Adapting the breakout podcast of the same name, Homecoming offered us Julia Roberts's first foray into television, as well as a healthy new plate of Sam Esmail while we await the final season of Mr. Robot.
When I was in second grade, in 1971, Debbie Camacho had a birthday party in Harlem, and her parents, unacquainted with the logic of New York private education, scheduled it for the same weekend as homecoming.
In modern practice, the haircutting ceremony formerly performed in a boy's third year and the initiation are usually performed on the same day, the homecoming ceremony at the end of the period of study being little more than a formality.
But it has been a busy week, all the same, with the homecoming parade on Sunday, a team trip to the washed-out Twenty20 international at Old Trafford on Tuesday evening and another official engagement for the Australian hooker Michael Monaghan the following night as he collected his Lance Todd Trophy as the cup final man of the match.
Thematically, Into the Spider-Verse shares the same threads as Homecoming.
Over the years -- I failed to mention this is my 14th year covering the festival -- it has become the same sort of homecoming for me.
Arriving at the same time as Jessica Ennis' homecoming to Sheffield, it called him a "true gold medallist".
He won another Emmy Award for an adaptation of Arthur Miller's play "The Price" for NBC in 1971, and the same year made "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," which became the basis for the series "The Waltons".
1. THE KICKING QUEEN Brianna Amat of Pinckney Community High School in Michigan was crowned homecoming queen on the same night she kicked the winning field goal for the football team.
It's the same VFW that began sponsoring the "Homecoming" in 1947 on the second Tuesday in August as a way to bring residents of Puxico, past and present, together.
