Moviefone.com’s list of the year’s highlights in film.
Superheroes reined this summer at the box office but this year’s best list includes heroes of another kind, from an American president to U.S. soldiers. Moviefone.com compiled this list of the top box office films this year. Many of the movies here will likely be showing up on Academy Award lists. The top is a movie about the U.S. soldiers who captured Osama Bin Laden. Here is the complete list wit a brief description from Moviefone.com critics: 1. Zero Dark Thirty It's a story most Americans are now very familiar with: the decade long manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Starting in the days after 9/11 and stretching to the night of OBL’s death. 2. Argo The true story of a group of Americans who attempt to escape Iran during the Hostage Crisis. …
What was your favorite book and song this year?
The New York Times has 20 lists of best sellers ranging from nonfiction, fiction, hard cover fiction, e-book fiction, e-book nonfiction _ even Manga, Japanese comic books. http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html But nothing gives the pulse of America like Amazon’s top selling list of 2012. This year is the year of erotic literature, according to Amazon’s list. Here are the top 8 best selling books on Amazon: 1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E.L. James 2. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E. L. James 3. Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E. L. James 4. The Hunger Games (Book 1), Suzanne Collins 5. StrengthsFinder 20.9, Tom Rath 6. Fifty Shades …
What's your favorite spot to pick up the Purim pastry?
Editor’s note—This story starts a Patch weekly series about the “best of” in Highland Park. Today we begin with a holiday food. Over the course of the program will gauge reader choices of many topics. We hope you participate in each one. With the Jewish holiday of Purim starting at sundown March 7, Hamantaschen—the traditional triangular pastry associated with the celebration—are making their way into stores around Highland Park. Since both those celebrating Purim and those who just want to try Hamantaschen will be stocking up, we've decided to use an unofficial poll to determine the best ones in Highland Park. Jewel has already been selling two packaged varieties, Oberlander and Z Best. The packages contain an assortment of flavors …
jody schwartz
9:48 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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