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Well, Hollywood is offering a few scraps from the Christmas table for this neglected minority audience. Jingle All the Way follows a desperate parent searching for the one toy his child hopes will be under the Christmas tree. The director is Brian Levant, who moved plenty of Flintstones merchandise with his last film hit; the star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a preposterous and popular action figure. For the science nerd in all of us, there's Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the series, second with Patrick Stewart helming the Enterprise. And if Grandma drops by for Christmas dinner...
...beloved toy still rests under the tree and its magically growing branches. The Nutcracker has long been the mainstay of dance companies and dancing schools alike; now the Brooklyn Academy of Music has come up with a fresh take on the classic: Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, which tells the story of a grandmother who relives her youthful romance in the great Harlem nightclubs--all to Duke Ellington's jazz-and-gospel-tinged arrangement of Tchaikovsky...
Another case yesterday brought 50-year-old Brockton resident James Kater, who has been convicted twice of killing a teenager and tying her to a tree in Freetown State Forest, to court for the fourth time in 17 years...
Prosecutors said cigarette butts and tire tracks linked Kater to the murder and that investigators had discredited Kater's alibi. Prosecutors said they may discuss Kater's previous criminal record showing he abducted a 13-year-old girl who also was tied to a tree with a strap around her neck...
BORN: Jan. 23, 1941, Brevard EDUCATION: Wake Forest U, B.A., 1963, J.D., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Elizabeth; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Tree farmer; banker POLITICAL CAREER: North Carolina House, 1967-73, minority leader, 1969-71; North Carolina Senate, 1973-75, minority leader, 1973-75; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1988; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: 8 South Market Street, P.O. Box 2355, Asheville...