Keeping Score

Film: "How to Make an American Quilt"

Composer: Thomas Newman

Year: 1995

Flick of the Day

Film: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Director: Jodie Foster

Actors: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr, Dylan McDermott, Claire Danes, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, Cynthia Stevenson, Amy Yasbeck

Year: 1995

Synopsis: A divorcee goes to visit her crazy family for Thanksgiving.

Jodie Foster's hilarious ode to the joys of family is our flick of the day. "Home for the Holidays" takes a peak into the life of unlucky-in-love Claudia Larson. When her daughter (Danes) decides to spend the holidays with her boyfriend, Claudia is forced to deal with her nutty family alone. Full of laughs and witty dialogue, this film will have you rolling on the floor. Hunter shines in a role that seems to have been written for her. Bancroft and Downey Jr are also in their element as Claudia's overbearing, but loving mother and insane brother, respectively. Also look for highlight Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie's granddaughter) who plays loony Aunt Glady.

You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 84th Birthday, Sidney Poitier!!!!!

receiving the Medal of Freedom Award

from President Obama, 2009

with Tony Curtis on the set of "The Defiant Ones", 1958

with Dorothy Dandridge on the set of "Porgy & Bess", 1959

with Ruby Dee and Stephen Perry on

the set of "A Raisin in the Sun", 1961

with Anne Bancroft after winning Best Actor, 1964

on the set of "To Sir with Love" with Judy Geeson, 1967

with Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Houghton

on the set of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", 1967

on the set of "In the Heat of Night" with Rod Steiger, 1967

with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Barbra Streisand at a

meeting for their production company, First Artists Company , 1972

winning an Honorary Lifetime

Achievement Academy Award, 2002