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Hardin County Playhouse is hoping area actors answer the call to jury duty when it holds auditions Monday and Tuesday for its production of “Twelve Angry Jurors.”

Auditions begin at 6:30 p.m. each day at Plum Alley Theater in the Historic State Theater. Needed are 13 men and women who are of believable age for jury selection.

Those auditioning will read from scripts with other actors. Prepared material is not needed.

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner will be at Barr Memorial Library at Fort Knox at noon Feb. 7.

She will discuss and sign her newest suspense book, “Touch & Go,” which will be released next week. The plot follows a private investigator looking into the disappearance of a family. There are no witnesses, motives or ransoms to aid the investigator’s work.

Her novels also have been adapted for television. She’s written 16 bestsellers including two series.

One morning my brother sat in our family’s kitchen, happily hoisting a teetering forkful of pineapple upside down cake into his mouth.

He’d already eaten half the cake I’d made for a co-worker’s birthday. When I started screaming at him, he just stared at me a while. Then, he walked out of the house, carrying the cake, and smeared the remainder onto my windshield.

“Have fun driving to work,” he said.

I hated him.

He was 16, I was 18 and we’d been taking turns being cruel to each other for years.

“The Last Stand”
Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout and language.
Release date: Jan. 18
Runtime: 107 minutes
Rating: Arnold’s back

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his first starring leap back onto the big screen in “The Last Stand.”

Other than a few cameos, the Governator was absent from theaters during his political career.