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A hundred years ago this Monday, Julia Jean Turner was born in Wallace, Idaho. Her dad was a miner, her 17-year-old mother was practically a minor, and little Julia would be raised in peripatetic poverty. Remarkably, she overcame this unpromising start to become one of Hollywood’s biggest female stars, once some wise studio hack had persuaded her to change her name to Lana. A story persists that she was spotted buying a drink in Hollywood at 16, and ushered to the nearest film studio, but this legend is hard to verify. We do know that Zeppo Marx, brother of Groucho, Chico and Harpo, introdu...

As they say, the show must go on.  In this pandemic school year, during which students in the Farmington Public Schools district have gone without in-person learning until this month, Sue and Dean Cobb found a way to make a winter play happen.  The result is a radio production of "It's A Wonderful Life," recorded live by student actors and crew. The play, based on the 1946 film of the same name, follows George Bailey and looks back on his life as he contemplates death by suicide. According to Sue, the play's producer, the play lends itself to radio in a lot of ways. 

TODD R. McADAM Cortland Standard Nearly 75 years on, the movie is hauntingly familiar. We’ve run with George Bailey down Main Street, wishing the world a “Merry Christmas.” We’ve gone sledding near an ice-covered river, driven past a cluster of tidy little houses built in the 20s, 30s and 40s not far from the painted ladies and architectural legacies of a bygone era. We’ve gone into the churches, stared down at the rivers from the iron-truss bridges. We know a Burt and Ernie, a Mr. Martini. A Violet Bick and old man Potter. We know how easy it can be, like...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. 2020 WILL ALWAYS BE A BROKEN MICROWAVE A quick warm-up of advice to those on the left, the right, & elsewhere Don “Deacon” Little and Lloyd Barbasol, also known as Santa, hamming it up during a past Christmas when we had never heard of COVID-19. In like a lion, out like a lamb? Or is it out like a lion, in like a lamb? Whatever animal 2020 is, somebody please put it down. With impu...

A year ago this week, Chris and I took a trip up to the It's a Wonderful Life Festival. The festival takes place every year in Seneca Falls New York which is about an hour and 45 minutes Northwest of Binghamton. It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie of all-time. For years I've been wanting to go to the festival and we finally made it last year. Enter your number to get our free mobile app We took a tour of the museum that is full of pictures and props from the Christmas classic. While we were there, four of the child actors that played in the movie were there for a meet and greet. We got...