The Van Winkle Project

Strictly speaking, it's clear to me that I'm not qualified to name the top news story. What do I know about most of last year? From January 1, 2010 to September 11, 2011, I was still unplugged from the news. I was doing my best to imitate a guy named Van Winkle. "Asleep," I was fully committed to my 365-day, 24/7 news-snooze... Still, all things must end, and over the past few months I've caught up on some of what I missed. It seems pretty obvious what belongs on all the experts' Top Ten N

End of a Year: Dreaming in 3-D

Marty invites you to put on the 3-D glasses for his latest film. A couple of weeks ago I did something that was forbidden to me one year ago when I was still Van Winkled. I went to the Century 21 Cinema and took in a newly released film. My son and I bought tickets and a box of buttered popcorn. We settled back in our chairs and put on 3-D glasses for Hugo. What's in the Box? There's a scene in this latest Martin Scorcese's movie (based on the Brian Selznick hybrid novel/graphic

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