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My daughter, Ariel, saw “The Green Hornet” with her friends and picked up on an in-joke in there that went right past me…which is mildly annoying, since I was the one who gave her the piece of information in the first place that the gag was based on.

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We loved it. Okay, well, I did; the 3D gave Kathleen some nausea issues, which hits her sometimes when she’s watching films that were retrofitted rather than shot that way. But when she wasn’t feeling sick, she liked it as well.

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So the opening of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has now been pushed back to March 15th.

Now: I get that they’re still working on fixing the story and songs. For that matter, if you compare it to a musical’s typical development time–considering that ordinary musicals have extensive out-of-town tryouts where such changes are usually made so that it arrives in NYC pretty much locked–it really amounts to about the same amount of time. Instead of starting in LA, moving to Chicago, then Boston and finally NY, all the repairs are happening right here.

I get all that. With that said:

They’re opening it on the Ides of March?

Great idea. What could POSSIBLY go wrong on the Ides of March?

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Don’t you think she looks tired?

Suggested by Sasha.

Blood libel.

Seriously?

A little story: one that I am told is absolutely true. Now maybe it is, maybe it isn’t…but it makes the point.

In a town in Eastern Europe long ago, there was a small community of Jews who resided there and more or less kept to themselves. But their very presence was an irritant to many in the village, particularly so to one villager–a rabid anti-Semite–who decided the best thing to do was target the rabbi and turn the whole of the village against him.

And so, in the dead of night, the villager smothered his own six month old infant in the crib. Then he took the child’s corpse, stole over to the rabbi’s house and buried the child in a shallow grave.

Upon the morning, the alarmed mother discovered the absent child. Her screams summoned the entire village and the husband, “sharing” his wife’s ire, suggested that the Jews be investigated first since there had been tales of how they loved to use the blood of Christian children in their secret rites. So they converged upon the rabbi’s home and the newly turned earth of the grave was quickly discovered.

The rabbi was promptly hung and the rest of the Jews either killed or driven from the city.

Here’s an offer I will make you, on behalf of myself and my fellow Jews: I will continue not to use gun imagery and language in my discourse so that no one can possibly accuse me of having anything to do with acts of violence, and you keep your mouth shut about blood libels so that no one can possibly mistake you for being one of us.

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…catch it on one of its repeats tomorrow. In the second section, Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore (Senior Black Correspondent) discuss Huckleberry Finn and some of the comments are like things that were said here, plus stuff that Wilmore says is just common sense brilliant. A must-see for anyone who was interested in the subject.
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“The Green Hornet” marathon is going on on SyFy right now. Again, the best two, in my opinion: “The Preying Mantis” at 2:30 PM, featuring a climactic “gung fu” (as they say it) battle between Kato (Bruce Lee) and a Tong overlord (Mako); “Bad Bet on a 459-Silent” at 8 PM in which the Hornet (Van Williams) is shot by a cop and, consequently, basically screwed because the bullet needs to come out and all the hospitals are on the lookout for him. Episodes run until 11 PM EST, although you should feel free to skip the two part “Invasion from Space” at 10 PM. So painfully campy that it’s as if they got an order from the network saying, “Make it more like ‘Batman’ and this was their attempt to do so.

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