British theater and movie director Sam Mendes is producing a stage musical adaptation of the children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mendes helmed the films American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go, as well as the 1998 stage production of Cabaret. Playwright David Greig is penning

Bergen County Special Needs Children & High School Student Volunteers Collaborate in Musical Production RIDGEWOOD N.J. and HAWTHORNE, N.J., Dec.

***  (106m | PG) The playfully warped imagination of director Tim Burton is ideally suited for remaking Roald Dahl's twisted-as-taffy children's tale, and the result is a sourball confection of pure movie magic.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam will get a theme park dedicated to chocolate and inspired by Roald Dahl's children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," city officials and entrepreneurs said on Thursday.

By ROTHWELL, Kimberley Holidays mean more than just blobbing for many kids. There are care programmes, camps, visits to family, work and extra tuition, as Kimberley Rothwell finds out. -------------------- THE classrooms are empty, playgrounds still.