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15th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival

John Cameron Mitchell gained fame for bringing his drag queen stage hit

The older I get and the longer I parent I find its the simple things that bring me joy. I was actually afraid of facing the holidays this year because of all that would be expected and all that I feared Id leave undone. I traveled a lot leading up to December and I knew Id be playing constant catch up to do all the things Im responsible for (and used to doing) this time of year. I was afraid of getting so caught up in the expectations, that I wouldnt be able to enjoy anything. What I really wanted was some happy memories. I have a child who still believes in Santa Claus and one who just figured out who he is and likes the idea. I wanted to celebrate that magic.

opens with a gravelly voiced narrator (the always wonderful Sam Elliott) offering some back-story to the Ghost Rider legend, and suggesting that sometimes legends are true. Johnny Blaze (played by Matt Long as a young man) is the son of a daredevil stunt rider named Barton Blaze (Brett Cullen). Johnny performs motorcycle stunts along with his dad in a small time circus. When his dad appears to be succumbing to cancer, Johnny makes a pact with the devilor perhaps just a devilish alter ego here referred to as Mephistopheles (a slyly cast former

Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

President Bush talks with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House in an effort to end the stalemate over the immigration bill. The meeting may have given new life to an immigration bill that appeared to be stalled two weeks ago. Republicans, however, remain divided over the bill.

Archaeologists in Baghdad appeal to museums around the world to help retrieve items stolen from the city's National Museum of Antiquities and restore artifacts broken during the chaos of the war. Meanwhile, U.S. military commanders defend their handling of the looting. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt, John Malcolm Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art and Neil Brodie of The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre.

President Bush is in Texas Sunday for a briefing on the damage caused by Hurricane Rita. He spent Saturday at Peterson Air Force base in Colorado Springs, Colo., monitoring the storm and the federal response.

International art experts meeting in Paris say some thefts of ancient artifacts from Iraq museums were made on behalf of smugglers who hired the looters. Among the items stolen or destroyed are tens of thousands of examples of cuneiform -- the world's oldest-known form of writing. Baghdad's Museum of Antiquities housed 100,000 of the tablets, many of which had yet to be studied and translated. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

(opening January 5 throughout San Diego) is based on the true story of Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell and the at-risk students she taught in room 203. Their success story pays tribute to the dreams of Martin Luther King and his desire for a future when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.