I am not at all enamored of celebrities, but you can’t avoid the minutiae of their shallow lives, so I’m going to take a dip in the water (but not drink the Kool-Aid)… • It seems that the divorce of former NFL cornerback and current NFL Network analyst Deion “Prime Time” Sanders and his wife […]

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For the longest time, I’ve pictured the prudes who are the decision makers of the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board to be uptight, very old, very white, grandmothers who would make Carrie Nation look like Larry Flynt. The decisions are secret, arbitrary, and according to film makers, go second by second through films […]

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I actually saw almost two complete movies this weekend, and only one of them was targeted at children. The first was “Game Change,” the HBO movie starring Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris and John McCain. Now, you know going in that “Game Change” is political; it is the story of […]

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Readers of this site know that I think that Tim Tebow is a sanctimonious, untalented quarterback, who will soon be exposed by the rest of the league and soon riding the Denver Broncos’ bench. But he did a very good recently, and I felt I should say so. Tebow went on a date with 10-year-old […]

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My distain for Oprah Winfrey and all she stands for is well known to regular readers of this blog, but maybe she made a BIG mistake taking her talk show to her own cable channel. Last weekend during the Grammys (that featured the highest rating in years in part due to the fact that Whitney […]

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When George Lucas finished “Star Wars – Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” he expressed relief that the saga was finished and he could go out and make other types of films, smaller films, more personal stories. “Red Tails” about the Tuskegee Airmen is the first film other than the fourth Indiana Jones installment […]

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I actually watched the entire Super Bowl last Sunday, I guess in payment for spending every waking moment helping the Indignant Oldest Daughter celebrate her 7th birthday. So, I watched the halftime show with Madonna, and generally, she moved pretty well for a 50 year-old woman, and while the skirt and books allowed a look […]

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