Category Archives: Movies / TV

Pirates Of the Carribean – Part 3

June 7, 2007 – 11:34 pm

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN originated from a Disneyland ride. Moving figures portrayed a bucolic pirate raid on a seaside town. All fun and games with a ho-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. Reality had blood running in the streets and screams filled the ears of the hunted and hunters. Even worse Long John Silver liked […]

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Al Jazeera TV News – Pattaya

May 25, 2007 – 9:32 pm

Yesterday Rosie O’Donnell announced to the public that they won’t be seeing her on THE VIEW anymore. This ‘news’ came after a heated hissy fit with her co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Rosie’s earned a first place slot from CNN and Fox News on a day where GW Bush announced that 2008 will see troop reductions in […]

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Thailland in top ten for Piracy

May 1, 2007 – 12:53 am

Unsurprisingly Thailand scored in the Top Eleven nations for intellectual property theft according to the USA, which only produces fast food, fat people, SUVs, and Harleys. Other honorees of free market intellectual freedom are China, India, Russia, Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. China tops the list because some 85-90% of copyrighted […]

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Goya’s Ghosts Movie

April 11, 2007 – 12:49 am

Back in 1958 America and France movie studios collaborated to film THE NAKED GOYA. Anthony Fransciosa starred as Goya painting the renowned nude of the Duchess of Alba played by Ava Gardner. I think I saw the movie at the drive-in and my mother covered my eyes, when the actress took off her clothes. Six was too young an […]

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Iran raves about 300 movie in Bangkok

April 5, 2007 – 7:19 am

Last year I bought THE 300 SPARTANS (1962) from my favorite DVD dealer, a deaf-mute rice farmer. His uplifted thumbs indicated the copy was 100%. He was right and the childhood favorite spun the heroic tale of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans and their allies withstood the onslaught of the Persian king. They died to the […]

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