The prestigious American Film Institute — a nonprofit group promoting film heritage — loves to make lists: the 100 greatest movies; 100 greatest comedies; greatest thrillers; greatest stars; greatest movie-quotes — and a whole lot more. In the early 2000s, when AFI announced their forthcoming roster of 100 greatest heroes & villains, some friends and
Mother’s Day weekend welcomed two terrific new tales about talking beasts. I can’t make the connection between moms and anthropomorphic animals — but in any case, your Webb movie-maven herewith reviews both films at once: Released in theaters on May 8, The Sheep Detectives looked like a hard sell; but it’s already a hit with
In a 1991 Book-of-the-Month Club survey, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird ranked second only to the Bible as “making a difference in people’s lives.” According to Lee biographer Charles Shields — who also provided the above statistic — the book still draws a million readers every year. So most folks in Webb-land have probably
Here at “Weird Words,” we’re awash in oddball vocab from To Kill a Mockingbird — which my lit. class is finishing at the CHEF home-school co-op in Montoursville. Last week, using the order in which they appear in the book, we started with chattel, flivver, beadle, scuppernong and hoodoo — some of these being tied
Chef is a French word that’s distantly related to both chief and the Latin cap (“head”). But in Lycoming County, it can be an acronym—that is, a pronounceable abbreviation like NATO, AWOL and YOLO. To be specific, here in Central PA, CHEF stands for Christian Home Educators’ Fellowship—a homeschool co-op that’s been meeting weekly in
