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McHenry County College's Fall play "The Man Who Came to Dinner" hits the ground running as it quickly yanks the audience into a period situational comedy of Astaire and Rogers proportions, complete with coincidences, mistaken identities, lovers, liars, and clowns.

Most know Janet Fitch as the author of the 1999 success, "White Oleander." Now in 2006, she releases her second and somewhat less profound novel "Paint it Black." It may not hold up against the success of "White Oleander," but it still painfully displays Fitch's ability to create a young pitiful female protagonist that breaks your heart into a thousand pieces.

Back in the January issue of the TARTAN, movie critics James Tschirhart and Scott Waldyn had constructed their own Top 10 lists of what to look forward to in 2006. At the top of both of their lists was Martin Scorsese's cat-and-mouse crime movie "The Departed.