simultaneously anchored in London, Singapore and New York.

It's early morning in New York when the programme goes out, although Buckley says it's not uncommon to see early exercisers watching it on their treadmills at 5.30am, while in Asia Worldwide Exchange goes out from 5pm to 7pm – the close of the working day.

The CNBC executive says the nature of the changes that have taken place was really brought home to him in February when there was a sharp fall in the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index. "It was the first time China sneezed and the US caught a cold," says Buckley.

The story, which broke before Worldwide Exchange went on air, was covered extensively on the programme and throughout the business day, live and in real time as the markets opened and closed across Asia, India and the Middle East. Then coverage handed over to Europe before finishing off that day with the close of the US market, which had its biggest fall since 9/11.

There is a change of pace at weekends, when CNBC Life covers everything from sport to entertainment.

Buckley's favourite stories of all include the AOL-Time War-ner merger – one that CNBC Europe claims as an exclusive – and Sir Philip Green's attempts to take over Marks & Spencer. But he was also pleased last week when former BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen came into the studio to explain why he had decided to move to Alcatel-Lucent.

Over at Buckley's old stamping ground, Turner Broadcasting, CNN International is also enjoying some of the benefits of being an international broadcaster targeting decision-makers in many countries.

Jonathan Davies, executive vice- president of CNN International News Advertising Sales, says he is "cautiously optimistic" that the company's double-digit revenue growth achieved over the past five years will continue this year.

"There is optimism but still with a note of caution because one never knows how things will turn out. We are not tied into the fortunes of any one market. There are opportunities for us which there probably aren't for the ITVs of this world. The Middle East, China and India are all booming markets," says Davies.

Overall the global economy is still growing, even though certain markets are facing tough times, he adds. And he notes that the problems faced by the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia involve attracting enough skilled workers and establishing themselves on the global map – and this provides fertile ground for advertising directors of international broadcasters.

Over at CNBC Europe a symbolic moment is expected later this month. After 10 years the "Europe" is to be dropped, as part of a rebranding. In response to the globalisation of coverage, the Europe designation no longer makes much sense and the channel will simply be called CNBC, as is already the case in the US and Asia.

"We do nine hours of live programming a day from Europe," Buckley explains. "But in-creasingly in those nine hours we are covering global stories because virtually every business story these days has global ramifications."


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Brother and sister held over death of yachtsman

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Portuguese police are investigating the death of a retired French civil servant, found tied hand and foot in the wreck of his giant trimaran, which sank off the Algarve.

A French brother and sister are suspected by Portuguese authorities of killing the owner of the yacht, André Le Floc'h, 61, before it sank in a storm, but many details of the incident remain unclear.

French investigators say that there may have been an attempt to steal the trimaran or that the suspects might have been attempting to smuggle arms or drugs. The couple, named only as "Thierry B", 51, and "Corinne C", 48, insist that they are innocent. They told Portuguese police that they tied up the yacht's skipper after he tried to rape Corinne. A storm then struck the vessel and they were forced to abandon ship.

According to Le Figaro, French police have been informed by their Portuguese colleagues that the couple have admitted to killing M. Le Floc'h, in self-defence, before the 20m yacht capsized. The results of an autopsy are expected today.

The mystery - somewhat reminiscent of events in the 1989 movie Dead Calm, starring Nicole Kidman - is deepened by the fact that the couple appear to have no experience of sailing. They made no attempt to alter the sails or otherwise save the boat - the Belgian-registered Intermezzo - when the storm struck last Thursday.

After abandoning ship in a rubber dinghy equipped with a radio, they sent no distress call. They were picked up by a Spanish freighter and at first said nothing about the presence of M. Le Floc'h on board the capsized boat. Finally, they told Portuguese authorities that the owner had been aboard but said nothing about the alleged assault on Corinne or the fact that they had been forced to restrain him.

The body of the owner, tied hand and foot and, according to one account, weighted, was found aboard the floating wreck by Portuguese coastguard divers the next day.

The French couple, who had been recovering from hypothermia in hospital, were then taken into custody.

Corinne shouted to the press after a remand hearing in Lagos in the Algarve: "We are innocent. He attacked us on the boat. There was a storm and the boat capsized. Now, they are accusing us. They are not letting us talk to the [French] consulate or our families. Help us."

French police say that there is some doubt about whether the couple are half-brother and sister, as they claim. Thierry is said to be a known "marginal" or drifter, with a criminal record.

M. Le Floc'h was a retired senior civil servant from Sorinières near Nantes in western France. He was an experienced sailor who had bought and refitted the trimaran.

He often sailed along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, sometimes taking paying passengers, according to French police. His family has refused to speak to the press.

According to the couple's witness statements, leaked to the Portuguese press, the boat's owner tried to rape Corinne as she slept in a cabin, but her brother heard her cries, fought with M. Le Floc'h, knocked him out and bound him. Police have told the French press that they are baffled by the events aboard the trimaran before it sank. Since the couple had no sailing ability, it seems unlikely they tried to steal the boat.

"If the post-mortem finds a wound on the body, everything changes," one French police officer said. "The same if they find drugs or arms aboard. If the couple genuinely have no knowledge of sailing, why would they tie up or kill the skipper? That they were found in a life-raft perhaps backs up their version of events."


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Liverpool stars Philippe Coutinho, Raheem Sterling, Lazark Markovic and Jordon Ibe take part in hilarious dizzy penalty shoot-out

Only one of the four stars manages to score from the spot

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Only one of four Liverpool players could score from the spot during a penalty shoot-out...

Fortunately for Philippe Coutinho, Raheem Sterling and Lazar Markovic, they were taking part in the 'dizzy penalty' challenge, the latest internet craze that has seen professional players look like the rest of us.

The challenge involves making yourself so dizzy, by running around in a circle, that you can no longer stand up, then running up and attempting to score from the spot.

Brazilian star Coutinho was first up and didn't even manage to make it to the ball before falling over, before he got back up and fired wired.

Lazar Markovic was next and although he managed to keep his footing he too couldn't find the target, instead firing over.

Raheem Sterling was next and he too struggled to keep his footing and although he did hit the target, his shot was so weak it barely made it to the goalkeeper.

Finally was Jordon Ibe, he spared the blushes of the others.

Ibe looked almost completely composed as he stepped up and slotted to the keeper's right.


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Errors and Omissions: You can’t really expect political correctness in the Wild West

The Independent's letters editor casts his eye over this week's coverage

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On Wednesday, we published a preview of the films to be released this summer. They included The Lone Ranger, a movie version of the western that delighted radio and TV audiences from the 1930s to the 1950s. Readers were informed that “Armie Hammer takes the lead role, with Johnny Depp as his Native American companion, Tonto”.

“Native American companion”? Difficult to tell whether this was intended ironically or not. In any case, sorry, but no. Tonto was the Lone Ranger’s Indian sidekick. “Companion” makes you think about funny old Victorian ladies sharing a cottage in the country. And you don’t have to be a Clarksonesque golf club bore to snort that “Native American” is, in this context, an example of political correctness run mad. This is, after all, supposed to be 19th-century Texas.

“Native American” is nonsense anyway. A native American, in the simple meaning of the words, is a person born in America, whether or not a member of one of the indigenous peoples who have been there since before the Europeans came. The latter meaning is better expressed by the term “First Nations” – for all its agonisingly earnest Canadian decency.

Too much information: A news story published on Monday began thus: “Dog mess: to most of the population it is a biohazard about as welcome and useful as syphilis. Even those required to collect it approach it with a plastic bag and a grimace. But for one former banker it is the key to a civic and eco-energy revolution.”

The story is that dog excrement currently sent to landfill will be turned into gas fuel and fertiliser by a newly invented digester process. Is that not interesting? Not interesting enough for the Sturm und Drang school of intro-writing, which insists on an opening paragraph filled at any cost with drama and conflict. The cost, in this case, is inflicting on the reader a vivid explanation of how disgusting dog mess is. But we all know how disgusting dog mess is. You don’t need to spoil our breakfast. Note, by the way, the infallible mark of a Sturm und Drang intro: the last sentence of the paragraph begins with “But– ”. Always there must be a clash of opposites.

Whom was that? This is from a report on Icelandic politics, published last Saturday. “Whether Mr Benediktsson, or Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson of the Progressives, becomes the next Prime Minister in the coalition government the parties will, barring a miracle, form is an extremely complex matter. But whomever it is, the next four years might just be as fascinating as the last.”

“Whomever” should be “whoever”. The first sentence is overcomplicated. By the end of it, the writer has forgotten that it was about who would become Prime Minister, not whom the parties would appoint to the job. In any case, should we be using the word “whomever” at all? I’m all for preserving interesting old words, but “whomever” looks too baroque for a news story.


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Right-side up or upside-down, Ninette Paloma teaches youths and adults how to fly at La Petite Chouette, her new aerial dance studio on Milpas Street.

Right-side up or upside-down, Ninette Paloma teaches youths and adults how to fly at La Petite Chouette, her new aerial dance studio on Milpas Street.

New Aerial Dance Studio La Petite Chouette

Owner Ninette Paloma Teaches Students to Fly

For some, the idea of hanging suspended above the ground is pure nightmare. For others, it’s a dream come true—the ultimate, exhilarating defiance of our earthbound nature, and an act of pure freedom. Ninette Paloma falls into the latter category. The petite, 36-year-old Chicago transplant has lived in Santa Barbara for the past nine years, ever since weather in the windy city drove her west. Trained in gymnastics from a young age and schooled by “circus goddess” Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi at The Actors Gymnasium in Chicago, Paloma went on to train with Cirque du Soleil aerialists Elsie and Serenity Smith and Karen Steben. Here in Santa Barbara, she began as aerial director of the Lobero Theatre Circus Camp, then moved on to teach aerial dance classes in a corner of her downtown loft.

Today, she’s is the proud owner of La Petite Chouette, Santa Barbara’s first and only dedicated aerial dance studio. Just last month, Paloma secured space in an airy Quonset hut on lower Milpas Street. She’s built a cadre of more than 50 regular students and now offers classes on nine different aerial apparatus.

The studio’s name comes from Paloma’s childhood nickname. It means “Little Owl” in French. “I wanted to capture the spirit, strength, and grace of an owl—the quiet beauty in the air,” Paloma explained last week, sitting with me outside the studio as students from her advanced class gathered to wait for rides home. In their street clothes, Zola Phillips, Russ Glick, and Jesse Burnell looked like ordinary teenagers: backpacks slung over shoulders, wisps of hair falling in their eyes. Yet minutes ago, they had seemed more like angels, suspended from the studio’s ceiling in tights and leotards, their limbs wrapped in colorful fabric strands that dangled to the ground below.

When I’d entered the studio that afternoon, I’d found nine students sitting with their backs against the wall as they watched Paloma, who spoke calmly and clearly, hanging upside down in the middle of the room. “In order to keep our descent free, what do we have to do?” she asked them. “Lift our hips up,” they replied in chorus.

Those seven boys and two girls are among Paloma’s most advanced students and are also members of her youth company. They range in age from 10 to 17, and some have been with her since she started teaching in 2006. “They work really, really hard,” Paloma said of the group. “They are incredibly fearless and agile in the air.” Their greatest challenge, she says, is integrating their technical skills with performance—that elusive quality that distinguishes tricks in the air from true art.

After talking the class through a basic aerial routine, Paloma tacked on a challenge. “I want you to perform this routine with anger,” she told them. Moving over to the stereo, she put on a thrashing track by Fugazi, and the first two students stepped up to demonstrate. “Let your inhibitions go and feel it,” Paloma cried as they took the silks in their hands and, pulling, rose off the ground. They rolled upward, using their legs to wrap the fabric in complex patterns, then took tumbling descents back down. But they didn’t look very angry. “That was the most subdued, quiet anger I have ever seen,” she told them. “I’m going to have you try it again.” After his turn, Malcolm McCarthy spoke up. “The performance of anger requires quick movements,” he reflected, sitting up straight in purple and green tights, like a superhero in training. “It’s extremely difficult to combine that urgency with the control you need for aerial work.”

Yet by the end of the exercise, every student was finding more expression. Glick shook the fabrics violently and balled them in his hands; Phillips stabbed the air with her toes. Not every student at La Petite Chouette gets pushed this hard; Paloma teaches classes for complete beginners, too. But her standards for her more experienced students are high. For her, that’s part of respecting them, and respecting the circus tradition. Alongside technical skills and performance, Paloma teaches circus history, explaining the origins of each apparatus and telling stories about the performers who developed their use. “They love learning about the history,” she said of her students. “It means more to them as a result.”

It’s also her way of giving back to an art form that gave her a way of life. “I started aerial dance at a time when I didn’t know what I was doing,” she explained. “The circus community took really good care of me.” Now, she feels, she’s drawing together her own circus family. Many of her students are siblings or have a parent or child who also trains at La Petite Chouette.

When I asked Paloma what satisfies her most about her work, she talked about that sense of family and intergenerational bonds. She also mentioned landmarks like being there when a student does his first aerial drop—when he learns to fly. “When I’ve been here 12 hours and I’m bruised and exhausted,” she said, “those moments reinforce why I’m doing what I’m doing.”

Ninette Paloma’s advanced youth and adult companies will perform for the public in early December. To learn more about La Petite Chouette, call 284-8785 or visit

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Saturday 24 June 2017

Courts may call time on pub sittings as Lauren bar becomes a global hit

Jennifer Lauren earlier this week. Inset: The Brian Boru pub in Co Tipperary.
Jennifer Lauren earlier this week. Inset: The Brian Boru pub in Co Tipperary.

Caroline Crawford and Gordon Deegan

THE OWNER of a Co Tipperary pub that held the country's most high-profile court case this year has been inundated with calls from foreign media since news of his courtroom pub went global.

Michael O'Donovan's 'Brian Boru on the Hill' bar in Ballina was thrust into the global spotlight after a court hearing into the Jennifer Lauren air rage incident took place in the function room.

However, the Courts Service may be about to call 'last orders' on court sittings in the premises, with a strategic review now being carried out.

A spokesman for the Courts Service said that the review was unconnected to the publicity that surrounded the Brian Boru hosting the court where Ms Lauren appeared.

Over the past two days, Mr O'Donovan has received a huge amount of interest from the world's media about the premises.

"It's been mostly American journalists calling. They wanted to know about the pub itself. If it was a Shebeen or a hay barn," he explained.

The businessman said he had never anticipated such a level of interest in a court case held at the premises.

"The interest has been huge and we hope going forward it will lead to an increase in sales. We'd hope some American tourists might seek us out," he said.

Killaloe District Court has sat at the premises for the past two years. However, Mr O'Donovan fears the recent media attention may affect the ongoing review.

"It's already under review this year and because there has been a lot of media attention they might decide to pull it. It's their decision.

"Any agreement like this is vital to a small pub in rural Ireland, it makes a huge difference, so we're hoping it will continue on," he added.

Lauren (41), niece of fashion mogul Ralph Lauren, was fined €2,000 after admitting two charges of being intoxicated on board a flight from Barcelona to New York, and breaching the peace.

She returned to New York on Thursday, after three nights in Shannon -- one of them in a garda cell.

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Mini me: Katie Holmes shares childhood picture...and she's the image of Suri

Holmes was the spitting image of her daughter Suri when she was the same age
Holmes was the spitting image of her daughter Suri when she was the same age
Katie shared this childhood snap on Twitter
Holmes was one of the celebrity guests at Donna Karan's 30th anniversary show

Aishling Phelan

Hollywood actress Katie Holmes proved her daughter really is her little mini-me when she showed the world an adorable childhood snap of herself.

The mum-of-one must have been feeling nostalgic when she tweeted a 1985 picture of herself when she was just 7 years-old – the same age as daughter Suri Cruise.

The black and white photograph showed an uncanny resemblance between the world’s most famous mother-daughter duo.

The old photograph captured a young actress-to-be smiling downward, with a white ribbon and flower pinned at the top of her head.

She shared the cute picture for Throwback Thursday yesterday declaring, ‘‘Me at age 7’’ with a smiley face.

The photograph acts as a reminder that seven years have passed since the actress gave birth to Suri in Santa Monica, California.

The mother and daughter are inseparable, constantly being pictured together around New York and on holiday, usually kitted out in chic designer attire.

This week, fashion lover Katie has led the pack at New York Fashion Week as she attended the Donna Karan and Marchesa A/W shows with her celebrity pals.

‘‘Had the best time at the Donna Karan show. Beautiful clothes! Lovely sitting with Rita Ora,’’ she tweeted.

The two starlets were joined by A-list actor Hugh Jackman, his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, and model Chrissy Teigen.

Katie opted for an elegant gothic look, donning an edgy black leather top with a knife-pleated chiffon skirt.

She was also pictured with fashion devotee Olivia Palermo, actress Anna Kendrick and Game Change star Sarah Paulson at the front row of luxury designer Marchesa.

The fashion-forward star wore a red ultra-sheer Marchesa cocktail dress with intricate lace detailing to the show at the New York Public Library.

Katie is rumoured to be dating actor and R&B singer Jamie Foxx and they reportedly spent time together in New York for the Superbowl.

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