David Morse News

SooToday.com received the following note at 4:21 p.m. today from faithful reader Nicholas Lesyshen, who says he saw actor David Morse this afternoon at the International Bridge.

It was almost a routine swearing-in ceremony, as Joe Dworetzky and David Girard-diCarlo took the oath to become the newest members of the School Reform Commission.

After weeks of waiting, the two gubernatorial nominees for the School Reform Commission were sworn in yesterday, completing the district's five-person governing body.

Note: the review essay contains many serious spoilers. 1997's Contact is a grandiose, serious Science Fiction film that uses the real-life search for extraterrestrial life to address the big issues tackled by some of the biggest titles in the genre: Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , Tarkovsky's Solaris .

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 11-Oct. 17: Oct. 11: Actor Ron Leibman is 72.

Crimestoppers and the family have now increased the reward to $5,000 for anyone with information.

Southern Ohio Crime Stoppers has increased a reward for information leading to the whereabouts of a missing Pickaway County man.

"Hounddog" is a flawed film but it is easy enough to get lost in the film from the care that most of the performances and the characters they are portraying inject in the audience.