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They said that they felt as though they were "treated like children" and after one of their party complained to a manager they were followed to the toilets by security.An Edinburgh family who took a trip to see Annie at the Edinburgh Playhouse have said that stewards made them "feel like children" when they were scolded for miming during the show. Pensioner Christine Field and her sister Liz McLaughlin, along with their two nieces Dot Smith and Sam Braid, who are in their 40s, had been looking forward to the hit show and were excited as they purchased their drinks...

President Biden on Tuesday seemed to appropriate a line from the musical “Annie” as he faces bleak prospects for his $3.5 trillion bill to raise taxes and create new social programs. “The sun’s gonna come out tomorrow,” Biden said when asked on the White House lawn — on his way to visit storm-flooded New York City and New Jersey — how he would get fellow Democrats to agree to the bill. The 1977 Broadway hit featured the showstopper “Tomorrow” with the title character, Little Orphan Annie, reflecting optimistically on her life despite Great Depression conditions in New York City. Biden...

She reminds me of her for some reason.

Target has stirred outrage with an “Annie”-themed ad campaign featuring a white model in place of the black actress who stars in the latest film version of the rags-to-riches story. An online petition calling for the big-box retailer to remove the ads and apologize to "Annie" star Quvenzhané Wallis had accrued more than 10,000 signatures by Wednesday morning. The petition launched on Monday.

Target is fighting back after being criticized for “Annie”-themed clothing ads showing a white model as Annie, as opposed to an African-American model, or Quvenzhané Wallis, the actress who plays the character in the holiday remake. LaSean Rinique told Yahoo she launched a Change.org petition after her daughter, an “Annie” fan, noticed that a girl in the ads sporting Annie’s signature red dress and locket was white, unlike Wallis, who appears alongside Jamie Foxx in the movie remake.

There will come a point in the next 10 days, after the cabin fever has set in, when the small people you parent, grandparent or otherwise dote on demand to see “Annie.” You will recall the unfavorable reviews of the newly updated movie musical, or will look them up. You will read of the bad singing and stilted dance numbers. And still you will go, because it’s a children’s holiday after all, and that’s what they want to see.

As millions of moviegoers sit down in front of the same few studio films playing at their local theater over the holidays, the handful of Hollywood creators behind those projects will have that still-rare power: the undivided attention of much of the country. In communities of all kinds, audiences young and old, of various backgrounds, will gather to consume the artistic vision of a select few people. In this way, a single film, whether it’s transporting millions to different worlds, pushing them to explore the depths of their own feelings, or imagining the assassination of a world leader, can still...

Come back, John Huston, all is forgiven. When the grizzled Hollywood veteran was attached to direct the 1982 film version of Broadway's mammoth hit Annie, which had fetched a record sum for screen rights, much collective head-scratching ensued. Nothing in Huston's output indicated an affinity for family-friendly movie musicals. Pundits were no less mystified once they saw the film, which suggested an agonized disconnect between director and material. Yet audiences who were kids back then regard it as a classic, playing fast and loose with that term. Maybe today's tweens will feel similar affection for this misconceived contemporary update, but...

More than 40,000 defendants may be affected by the alleged drug tampering of “rogue” chemist Annie Dookhan, a sign the state’s massive drug lab scandal grew beyond initial estimates, according to the near year-long work of the lawyer tasked with determining the scope of the state-shaking saga... Meier found that the actual list of defendants affected grew to 40,323. Of those, 10,000 were in prison, or parole or probation and had been previously convicted of a drug offense in Superior Court. More than 300 state prison inmates have been released, and prosecutors have opted to dismiss or drop more than...

Gas Cost: Is it just us, or do Obama's policies sound suspiciously like that "Annie" song: Don't worry about today's killer pump prices, a bright energy sun will come out tomorrow. When gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon in 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama had a simple message for voters: There's nothing that can be done about it today. Certainly not offshore drilling. Obama trashed Sen. John McCain's call to open up vast tracts of offshore oil to exploration and drilling. It would not, he said in June 2008, "lower gas prices today. It would not lower gas prices this...

CHICAGO (AP) - The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years. Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the "Annie" strip on June 13.

Here is a breaking news video report tonight on the discovery of "human remains" inside a wall in the basement of the Yale University Medical Building. The remains are believed to be that of Yale Grad student Annie Le who has been missing since last Tuesday, when she was last seen entering the medical building . . . (VIDEO)

It's been weeks since the last one, so on Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured yet another cheery, upbeat article on single mothers. As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless -- even brave. These single motherhood advertisements include lots of conclusory statements to the effect that this is simply the way things are -- so get used to it, bourgeois America! "(A)n increasing number of unmarried mothers," the article explained, "look a lot more like Fran McElhill...

... New York, NY, 11/15/08 - New York University College Republicans are proud to announce their keynote speaker for this semester will be Ann Coulter. “Ann Coulter at New York University” is scheduled for Wednesday, December 10th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium. She will be appearing before a sell out crowd of 450 students, faculty, and members of the community. The Eisner and Lubin Auditorium is located on the 4th floor of the Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South. . Ann Coulter is a political commentator, syndicated columnist, and 6-time New York Times Best Selling...

The New Ann Coulter Written by Ann Coulter Category: Current Affairs Format: Hardcover, 320 pages On Sale: December 30, 2008 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-35346-7 (0-307-35346-X) (Available December 30, 2008) The New Ann Coulter Written by Ann Coulter Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9780307353467 Our Price: $27.95 Quantity: 1 Also available as an abridged audio CD, audiobook download, eBook and in large print.

A "virtual fence" to defend our border with Mexico? You know, detectors and sensors and cameras and the like, but not a physical barrier? That's the considered policy position of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, which he shares with such homeland security experts as Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security. All of them support a virtual fence -- because any fool can see that walls don't work. Bricks, concrete, barbed wire, all that: overrated! We don't need physical boundaries between us, only virtual boundaries. That's why we'd never...

ANN COULTER, dressed in black pants, black top and a sleeveless brown leather vest, her reddish blonde hair falling around her shoulders, a large silver cross on a silver chain around her neck, does not have angel eyes. In fact the best-selling author's eyes are narrow and hawkish. In the vast basement ballroom of a Washington hotel where, for three days, more than 5000 conservative activists have assembled to restore their faith in themselves and connect with the spirit of Ronald Reagan, the incongruity of the song - a 1960s paean to teenage infatuation - was beside the point. For...

Ann Coulter hates liberals with an undying passion. Although that's common knowledge and usually the first thing most people know about this conservative diva, you're probably thinking that that's not the best way to start an article in which the goal is to, in a way, glorify and defend her from those men and women who covet the safety of political correctness. Yet, it's the truth. First and foremost, "political correctness" are two words that are not in Coulter's vocabulary, nor should they be. Why are we, as a society, so concerned with what other people want to hear? We've...

Ann Coulter to appear on CSPAN WASHINGTON Journal, Friday Morning at 8 AM, and again later on Hannity and Colmes at 9PM

For those of you who missed it last night on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, famed author and pundit Ann Coulter (who people often compliment for her good looks) is apparently smitten with a certain soldier. Last night on H&C, after one of the hosts mentioned Lt. Gen. James Mattis, Coulter requested that from then on the hosts referred to Mattis as “Ann’s future husband". Sean Hannity chuckled and mentioned it as he sent the show to commercial break. James Mattis, the Lieutenant General who our friends over at HundredPercenter are currently saluting as “Our Modern Day Patton", gained...