Leasing News: Special Father's DayEdition
By Fernando F. Croce

Many of us movie-buffs got our cinematic appreciation from our parents, so when Father's Day comes along this week, seize the opportunity to settle down with Dad and a great movie. Here are some prime recommendations, all available on Netflix:

Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli, 1950): Best known for such classic MGM musicals as "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "The Band Wagon," director Vincente Minnelli was also displayed a deft comic touch in this fondly rendered family comedy. The setting is the Banks household, where the familial tranquility of Stanley (Spencer Tracy) and Ellie (Joan Bennett) is disrupted when their daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) announces that she's getting married. As preparations overrun the household and expenses pile up, Stanley finds himself dealing with a potent mix of paternal pride and anxiety. Featuring a lovely portrait of fatherly affection and befuddlement by Tracy and Taylor at her most luminous, this polished movie remains both hilarious and heartbreaking in ways that surpass Steve Martin's 1991 remake.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962): For many readers, Atticus Finch, the noble, widowed Alabama lawyer of Harper Lee's award-winning novel, remains the ultimate father figure. That magic was perfectly captured in this classic screen version, delicately directed by Robert Mulligan and with an unforgettable, Oscar-winning performance by Gregory Peck as Atticus. Told from the impressionable vantage point of his feisty, six-year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham), the film details how life in a small Southern town is shaken up by the controversial trial that finds Atticus clashing with local prejudices. Throughout this, young Scout witnesses her father's unbending decency in the face injustice, while experiencing her own adventures with local "bogeyman" Boo Radley (Robert Duvall in his screen debut). One of the most beloved of all adaptations.

Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979): Oscars for Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actor went to this sensitive account of a couple's custody battle, told from hurried father's the point of view. A workaholic businessman, Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) finds his life turned upside down when his troubled wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) walks out on him, leaving him to take care of both his career and their six-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry). At first frustrated by his newfound responsibilities, Ted gradually discovers the joys of fatherhood as he bonds with his son, a bond that's threatened when Joanna returns to demand her custody rights. Beautifully acted and directed by Robert Benton with an unerring eye for telling emotional details and welcome humor, this is a touching valentine to fathers everywhere.

Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989): The trials and tribulations of family life are painted with laughs and tears in this acclaimed comedy-drama from Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("Apollo 13," "A Beautiful Mind"). Centering on the Buckman family, it weaves several subplots into a rich tapestry of fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, and everybody in between. Among them are Gil (Steve Martin) and Helen (Dianne Wiest), who are struggling with their troubled sons, Susan (Harley Jane Kozak) and Nathan (Rick Moranis), who differ on how to raise their kids, and grandfather Frank (Jason Robards), who has to deal with "black sheep" son Larry (Tom Hulce). With the help of a remarkable ensemble cast that also includes Mary Steenburgen and Keanu Reeves, Howard offers a heartening view of the pangs of being a parent.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009): The movies of Wes Anderson ("Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited") have always had the quirkiness of a pop-up children’s book to go along with their familial concerns, so it’s no surprise to see the acclaimed writer-director using stop-animation to tackle a story by Roald Dahl (who wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"). Mr. Fox (delightfully voiced by George Clooney) lives with his wife (Meryl Streep) and son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) in a lush garden residence, surrounded by their eccentric friends and relatives. However, soon their idyllic peace is disturbed by Mr. Fox’s rambunctious instincts, not to mention three mean farmers bent on hunting down the critters. At times off-putting in live-action, Anderson’s stylistic trademarks become charming in animated form, aided by a truly stellar vocal cast that includes Bill Murray, Michael Gambon and Willem Dafoe.

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(and his has a new album out! Barry is the entertainer you love
or hate—but bring your significant other to a concert is my advice)

Singer-Songwriter-Musician-Arranger-conductor Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus) June 17, 1943 Brooklyn, New York (his parents died when he was 2 and he was raised by his maternal grandparents Joseph and Esther Manilow); best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "This Ones for You", "Copacabana". "Can't Walk without You," performing regularly in Las Vegas. You love him or you hate him. We have all his albums, also in the car, and we have another set we take on vacations, and have seen many of his shows throughout the year. One of my very good high school and college friends plays first trumpet on his albums and says he is first rate in knowing music, also extends the red carpet to musicians who attend his shows; a pleasure to work with, a real nice guy.
http://www.manilow.com/
http://www.barrymanilow.nl/

    1579- the expedition of Sir Francis Drake anchored in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco Bay in California, during drake's celebrated circumnavigation of the globe. Drake named the land Nova Albion and claimed it for England . The members of the expedition spent a month repairing their ship. Then on July 26 Drake sailed from California , continuing north and then west across the Pacific Ocean . The precise spot that Drake and his men landed and stayed for a month is a controversy between historians and the actual spot bay is not known. All Drake's records were destroyed for political reasons and this event is also part of the controversy. ( Encyclopedia of American Facts, Gordon Carruth ). http://legends.dm.net/pirates/drake.html
    1742-birthday of William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence, born at Boston , MA . Died Oct 14, 1790 at Hillsboro , NC . The British in retribution burned his house and farm during the war. http://www.williamhooper.com/
    1775-Suffolk County, MA, celebrates a county holiday to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill. According to the same source quoted above, the Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed's Hill . British forces under General Howe assaulted the Continental position three times before the Americans, under Col. William Prescott, ran out of gunpowder and were forced to retreat. The British then occupied Bunker Hill after another skirmish. For this reason, it is referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill in history books. Today when you visit Boston , and the guide takes you to Bunker Hill, it is really Breed's Hill , as historians decided to change the name rather than explain the story.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun17.html
    1837- Strong Vincent is born in Waterford , Pennsylvania . After working as a lawyer, he went on to become a hero at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was mortally wounded defending Little Round Top. When hostilities erupted in April 1861, Vincent left the law to become an officer in the Erie Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. By early 1862, he rose to commander of the 83rd Pennsylvania . Vincent served in several campaigns with the Army of the Potomac, fighting at Yorktown, Fredericksburg , and Chancellorsville . He was promoted to colonel after Yorktown, and prior to Gettysburg , Vincent was given command of the Third Brigade, First Division, of the Fifth Corps. On the night of July 1, 1863, Vincent and his men were hurrying toward the battlefield under a bright moon. When the soldiers passed through a small town near Gettysburg , the regiment bands began to play and residents came to their doors to cheer the Yankee troops. Vincent remarked to an aide that there could be a worse fate than to die fighting in his home state with the flag overhead. The next day, as Vincent and his brigade were arriving behind the Union lines, General Governor K. Warren frantically summoned Vincent's force to the top of Little Round Top, a rocky hill at the end of the Federal line. Warren observed that the Confederates could turn the Union left flank by taking the summit, which was occupied by only a Yankee signal corps at the time. So Vincent and his men hurried up the hill, arriving just ahead of the Rebels. The brigade held the top, but just barely. Vincent was mortally wounded in the engagement and died on July 7. He was promoted posthumously to brigadier general. http://members.aol.com/CWSurgeon0/indexV.html
http://www.oldgloryprints.com/What%20Are%20Your%20Orders.htm
http://www.hauntedfieldmusic.com/Vincent.html
    1849-birthday of African-American Congressman Thomas Ezekiel Miller. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000757
http://www.scsu.edu/News/lineage.htm
   1852-- On this date the New York State Temperance Society met in Syracuse for its annual convention. Susan B. Anthony, Gerrit Smith, and Amelia Bloomer were delegates appointed to the convention by the Woman's State Temperance Society, which Anthony had founded the previous April. because the convention refused to accept the credentials of the women delegates or allow them to speak, the women and their supporters adjourned to the Wesleyan Chapel where they held their own meeting. Anthony delivered a speech, which was published in the July, 1852 issue of Stone' magazine The Lily. The address is one of the earliest given by Anthony who would become the most articulate spokesperson of the movement
    1859 - Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara.
    1863-Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union Army in Virginia . http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/va/va036.html
http://members.cox.net/johnahamill/aldie.html
    1865- Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte birthday - Native American and U.S. physician. Under the sponsorship of the Women's National Indian Association that was founded in 1880 by Mary L. Bonney and Amelia S. Quinton, SLP graduated a 3-year medical course in 2 years. She finished at the head of her class not yet 24 years of age. She returned to practice medicine primarily with the Omaha tribe although her practice at times included almost as many whites as Indians. It has been estimated that this remarkable woman who braved blizzards and dust storms treated every member of the Omaha tribe in the 25 years of her practice.
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/picotte.htm
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/picotte.html
http://www.cfra.org/center/picotte.htm
    1871-birthday of James Weldon Johnson, African American poet, diplomat, songwriter and culturist of black history, born Jacksonville , FL. ( lower half of http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun17.html )
    1882 - A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The tornado touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, killing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage. Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half million dollars damage.
    1894-A poliomyelitis epidemic occurred in Vermont . Between June 17 and September 1, 123 cases appeared in Rutland and Wallinigford. The first major urban polio epidemic took place in the summer of 1916 in New York City , where 9,000 children were stricken and 2,400 died.
    1907-jazz reedman Gene Sedric born St. Louis , Mo. http://www.rainerjazz.com/Interpreten/Sedric_G_001.htm http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/s1/gene_sedric_b.htm
    1910- country music star Red Foley was born in Bluelick , Kentucky . Foley, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, was the first country star to have a network radio show, "Avalon Time," in which he co-starred with Red Skelton, beginning in 1939. Foley's recordings for the Decca label were extremely popular, and in 1950 he had no less than three million-sellers - "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," "Steal Away" and "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." He continued his success with religious material in 1951, scoring another million-seller with "Peace in the Valley." Foley was a star on the Grand Ole Opry in the 1940's. In 1954, he moved to Springfield , Missouri , where he became the host of "Ozark Jubilee," one of the first successful country TV series. During the early '60s, he starred with Fess Parker in the TV series "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ." Red Foley died in 1968.
http://www.bellenet.com/foley.html
http://www.countrypolitan.com/bio-red-foley.php
    1914-birthday of John Hersey, American novelist, born at Tientsin , China , who wrote “A bell for Adano”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. “The Wall” and “ Hiroshima ” are both based on fact and set in Poland and Japan respectively in World War II. Died at Key West , FL March 24,1993.
    1917- singer and actor Dean Martin, whose real name was Dino Crocetti, was born in Steubenville , Ohio . He first gained fame as part of a comedy team with Jerry Lewis. When the duo broke up in 1956, Martin's career as both a singer and actor blossomed. His nonchalant, tongue-in- cheek approach proved very popular, as evidenced by his long-running TV show in the 1960's and '70s. Martin's record hits in the 1950's and '60s included "That's Amore," "Memories Are Made of This" and "Everybody Loves Somebody." He died on Christmas Day 1995.
http://www.deanmartinfancenter.com/
http://www.deanmartin.com/
http://www.monmouth.com/~rio1dude/
http://www.sinatra.clanpage.de/
    1921-clarinest Tony Scott born Morristown , NJ . http://www.tonyscott.it/
    1933-birthday of Maurice “Mo” Stokes, basketball player born at Pittsburgh , PA. Stokes played at S. Francis College (PA and was drafted by the Rochester Royals of the NBA in 1955. He quickly became a top performer, winning the Rookie of the Year award in 1955-56 and making the All-Star team three years in a row. Following the 1957-58 season, Stokes collapsed and went into a coma. Encephalitis made him an invalid, but treammate Jack Twyman cared for him the rest of his life. Died at Cincinnati , OH , April 6, 1970.
    1938-the first ski lift to operated in the United States was the Cannon Mountain Tramway at Franconia, NH, a 5,400-foot suspension ride. It was suspended by giant cables 40 feet above the trees and ran from the base of Cannon Mountain to one of it speaks. I had two cars, each accommodating 27 persons, which made the trip up or down in eight minutes at the speed of a thousand feet a minute.
    1940--Birthday of Alton Kelley, artist of San Francisco rock posters.
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/tx/search/search/r32p1s1/fc/poster-art/CA.html?t=ALTON+KELLEY+POSTERS
    1943- After planning to return to his hometown and resume his career as a barber, Perry Como is signed to RCA Records. He will not only become a hit singer, but host of one the early television one hour shows for many years
    1944---Top Hits
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I'll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I'll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
June 17, 1946 Barry Manilow Birthday (“This One's for You”)
http://www.manilow.com/
    1943-- Barry Manilow Birthday (“This One's for You”)
http://www.manilow.com/
    1947-The radio show The Adventures of Philip Marlowe debuts. Based on Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking series of hard-boiled detective novels, the producers hoped to reproduce the success of the hit radio drama The Adventures of Sam Spade, which ran from 1956 to 1941. Chandler's character Marlowe had already appeared on the silver screen four times, notably in The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart. The character failed to translate well to the radio, though, and the series lasted only a few months.
    1950-In a 45-minute operation witnessed by 40 visiting surgeons and doctors at Mary Hospital, Chicago, Il, Dr. James Ward West removed a healthy kidney from the body of a woman who had died. Dr. Richard Harold Lawler transplanted the kidney into the renal pedicle of a patient from who a polycystic left kidney had been removed, and the first kidney transplant was complete.
    1952---Top Hits
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
I'm Yours - Eddie Fisher
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
    1954-The US organized the government of the US Virgin Island.
    1954-Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends; perhaps
the finest hour of this medium which exposes McCarthy as a charlatan
who many are afraid to oppose because they do not want to be labeled
a communist ( ironically, McCarthy never exposed one unknown communist).
    1955-After a month of booking gigs in larger venues in Dallas and Houston, colonel Tom Parker arranges a meeting with Elvis Presley's manager, Bob Neal, which results in an agreement that will see the Colonel handle Presley's show dates and career strategy from now on.
    1955- Eddie Fisher marries Debbie Reynolds in Hollywood. The couple would divorce in 1959 after Fisher was discovered to be carrying on an affair with Liz Taylor. One of the most popular singers of the day, he will lose his audience over the affair.
    1960---Top Hits
Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Please Help Me, I'm Falling - Hank Locklin
    1968---Top Hits
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
This Guy's in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
    1961-Ben E. King enjoys his biggest hit as "Stand By Me" reaches #4 on the Billboard singles chart. The same song would re-appear on the Hot 100 in 1986, reaching #9 after it was featured in the River Phoenix film of the same name.
    1966- Paul McCartney buys the farm in Kintyre, Scotland, that would later inspire his 1977 megahit ballad "Mull of Kintyre."
    1967- Barbra Streisand sings for 135,000 fans at her concert in New York's Central Park, later released as the CBS-TV special and soundtrack album A Happening in Central Park.
    1967-The Hollies' "Carrie Ann" is released in the US, where it will reach #9.
    1967-The Hollies' "Carrie Ann" is released in the US, where it will reach #9.
    1968-The Ohio Express are awarded a Gold record for their Bubble Gum hit, "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy."
    1971-Carole King saw her "Tapestry" album hit number 1 in the US for the first of 15 consecutive weeks. The LP contained such classic tracks as "It's Too Late", "I Feel the Earth Move", "So Far Away", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and "You've Got a Friend". The Grammy Award winning disc is considered by many to be one of the best Rock 'n' Roll albums of all time.
    1972-Five are arrested for the break-in at Democratic Party Headquarters ( in Watergate complex, Washington , DC ). They had previously placed wire taps and searched the headquarters on a regular basis, but leaving a rear-door unlocked made a building security guard suspicious. The arrests led to revelations of political espionage, threats of imminent impeachment of the president, and, on August 9,1974, the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. It is doubly ironic that Nixon was way ahead in the poll primarily because his opponent Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was not strongly supported by the Democratic Party, although he had sworn he would end the Viet Nam War 90 days after he was elected.
http://www.watergate.com/
http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/watergate.html
    1976---Top Hits
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That's Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
I'll Get Over You - Crystal Gayle
    1976-Four teams from the American Basketball Association joined the National Basketball association as the ABA went out of business after nine years. The four teams, the Denver Nugges, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs bought the total number of teams in the NBA to 22.
    1978-Andy Gibb became the first solo artist in the history of Billboard's Hot 100 to have his first three releases reach number one, when "Shadow Dancing" hit the top of the chart. Since then, Michael Jackson had four number ones in a row and Mariah Carey had five. "Shadow Dancing" would be the best selling single in the US in 1978
    1978 - "Shadow Dancing", by Andy Gibb, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts for the first of seven weeks. Gibb had two other number one hits: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" and "(Love is) Thicker than Water". Gibb, the youngest of the Gibb brothers who made up the Bee Gees, hosted TV's "Solid Gold" in 1981-82. Andy scored nine hits on the pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of an inflammatory heart virus in Oxford , England in 1988. http://www.andygibb.net/
   1978- Grace Slick is deemed too drunk to go onstage with Jefferson Starship tonight at their concert in St. Goarhausen in West Germany, but does so anyway, singing horribly and verbally abusing the audience with Nazi taunts. The crowd riots, causing over a million dollars in damage and leading Slick to quit the band, not returning until 1983.
    1984---Top Hits
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Self Control - Laura Branigan
I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven
    1988-Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
    1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC.
    1988-Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips
    1988-The Givens' Family reports heavyweight Mike Tyson beats his wife actress wife Robin Givens. They later divorce on the grounds of “extreme cruelty
    1988—Top Hits
Foolish Beat- Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana- Michael Jackson
Together Forever- Rick Astley
Make It Real- The Jets
    1991-The body of Zachary Taylor, the 12 th US President, was exhumed from a cemetery in Louisville , KY. Taylor died suddenly of acute gastrointestinal illness on July 9, 1850. Some historians suggested that he might have been poisoned. To test this theory, his remains were exhumed ( the first presidential body to be exhumed ). A coroner's report dated June 26 found no evidence of foul play.
    1993-Top Hits
That s The Way Love Goes, Janet Jackson
Weak- SWV
Knockin Da Boots- H-Town
Freak Me- Silk
    1994-the first World Cup soccer tournament was held at Soldier Field, Chicago , IL . Fourteen nations competed in the marathon tournament, with games held in nine American cities. Brazil won the cup after defeating Italy at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , CA .
    1994-Former football player and announcer O.J. Simpson was arrested in connection with the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. Simpson had fled his home in the morning rather than be arrested. In the evening eh and his friend Al Cowlings were in Simpson's white Ford Bronco. They led a horde of police cars on a long but slow car chase on Los Angeles 's freeways and eventually wound up back at Simpson's home where he was apprehended. Television stations around the country followed these vents live, and an estimated 90 million people watched. Simpson was later acquitted. The killer(s) have allegedly never been caught.
    1994-Jun 17-July 17 The World Cup of soccer was played in the US for the first time. The international championship is held every four years. The 1994 games began in Chicago on June 17 with a match between Germany and Boliva and eneded in Los Angeles with a final betweenBrazil and Italy on July 17 with Brazil taking the Cup. Soccer, generally known as football outside the US , is the most popular spectator sport in the world, though it has never achieved great status in the US above the amateur level. The games were watched on television by billionis of fans around the world. John Madden has suggested there is not room for television commercials and thus the networks do not broadcast these games.
    2008-Boston Celtics rout LA Lakers, 131-92
    2009-60-year-old Billy Joel and his third wife, 27-year-old Katie Lee Joel announced that were splitting up after nearly five years of marriage. Joel's nine-year union with model Christie Brinkley ended in 1994. His nine-year marriage to Elizabeth Weber, for whom he wrote "Just the Way You Are", ended in 1982. It's believed that Billy had a prenuptial agreement to protect the millions his many hits have earned.