35 Fresh Christopher Plummer Movies
Christopher Plummer, who rose to international fame as Captain Von Trapp in
The Sound of Music, began his screen career with an “and introducing” credit on Sidney Lumet’s 1958
Stage Struck. By 1965 he would be known everywhere as papa Trapp, but
Sound of Music was lighter fare for Plummer, a movie that punctuated a career building around military epics and classic-style adventures like
The Fall of the Roman Empire,
Battle of Britain,
The Silent Partner,
12 Monkeys were among his movie highlights until a career resurgence with 1999’s
The Insider, the Michael Mann big-tobacco expose with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. This opened to a string of critical and commerical hits, including Best Picture-winner
What To Watch Each Night of Hanukkah 2020
While it doesn’t overlap with
Christmas this year, it seems like everyone and their mother is eager to watch every single holiday movie that has ever been aired without even acknowledging
Hanukkah.
Hanukkah was traditionally a modest holiday in the religious calendar, but over the past 100+ years, it has become its own tradition for many American Jewish families.
In a 2010 conversation with
NPR, scholar and Rowan University professor
Diane Ashton shared how Hanukkah became far more prominent in America after The Civil War. The country underwent a lot of swift change during that period, including the emergence of a variety of consumer goods and marketing for those goods. With that marketing, came the tradition of wrapping Christmas presents, which left out many American Jewish families and their children. Giving gifts for Hanukkah was a way to be a part of something that was happening in America without celebrating the Christian h