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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(7.05pm C4)
Terry Gilliam's inventive, effects-heavy fantasy recounting the picaresque tall tales of the eponymous 18th-century wanderer. John Neville takes the lead, voyaging to a city on the moon and Vulcan's foundry inside Mount Etna, by way of the stomach of a monster fish. Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Sting and an uncredited Robin Williams co-star (1988).
On the Town
(10.25pm BBC2)
Kicking off a season of classic musicals produced by Alan Freed, this is the one where sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin take 24 hours shore-leave in a brightly photographed New York - "New York, New York, it's a wonderful town", and all that. The songs, if one were to pick holes, are more hearty than inspired (1949).
High Society
(11.40am BBC1)
Lightweight remake of The Philadelphia Story (translated to a Newport jazz fest) boasts nine Cole Porter songs, including "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". This was Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra's only movie outing together, as Sinatra gets to call Grace Kelly (in her last Hollywood role) "fair Miss Frigidaire". And so say all of us (1956).
Raiders of the Lost Ark (8pm BBC1)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas any more without at least one Indiana Jones adventure. This one is the original - with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg recapturing the Saturday-morning, serial adventures of their youth. Effectively one long, non-stop chase sequence in which Harrison Ford tries to keep the Ark of the Covenant out of Nazi hands (1981).
In Bed with Madonna
(11.30pm BBC2)
The material girl's candid and highly entertaining backstage diary-cum- concert film (shot during her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour) is better appreciated on the big screen and with Dolby stereo, alas. Madonna is in steely control at all times, of course, and Warren Beatty and Kevin Costner are among those who come off second best (1991).
Now, Voyager
(1.05pm BBC2)
This camp classic and absolute must-see has repressed Bostonian spinster, Bette Davis, melting during a shipboard romance with Paul Henreid and turning into an unlikely Cinderella. The novel was by Olive Higgins Prouty ("Don't ask for the moon - we have the stars": Davis), who gave us that other kitsch wonder, Stella Dallas (1942).
Love Story
(10pm BBC2)
Students from different sides of the tracks, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, fall in love and then she gets leukaemia. It's that simple - on every level. Arthur Hiller's direction is so bland that you wonder what everyone saw in it back in 1970. It was probably a reaction to all that sex, drugs and cynicism of the time (1970).
My Left Foot
(10.05pm C4)
An astonishing performance from Daniel Day-Lewis pulls you inside the rage of Dubliner Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who became a writer and painter. Slightly dodgy on the biographical front, apparently, but true in spirit. With Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally (in his last film role) as Christy's parents (1989).
A Man and a Woman
(11.40pm BBC2)
All together now: "Daba-daba-da... daba-daba-da...". Claude Lelouch's international hit was shameless schmaltz, whose corny chic and attractive stars (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee) struck some sort of collective Sixties chord. He is a widowed racing driver, she a widowed script-assistant, and their should-they/shouldn't- they romance takes place against a Deauville backdrop. "Daba-daba-da..." (1966).
Doctor Dolittle (3pm C4)
"He talks to the animals..." - and, in fact, that song won an Oscar, as Rex Harrison takes a fair stab at impersonating Hugh Lofting's children's character. No really great songs, though, and the support cast (Richard Attenborough apart) is a bit lightweight (1967).
Cliffhanger (9pm BBC1)
A tough one. You've got Sylvester Stallone grabbing on to a rock outcrop by one hand and all your natural instincts are willing him to let go, but you know it ain't going to happen. Anyhow, it's a mountain rescue yarn and the breathtaking camerawork is the main reason to watch - or not, depending on your susceptibility to vertigo. The other reason to watch is that ITV are scheduling Top Gun against it (1993).
Manhattan Murder Mystery
(11.30pm BBC2)
Just like old times for Woody Allen, as Diane Keaton and her Annie Hall persona steps into the gap left by Mia Farrow (this was about the time of that court case) in an enjoyable return to Allen's earlier and "funnier" style of film-making. The plot has married couple Allen and Keaton suspecting that their seemingly mild- mannered neighbour has committed a murder. Alan Alda lends support (1993).
The Birds
(12.50am BBC1)
Around spring and autumn, someone in the land will look up at a telephone wire and, seeing five or so starlings gathered together, will say, "Gosh, it's just like that scene in The Birds". In fact, the feathered friends - or, in this case, enemies - are the most memorable aspect of Hitchcock's nature-versus-man shocker (based on the Daphne Du Maurier story). The humans - led by Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor - are rather anonymous (1963).
The Producers
(1.15am BBC2)
"Springtime for Hit-ler and Ger-many..." and all that, as Mel Brooks's much-loved bad-taste Broadway satire-cum-heist comedy gets a seasonal showing. Gene Hackman and a wonderfully manic Zero Mostel are the producers plotting to rob investors of their money by selling 25,000 per cent of a "sure-fire" flop musical. Enjoy (1968).
The Wizard of Oz
(11.20am BBC1)
Seventeen-year-old Judy Garland had her chest bound to play Dorothy in MGM's legendary fantasy. A syrupy, inventive, message-heavy Technicolor adventure story about a little girl and her dog transported by a twister to a strange land inhabited by woodmen, scarecrows, lions and wicked witches. Whether or not you embark happily down the yellow brick road depends on your reaction to La Garland (1939).
(3.10pm BBC2)
You must remember this, as the old joke goes. A chance to lip-synch your way through one of the screen's greatest and best-loved schlock classics. Humphrey Bogart is the disenchanted saloon-bar owner who gets to commit himself to the war effort, turn down Ingrid Bergman - and get one over on officialdom and the Nazis. The support cast is impeccable, of course, from Sydney Greensteet and Claude Rains to Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson (1942).
Jurassic Park
(6.30pm BBC1)
How they ever got to show this terrifying dinosaurathon to kids is anybody's guess - but, anyway, the most hyped movie of the last few years is going to be inevitably diminished on the small screen. The dinosaurs are brilliantly realised - more so than the stalk-and-gnash storyline which has pioneer tourists Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern being chased all over genetic entrepreneur Richard Attenborough's theme park (1993).
Dial M for Murder
(9pm C4)
Made in 3-D, which is ironic since this is one of Alfred Hitchcock's flattest efforts - taken on to fulfil his Warner Brothers contract. Basically, it's a stagey, drawing-room whodunnit with one or two stand-out moments (the scene with Grace Kelly's hand reaching back for the scissors, for example). The story tells of suave husband Ray Milland hiring another man to murder his wife (Kelly) and going out on the town at the appointed time with Kelly's lover, Robert Cummings (1954).
The Remains of the Day
(10pm ITV)
An unexpected choice for the ITV Christmas Day film, this excellent Merchant-Ivory adaptation (by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel tells of a dedicated, emotionally repressed 1930s butler (Anthony Hopkins at his most coiled in) and his clashes - work-wise and romantic - with lively housekeeper Emma Thompson. The back story involves lord of the manor James Fox's flirtation with Nazi sympathisers. Strangely erotic (1993).
Glengarry Glen Ross
(11pm BBC2)
David Mamet's terrific play about the wheelings and dealings of real-estate salesmen, brought to the screen as well as it is ever likely to be by director James Foley. A top-notch cast includes Oscar- nominated Al Pacino as the hot shot of the bunch, Jack Lemmon as the dinosaur facing the axe and Alec Baldwin as the head-office shark likely to be wielding that axe (1992).
Play It Again, Sam
(12.40am BBC2)
Woody Allen's time-worn but still enjoyable homage to Humphrey Bogart (anonymously directed by Herbert Ross) with insecure film critic Allen calling on the spirit of Bogie to help him handle women. Needless to say, the particular woman he is having trouble with is Diane Keaton. And it all ends in Casablanca (1972).
Little Dorrit
(10.15am BBC2)
Christine Edzard's mammoth, six-hour labour of love (from the novel by Charles Dickens) is showing - as in the cinema - in two parts (the second three hours is tomorrow at 9.45am), with some of the action of the first half more or less repeated in the second, so that we can see it from a different perspective. The subject is money - largely the lack of it - and the superb cast includes Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall, Miriam Margolyes - and even Alan Bennett as a bishop. Set the video (1987).
Vanya on 42nd Street
(3.10pm C4)
Superbly complex meditation on the nature of theatre and Louis Malle's final film. A group of actors come to a crumbling Manhattan theatre in their street clothes to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - only for the rehearsal to become the play - and for the play to intertwine with their real lives. Wallace Shawn is excellent in the title role (1994).
1492: Conquest of Paradise (9pm C4)
Of the two major films made to mark the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas, Ridley Scott's was by far the darker and more ambitious - putting the journey within the context of Old World colonialism rather than straight- forward schoolboy heroics. Covering the 20 years prior to his world-shattering journey, Gerard Depardieu proves a shrewd choice as Columbus, while Sigourney Weaver plays his patroness, Queen Isabel of Spain (1992)
(10.15pm BBC1)
On the subject of Gerard Depardieu, this better-than-expected Hollywood remake of the Depardieu movie The Return of Martin Guerre updates the French movie to the American Civil War. Richard Gere is cast as the Confederate soldier who returns after six years to his Southern home and whose wife (Jodie Foster), can't quite accept that this is the same man who went away to war. Good performances (especially from Foster), good-looking and generally well-crafted by the British director Jon "Singing Detective" Amiel (1993).
The Graduate
(12.05am BBC1)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas, it seems, without a screening of Mike Nichols's still shimmering coming-of-age sex comedy, with college boy Dustin Hoffman being seduced by his parents' neighbour, Anne Bancroft. The subtext is pure counter-culture in the making - with the grown-ups being either crassly materialistic or, as in Bancroft's case, cynical and predatory. Katharine Ross plays Bancroft's daughter - youth calling to youth - and the beautifully meshed Simon and Garfunkel score provides the final hook for the movie's target audience, young, white college-age kids feeling alienated by the "generation gap" (1967).
Singin' in the Rain (5.20pm BBC2
The season of Arthur Freed's films continues with probably the most enjoyable American musical of all time - an exuberant, affectionate parody of the movie business at the time of the transition from silents to talkies. Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen are the romantic leads of the old era finding it hard to adapt to the new - especially the squeakie-voiced Hagen. Debbie Reynolds is the love interest and Cyd Charisse and Rita Moreno co-star (1952).
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
(5.20pm C4)
Before Beavis and Butt-head, there was the amiable Bill and Ted (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves),Valley-speaking "dudes" so preoccupied with making a rock video that they are in danger of flunking their history exam. To that end, they find themselves on a most bodacious time-travel jaunt (via Napoleon, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Genghis Khan, Abe Lincoln and Mozart). Excellent (1988).
The Firm
(9.30pm BBC1)
Tom Cruise takes up where he left off in A Few Good Men, playing a hotshot lawyer up against corporate corruption (in this case the partners of his own law firm), in Sydney Pollack's slick, professional - and very long - screen adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller. Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook and Holly Hunter support (1993).
High Heels
(11.10pm BBC2)
There is a neat symmetry to the fact that Pedro Almodovar made his first, experimental super-8 film in the year of General Franco's death, because the 45-year-old director symbolises more than anyone else the new Spain of the 1980s - with its explosion of colour, gaiety and experimental sexuality. High Heels is sadder than Almodovar's previous films - and is perhaps his least successful juggling of cartoon-like comedy and intense melodrama. Victoria Abril plays the newscaster obsessed with the pop singer mother who abandoned her as a child. Abril marries her mother's old boyfriend - and when he is murdered, suspicion falls on them both (1991).
The Phantom of the Opera (12.50pm C4)
Carl Davis provides the rousing score, performed by the Live Cinema Orchestra, for this latest "Channel 4 Silent". A spanking new, restored print of Rupert Julian's peerless 1925 version of the Gothic horror classic, starring Lon Chaney in the title role (1925).
Ben-Hur (1.30pm BBC2)
The studio had tried to lure both Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson into Ben-Hur's chariot. Charlton Heston was grateful they failed; he went on to win the Best Actor Oscar - one of a record 11 the picture scooped. Rightly celebrated for its epic scale, William Wyler's monumental tale centres on a Jewish prince battling against Roman tyranny (1959).
White Hunter, Black Heart (8.30pm C4)
Canny Channel 4 realise that you can't really go wrong with a "Clint Night" during the festive season. For a man once noted for his wordlessness, he has an extraordinarily strong hold on cinema audiences. Based on the novel by Peter Viertel about the experience of working alongside John Huston on the movie The African Queen, Eastwood's intelligent work centres on a flamboyant director who signs up to make a film in Africa so he can fulfil a desire to shoot an elephant. Shot on location in Zimbabwe, it looks a treat, and features such surprising supporting actors as Edward Tudor Pole (from The Crystal Maze), Clive Mantle (Casualty) and Mel Martin (Poldark) (1990).
The War of the Roses (9.05pm ITV)
There is more than a touch of blackness surrounding Danny DeVito's comedy about a dream marriage that goes horribly wrong. Michael Douglas is marvellously convincing as the smug husband who begins to repel his increasingly manic wife, Kathleen Turner. DeVito directs and acts (as Douglas's lawyer) with his customary verve (1989).
Sleeping Beauty (5.55pm ITV)
In view of recent Disney mega-hits, it is interesting to learn that this 1959 animated feature did not set the box-office alight. Eric Larson, Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman and Les Clark's film boasts the usual impeccable draughtmanship and music adapted from Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same name (1959).
The Living Daylights (8pm ITV)
Like Morecambe and Wise, James Bond has become a fixture in the Christmas schedules. In John Glen's middling 007 outing, the really rather wooden Timothy Dalton gets embroiled with some KGB capers and with Maryam d'Abo as an unlikely concert cellist (1987).
Heaven and Earth (10.10pm BBC2)
The third film in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy - after Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July - this is a touching, and critically underrated, account of a cross-racial love affair between a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier. It is powered by the strength of the two leads - newcomer Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones (has that man ever given a bad performance?) (1993).
The Ballad of Little Jo (10.15pm C4)
This post-Unforgiven western re-evaluates the usual conventions of the genre. Directed by the always unorthodox Maggie Greenwald (The Kill-Off), this intriguing film focuses on a woman (Suzy Amis) who is spurned by her well-to-do family after giving birth to an illegitimate child. Following an attempted rape, she starts a new life posing as a cowboy (1993).
Luck, Trust and Ketchup (12.25am BBC2)
Occasionally a "making of" documentary can be as interesting as the film itself - think of Hearts of Darkness, Eleanor Coppola's riveting behind-the-scenes account of Apocalypse Now. This fly- on-the-set view of Short Cuts (to be shown on New Year's Day) is not in that class, but it nevertheless provides some worthwhile insights into Robert Altman at work (1993).
Brief Encounter (4.50pm BBC2)
On Great Railway Journeys recently, Victoria Wood visited Carnforth station where the famous scenes between Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson were shot. It is a testament to the enduring appeal of David Lean's classic story of illicit romance that the location should still be a magnet for pilgrims (1945).
The Witches (6.15pm BBC2)
Anjelica Huston gives a bravura baddie performance as the Grand High Witch in Nic Roeg's characteristically eye-catching reading of the creepy children's story by Roald Dahl. With all-too-convincing effects from Jim Henson's Creature Feature workshop, the only problem is that it may spook younger viewers. It certainly spooked me (1990).
Death Becomes Her (9.30pm BBC1)
Robert Zemeckis is just about the best in the business when it comes to handling special effects; witness the spectacular job he made of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? His technical wizardry is again very much in evidence in this contrived story about two women (the shrieking Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn)
Make My Holiday
With his narrowed eyes, softly spoken threats and cheroot-chewing elegance, Clint Eastwood symbolises taciturn, unreconstructed masculinity. Whether playing the "Man with no Name" in the old west (see left) or patrolling mean city streets as Dirty Harry, he's the gunslinging king of machismo. But his appeal has less to do with weaponry than industrial-strength screen charisma. After TV stardom in Rawhide, he made his cinematic name in a string of violent "spaghetti" westerns with Sergio Leone, who joked that "Clint had only two expressions - with or without hat". But if Clint's acting is sometimes minimalist, he's never been afraid to stretch beyond his hard-man image; his most recent success is The Bridges of Madison County, a sort of old-fashioned, new-age love story, which he also directed. This and his other successful mainstream directing efforts (Unforgiven, Bird, In the Line of Fire, A Perfect World) have raised his artistic stock. At 66, Clint Eastwood, a star of the old school, is now more bankable than ever.
Clint's films this Christmas: `Bronco Billy' (Mon 23); `City Heat' (Thur 2). On C4's `Clint Night' (Sat 28) there's `Hang 'Em High' and `White Hunter, Black Heart'
Best Sellers
The late Peter Sellers was a huge star in the 1950s and 60s, but also a man whose brilliance was eventually compromised by his neurotic egotism. After radio fame with the Goons, the boy from Southsea quickly worked his way up to leading roles in a string of British comedies, such as I'm All Right Jack. He hit gold in 1962 with his eerie portrayal of Quilty in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, and the following year saw the release of two of his most important films: The Pink Panther (see right) and Dr Strangelove. In the latter, Sellers - playing three characters - gave one of the most memorable comic performances of the decade. It seemed Sellers could do no wrong, but hubris and bad health were to plague himuntil his one last striking performance, as the blank cipher Chance in Being There (1979). At this late stage, though, it was perhaps more a triumph of typecasting than acting.
Sellers on the box: `Battle of the Sexes', `Revenge of the Pink Panther' (Christmas Day); `Two Way Stretch', `A Shot in the Dark', `The Optimists of Nine Elms' (New Year's Eve); 'Being There', `Hoffman', `I'm All Right Jack' (New Year's Day); `Dr Strangelove' (Thur 2)
desperate to remain young and capture plastic surgeon Bruce Willis (1992).
El Mariachi
(10.35pm BBC2)
Director Robert Rodriguez has become one of the hottest properties around, almost rivalling his sometime collaborator Quentin Tarantino in the hip stakes. It all started for him with this no-budget tale of confusion between a mariachi musician and an assassin in a Mexican border town. It proves that you don't need stacks of money to make a movie - just zest (1992).
Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country (3.20pm BBC1)
Almost unrecognisable from the smoothie in The Sound of Music, Christopher Plummer dons an eye-patch and a ton of prosthetics to play General Chang in Nicholas Meyer's highly enjoyable contribution to the sci-fi cycle. As Kirk (William Shatner) prepares to hang up his corset, the Klingons say they want peace (1991).
An American in Paris (4.35pm BBC2)
A score by George and Ira Gershwin, engaging performances by Gene Kelly - whose dancing and choreography is also a standout - Georges Guetary and Leslie Caron, and wonderfully fluent direction from Vincente Minnelli; what more could you ask for to ring out the old? (1951).
Two Way Stretch (6.55pm C4)
Peter Sellers leads a British cast to die for - Wilfrid Hyde White, Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge, Lionel Jefferies, Irene Handl - in Robert Day's likeable heist comedy. Three incarcerated crooks (Sellers, Cribbins, Lodge) plot a diamond robbery for which they have the watertight alibi of being in jail (1960).
Shadowlands (8pm BBC1)
Anthony Hopkins is at his very best playing repressed characters - consider his heart-rending butler in The Remains of the Day. He is equally affecting in this moving interpretation of William Nicholson's play about the tragic love between English academic C S Lewis (Hopkins) and American poet, Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). Richard Attenborough is often criticised as a director for being over-the-top - a reputation not helped by Spitting Image's portrayal of him constantly in floods of tears. This time out, however, he is admirably restrained, treating the characters' burgeoning love and Joy Gresham's subsequent illness with commendable good taste. The result is a film for which only the most hard-hearted will not require a full box of Kleenex by their side (1993).
A Shot in the Dark (9.15pm C4)
Channel 4's short Peter Sellers season continues with what is generally reckoned to be the best Pink Panther sequel. Sellers plays Inspector Clouseau with his usual bumbling charm. In this one, he falls head over heels in love with the chief suspect (Elke Sommer) in a murder inquiry (1964).
I'm All Right Jack (5.05pm C4)
This was the first time Peter Sellers had taken on an unlikeable character - but it did his career no harm. The Boulting brothers' sharp comedy about industrial action in which he plays a jobsworth shop steward was a huge commercial hit (1959).
ET the Extra-Terrestrial (6.10pm BBC1)
Over the 14 years since it was made, cynics have scoffed at the simplistic and sentimental philosophy behind Steven Spielberg's fantasy about the relationship between an alien a long way from home and a human boy (Henry Thomas). They have not managed to make a dent, however, in the still-powerful hold the film exerts on young people's imaginations (1982).
Die Hard (9pm ITV)
For all Bruce Willis's macho posturing in a grimy vest and walking over broken glass in bare feet, this is Alan Rickman's film. Sneering almost like a pantomime villain as international terrorist, Hans Gruber, in John McTiernan's rip-roaring actioner, Rickman set the current Hollywood trend for classically trained British baddies (1988).
Short Cuts (10.05pm BBC2)
Recalling his work on Nashville, Robert Altman once again proves his mastery of multiple storylines in this acclaimed film tracing interconnected lives among the amorphous mass of Los Angeles. Adapted from a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver and showing on its network television premiere, the sprawling three-hours-plus movie features, inter alia, Tim Robbins (who already starred in Altman's The Player), Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmon and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Lauded or loathed, Altman has the priceless gift of attracting attention (1993).
Brubaker (11.25pm C4)
Robert Redford is on solid liberal territory as a warden who masquerades as a prisoner in order to get a feel for the harshness of the regime. Stuart Rosenberg's tough film boasts strong support from Yaphet Kotto and Jane Alexander (1980).
City Heat (9pm ITV)
You would not expect Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds to play anyone other than themselves in Richard Benjamin's period romp. It may be a predictable tale of a cop (Eastwood) and a private eye (Reynolds) reluctantly teaming up to investigate a murder, but it is enjoyable enough (1984).
Death and the Maiden (10.30pm C4)
Receiving its network premiere, Roman Polanski's version of the hard-hitting stage play by Ariel Dorfman shows its roots in the theatre in its claustrophobic intensity. It does, however, boast stand-out performances from the two leads. Sigourney Weaver plays Paulina, a woman who puts on trial in her front- room a man (Ben Kingsley) she believes tortured her when she was a political prisoner 15 years earlier. Stuart Wilson provides notable support as the husband caught in the middle of this storm. After many duds of late, this marks a return to form by Polanski, one of Europe's most gifted, but wayward, film-makers (1994).
Halloween (11.35pm BBC1)
This is the classic "jump-out-of-your-skin" horror film. A young Jamie Lee Curtis screams her way through the movie as a woman pursued by an escaped madman. Director John Carpenter, the king of the B movies, has rarely done better (1978).
Dr Strangelove (12.25am C4)
Peter Sellers revels in three different roles - a group captain, the US President and the deranged scientist of the title - in Stanley Kubrick's sublime satire about the arms race - subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Top-notch Kubrick (1964).
Thelma and Louise (10.20pm BBC1)
The series of pastiche car ads bears witness to the iconic status of Ridley Scott's stunningly photographed road movie. It may have been criticised as just as macho as any male buddy-buddy bonding flick, but there is no denying its triumphant "Grrrl Power" potency. Susan Sarandon (below) and Geena Davis excel as the two women who don't want to take abuse from men anymore, hit back and hit the road. Brad Pitt offers light relief as passing love interest (1991).
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (12midn't BBC2)
The splendid title is just one of many good things about Pedro Almodovar's anarchic and characteristically stylish comedy. Carmen Maura, his regular leading lady, plays a woman whose life unravels when her good-for-nothing lover (Fernando Guillen) walks out on her (1988).
California Suite (12.25am BBC1)
Neil Simon adapts his stage play into a sophisticated film about four sets of visitors in a posh Beverly Hills hotel. Maggie Smith, who netted an Oscar for her troubles, and Michael Caine shine in Herbert Ross's ensemble comedy. It boasts a five-star supporting cast of Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby (1978).
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17 Mar 2014
Email expert calls for less email disruption at work
Following on from the success of the School's first MBA masterclass last autumn, Professor Tom Jackson (Director of the Centre for Information Management) delivered the second masterclass on 22nd January, with a focus on email.
Professor Jackson's presentation was insightful and inspired, illustrating ways of harnessing the potential of e-communication applications in order to help make you more efficient, effective, and ultimately less stressed. Inspiration came from a toy helicopter flying about the room, depicting how difficult it is to concentrate when one's attention is constantly being grabbed.
Some of the key points raised included:
- Productivity is decreased by the frequency of email interruptions during a day rather than the volume of emails;
- Information overload is an increasing problem in preventing productivity (cue toy helicopter flying around the room);
- Changing your behaviour to review email in batches three or four times a day is a far more effective way to manage email reduce stress and improve productivity;
- Changing your email settings to only import new emails every 40 minutes, again decreases interruptions to the tasks you're working on.
The masterclass proved extremely popular with those who attended and is now available for you to watch online.The masterclass proved extremely popular with those who attended, and is now available for you to watch online.
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|Professor Jackson used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate how too much information can lead to a 'crash' in produtivity.
The helicopter was accompanied with a simulation presentation to show just how detrimental excessive interruptions can be to concentration.
|After the masterclass attendees had an opportunity to discuss the ideas of the presentation with Professor Jackson and each other.
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The Haunting in Connecticut was released in theaters on March 27 and promotional material for the movie claims it is based on the true story of a haunting experienced by the Snedeker family in the 1980s in Southington, Connecticut. I had an opportunity to speak with very charming producer Andrew Trapani about ghost stories, filming in Winnipeg, and how he went from designing Solar Eclipse to producing Scooby-Doo. This is an edited transcript of our conversation.
You come from a video game background, with games like Solar Eclipse and Legacy of Kain. How did your interest in video game design lead to a career in producing feature films?
I actually fell into the video game business. It was a fortunate intersection of circumstance. I took a summer job testing video games for a company in northern California called Crystal Dynamics. I came into the business at a time when games were transitioning from cartridge-based games to CD-based games. The company I was working for was on the cutting edge of 32-bit technology. Suddenly you had all this storage space and you were able to do really high end 3-D graphic renderings and use that in the storytelling. Also, you could use live action and actually shoot small movies to provide a real narrative. I think that got me really excited about storytelling and seeing what was possible to make the game playing experience more enriching for the player.
For one game in particular, Solar Eclipse, which was published on Sony Playstation in 1995 or 1996, we shot a 30-minute live action component in Los Angeles over three days. I felt very comfortable on set with the planning required to achieve success in that environment and with the unpredictability of it all. That was the springboard that got me thinking about producing movies.
Some of the films you've been involved with have been the remake of The Amityville Horror, The Fog, Day of the Dead, and Final Destination. Would you say you are drawn to stories of the supernatural?
I think it's on a case by case basis. Some projects I was really excited about because if it was a remake, I was a fan of the original and I thought the remake could improve on what had been done. Also, it was something that was commercial that not only would find an audience, but first and foremost, we could set up with a studio and actually get produced. It's harder and harder to get a movie set up and actually get it to the screen. I do enjoy horror movies. I think I expect more from them now and I really enjoy that we can pull off something that is scary and compelling at the PG 13 rating. It's a lot more challenging to tell a story with real characters and have those genuine scares without the blood and guts that has become so in vogue lately. In the case of The Haunting in Connecticut, I thought it was an amazing story with all the supernatural tropes in this tale and also this great dramatic throughline of the real life drama the family was dealing with — the cancer and the marital problems.
How did you get involved with The Haunting?
Haunting actually goes back several years. We began the process in 2003. We were trying to set up The Amityville Horror, which was a very complex situation. The writer who was involved in Amityville was a great guy by the name of Dan Farrands, who I also worked with on The Haunting in Connecticut. He had seen the documentary on Discovery — it was called A Haunting in Connecticut — and he walked in my office one day, handed me this DVD and said, "This is scarier than Amityville. Watch it!"
That was the beginning of this quest to get the film made. For the first year or so, we were shopping the project, and I used the documentary as a kind of sales tool. I think people in the industry thought it was a little too close to Amityville in terms of the subject matter, but ultimately we brought on a pair of great writers, Tim Metcalf and Adam Simon, and we figured out a concise take on this material which we felt set it apart from many of our predecessors. We were able to sell it on a pitch to Gold Circle films. They financed the development of the script. From there, Gold Circle partnered with Lionsgate Films and we set about our director search, which is when we found the wonderfully talented Peter Cornwell. The machine was in full gear at that point, with casting and prep, until we shot the film in Winnipeg in the fall of 2007.
You shot the film in Winnipeg?
It was a really wonderful experience to spend a few months in Winnipeg. We had such great people, immensely talented. Eveyone really tried to bring their A game every day. I got out right before it got really really cold! We wrapped on Halloween, appropriately enough, and I think it snowed.
I'll throw in a funny story about our time in Winnipeg. We're shooting a horror film and I think if people are at all disposed to seeing something in the corner or wondering if that shadow is more than a shadow, it's on a film set. Most of the cast and the part of the crew that had been flown in stayed at the Fort Garry Hotel. Unbeknownst to me until about two or three weeks in, it's apparently one of the most haunted hotels in North America. As soon as I heard this, I dove into the backstory and heard about a woman who tragically committed suicide decades ago. They see her ghost periodically. I had to share this story with my fellow filmmakers and some people were not happy to hear about that. They did not want to hear about the ghost who may or may not be in the Fort Garry.
The film's menace comes in large part from the atmosphere and the anticipation of what may happen, though there are some "jump out of your seat" moments spaced throughout the story. What did you want your writers, director and director of photography to bring to the film in terms of building atmosphere?
I spent a fair amount of time with the writers and it really was a team effort to cultivate the script. We hoped we could create a blueprint for the atmosphere the director could take and expand upon. We coupled it with the real strong emotional throughline so you could feel for these characters and still have the big scares that make the audience leap out of their seats when they experience them onscreen. Tim and Adam were consummate pros. There were at least one or two times during the twelve or thirteen drafts of the screenplay when we thought we weren't going to find our way out of the woods. To their credit, the writers felt like the ideas coming from producers and executives were all to make the script better and we came out into the clearing with something we thought was pretty darn good.
In terms of the director, Peter Cornwell had directed this amazing claymation short film called Ward 13. Pretty much every major studio wanted to meet with him after it came on the radar. As soon as we heard he had responded to the script, we got very excited. Peter came in with not too many changes to the script but great ideas for how to take what he thought was original about the film and bring his own unique vision to those bits.
Our DP, Adam Swica, had just come off working with George Romero on Diary of the Dead and had this amazing body of work. With Peter being a first time feature director, it was such an asset to have someone with his experience not only in the genre but experience in filmmaking, quite frankly.
The original events that kick off the haunting are based in the spiritualism movement, which had its beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Are you interested in why people are drawn to movements like spiritualism?
I have a theory. I think we all wonder what else is out there. Are we alone? When we are at the end of our run and it's time to be six feet under, is that really the end? I think that's what drives much of the fascination with the supernatural. I think that's the strongest allure when people look at these types of stories. It's about trying to understand if there's a greater context to the world that we know.
Were any of the participants in the real events involved in the making of your film at any point?
Very much so. When we started this process we sought to locate the family and get their life rights so we had a measure of exclusivity. That wasn't the easiest thing to do, because in the documentary, they spoke in silhouette and they changed their names. To me, that only piqued my interest further. It lent a measure of credibility. Some of the families we had worked with in other stories in the past, I questioned their credibility in terms of what their intentions were with talking about their story. With this family, I got the sense that something undoubtedly had transpired. We actually tracked them down by leaving a voice mail at their church. The mother called us back and said it must be time to tell this story, full fledged, if people are tracking me down at my church. She was an asset and a tremendous contributor.
The rest of the family members were passively involved. They all agreed and worked through their mother to communicate thoughts to us about the story. They were great supporters of the whole process. For the most part, they are happy with the film, which, to me, is honestly one of the most important things. I told Carmen [the mother] when we started all the way back in 2003, I'm not going to be the guy writing the cheque to finance the film and I'm not going to direct it and I'm not going to have final cut, but I will work tirelessly to maintain the integrity of what your family went through. She still speaks with me and says nice things, so I think I kept my promise on that one.
Were you involved with the casting of the film?
I was involved in everything from finding the documentary until the film was onscreen. Yes, I was there for the entire casting process.
I think they were all very good. One that stood out to me was Kyle Gallner, because I thought he was so believable in portraying the pain his character was in and the way he was drawing away from his family and the world of the living because he couldn't cope any more.
All I can say is look out world, here comes Kyle. Not only is he the great talent you saw on the screen, he's an amazing young man with a great head on his shoulders. With this role, we knew we needed someone beyond good to handle what was undoubtedly the most challenging role in the picture. We have to feel for him in the beginning and we also have to go down this path where he goes into Jack Nicholson and The Shining land and really be afraid of him. Kyle really understood the material, his character and what he needed to bring to each scene. He could be doing two scenes in the same day that had to be on such a different emotional plane as an actor, and he just inherently really got it. I feel so fortunate we landed him. He's like lightning in a bottle. He's on his way. He's just been cast in the forthcoming remake of The Nightmare on Elm Street, and he's playing the lead in that, so I'm really happy for him.
Obviously, Virginia [Madsen] was key, because we went after the mother character first. When we landed Virginia we felt like we were sending the message that this project is different than other haunted house films. We could attract an Oscar-nominated actress. From there, it just kept going.
I had never worked with Elias Koteas before, but having him on staff was just an eye-opening experience to see someone so committed and so in character throughout the process. Amanda Crew was a local find. We were very fortunate. She's a Canadian actress. I don't want to say we discovered her, but we found her and a couple of months after our film, she was cast in Sex Drive and a couple of other films, so you will definitely be seeing more from her. Martin Donovan playing the father is another amazing character actor who always delivers. Last but not least are the two kids who were both local casting in Canada. It's not easy for kids to be in that environment on set and also be really terrified and both Ty [Wood] and Sophi [Knight] were great, really hardworking and talented.
What's up next for you?
I have a new business venture right now. My business partner is Brian Gilbert, who most recently was president of production for the late Stan Winston's production company. Brian and I have a new production and management company. Brian just produced the new live action Scooby Doo, which is in post-production. It's an origin story called The Mystery Begins. That airs on Cartoon Network in the fall and later will be released on DVD.
I've reteamed with Tim and Adam, the writers on The Haunting in Connecticut, to do another supernatural thriller. It's an adaptation of a book called The Man Who Would Not Die. It's a smart ghost story with a little sci-fi bent to it. Another high profile one we're in the formative stages of doing is a biopic on the late John Delorean. The last one, which I really wish I could tell you the title of, but we're still dotting "i"s and crossing "t"s, is on a very well known haunted house. We're coming to terms on doing the first movie ever based on this house.Powered by Sidelines


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Property Details
Cottage, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Baths, 5-6 Sleeps. See "DESCRIPTION" for Rates & Dates.
9702 W Silver Lake Road Mears Michigan 49436
2) CLICK "Rates and Availability" above to see Calendar. The Grey color is not available.
I suggest Email me direct firstname.lastname@example.com Please before you Pay HomeAway.
Two Bedrooms. One has a Double bed with firm Sealy mattress. Bedroom two has Bunk beds, the lower is a double, the upper a single.
Living Room has Two Couches.
Kitchen features Electric range with oven, 20 Cu Ft Refrigerator, Microwave, Mr Coffee - Coffee Maker, Pots and Pans, Griddle, lots of cups, plates, silverware.
Bath is small 3/4 bath with shower. The Water Heater is under the sink and is about 10 gallons so no Hollywood showers.
TV - no cable. 2 Channels High Definition CBS and FOX 22' flat screen w/ DVD . I include a few family movies for guests. The desk in the LR has a few board games. Scrabble, cards,checkers, and monopoly. Want to watch TV on vacation ? Silver Sands Hotel $250 a night will be happy to rent you one room.
There is a vacuum , a couple brooms, and a few cleaning products.
Charcoal Grill, a couple fishing poles but no guarantees on condition. Guests mess them up.
Wood stove for heat. 3 Fans , No Air. The Cottage is in the shade , being 2/3 mile from Lake Michigan , generally air temperatures are 10 degrees cooler than inland 10 miles.
Fire pit on road side plus one by the water. State land across channel for free fire wood or several places in area sell bundles starting at $3.
There are 5 Deck chairs, a couple beach chairs under the bunk beds.
14' Sea Nymph Aluminum row boat and oars included with optional HONDA 5 HP Outboard. ($75 per stay for the outboard ). Coleman Canoe and paddles included. 4 coast guard approved flotation Seat cushions and a Four life vests (3 are kids sizes) .
Note – to rent a 14' aluminum with little motor at Wave Club on Silver Lake it is $125 a day. update. Wave Club stopped renting Aluminum boats. Now they rent paddle boards. Good luck with that.
Vacation Rentals changed all their software for 2015 and has limited characters.
I cannot get all my weeks and prices published on the main page.
RATES JUNE JULY AUGUST Are Weekly Rents.
FRIDAY 1 PM check in to FRIDAY 11 AM Check Out.
I will rent 3 day weekends in May , September and October. 2017 RATES HERE
All May Weekends ~ ~ RESERVED
Memoriial Weekend $400 RESERVED
June 2- June 9 $500 RESERVED
June 9 - June 16 $650
June 16 - June 23 $720
June 23 - June 30 $820
June 30 - July 7 $1100
July 7th - July 14th $1000
July 14th - July 21 $1000
July 21 - July 28 $1000
July 28 to August 4 $1000 ~~~RESERVED
August 4th - August 11th $840
August 11th - August 18th $800
August 18th to August 25th $750
August 25 - September 1 $600 .
Sept Labor Day weekend 3 Nights Min $100 a night.
Post labor day $90 a night 3 night minimum. Rents Go to end of October or
first hard freeze. Internet is shut off November 1st
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price. Vacation rentals.com was bought out and everything changed. not user friendly, my customers get emails I do not send, and the web sight wants to charge guests about 8% more in case the owner/property manager is a fraud or double books. Feel free to pay them or me. as of September 2016 all guests have paid me direct.
Recent Review
We had a great vacation and will be returning!
About the Owner
About Steve Danville email@example.com
Born and Raised in Shelby MI 15 minutes from Silver Lake.
Graduated GVSU 1978. Licensed Realtor and property manager since 1978. Married since 1981, two daughters and one grandson.
Steve Danville firstname.lastname@example.com purchased this cottage in 1978
Why Steve Danville email@example.com chose Silver Lake
I grew up in Oceana County. As soon as we turned 16 and could drive, Silver Lake was the place to go in the Summer. I noted most cottage owners were 40-70 years old or older. Not wanting to wait, I bought my cottage asap in 1977 when I was 23. Lots on Silver Lake Water Front were and still are cost prohibitive for me, however on the silver lake channel I could afford. My kids have their best memories
of the summers at this cottage as well and many of their friends.
I appreciate my paying guests that pay my property taxes and insurance for us.
What makes this cottage unique
The Silver Lake Sand Dunes are one of the best places to
be in the World ....for my money anyway.
Guestbook comments from the manager
copy and paste from email sent 8/31/2016
Hi Steve,
I just wanted to thank you again! We didn't want to leave. The kids said that this was their best vacation ever. I hope we left everything looking okay because we would love to come back!
Thanks again,
Guestbook comments from the manager
copy and paste from email sent 8/31/2016
Hi Steve,
I just wanted to thank you again! We didn't want to leave. The kids said that this was their best vacation ever. I hope we left everything looking okay because we would love to come back!
Thanks again,
17 Reviews
4.5/5 -
(17 traveler reviews)
We had a great vacation and will be returning!
This cottage is perfect and cozy! The kids had so much to do from taking the canoe fishing up and down the channel to riding the boat over to the sand dunes. Less than 5 minutes away from Lake Michigan and an awesome view from the top of the lighthouse. The sand dunes offer hours of fun but the best memories our family made were hanging out on the dock fishing and sitting around the campfire! Thanks!!
Family had a good week. Sand Dunes are a spectical
Our extended family rents along the Michigan coast from South Haven to Traverse City. Pentwater and the Silver Lake Sand dunes areas are
the best for clean sandy beeches. Steve provided all we needed to
get to the dunes. Kids life jackets supplied, descent aluminum boat and
the kids used the canoe daily. Water was okay ( taste ). appliances worked as they should . ( no washing machine or dryer )... the cottage was clean. Yes, we had to broom the spider webs off the deck and deck chairs in the morning, if you want to be in the woods by the water it is more like camping than staying in a 5 star hotel. One rainy day kept us inside and we had 1 or 2 channels on tv that worked... just like when I was a kid. It would be nice is the area had more bike trails. Over all the family had a good time, the boys a blast. They pitched a tent one night across the creek on the state land. Mother worried. I didnt. Vacation is what you make it. We had a good experience.
Dirty and uncomfortable - pt 1
Pros first:
* Location, location, location (but I think that is ALL you are paying for). 1/4 mile along canal to Silver Lake and 1.5 mile drive to Lake Michigan. The price of cottage itself is not a good value.
* Excellent communication and responses from Steve.
* Bed sheets were clean.
* Fridge and freezer worked great.
* Tap water tasted good.
* Nature -- must be a drought because canal was as shallow as 5 inches in many parts. We literally had to get out of boat in several places and pull it to the opening of lake. We paid extra for the motor, but since it was such a hassle to get to lake by rowing and wading, we only went out twice. Again, so shallow, there were nothing but 1-2" little fishes swimming around, so no fishing either.
* Per website description, I was expecting humble accomodations (which they were), but I also expected comfortable and clean (which cottage was not). I also expected everything to work, which did not.
* Steve warned of a small water heater. Hot water was the least of our problems. (We had hot water all week). The problem was no water pressure! By the third day we had ZERO water. My husband had to open/close the valve to dilapidated water pump for over an hour which is exposed to the elements and LITERALLY cobbled together with (interior) plumbers putty, plastic grocery bag wrapped around pipe with duct tape and dangerous, exposed wires (not in conduit).
* IMO very little investment in property since 1978. Again, I expected humble, but everything is just cobbled together in a cheap and/or tacky fashion. IMO, there is no reason for an ancient stove/oven. Both the burners and the oven worked intermittently. One night I cooked a pizza and the oven worked great. The next night it would not get past (guessing) 250 degrees and it took over an hour for a semi cooked pizza. Front right burner worked one day and then not the next.
* Cabin is set up to accomodate a family and yet there is no where to enjoy a meal together. (Investing in a picnic table would be nice). There is a table inside with four chairs, but cottage so small, only three can sit really.
* We were greeted by the front of the house with one broken (pieces chipped off), plastic Adirondack chair in front that was filthy with dirt.
* Every single porch chair was dirty with dirt and cob webs behind them.
* Charcoal grill was so dirty that we put a sheet of foil on top when we used it.
Step Up from Camping
Steve was great at communication leading up to the rental and during the stay. It is a nice place, great view and the boys loved fishing there in the mornings. The canoe was great and well used by us every day. The kitchen is small but adequate and we cooked over 3/4 of our meals at the cabin. The main reason with a couple minor reasons I gave it a four instead of a five: Main: There are not doors on the bedrooms....just curtains. Vacationing with a toddler: nap times earlier bed time....you need doors. And is was not made clear that this was the case. Minor: it hasn't had a deep clean this year for sure lots of dust and musty smells.....
It was a nice stay and very relaxing. The main reason as I said is there aren't doors.
Great cabin
Just got back from a wonderful long weekend at this cabin location was great u r right on the canal which is beautiful the canoe and row boat were awesome will definitely b going back next year thanks Steve
Wildlife Wonderland
My family just returned yesterday from a week at Silver Lake. We found this rental to be just as described - nothing fancy, but absolutely perfect for a week of dropping out and relaxing. Highlights of the week included the typical Silver Lake activities, but we especially enjoyed the visits and sightings of wildlife along the channel. We saw a swan family, several ducks, an otter, an eagle, a raccoon, and a couple turtles, not to mention the fish. The owner of the cottage was readily accessible, and answered all of my questions beforehand to ensure that we were all set for the week. We took the canoe out a few times, and used the rowboat with motor to get to and from the dunes. Would definitely return; this was a great vacation!
From the Owner
"I grew up in Oceana County. As soon as we turned 16 and could drive, Silver Lake was the place to go in the Summer. I noted most cottage owners were 40-70 years old or older. Not wanting to wait, I bought my cottage asap in 1977 when I was 23. Lots on Silver Lake Water Front were and still are cost prohibitive for me, however on the silver lake channel I could afford. My kids have their best memories of the summers at this cottage as well and many of their friends. I appreciate my paying guests that pay my property taxes and insurance for us."
Activity and Interests
Cottage Suggestions. Take them or Leave them, It's Your Vacation.
Canoe - Included is a Coleman Canoe life jackets, seat cushions and paddles. The canoe works well in the Silver Lake channel and getting to the sand dunes if the pilots of the canoe have some skills.
Go left ( West) from the cottage in the canoe and one can go about 1/2 mile to a small dam.
Row Boat - WAY more stable then the Canoe. This Sea Worthy 14 foot Aluminum Sea Nymph 14R. Unsinkable. . Rowing out the channel may be a challenge when you get close to Silver lake the channel narrows. It depends on the current of that day. Some will walk the boat a few feet into Silver lake then the current stops. The row back is a breeze. Ive been rowing it since the 1970's. Due to some shallow areas, it is best to row the channel and use the motor in Silver Lake.
WATER- One of the facts of the walking area of the Silver Lake beeches at the sand dunes is you cannot drive there and park on the dunes.. It keeps the Dunes more exclusive to boaters.
The Sand dunes are in 3 sections. South is Mac Wood Dune rides. Middle is the public area. Most people get there via boat. The North is for Motor vehicles with off road registration, State Park registration, flags etc to drive there.
If you want to go to Lake Michigan.. there are 2 parking areas at Lake Michigan near the cottage. Just turn Right (West) out of the cottage and follow the asphalt. One is a parking area for the public where the channel meets Lake Michigan the other is at the Light House.
FISHING - Many people fish right in front of the cottage. Most of the fishermen I see on Silver lake are near where this Channel enters Silver Lake. One man recommends between the State Park and the boat rental docks. Also, there is an upper channel to check out.
Silver Lake. Silver Lake is about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide. The deepest part is actually near the dunes about 25 feet deep. There is a severe drop off as the Dunes encroach on the Lake. On the road side of Silver Lake it is relatively shallow for hundreds of feet.
Boat Launches - there are 5. only one at the State Park works for Fiberglass boats. 17' or smaller Aluminum boats or jet ski's may use the others. One is across the street from Mac Wood Dune Rides, One Between the State park and Flordale resort, one near the Boat rental place at the end of the lake and one on the upper channel.
State Land is across the channel from the cottage- You are welcome to hike on the land across the channel from the cottage. If you run into a sandy road you have reached where Mac Wood Dune rides run and pedestrians make the drivers nervous. Please keep a distance from their trails. Hiking is one way to the Dunes.
HIDE AWAY CAMP GROUNDS - Across the street has a coin laundry room, a little store , and PIZZA. Whippy Dip next to Mac Woods has Pizza.
This cottage is 1/2 Mile to Silver Lake. One mile to Lake Michigan.
11 miles from Pentwater ( a tourist community bordering Lake Michigan).
6-8 miles from Stony Lake
3 golf courses
Lake Michigan beaches 1 mile.
Little Point Sable Lighthouse
Multiple water activities and rentals
Silver Lake Sand Dunes / Mac Wood Dune Rides
Jeep Rentals
Mini Golf & Go Cart Track
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Rates & Availability
Rental rates
|Rate Period
|Weekend Night
|Monthly *
May 15th email me
May 12 2017 - Jun 2 2017
2 night minimum stay
June Email Me for quote
Jun 3 2017 - Jun 29 2017
7 night minimum stay
JULY weeks vary email me
Jun 30 2017 - Jul 7 2017
7 night minimum stay
Aug 1 2017 - Aug 31 2017
7 night minimum stay
.Post Labor Day Email me $90
Sep 1 2017 - Oct 31 2017
2 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
2 night minimum stay
* Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay.
Additional information about rental rates
|Refundable damage deposit
Vacationrental.com for 2015 Changed all there software and it is not user friendly. Not enough characters to finish my
Friday to Friday.
6/5 - 6/12 $500
6/12 - 6/19 $550
6/19 - 6/26 $600
6/26 - 7/3 $800
7/3 - 7/10 $1200
7/10 7/17 $900
7/17 7/24 $950
7/24 7/31 $950
7/31 8/7 $800
8/7 8/14 $700
8/14 8/21 $600
8/21 8/28 $550
8/28 9/4 $500
9/4 9/11 $500 labor day
NOTE - There is a Calendar on this page to check available Dates. Upper right on main page.
7 Nights. Check in Fridays 1 PM . Check Out Friday 11 AM sharp.
$200 damage/deposit. Over 90% of the time 100% refunded.
Manager's Cancellation Policy
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From the Owner
"The Silver Lake Sand Dunes are one of the best places to be in the World ....for my money anyway."
Property Type
- cottage
- Adventure
- Budget
- Family
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- Dining Area
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- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome ...
- non smoking only ...
- pets considered ...
Location Type
- Water View
- Waterfront
- autumn foliage
- coin laundry
- forests
- library
- marina
- restaurants
Leisure Activities
- beachcombing
- horseback riding
- paddle boating
- scenic drives
- sight seeing
- walking
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/bank
- groceries
- laundromat
- medical services
Sports & Adventure Activities
- fishing
- golf
- hunting
- mountain biking
- pier fishing
- rafting
- roller blading
- scuba diving or snorkeling
- snorkeling
- sound/bay fishing
- surfing
- swimming
- water skiing
- water tubing
- wind-surfing
Floor Area
- 650 sq. ft.
- Bathroom 1
- This is a cabin. There is no jet tub, and no Hollywood Showers. The 15 Gallon water heater will see to that.
- 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6
- Bedroom 1 - 1 double
- Bedroom 2 - 2 double, 1 twin/ single, bunk beds in bedroom 2
- Bicycles ...
- Boat ...
- Deck / Patio ...
- Golf ...
- Kayak / Canoe ...
- Outdoor Grill ...
- 1 bicycles
- Guests provide their own meals
- Deck facing the Silver Lake Channel & hundreds of acres of State Land Woods. Plenty of wild life to watch. The near by Silver Lake Sand Dunes offer 2000 acres of beach sand. Take the Canoe or Aluminum boat to get there. Cottage is 1 mile from Lake Michigan with free parking and Public Beech Access. 1.5 Miles from the Lake Michigan Little Point Sable Light House. 1/3 mile down the Silver Lake Channel is a small park with a few picnic tables. A foot bridge is used to cross the channel to get to the park. The park is between my cottage and the Silver Lake Channel Dam. In the other direction.. 1/2 Mile North is a small free County boat launch. 1.5 Miles to the Silver Lake State Park Camp Grounds. There is a swimming area at this park. Also a boat launch for heavier boats. Walking. Walk off road... State Land across the channel or across the road through Hide-away-camp grounds joins State Land walking paths in the woods. I prefer walks through Hide-away camp grounds.


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I have a Samsung GS5 with T-Mobile. I used the app Music Download Paradise Pro (the clerk at the store put on my phone) to download songs & then used the app MP3 Cutter & Ringtone Maker (also loaded at the store), edited the song and saved to the ringtone file. I used these files & saved them to individual contacts & they worked just fine, and some of the ones I did are still working great. Now when I save a ringtone to a contact is keeps going to the default ringtone, even though it shows the saved ringtone is in the contact. I am a new user to a smart phone and not very computer savvy either. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Dwyane Wade: Russell Westbrook is the 'most athletic' player in the league
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Take that, LeBron. Signed, your buddy Dwyane.
So maybe it wasn't actually a jab at all, but Dwyane Wade doesn't see LeBron James as the league's most incredible athlete. He's handed that crown to Russell Westbrook.
"I always say this is a very good team, but Russell Westbrook is what makes them very special, because there's no one else like him in the NBA," Wade said. "I think he's personally I think he's the most athletic guy in the NBA for what he does and how he does it and how quick he does it."
Most athletic guy in the league, huh? In a league full of stunning athleticism with guys like LeBron, Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin and on, naming Westbrook is a big call. Not something easily argued against though. There's a lot of evidence supporting the claim. Maybe start here, or here.
Westbrook's athleticism though makes him an issue for the Heat. He's someone they don't exactly have an answer for. Mario Chalmers? Besides Westbrook having done this to Chalmers, the Miami point guard doesn't have the size, strength or speed to keep up with Westbrook.
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With the way the Heat talked Monday, it almost sounded like they were more concerned with corralling Westbrook rather than the reigning three-time scoring champ.
"[Westbrook's] end-to-end as explosive as anybody in this league," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He plays with incredible force."
The Heat have a lot to be concerned about with the Thunder's dynamic offensive attack. Kevin Durant, James Harden, Serge Ibaka's mid-range game. And of course the soaring, explosive Westbrook.
Westbrook's ability to rise and finish with incredible ferocity is impressive, but his speed with the ball as well as how he can seemingly stop on a pin to pull up for a jumper is stunning. He's the total athletic package. If he played football, he'd be a free safety in the mold of Ed Reed. H
Is he the most athletic player in the league? Obviously debatable, but there's a strong case to be made. And he's got a pretty hefty endorsement.


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Saturday, March 9, 2002
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Software: Skin your iTunes with iSkinner v1.0
Trent Eh at AppleXnews.com emailed us with an announcement of the first and only iTunes skinning application:
"Almost all skins for iTunes are hard to install and require you to download several programs to get at the code, but this App does everything for you."
The Pod Software page states:
"iSkinner is the first and only iTunes skinning application that does everything for you. Just select the skin you want and hit Apply, its as easy as that! (iSkinner only works on Mac OS X and only works with iTunes 2.0.x)
Friday, March 8, 2002
Snowboarding Japan with an iPod
MacObserver writer Darla Sasaki writes about her experiences snowboarding with her iPod in Hokkaido, Japan.
"The iPod makes the perfect snowboarding companion. It holds all my tunes, operates perfectly in the cold, withstands multiple meetings with the ground, is easy to operate while wearing my snowboarding gloves, and blocks out the horrendous music that is often blasting from Japanese ski lifts."
Cases: Groove Jacket molded case for iPod
iPoding member "jsquishee" reports EvreythingiPod is selling the Groove Jacket case for $29.99. Made of injection-molded plastic, the sleeve offers play-through design and access to all the iPod's functions.
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Software: iPod Free File Sync v2.3 for OS 9 Released
iPod Free File Sync (iPFFS) is the only utility that allows synchronizing
music from different iPods or any other source to your computer with ease.
It shows you exactly which of the MP3/AIFF/WAV files in the source are not
on your computer. After synchronizing, you can browse through the new files
directly in the application you're familiar with - iTunes 2.
You may then:
- copy the desired files directly from within iTunes to your computer manually.
- use the auto copy feature which copies the desired tracks based on artist/album to your computer.
Software piracy, Canada retailers on alert
Many news agencies reported and editorialized the recent Wired.com report of a teenager walking into a Dallas CompUSA and stealing Microsoft Office X with an iPod. Canada.com has published a reactionary story on what actions are being taken in the computer retail sector:
"Although there have been no reported instances of this form of piracy in Canada, Canadian retailers are on the alert.
"We've talked to our salespeople and reminded them not to let anybody plug in anything or put in a blank CD into our computers," said Victor Salus, store manager of North Star Computers in Toronto."
Forums: Tales of a dual platform user
iLounger, "gundamrx288", writes in the forums:
"My name is Charles and I was a pretty hardcore PC Wintel user, but my office had extra Mac iBooks laying around, so i took one home to work with. It was great! Then news of the iPod came…
I am now a Mac nut. The iPod's pratically glued to my hand.
What can I say? I was at the right place at the right time. Steve Jobs won me over. Who's next, eh?"
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Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Tips & Tricks: Easy iPod Phone Dialer
iLounger, Matt H., writes in with his easy method for having an iPod dial phone numbers:
- Dial a number with your touchtone phone.
- Hit redial and record the sound from the receiver with a mic. I used Sound Studio for OSX and my Apple mic.
- Save the track as AIF and then use iTunes to convert to MP3.
- Play the track back, holding the headphone to the receiver.
Portable Foldable Speakers
iPoding reader "Sean412" reports finding portable, foldable, speakers from Urban Outfitters for $3.99:
"Granted, they don't produce theater-quality sound, but they are perfect for when I'm at work or when I want to listen to my iPod in hotels when I travel."
Search the website, type keyword "speakers"...
Announcement: iPod Survey
"Here's your chance to help make the iPod better! We are a group of graduate students at the School of Information, at the University of Michigan.
We are studying/evaluating the iPod for our group project this semester. We are very excited about the iPod and this project, and we would like to ask for your help.
We have created an on-line survey to collect feedback from the users of portable mp3 players (iPod or otherwise), and other users who regularly listen to mp3s. We are grateful if you could take a little bit of you time and answer an on-line questionnaire.
Survey for mp3 player owners, click here
Survey for people that do not own a mp3 player, click here
Tuesday, March 5, 2002
iPod Phone Dialer
Earlier we reported the possibilty of generating dial tones with your iPod and actually using it to dial a phone. iLounger, "tjtremor" has done it:
"It works, I have some phone numbers on the iPod using 256K MP3s. I phone the person in no time. I used CoolEdit Pro to generate the DMTF signals (dial tones), setup is Tone Time 40ms, Break Time 20ms, Pause Time 250ms.
We've contacted "tjtremor" for more details and will publish this tip on the Tips & Tricks page soon.
Software: ipoAdress v1.0 released
iPoding reports there is a new application to convert your iPod into a psuedo PDA by German software programmer, Jurgen Kohlenbach of Kohlenbach EDV.
"ipoAdress is a small adress-database with the possibility to export adresses as mp3-files. You can define what fields of your data appear in the iPod. You can import your data as text file. With iTunes you can sort and transfer the mp3-files to your iPod."
Apple named top global brand of 2001!
In a recent survey by brandchannel.com, Apple beat out familiar brands Nokia and Volkswagen for first position in the Global Top Vote list.
"For the purposes of the survey, we defined a "Brand of the Year" as that which had the most impact on our lives in 2001. That is, the Brand of the Year is not necessarily the biggest or the one with the most revenue - it is the one that makes us stand up and take notice. The responses certainly made us stand up and take notice as, surprisingly, immensely familiar brands like Nike and Coca-Cola did not make the top five choices."
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Forums: Why the iPod reports only 4.63 GB of available storage
Ever wondered why the iPod reports only 4.63 GB of total available storage space? iLounger, "eustacescrubb" explains in the forums:
"It's the way your computer and iPod calculate a gig and the way the manufacturer calculates a gig. For lay people, a gig is 1000 MB, or 1000 1000 KB. 1000 x 1000 = 10000000. But a MB is actually 1024 KB, and a GB is 1024 MB. 1024 x 1024 = 10485576. The iPod's advertised capacity is 5 GB because its capacity is actually 50000000 KB. But since your computer calculates a GB as being 10485576, that times 5 = 5242880. That means that to your computer, the iPod's capacity is 242880 KB less than 5 GB. So, 50000000 / 10485576 = 4.76. The contents of the iPod Control folder without the music folder equal a little over 100 MB. So: 4.63 GB."
Cases: MARWARE SportSuit available for pre-order
iPoding reports MARWARE is now taking pre-orders on its new SportSuit for iPod. Orders are expected to ship end of March.
Software: Panorama iPod organizer available now
The Panorama iPod organizer turns your iPod into a PDA:
"With the Panorama iPod Organizer users can store and access phone numbers, email addresses, flight numbers, appointment times and more on their iPods. Data can be entered and edited in the Panorama iPod Organizer itself or can be imported from other database or contact manager software. Information can be organized on the iPod into custom categories (Home, Work, Travel, etc.).
The Panorama iPod Organizer is available now via electronic download for an introductory price of $19.95."
iPod Desktop Icons for OS X
The iPod Fanatic (French iPod fan website) reports on a recently released set of OS X icons at Xicons by Hein Mevissen. We also discovered a new set of iPod icons released today Jamie Hamel-Smith.
"Hein's Hardware" icons by Hein Mevissen
"iPod" icons by Jamie Hamel-Smith
Monday, March 4, 2002
Software: XPlay Technology Preview 5 now available for download
Preview 5 is much faster than previous Preview releases, provides the ability to rebuild the iPod song database on demand, and eliminates many stability problems present in previous Preview releases, as well.
Based on MacDrive technology, this preview provides both read and write access to your iPod hard drive for documents and data files, plus the ability to organize your music either from the Explorer-based XPlay interface, or from Windows Media Player.
This XPlay Preview (alpha release) is intended as an illustration of the general structure and abilities of XPlay, but is not yet a complete solution for use of the iPod with Windows.
Cases: German "iPod Saver" case discovered
iPodHacks reports a new iPod case from Germany. The Higoto iPod Saver (Euro 24.95) is made of 3mm neoprene and has an imprinted graphic on the outside of the case, so you know where to push the iPod's function buttons. There is no way of scrolling the wheel without having to remove the iPod. There is also a cord manager for your Apple earbuds
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Time to Update the iPod?
Tim Nash of LowEndMac writes an editorial on the need for a range of iPod models and the push into new markets.
"The more ways people can use the iPod, the larger the market will be, and the more iPod can be the portable part of every Digital Hub. How soon will we see the ad series "What do you have on your iPod?"
Sunday, March 3, 2002
Forums: Coming soon, "sports package" from XtremeMac
iLounger, "robgettier", writes in the forums:
"I ordered one of the packages from XtremeMac.com.
I had the same concern about jogging. So I emailed the sales department. They have been more than happy to answer my questions. Anyway, I asked if they had plans to add a compatible arm band (for jogging). The response was that they are planning to release a "sports package" in the coming months for joggers and bikers. The parts should be interchangeable/compatible with the current system."
Also note, the new MARWARE SportSuit case has a neoprene armband for joggers and bikers.
Software: iPod Free File SynX v2.3 for OS X Released
iPod Free File SynX (iPFFX) is the only utility that allows synchronizing
music from different iPods or any other source to your computer with ease.
It shows you exactly which of the MP3/AIFF/WAV files in the source are not
on your computer. After synchronizing, you can browse through the new files
directly in the application you're familiar with - iTunes 2.
You may then:
- copy the desired files directly from within iTunes to your computer manually.
- use the auto copy feature which copies the desired tracks based on artist/album to your computer.
The OS 9 version of 2.3 should be ready in a few days.
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The author of eight novels, Meira Chand is inspired by different cultures and her work has strong themes of identity and belonging. In Singapore - where she lives and where she was commissioned by the President to write a history of the nation - she is involved in many programs to promote literature and mentor young writers.
Her 2010 novel A Different Sky was a Book of the Month choice by the UK bookshop chain, Waterstones, and was included on popular US personality Oprah Winfrey's recommended reading list and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2012.
Dr Chand has served for over a decade as an assessor and mentor in the National University of Singapore's Creative Writing Program. She has also been closely involved since its inception with READ! Singapore, a program initiated by the National Library Board to promote the joys of reading. She was chairperson of the Singapore Literature Prize in 2012. Dr Chand was chair for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the region of South East Asia and South Pacific.
At UWA, she completed a PhD in Creative Writing. This involved a novel, Brave Sisters, and an accompanying essay, A Study of Ambivalence and Change: Indian Woman - Warrior or Victim? Both novel and essay are linked by an exploration of the issues of feminism and the impact of colonialism and the nationalist uprisings against British rule in late colonial India.
"I really appreciated the journey of scholarship and the fact that I had the guidance of my supervisor, Dr Cynthia vanden Driesen, who knew the area I was writing about very well and could offer me expert guidance," she said.
Brave Sisters is an historical novel set in the late 1930s and 1940s against a backdrop of India and South East Asia. It explores the life of an illiterate Indian woman, Sita, condemned early to the completely disempowered state of a child widow and overwhelmed by the events of the Second World War and the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
The essay examines the situation of Indian women during the era before Independence from British rule. The study explores the Indian concept of shakti, dynamic female energy, and the long history in the country's religious culture of a line of powerful warrior-like women.
News Source : One of Singapore's favourite authors, Meira Chand, graduated with a PhD from The University of Western Australia last night.


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When people hear the word stick, they often associate it to the wooden twig, which is a thin-medium sized branch of a tree.
This is not so.
There are many different kinds of sticks that have been identified over the span of the last 20 000 000years. We are focusing on the three main kinds in this report.
Type 1.
The Twig/ Natural stick comes from mother nature. They generally grow off trees and bushes, but are sometimes known to float around in the water. Water-floaters have been named Driftwoodus Mortemius, which is often shortened to Driftwood. These are the most common stick, found everywhere in the world. They can be of any shape, size and colour; or come from any tree.
Type 2.
The Man-Made Stick can be purchased from factories and shops again, from all around the world. This stick has been made in a factory (you rarely find homemade ones anymore) and is commonly used as a broom*, an aid for walking* or anything else for that matter. Just as common as Type 1, the Man-Made Stick is a popular toy/ tool as well as being used in other ways. The Man-Made Stick is popularly made out of metal, wood or plastic but has been known to be made out of gas, water, ice etc.
Type 3.
The Tool stick is used to help animals and humans alike, with work or play. Chimpanzees use these to crack open nuts, and humans use similar. Usually made from Type 2 (Man-Made Stick), the Tool, looks very much similar to the Man-Made Stick, it's big brother.
Sticks are fascinating objects that lie all over our globe. Let's not make them extinct, and keep them with us for future genrations!
*=See Type 3., also used as a beating stick, cane, or the strap.
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Very colorful and interesting! Very funny... At the bottom with the *, I was thinking waaay back when I had to go out and find a stick for my mom to whip me with....
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