Category Archives: Movies / TV

No Shame TV

December 1, 2009 – 10:13 am

Blood always leads the front page and this tradition has been honored by TV journalist and those of the internet. There is usually a limit. Tragedies are broadcast at a distance to save the victims and their families sorrow, however Bolivia TV stepped way over the line of decency by showing a videotape of four […]

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2012

November 14, 2009 – 11:09 pm

The Model from Paris has been predicting the end of the world since our re-connection on Facebook. The hand at the wheel of our doom is divine, however in the newly-released film 2012 the cause of the apocalypse are those pesky sun rays. Without any Sunblock 1000 the earth’s core melts the tectonic plates. California […]

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GOODBYE LENIN – Movie

November 9, 2009 – 9:01 pm

Communism is dead, but the 2003 comedy GOODBYE LENIN brings back the good old days for a young man’s mother, who has coming out of a coma after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She had been a loyal party member and the doctors fear that she couldn’t handle the new reality, so her son […]

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Gun and Booze ala Cat Ballou

September 30, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Driving across country in the 70s was a rite of passage for hippie late-comers. Boston – Frisco could be driven in less than 50 hours, but a week on the backroads felt more like Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. In 1974 my good friend Andy, a flaxen blonde coed from Harvard and I motored west in […]

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Polanski in Swiss Jail

September 27, 2009 – 12:40 pm

No one has filmed a movie JAIL BAIT although the two words immediately bring to mind Roman Polanski, who was arrested in 1977 for seducing a 13 year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house. Polanski had anally assault the girl for fear of knocking her up. Many film people defended Polanski at the time, saying the […]

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