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The best of the Disney animated features were not innocent children's entertainments, but blood-curdling stories of doom and obsession (with a few smiles along the way, of course). They only looked innocent because they were cartoons. Reflect for a moment on the Island of Lost Boys in "Pinocchio," or what happened to Bambi's mother. The great Disney cartoons contained all of the fearsome possibilities of the Grimm fairy tales - or, for that matter, of life itself. Only in recen...

Today in History FacebookTwitterEmail Today in History Today is Monday, June 28, the 179th day of 2021. There are 186 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On June 28, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted. On this date: In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1863, during the Civil War, Preside...

Filmmaker Kurt St. Thomas remade "D.O.A," a 1949 film-noir movie, in St. Augustine.

Ann Craft, co-founder of St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre and director of “Two for the Seesaw,” a co-production with Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, seen here as Lady Capulet in City Repertory Theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.” (Mike Kitaif) Director Anne Kraft is anxious to see her work on the play “Two for the Seesaw” for the first time, and she knows her two stars, local theater veterans Annie Gaybis and Peter Gutierrez, are anxious to see themselves, too. Kr...

Contributing Writer Flagler Beach author Tim Baker, who is also executive producer of Blindogg Productions, has officially started filming for a promo featuring what he hopes will become a TV series, "Unfinished Business." The series is based on Bakers novel of the same name and will be directed by Alan J. Levi, who has been directing TV episodes since the 1970s, including "JAG" and "NCIS." “What happens to your to-do list when you die?” -- from the novel Unfinished Business, by Tim Bake...