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I’m reasonably sure that I remember them going into the All-Star break on a high note in previous seasons.

And then invariably they come out of the break and promptly go into a massive losing streak. They were moving up and then they lose thirteen out of fifteen games.

So it’s kind of hard for me to feel good about their current winning ways.

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I find it somewhat amazing that no matter what Obama does–get prisoners back, leave prisoners where they are, fight wars, walk away from wars–no matter what he does, Fox finds some way to find the negative. Okay, maybe “amazing” is too predictable a word; it’s pretty much expected by now.

But I find myself wondering: what, if anything, could Obama do that Fox would NOT find the downside of? I mean, I don’t recall if they managed to find the downside of killing bin Laden, but I find myself curious. What could Obama do that Fox would applaud? I mean, if he resigned from the presidency, which is the ultimate goal, they’d denounce him as a quitter. Is there ANYTHING that he could do that Fox would approve of?

Thoughts?

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So when I was flying back on British Air from the London convention in February, I watched the first half of an incredibly gripping drama called “The Escape Artist” starring David Tennant as a defense lawyer who has never lost a case. But his life and family fly apart when he defends a psycho who, once freed on a technicality, turns his attention to Tennant.

The first half was marvelous, and then I discovered that British Air didn’t have the second half on their entertainment system. So when I came home, I tried to find it on DVD. No luck. I looked on line. No luck.

Four frustrating months later, it suddenly turned up on public television. Even better, it’s on DVD.

Go get your hands on it. It’s fantastic.

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I married Kathleen. My three daughters were there, and many dear friends came thousands of miles to join us in celebrating our happiness.

Not a day has gone by since then when I didn’t thank like lucky stars that Kathleen consented to spend the rest of her life with me.

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XM: DOFP is quite possibly the oddest X-Men film so far. It is without question the best X-Men film yet, but it absolutely could not exist without those preceding it…which is really ironic in retrospect.

Significant Spoilers follow:

Continue Reading “X-Men: Days of Future Past” →

Seriously. I’m wondering what the hëll people want from films anymore.

Remember Nicholas Hammond? That was my first live action Spider-Man, and the TV was ghastly from the top down. Bad stories, bad acting, bad effects, just bad.

And now we have the current sequel to “The Amazing Spider-Man” that is, to my mind, 110% better than the previous entry. I found it to be a compelling combination of genuine drama, beautifully played by Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (not to mention Oscar Winner Sally Fields) and thrilling action sequences that seemed, in the way they were portrayed and Spidey quipped his way through them, to be lifted directly from the pages of the comic.

Jamie Foxx was a marvelous Max Dillon. So he was a classic geek: so what? It provided a nice contrast to what he eventually became. And Dane Dehaan was marvelously creepy as Harry Osborn. And sure, the Rhino was only in for a few minutes, but so what? Gives the third film somewhere to start from.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and I just don’t understand why I’m seeing reviewers bìŧçhìņg about it.

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