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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I hope you will share this announcement with everyone! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Below you will find a list of events for January 2026 for everyone. Hope you will join me for our audio described movies and trivia night! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, January 2, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>People who attend will get to choose between the 1961 or 2021 movie for West Side Story<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, January 9, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bucket List<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, January 16, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Castaway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, January 30, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Trivia Night takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>SC Tech Talk returns on Saturday January 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_Hlk160210672">Call in information: <o:p></o:p></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>Phone number: 19292056099<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>Meeting ID: 803 254 3777<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>Password: 124578<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'></span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8032543777?pwd=QTVQd2RzN3l6QnNmZ0FmSnp6NG8vQT09"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8032543777?pwd=QTVQd2RzN3l6QnNmZ0FmSnp6NG8vQT09</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>Meeting ID: 803 254 3777<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>Passcode: 124578<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>One tap mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672'>+19292056099,,8032543777# </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2>Bucket List<span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Two elderly men, blue-collar automotive mechanic Carter Chambers and billionaire Edward Cole, meet for the first time in a hospital owned by Edward after both men are diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Carter, a gifted amateur historian and family man, wanted to become a history professor in his youth but chose to start a family instead. Edward, a four-time divorced healthcare tycoon and cultured loner, enjoys drinking kopi luwak, one of the most expensive coffees in the world and mocking his personal valet Matthew, whom he wrongly but intentionally calls Thomas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>While in the hospital, Carter and Edward manage to find common ground. For fun, Carter started writing a list of activities to do before he "kicks the bucket." After hearing he has less than a year to live, he dejectedly discards his list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Edward finds the list the next morning and urges Carter to do everything on it, adds his own items and offers to finance all expenses. He agrees, although his wife Virginia objects, so the two patients begin their globetrotting last vacation along with Matthew. They go skydiving, drive a vintage Shelby Mustang and Dodge Challenger around California Speedway, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chvre d'or, visit the Taj Mahal, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, attend a lion safari in Tanzania and visit Mount Everest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza, they confide mutually about faith and family. Carter reveals that he has long been feeling less in love with his wife and feels some regret for his chosen path. Edward discloses that he is deeply hurt by his estrangement from his only daughter, who distanced herself after he drove away her abusive husband. Later, while in Hong Kong, Edward hires a prostitute to approach Carter, as he has never been with any woman but his wife. Carter declines and insists they stop the bucket list and go home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>During the return journey, Carter tries to reunite Edward with his estranged daughter. Considering this a breach of trust, Edward scolds him and then angrily storms off. Carter returns home to his family while Edward, feeling alone, breaks down weeping in his luxury home. Carter's family reunion turns out to be short-lived as, while readying for marital romance, he collapses and is rushed to the hospital. There, it is discovered that the cancer has spread to his brain. Edward, now in a remarkable remission, visits him to reconcile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Carter, always a Jeopardy! fan and knowledgeable trivia fanatic, reveals how Edward's kopi luwak coffee is fed to and defecated by a jungle cat before being harvested. As the two laugh hysterically over the obscure fact, crossing off the item 'laugh to tears', Carter implores Edward to finish the list for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>After Carter dies during surgery, Edward manages to reconcile with his own daughter, who introduces him to the granddaughter he never knew he had. After greeting the little girl by kissing her cheek, he thoughtfully crosses "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world" off the bucket list. Soon after, Edward delivers a eulogy at Carter's funeral, during which he explains that the last three months of Carter's life were, thanks to Carter, the best three months of his own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>An epilogue reveals that Edward lived to age 81 and Matthew then took his ashes to a peak in the Himalayas. As he places a Chock full o'Nuts coffee can of Edward's ashes alongside another can of Carter's ashes, he crosses off the last item on the bucket list, "witness something truly majestic", and tucks the completed list between the cans. A voice-over from Carter says that he thought Edward would have gotten a laugh out of being buried on the mountain as it is apparently against the law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jack Nicholson as Edward Perriman Cole<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sean Hayes as Matthew / Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Beverly Todd as Virginia Chambers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rob Morrow as Dr Hollins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Alfonso Freeman as Roger Chambers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rowena King as Angelica<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jennifer DeFrancisco as Emily Cole<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Serena Reeder as Rachel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Annton Berry Jr as Kai<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Verda Bridges as Chandra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Destiny Brownridge as Maya<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Brian Copeland as Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ian Anthony Dale as Instructor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Noel Guglielmi as Mechanic<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jonathan Hernandez as Manny<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Andrea J. Johnson as Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jordan Lund as Tattoo Artist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jonathan Mangum as Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Christopher Stapleton as Kyle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Alex Trebek as Himself<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Taylor Ann Thompson as Edward's Granddaughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Karen Maruyama as Nurse Shing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2>Castaway<span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>In December 1995, a FedEx courier collects a package from a woman sculptor, whose gate carries the names "Dick & Bettina". The package, marked with a pair of golden angel wings, is delivered to her husband, who is in Moscow with another woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Meanwhile, Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems analyst who travels the world resolving productivity problems. He lives with his girlfriend Kelly Frears in Memphis, Tennessee. They talk of getting married, but keep experiencing setbacks because Chuck is constantly called away to work, straining their relationship. During a Christmas dinner, Chuck experiences recurring toothache, just before he is summoned to resolve a FedEx problem in Malaysia. Before leaving, Kelly gives Chuck her grandfather's pocket watch with a photo of her in it. He gives her a small box, saying she can wait to open it on New Year's Eve when he returns, implying it is an engagement ring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The FedEx cargo plane Chuck boards is off-course, out of radio contact, and crashes into the Pacific Ocean during a violent storm, leaving him as the only survivor. Washing ashore on a deserted island, Chuck discovers several FedEx packages washing up on the coast, as well as the body of one of the pilots, Albert Miller, which he buries. In the following days, Chuck struggles to locate food and water. After seeing a ship on the horizon, he unsuccessfully tries to escape the island on a life raft, but is prevented by the tide and injures his leg. Realizing it is unlikely he will be rescued, Chuck opens most of the packages, finding items he uses to improve his living conditions. However, he does not open a package with golden wings painted on it, thinking the wings have symbolic meaning. While attempting to start a fire, Chuck cuts his hand and furiously throws several objects including a Wilson volleyball, leaving a bloody hand print. He draws a face into the blood, names the ball Wilson and begins talking to it. Chuck realizes the chances of his rescue are low because of the wide search area, and later contemplates suicide. Due to severe toothache, he successfully performs his own extraction using a rock and an ice-skate, but passes out from the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Four years later, Chuck, now bearded and disheveled, has adapted to life alone on the island. After a section of a portable toilet enclosure washes up, he begins constructing a raft, which he successfully launches past the surf with Wilson, the unopened FedEx package and his belongings in tow. Chuck survives a storm, but afterward, Wilson falls off the raft and floats away. He unsuccessfully attempts to rescue Wilson and is left to grieve his loss. Soon after, he is rescued by a passing cargo ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>After four weeks, Chuck returns to the mainland, where he learns he was presumed dead by his family and friends. As he is given a hero's welcome at the FedEx headquarters in Memphis, he is met by his dentist Jerry Lovett, who has married and had a daughter with Kelly, who is emotionally unable to greet Chuck. Later that night, he visits Kelly. Chuck returns the pocket watch and she returns his Jeep Cherokee, which she had kept after his disappearance. They share a passionate kiss and confess their love for each other, but realize she cannot leave her family and agree to part. Chuck tells his friend Stan he will miss Kelly, but his experience has taught him he must move on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chuck drives to Texas to return the angel-winged package to the address of the sender; the sculptor's home, where the gate now reads only "Bettina". A sculpture of golden wings stands in the yard. Finding no one home, he leaves it at the door with a note saying the package saved his life. He drives away and stops at a crossroads. The sculptor, in a pickup truck, headed in the direction of the house, stops and tells him where each road leads. As she leaves, Chuck notices the same angel wings painted on the tailgate of her truck. He looks down each road, choosing which way to go, and smiles when he faces the road taken by the truck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>A photograph of Tom Hanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>A photograph of Helen Hunt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>A photograph of Nick Searcy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Left to right) Tom Hanks (pictured in 2019), Helen Hunt (2011), and Nick Searcy (2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears, Chuck's girlfriend<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Nick Searcy as Stan, Chuck's best friend and co-worker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jenifer Lewis as Becca Twig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Geoffrey Blake as Maynard Graham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Peter Von Berg as Yuri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chris Noth as Dr. Gerald "Jerry" Lovett, a dentist who is later Kelly's husband<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lari White as Bettina Peterson, a sculptor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Michael Forest as Pilot Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Viveka Davis as Pilot Gwen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Nan Martin as Kelly's mother<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dennis Letts as Dennis Larson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Valerie Wildman as Virginia Larson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Steve Monroe as Steve Larson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Elden Henson as Elden Madden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Timothy Stack as Morgan Stockton<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Joe Conley as Joe Wally<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Vin Martin as Pilot Albert "Al" Miller, a FedEx pilot who is buried by Chuck on the island<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Garret Davis as Pilot Blaine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jay Acovone as Pilot Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fred Smith as himself<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Steve Cook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I hope you will join me for audio describe movie night on the 1<sup>st</sup> 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> Fridays of each month at 8:00 PM Eastern. To obtain the Zoom information to join me, send me a message at <a href="mailto:cookcafe@sc.rr.com"><span style='color:#467886'>cookcafe@sc.rr.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>