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By Los Angeles Times | March 21, 2009
Series Cops:: In the 750th episode, Florida officers catch a pair of suspects siphoning gasoline from a car and find out they've been doing cocaine, while in Washington state, police use a helicopter to search for a guy who threatened to kill his girlfriend. (8 p.m., WBFF-Channel 45) Movies Plainsong: : This 2004 Hallmark Hall of Fame version of Kent Haruf's novel stars Aidan Quinn as a Colorado teacher who raises his two sons alone after his wife leaves him. (9 p.m., Hallmark) Knocked Up:: Seth Rogen stars as a party animal whose one-night stand with a TV journalist (Katherine Heigl)
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By KEVIN COWHERD | May 7, 2008
There's always something new from Hallmark, the sappy, greeting-card people, and this year is no exception. This year's ground-breaking innovation is: Mother's Day cards that let you record a 10-second message to Mom and play a clip of the song that's apparently become synonymous with motherhood, Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is." OK, maybe you're thinking: Gee, I didn't know that song was big with mothers. Well, neither did I. In fact, I seem to recall lyrics about shaking derrieres and swilling gin and juice and puff- ing something stronger than a Marlboro Light.
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By Janet Gilbert | December 9, 2007
Recent news stories have convinced me it's time for another Janet's World Current Events Poetry Column, where I attempt to make sense of what's being reported on the local and national scene through meticulously crafted verse with snappy end-rhymes. But first, let me say that I understand your discomfort when you hear the word "poetry." Like me, you probably think, "But I spent a week reading T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in high school, and I still don't know what in the blazes it means."
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By J. WYNN ROUSUCK | July 16, 2006
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.VA. / / Families and happiness -- the two don't always go together. That's certainly true in the plays at the 16th annual Contemporary American Theater Festival. Edginess has always been a hallmark of Shepherdstown's new-play festival, and this year, that edginess extends from a 4-year-old's fantasies to father-son rivalry. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL / / Through July 30 / / Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, W. Va. / / 800-999-2283 or catf.org
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June 22, 2006
On June 16, 2006 MAYRENE ELIZABETH (Hallmark) SLACK, of Ithaca, NY. Beloved wife of the late Samuel T. Slack. Loving mother of Teresa Ellen Hargett and her husband Dan, Cherished grandmother of Lindsay Beth, Caitlin Leigh and Chelsea Rae Hargett. Sister of the late Robert Bruce Hallmark. Ms. Slack is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives. Friends may call at the family owned Slack Funeral Home, P.A., 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City, MD on Saturday from 10 -11 A.M. at which time services will be held.
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By MICHAEL SRAGOW | January 13, 2006
A feature in which Sun writers and critics sound off about the movies. Daily Variety's John Dempsey reports that when Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions issued press material for the Jan. 29 CBS presentation of Pat Conroy's The Water is Wide, Hallmark never referred to Conrack (1974) - the first adaptation of Conroy's literary debut, still the best adaptation of a Conroy book, and the most engaging and penetrating American movie about teaching. Based on Conroy's 1972 memoir of instructing impoverished schoolkids on South Carolina's remote Yamacraw Island, Conrack featured Jon Voight's zingiest star acting in the title role (the kids called Conroy "Conrack")
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November 17, 2005
The downtown of the 21st century distinguishes itself by its in-town residents - by the very fact that they exist. Unlike 50 years ago, when people mainly worked and shopped downtown, today's city centers are becoming the place to live, and by that measure, Baltimore rates. It's happening here and elsewhere to such an extent that a recent Brookings Institution study cites the increase in downtown residents as a hallmark of downtown America's evolution. And Baltimore is on the right track.
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By David Zurawik | November 21, 2004
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person. She was 53 years old by then - a grandmother. With these words, Baltimore author Anne Tyler began her 2001 novel, Back When We Were Grownups, which the Hallmark Hall of Fame lovingly brings to the screen tonight at 9 on CBS (WJZ, Channel 13) with Blythe Danner as a Baltimore woman in late-midlife crisis who sets out to rediscover who she is. It is the third novel by Tyler to become a Hallmark movie, and once again, just as with Breathing Lessons in 1994 and Saint Maybe in 1998, television is enriched by the marriage.
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By Erika Niedowski | July 2, 2004
For the 14th consecutive year, Johns Hopkins Hospital has been named the country's top-rated medical institution in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings. The East Baltimore hospital ranked first in three of 17 major specialties, including gynecology, urology and otolaryngology, which deals with problems of the ears, nose and throat. It was second or third in 11 other categories, ranging from neurosurgery to pediatrics. "It is a worthy acknowledgment of the innovative and compassionate patient care that is Hopkins' hallmark - and of the people who make that kind of care possible," Dr. Edward D. Miller, Johns Hopkins Medicine dean and CEO, and Ronald R. Peterson, the hospital president, wrote in a letter to employees announcing the rankings.
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May 11, 2004
On May 7, 2004, SHIRLEY M. (nee Martin) HALLMARK, beloved wife of Murray Fusee, devoted mother of Alison K. Hallmark, loving daughter of Graydon and the late Alice Martin, stepmother of Tammy Merritt, Nick Fusee, Randy Fusee and Renee Lamont, dear sister of Patricia Conover, Linda Slater, Donald, Glen and Ronald Martin and the late Arlene Freeman. Also survived by seven grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held Wednesday, 4 P.M. at HARRY H. WITZKE'S FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City.