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...fight for a park gained heat last month, when the city cut down a 110-year-old ash tree near the sidewalk next to the construction site, despite protests from local residents...
...charismatic Christian church and recently produced Alien vs. Predator. And then there's Hardwicke, raised by Texas Presbyterians and best known for her gritty portraits of young people in Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. For her, the most religious experience in making Nativity was sitting under an ancient olive tree in the town of Matera, Italy, where most of the film was shot. "If I were an angel, I thought, I'd go visit Mary there," says Hardwicke. That's where she set the Annunciation...
...foot high Palladian windows, unless they are conducting church services in their great room on Sundays instead of watching football on a 70-inch plasma TV. And are cathedral ceilings really necessary—especially when they extend to a foyer big enough to hold the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree? Unless these people are having foreign leaders and royalty over to barbecue on their deck, they could probably cut the disgusting opulence down...
DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...
...linear or too sensible. That what-happened-after-the-story-ended appendix? Put it in the middle, as in the story "Lying Under the Apple Tree," so that the end of the narrative can have its full kick and bite...