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Former Maryland player Vicky Bullett will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. Bullett will be the second Terrapin to be inducted, following former head coach Chris Weller's induction in 2010. A Terp from 1986 to 1989, Bullett averaged 16.9 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. She's fourth in school history in points with 1,928 and third in rebounds with 968. Bullett was part of the U.S. team that won Olympic gold in 1988 and bronze in 1992.

Even though it's always a packed house at the Fullwood Foundation benefit and awards breakfast, it's easy to spot foundation volunteers. They're the ones dressed in red. Volunteer Vicki Lynn Jenkins was a particular standout at Martin's West. Her outfit started with her plaid peep-toe pumps, says the 53-year-old property manager for Edgewood Management Corp. "I found them on sale, and then went looking for a suit to match them." Dressing up comes naturally to this Baltimore resident. "I grew up in a Christian-based family.

Even though it's always a packed house at the Fullwood Foundation benefit and awards breakfast, it's easy to spot foundation volunteers. They're the ones dressed in red. Volunteer Vicki Lynn Jenkins was a particular standout at Martin's West. Her outfit started with her plaid peep-toe pumps, says the 53-year-old property manager for Edgewood Management Corp. "I found them on sale, and then went looking for a suit to match them." Dressing up comes naturally to this Baltimore resident.

Repertory cinema continues its run at the Senator Theatre this weekend, with filmed appearances by The Beatles, the living dead, the first actress ever to win an Oscar and Carlos Santana. Janet Gaynor, who won her Oscar in 1929, stars in William Wellman's 1937 A Star Is Born (remade under the same name in 1954, with Judy Garland, and 1976, with Barbra Streisand). Shot in glorious Technicolor, at a time when color was still a relative rarity in Hollywood, the movie offers Gaynor as Vicki Lester, a struggling actress whose career is nurtured along by her mega-star husband, Norman Maine (Fredric March)

In October 1996, a northern Baltimore County newspaper ran a notice of public auction for a historic farmhouse. "The ideal buyer for the Kenilworth property," the caption under the farmhouse photograph read, "would be interested in restoration." The article was providential for Vicki Franz, who, along with her preservationist husband, Doug, had been looking for just such a property for over a year. Living in Federal Hill at the time, and having renovated several houses there, neither was picky about location.

Starring Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz. Written and directed by Woody Allen. Released by the Weinstein Co. $28.95 (Blu-ray $34.95) *** 1/2 Who would have thought Woody Allen would find a new muse in Spain? With Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Allen, that most American of filmmakers, the man who never seemed comfortable setting foot outside New York City, has made his friskiest, most delightful movie in more than a decade. Not that any new territory is trod. Allen still is a chronicler of relationships that result in little genuine happiness; the human heart, he continues to insist, is the most vexing, inexplicable, insatiable of creatures, one humans trust (or even listen to)

Awards * Horizon Builders Inc. of Crofton and Muse Architects of Bethesda have received the Grand Award in the 2008 Builder's Choice Design & Planning Awards competition sponsored by Builder magazine. Certifications * Vicki Hess, a principal with Catalyst Consulting LLC, was certified as a speaking professional by the National Speakers Association. Mergers * CRI Systems Inc. and Premier Solutions Group Inc. announced that the two companies have merged and will now operate as CRI Solutions Inc. The firm will have headquarters in Elkridge.

I've been waiting for weeks to hear those two glorious words spoken with vitriol as only Vickie Guerrero can. Goodbye, whimpering, apologetic Vickie. Welcome back, scowling queen of mean. I'm so glad that WWE has resisted turning SmackDown's wickedly entertaining general manager babyface (reportedly that was to be the original ending of her story line with Edge). It was great to see her morph back into the woman viewers love to hate on SmackDown. (Go to baltimoresun.com/ringposts)

It used to be said that Woody Allen's best movies were about "sex in the head," as if his characters simply had to relax and let it travel through their bodies. In Allen's affectionate, enlightening and, best of all, blissfully entertaining Vicky Cristina Barcelona, he shows how much residue sexual desire or experience leaves in the brain and gut and heart. It's a summery idyll: his most entertaining picture since Bullets Over Broadway (1994) or maybe Sweet and Lowdown (1999). Scarlett Johansson plays Cristina, an artist looking for an art; Rebecca Hall plays Vicky, a grad student studying Catalan culture; and Javier Bardem plays Juan Antonio, a painter with romantic and critical reputations.

Suddenly, on December 8, 2007, VICKIE GALE STAPLES-ABBOTT; wife of Dennis D. Abbott and mother of Jeffrey; sister to the late Donna and Debbie; and grandmother of Caitlin, Daja, Jeffrey Jr., Allan and Aidan; two nieces; one nephew; one great-niece; two great-nephews and very best friend of Sheila. A memorial service will be held at 7664 Stoney Creek Lane, Ellicott City, MD on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Staples-Abbott Funeral Fund, c/o Marzullo Funeral Chapel, P.A., 6009 Harford Raod, Baltimore, MD 21214.