Frank Lucas

How Can You Enjoy Your Own Funeral? For Starters, Dont Die

Get Low, the first feature directed by Aaron Schneider, is based on one of those true stories that seem indistinguishable from legend. In the late 1930s a man from East Tennessee named Felix Breazeale decided to give himself a funeral before he was even dead.

Special Events This Week: Rooftop party to aid reading

A Literary Bash Up on the Roof will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on the Civic Plaza rooftop of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, 325 Michigan St. Featured will be food and jazz, a cash bar, and mingling with area authors Jim Brower, who has an exhibit in the library; Denise Fleming, John Moore, Jim Ravin, Julie Rubini, Frank Stiles, Jan Wahl, and Sally Wright. Casual cocktail attire is ...

'Get Low': Greeting Death With A Deadpan Smirk

Bill Murray and Robert Duvall go head to head in this high-concept comedy about an aging man who throws a funeral party -- for himself. Critic Ella Taylor says that the veteran leads are perfectly cast as a pair of terse and cranky Southerners and commends the film for its sepia-tinged cinematography. (Recommended)