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Author :: Margaret E.J. Broderick  |
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| Article Title :: The L Word Season Premiere Review : From Dyke Drama to Baby Mama! |
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| Was it the sex or lack thereof that made this week’s season premiere of Showtime’s The L Word so anticlimactic? Was I thinking like a guy and only in it for the sex scenes? No, upon a brief reflection of Dana and Alice’s true to life awkwardness, what was missing was the earth shattering, character stretching dyke drama.Instead, we get Baby’s Mama Drama. Tina and Bette passing the baby back and forth and lamenting that they don’t have time for sex. (Great guest appearance by Kate Clinton as the therapist, an icon in her own right. When will Showtime pick her up?) Regardless, Tina and Bette’s relationship wasn’t on great ground to start and they fell back on the “If (read full article) |
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Author :: Robert Crane |
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| Article Title :: "Hostel" Hostility - A Movie Review |
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| I really do not go to the movies often, maybe three times a year, usually for big screen productions like Lord of the Rings or any Star Wars episode or the new King Kong, once in a while for an off-beat drama or comedy. That’s not to say I don’t watch flicks—I do, just in the privacy of my own place. The problem is that audiences annoy me with the talking and the chewing and the crunching and the snorting already. I have a control issue about my viewing environment, okay?Anyway, I can count on one hand, assuming none of my digits have been hacked off, the number of so called horror movies I have seen in a theater in my life. The last one—Alien, 1979. The last one I purposel (read full article) |
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Author :: Michael Jarryd Wilson |
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| Article Title :: The Letters |
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| I'm not a big fan of TV watching. It wastes time and makes me eat more than I really
want to. More on that in a minute. The reason I even have a TV in my house is
mainly to watch football. And I like to watch it in HD with my choice of a million
channels to watch it on and digital recording with the option to transfer it to a DVD
or my iPod. I also like to check out The Apprentice, both versions - Martha and
Donald, and maybe sometimes I'll stop by the Amazing Race. And that's about it.Even so, when I look at the time I spend watching TV, I realize that I could
accomplish so much more in that amount of time. I could read or listen to a book.
Fine tune my financial pla (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Albert St. Raymond |
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| Article Title :: Treasures Galore for the Movie Buff! |
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| Movies have a life all their own. Besides the entertainment value they provide, there are also the lasting material things that remain as reminders of these wonderful (and not so wonderful) films. These things serve as reminders to the movie going public and may have some intrinsic value as well. Examples of the above are the movie posters, collectibles, props and other miscellaneous items that are produced by the ad agencies, special effects artists, hobby enthusiasts, toy manufacturers, and even movie enthusiasts.One of the most familiar movie items is the advertising posters one sees outside the theater. These can be quite colorful and are designed to stimulate one’s imag (read full article) |
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Author :: John T Jones, Ph.D. |
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| Article Title :: How to Watch Leno and Letterman |
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| In our part of Idaho, we watch the first half of Leno and then the first half of Letterman. Then we go to bed unless Letterman is interviewing Genghis Kahn.Both shows start with a monologue. Leno’s monologue drags on. Letterman’s is very short. Both use jokes that are repetitive and silly. Leno favors celebrity jokes over squirrels, rats, and nuts. I’ve never figured why they repeat jokes. They also use each other’s jokes, perhaps slightly modified. If either ever told a very funny joke, that might wake the audience.While Leno is reading his crazy ads or wedding announcements and Letterman is playing Name Your Cuts of Meat we need something to do. Here are som (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Britt Gillette |
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| Article Title :: Sideways (Movie Review) |
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| Nominated for five Academy Awards, and winner of Best Screenplay adapted from an outside source, Sideways turned out to be one of the surprise blockbusters of 2004. Based on the Rex Pickett novel of the same name, Sideways is a clever comedy about wine, life, and a group of friends - each in search of his unique identity. Unlike the plot-driven movies that traditionally dominate Hollywood, Sideways is one of those rare pictures which actually "reads" like a novel. The film resembles Seinfeld in that it's really about nothing, but it's about everything all at the same time. With very little to speak of in the way of plot, the movie relies heavily on the developm (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Robert Sprackland |
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| Article Title :: King Kong Doesn't Ape 1933 |
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| Those of us who are 82 years old or older might remember the premier of a novel motion picture. While many movies during the Great Depression aimed to provide good feelings and a ray of hopeful sunshine into devastated lives, this particular movie had a somewhat different effect on the audiences. When people got their first glimpse of the giant ape called Kong, pandemonium broke out in the theater. People unintentionally mimicked sacrifice Ann Darrow (played by almost constantly screaming Fay Wray) and panicked. Like Darrow, they screamed, some fainted; others ran to the aisles and out of the theater.Times certainly were different back then. The War to End All Wars was in the past, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Mark R Gardner |
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| Article Title :: Brokeback Mountain: Movie Review |
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| If you’ve turned on the TV or opened a newspaper in the last couple weeks, you know critics are raving about Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, staring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllynhaal. “The years best picture!”-Good Morning America, “A big sweeping and rapturous Hollywood love story!”-Entertainment Weekly, “Four stars!”-Rolling Stone, nominated for seven Golden Globe awards including best picture, and on and on… and well, after seeing it I can only ask myself one question: “Are these people talking about the same movie that I saw?”The story is simple: two cowboys out working hard on the cattle drive. It gets lonely, it gets cold, the whiskey is flowing (read full article) |
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Author :: Scott Bianchi |
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| Article Title :: Made In America |
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| In a time where very few of the products we buy in this country are made in this country there is a TV show on the air that makes everything own their own. That show is the Discover Channel’s highest rated show, “American Chopper”. There is a tremendous following for this show and I think it is easy to see why. This show is not just about motorcycles, it is the ultimate in reality TV.Even people who are not into motorcycles enjoy this show and I think it is because they can relate to the show in one way or another. Either they are fascinated by the workmanship displayed by Paul Jr. and Vinny, on the theme bikes they build. Or they have been a part of a dysfunctional fami (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: Private Investigators on TV - Magnum PI |
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| Part of Magnum's appeal for the ladies, was the tall, dark, good looks of Tom Selleck which brought them back for more, week after week. For the men, it was the car (a Ferrari) and for both genders, his location - Oahu, Hawaii.Thomas Magnum was a rather likeable character who hit our screens in 1980. He narrated the series, which rather gave the impression that he was talking to himself.Magnum grew up as a Navy brat and despite his father's death when he was 10 years old, Thomas entered the Naval Academy and having graduated, found himself in Vietnam. The program occasionally flashes back to this period in his life, usually in a somewhat unpleasant way, as might be expec (read full article) |
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