Day 4 – Monday, September 8, 2014 Films – Love & Mercy directed by Bill Pohlad Time Out of Mind directed by Oren Moverman The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness directed by Mami Sunada Labyrinth of Lies directed by Giulio Ricciarelli Music bio-pics are the rage these days with James Brown and Jimi Hendrix gracing […]

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Day 5 – Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Films: Rosewater directed by Jon Stewart The Look of Silence directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Red Army directed by Gabe Polsky Hyena directed by Gerard Johnson I admit being curious about The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, “Rosewater” a film about Mazar Bahari, a Newsweek reporter who appeared […]

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I have to take a moment to mark the death of two notable people. First, we mourn the loss of Richard Kiel, the 7-foot, 2-inch actor best known for playing Jaws in two of Roger Moore’s James Bond movies. Here was a gigantic man, certainly no matinee idol, who made the best of his situation […]

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Network television is now filled with reality shows and the usual cop shows and typical stuff. Fortunately, we have the cable and Internet networks who have provided some quality like Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, and The Walking Dead. In the midst of this television renaissance, it is reassuring somehow that the same creative void […]

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If we need moronic racists on television, all we need to do is to turn on Fox News, but CBS has decided to add another one. Former baseball reliever John Rocker will be a cast member on Survivor. There are reports that the former Atlanta Braves pitcher will be competing alongside girlfriend Julie McGee on […]

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There was a very good story on HBO’s “Real Sports” talking about the decline in golf and some of the extreme measures that certain golf movers and shakers are willing to initiate to save the game. A story on CNN Money highlights the problems and suggests reasons that this is happening. First, the evidence: Adidas, […]

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When I was a kid, I looked forward to Baseball’s All-Star Game. I love scoring baseball games (still do on occasion) and I made up a huge score sheet just to capture all of the substitutions. I made my mother made dozens of copies so I could score games (Copiers were much less prevalent in […]

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