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Today, Kidd Island Bay is filling up with sediment from all the subdivisions. But happily, no one has figured out how to put a house on Kidd Island. In the old days, the few brave souls who lived on the bay could skate across the lake to the town movie theater. The theater is gone now, and the lake doesn't freeze like it used to, so everyone has a satellite dish.

As a Camp Fire Girl, my wife used to earn beads by making the half-mile swim to Kidd Island and back from Camp Neewahlu. More>>

"Sometimes you just have a proper chemistry with some actors and I had it with Tony Hopkins and I have it with Dustin," she said.

The film, likely to be released later this year, isn't the first time the pair have worked together. The last time was the 2006 literature as reality film "Stranger than Fiction," with Thompson playing a writer.

It's a role the British actress is familiar with, given that she received an Academy Award in 1996 for best adapted screenplay for her adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility." Thompson also adapted author Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books into the 2005 film "Nanny McPhee."

The 1992 best actress Academy Award winner was drawn to the books and made the film because it provided her the opportunity to work on a movie that appealed to children and their families, too. More>>

When the old bookseller rises to answer the telephone, the child touches the book the old man was reading. The child is so suddenly filled with SOMETHING, he can barely stand it… longing, yearning, hope, joy.

Without thinking, the child steals/borrows the book. He has to have it. He runs out of the shop and climbs to an attic where he begins to read this magical sheaf of pages.

The book he has stolen from the old bookseller, opens literally into an entirely different and magical world where he himself is irrevocably poured, body, mind and spirit, a world wherein there is a NOTHING that is devouring the land and people and creatures and in this land are also important thoughts to be thought, important things and beings to realize and rescue, important oddities to understand, important griefs and losses, important because they all reach way past the ego and into the soul. More>>