Entries Tagged as 'Pop Culture'
There is no place in the world that I love more than London. Growing up in the 1960s, London had it all: The Who; The Beatles; 007; Doctor Who. I have long said that if I could pick up my home and change my lifestyle very little, I would move to London in a flash. […]
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Every one by now has heard about the Colorado massacre at last night’s midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Twelve people are dead, 38 people reportedly wounded, and a 24-year-old suspect is in custody. It is too early to draw conclusions, but I have two immediate thoughts: • One of the injured is a […]
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I apologize, but work and family have kept me away from you for a couple of weeks, but I’m back with a vengeance…. There was one story that I failed to comment on from last week. Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson told Sports Illustrated that Alex Rodriguez’s statistics were tainted by his admitted use […]
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So many stories – so little time: • Once again, there are reports that Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard is asking to be traded. If I were owner Rich DeVos, I’d grant his request. I’d trade him to a Russian team for a case of vodka and that might be asking too much. • According […]
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It hasn’t been a good month for the cult of Scientology. The “religion” created by hack 1950s science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, has millions of followers around the world, and one of the primary ways it finds to attract people are the rich movie celebrities are Scientologists. Two of the most open are John […]
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Since we last spoke, there were three deaths of people in the news that are worthy of mention. First, there was the great Cuban heavyweight boxer Teofilo Stevenson, who died last week at the age of 60. Stevenson looked like Ali, but the only time we Americans could see Stevenson was in the Olympics. He […]
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As a Father’s Day gift, the Indignant Wife got a babysitter for the Indignant Children yesterday afternoon, and we went to lunch and watched the film “Prometheus.” The wife thought that the movie was very slow; as a fan of “Alien” and “Aliens,” I LOVED it. But I’m confused. I saw a couple of articles […]
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