Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill Live (1997)

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Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill Live is a documentary (including live performance footage) of Morissette 's 1995-1996 tour to sup...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Sweet Charity (1966 musical, 1969 film)

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The fantabulous Sarah Reid (who also gave us the Scranton reference in the movie musical Finian's Rainbow ) found another Scranton re...
Friday, July 21, 2006

The X-Files (1993-2002)

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I received an email from Rob McIlvried this week, and he told me that he recalls several references to Scranton in an episode of the hit s...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Judy McLane, Broadway Actress

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If you're in New York City and attend a performance of the hit musical Mamma Mia! (based on the songs of ABBA ) at the Cadillac Winter ...

The Office Nominated For 5 Emmys

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The hit NBC show The Office , which takes places at the ficticious Dunder-Mifflin paper distribution company in Scranton, PA (and has incl...
Monday, July 10, 2006

Rebecca Anderson, Extra in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

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While working as a crew member on the H.M.S. Bounty (a restored ship constructed for the 1962 classic Mutiny on the Bounty), Scranton nati...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

Finian's Rainbow (1968)

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The divine Sarah Reid (or Miss Sarah, as she is known to the younger set) from the Lackawanna County Children's Library , recently to...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Lauren Weisberger (1977- )

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Did you know that the author of the bestselling book The Devil Wears Prada ( now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep ) , the ulti...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Walter Bobbie (1945- )

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Do you remember that hilarious scene in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club when Bette Midler , Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton are r...
Saturday, June 10, 2006

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

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The razor-sharp-eared Don McKeon told me of a brief mention of Scranton in the 1954 musical comedy There's No Business Like Show Busin...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Citizen Kane (1941)

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While working on the entry for A Letter To Three Wives earlier this week, the Head of Reference Evelyn Gibbons asked me, "Did you kno...

A Letter To Three Wives (1949)

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My wonderful brother J.R. told me some time ago of a reference to the city of Wilkes-Barre in the 1949 Academy Award-winning film A Letter...
Monday, June 05, 2006

New York, New York (1977)

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The ever-sharp RY recently told me about a brief visual reference to the city of Scranton in the 1977 film New York, New York . Directed b...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Michael Schoeffling (1960- )

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Any child of the 80s (like me) is most likely endeared to the films of John Hughes, whose films (including The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pin...
Thursday, June 01, 2006

Edmund “Buster” Piaski, Olympian (1915-1995)

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Edmund “Buster” Piaski , who grew up in Moosic , competed in the Polish Olympics in Warsaw in 1934. Piaski placed third in the high jump an...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Gloria Jean, Actress (1926- )

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Actress and former Scranton resident Gloria Jean (center) with Leon Errel and W.C. Fields in a publicity photo for 1941's Never Give A ...
Monday, May 22, 2006

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

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Don McKeon recently emailed me the following: "I was watching an old movie recently called The Ghost Breakers made in 1940 starring B...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

The Miracle of The Bells (1948)

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The ever-observant Michele Murphy has recently told me about a classic film that makes several references to Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke . ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Former Mrs. Oklahoma Joyce Basch

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I recently received an email from Dr. Guy McGinnis , a graduate of Scranton Central High School in 1956 (who will be attending his 50th clas...
Friday, May 12, 2006

Kingpin (1996)

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Though not filmed here, there are several reference to Scranton in the 1996 Farley Brothers comedy Kingpin . The film tells the hilarious s...