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In 1941, Academy award-winning director Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lost Horizon) directed Meet John Doe, a film about an aggressive newspaperwoman who, as a parting shot to a depression-era downsizing, files a false story about an unemployed “John Doe”. 
The factious Doe threatens to commit suicide by throwing himself off the Brooklyn Bridge, in protest to the way the government and everyday Americans have abandoned the downtrodden during the Depression. 
The story becomes an instant media sensation, and after being rehired by her paper, the reporter must find somebody to impersonate John Doe. 
Hiring a down …read more

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In 1843 Charles Dickens first published his little Christmas book titled A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.   Within the first week, over 6,000 copies were sold making it an instant success and may have helped restore some of the traditions of Christmas and the holiday spirit during that time. 
Dickens’s miserly main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, changes his selfish and bitter ways over the course of the nightmarish evening after getting unwanted visits from his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come. 
This lovable Victorian-era Christmas story will be told …read more

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