Anthony Newley stars in this camp 1970s comedy as struggling playwright Sweeney, who is still in lust with his ex-wife Georgina (Stefanie Powers) despite her remarriage to wealthy construction boss Prince (Henry Ramer). In order to win back Georgina's favours, Sweeney embarks on an elaborate series of schemes and scams, from stinging his artist friend Moriarty (Isaac Hayes) for drinks and cash to a fake kidnapping plot that brings inept cops Broom and Kopek (John Candy and Lawrence Dane) bumbling after him.

HISTORY SAYS THAT THE HOLOCAUST ENDED IN 1945

."..but for many, it will never be over..."

Red-haired, freckle-faced, green-eyed Markus worries about things that bother many middle-school boys: When will my body fill out? When will my voice lower? When will I grow body hair? He wants puberty to hurry up and do its job so he can hang with the cool kids. But when three of the A-listers ask him to work with them on their social studies Holocaust project, he sees his chance. He knows they want him on their team because of his ailing grandmother, who has a tattoo on her arm from her time in Auschwitz. When Markus asks her about her time in the camp, she violently refuses to discuss it. He's torn between his loyalty to her and the peer pressure at school. When a classmate announces that his project will prove that the Holocaust never happened, this devastates Markus, and he vows to disprove the student's claim. When a voice from the past accuses his grandmother of crimes during the war, Markus's world spirals out of control. Then a stranger who knew his grandmother in Auschwitz surfaces with shocking and mysterious secrets, and Markus has to come to an entirely new understanding of what the truth actually is.

"Guardian Angel" . . .looks at peer pressureexamines social statusshows how life tests loyaltydemonstrates how children become young adultsquestions assumptions

"Guardian Angel" . . .

. . . reveals how the inescapable past shapes our present and our future...

"Guardian Angel" . . .

. . . proves that the truth is never simple.

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Fifty of the best of Matt McCauley's "A Look to the Past: Kirkland" newspaper columns, edited to present new information and many photos from the prized collection of the Kirkland Heritage Society. In 1870 two teenage boys claim homesteads on Juanita Bay, and to pay for improvements on their homesteads, struggle for the rest of their short lives logging timber on Lake Washington's eastern shore. In 1872 a couple and their 22-year-old son stake claims at Houghton, carving homes out of dark, dense, first-growth timber. Other pioneers arrive and claim homesteads on the eastern shore. In 1887 a flamboyant young newspaper publisher convinces an even-tempered English steel manufacturer to locate a new, world-class steel mill on a tiny lake between Houghton and Juanita, and to plat a town site on Lake Washington's shore, which will become Kirkland. Their vision is big. They want to create nothing less than a "Pittsburgh of the Pacific," but reality intervenes. The speculative bubble bursts and fortunes are lost, lives are broken, and in the shambles of their dreams the scrappy pioneers refuse to quit. They build their town anyway. Kirkland's past reads like a great western novel, peopled as it is by pioneer settlers, land speculators, loggers, stump ranchers, land developers, steam boatmen, boat builders, WWII Rosie-the-riveters, finally, the suburbanites of post-WWII. Kirkland native Matthew W. McCauley wrote a popular newspaper column, "A Look to the Past," in the 1990s in which he tells these stories. Here are 50 of the best, updated with new research, and accompanied by many of images from the Kirkland Heritage Society's prized collection. "It is a pleasure having Matt McCauley's A Look to the Past articles finally gathered together in one volume. When they were first published in the Kirkland Courier two decades ago, they were such a joy to read that I saved most of them in my clippings file. I say "most" because I now see that I missed a few, and I was delighted to read some "new" ones after all these years. What a treat " - Alan Stein, Staff Historian, HistoryLink.org "Matt is ... an old soul. As a young boy he seemed to show wisdom only seen in older people. Matt always loved older people and their stories. Today, Kirkland is the beneficiary of his interest in the people and history of Kirkland. Matt is a stickler for detail and accuracy. He wants people remembered and respected." - Loita Hawkinson, Kirkland Heritage Society

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