No matter how well you plan, there is always that little glimmer of Clark Griswold Christmas magic that appears out of nowhere to make an event more memorable.
On June 9, everyone heard the news that a part of our childhood had passed. We knew him as Batman, the Caped Crusader. Adam West died last week at the age of 88. We all have special memories of that campy 1960s "Batman" TV series.
My 18-month-old daughter is suddenly very into superheroes. Every night before bed we do story time; this week she’s become obsessed with a board book called My First Batman Book. Since she likes when I sing the words of her books to her, I naturally began singing the theme to the classic 1960s Batman as part of our nightly ritual. And she liked that so much that this morning, for the very first time, I showed her the old show’s opening credits.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yvonne Craig, who played the sexy, crime-fighting Batgirl in the 1960s TV hit "Batman," has died. She was 78.
Craig died Monday at her Los Angeles home of complications from breast cancer, her family said.
After beginning her career as a ballet dancer, she landed dozens of acting roles in TV shows in the early 1960s, as well as co-starring in two Elvis Presley films...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — It's a museum dedicated to the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. But the museum is also going to be home to some heavy hitters in TV and movies. The museum is making room for exhibits featuring Batman, Superman and Luke Skywalker of "Star Wars" fame...