| THIS WEEK: MARCH 2 to 8, 2007
World's End State Park Weekend, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing and other organized activities with the Susquehanna Trailers Hiking Club. Saturday and Sunday. Come for the day or the whole weekend; heated cabins available for overnight stays. Information at cmkuhn@verizon.net. Birding Field Trip to the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area to observe thousands of snow geese, tundra swans and other migrating water fowl. Sponsored by the Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society. Meet 7 a.m. Saturday at the Park and Ride, Route 309 and Blackman Street in Wilkes-Barre or at 7:30 a.m. at the Penn State Hazleton campus parking lot. Registration: 639-5785. Basic Boating Safety Class, a certification course for both new and experienced boaters. Wallenpaupack Learning Center, Route 6, Hawley.
Robert Altman's visionary oeuvre
Though his was a career of extreme ups and downs, Robert Altman was one of the true visionaries of American cinema, and though he was 81 and in failing health--he confessed at the 2006 Academy Awards that he'd recently become the recipient of a heart transplant--his death in November still came as a surprise, for few directors of any age were as fresh and full of life. An elder statesman of the Easy Riders/Raging Bulls generation of 1970s filmmakers, Altman was no twentysomething University of Southern California film school grad, but a veteran of TV dramas like Combat and Bonanza, yet when he made his best-remembered comedy, 1970's MASH (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, 1,780 yen), audiences preferred it over what was supposed to be that year's hip and irreverent antiwar comedy, Mike Nichols' Catch-22.
Sierra Entertainment's Scarface: The World is Yours Coming to Wii ...
LOS ANGELES, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivendi Games' Sierra Entertainment division is bringing Scarface(TM): The World Is Yours, the smash-hit video game based on the 1983 classic film by Universal Pictures, to the Wii(TM) console this summer. The game, which presents a sequel storyline that asks "What if Tony Montana survived the mansion shootout?" has already sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide on other platforms. Scarface: The World Is Yours for Wii will include graphics and gameplay optimizations, an all-new control scheme that takes advantage of the Wii console's unique motion-sensitive Remote and Nunchuk controller design, as well as other alterations for the Wii audience. Scarface: The World Is Yours was created through a licensing agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products.
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