Fairy charm bracelet

Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Film4, 2.40pm
A compulsive womaniser flashes back through his shameful past as he prepares to enter Hell in this classic comedy. Don Ameche oozes charm as the ageing lothario, ruefully confessing a lifetime of infidelities to Laird Cregar's sympathetic Devil. Arch and witty, Ernst Lubitsch's first colour film should not be confused with Warren Beatty's 1978 comedy of the same name, which was actually a remake of Here Comes Mr Jordan from 1941. (112min)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Film4, 10.50pm
Robert De Niro and James Woods play Prohibition-era street hoodlums who end up bitterly estranged in later life in this masterful swansong epic by Sergio Leone. The former spaghetti western maestro had declined the chance to direct The Godfather a decade before because he was already planning to adapt this operatic gangster saga based on Harry Grey's novel, The Hoods. (139min)
Dear Frankie (2004)
BBC One, 12.05am
Emily Mortimer plays a Scottish mother who sends fake letters to her deaf son to maintain the illusion that his deadbeat absent father is actually a globe-trotting sailor

What testing, what true testing, has Obama ever faced besides eschewing a high-paying job out of Harvard Law School? To be blunt, his trials are a lot less Malcolm X than Obama's autobiography has made it seem. The psychological strain of being a mixed race youth in Honolulu was no doubt trying, but he had the support of well-connected and loving grandparents who saw that he had the best education available in the state of Hawaii.
To skeptics, Obama is nothing more or less than a suburban prep-school graduate who did well at Columbia and Harvard, and who smoothly propelled himself upward. He deployed his eloquence, brains and charm to build contacts among progressive foundations, elite universities and members of the extended Daley family of Chicago. Obama's community-organizing work was not very controversial (or effective); his affirmative-action syllabus at the University of Chicago Law School was earnestly PC but carefully mainstream; his famous speech against the war in Iraq in 2002 was prescient but not so heroic given the time and place: the early stages of a U.S. Senate race that would require initial liberal support. Other than his one electoral loss, in 2000, when he impetuously ran for a U.S. House seat, what political adversity or long night of the soul has Obama faced?

source, source,