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    The French New Wave dish is a little bit icky, a little bit rich

    I devour movies and music with a voracious appetite.  All styles, all forms, genres, old and new - I am a junky for this stuff.  Music and movies are my favorite things.  They have been for a long time, and I have done as much as I’ve been able to get to know these two [...]

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    Leno doesn’t give a shit.

    Everyone loves a monkey shit fight, right? Sploosh, thhhpthpthpthpth, boom, stinky, poopy - monkey shit fight.  One at another.  A return.  Some collateral splatter and then more angry participants.  It’s difficult to clarify who got it started, but it sure is beautiful to see all that shit flying through the air, shit exploding onto faces, [...]

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    Crazy Heart is no Lifetime movie

     
    A response to Janine’s Crazy Heart: If Only It Was All Music
    A live concert featuring the music from the movie “would save folks the trouble of sitting through the two-plus hour glorified made-for-TV movie.”  “That characterization sounds harsh, but save for Bridges nuanced performance…the film has ‘Lifetime’ written all over it.”
    -Janine
    It’s easy to characterize Crazy [...]

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    Lists! Top five moments in television history

    It’s Monday, which means list time. However, I’m breaking a few rules. First, this list contains just five items instead of 11. Why? Maybe it’s my own mini protest against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to include 10 nominees in the Best Picture category at this year’s Academy Awards. This new [...]

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    ‘Crazy Heart’: If only it was all music

    After the release of “Walk Hard:  The Dewey Cox Story,” John C. Reilly literally took his character and a makeshift band on tour to play live in front of true fans and the curious.  The whole thing was a big, fat joke, but the musicians were skilled, Reilly charmed the crowd and the music trumped [...]