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The end of the year is a time ripe for looking back in all sorts of ways. The favorites in movies and television are one of those ways. I took a look at movies and television in 2012. How do your opinions compare?
Movies
For sheer box office force, the top ten movies of 2012 leaned heavily towards comic book heroes, with adolescent fantasy novels and big-screen animation making up most all the rest.
According to Box Office Mojo the top grossing movies of 2012 were:
Don’t’ know what it is – Eartha Kitt asking for a ’54 convertible, too, light blue, or, Perry Como claiming he met a man from Tennessee going to Pennsylvania for some home made pumpkin pie.
Whatever the tune, when I hear it my mind goes in fast reverse, landing somewhere in late December between 1956 and ’60.
Suddenly I am in elementary school, standing in the downtown Lima Public Square on the final Saturday before Christmas. The place is packed; the word “mall” is not yet in our vocabulary.
This trip occurs often this time of year, thanks to Eartha, Perry and other Christmas vocalists from the pre-Beatle era.
Note: This was originally posted on The Blufton Icon (Ada's sister publication) www.blufftonicon.com. We thought that anyone whose brother has turned 70 may appreciate this.
Sorry, can’t recall my first-ever meeting with Abraham Rudolf Steiner. Probably because of a focus on the larger question: “How did I get here?”
I do know it was Nov. 9, 1949. Thanks to my baby book, the roll of visitors on my first day in Bluffton includes the name “A.R.” Steiner.
He was 7; I had yet to experience my first-ever sundown.
A.R. claims he can’t remember our first meeting either, so, I don’t feel that bad.
