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Wreck-It Ralph (2012) ★★★
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A crowd gathered outside the Knickerbocker Theater a few days after its roof collapsed. (Source: Library of Congress)
Washington, D.C. has been battered by some brutal winter storms, but none has been more lethal than the blizzard that hit the District in late January 1922. Today, that two-day storm is still remembered as the Knickerbocker Blizzard. That s in grim recognition of 98 people who lost their lives and the 133 who were injured in the catastrophic roof collapse that it caused at Crandall s Knickerbocker Theater, once the District s biggest and grandest movie house.
The Knickerbocker, located at Columbia Road and 18th Street Northwest in Adams Morgan, was one of the jewels in the crown of local movie entrepreneur Harry M. Crandall, who himself was one of Washington s most stirring Horatio Alger stories. As a 1922
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Photo of Doris Day on the set of her television program The Doris Day Show. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Doris Day, a singer and actress who personified wholesome American womanhood in the 1950s and 1960s - memorably as the chaste but chased after love interest in sex farces with Rock Hudson and Cary Grant, died May 13 at her home in Carmel Valley, Calif. She was 97.
The Doris Day Animal Foundation announced her death, saying she had recently contracted pneumonia.
Despite Day s perpetually sunny image, her life was marked by periods of physical, emotional and financial abuse. Her first husband beat her, her second couldn t stomach her success and her third cheated her out of her hard-won fortune. By the time of her death, she had long retreated from show business and had gained renown for her work in animal welfare. In 2004, when she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation s highest civilian honor, the award cited her influen