Category: Movies
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HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIES: A LAMENT
I am a man who is outnumbered, 3 to 1, in my own home. What this means is that from the first week in December until Christmas we have the onslaught of Christmas movies. I am not talking about real Christmas movies like A Christmas Story, Elf, or It’s A Wonderful Life. No, I like…
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PLASTIC PEOPLE FOR A PLASTIC AGE–OR–WHY WOULD YOU PHOTOSHOP A BEAUTIFUL PERSON
WARNING–THIS POST IS KIND OF A RANT A tweet from @DepressedDarth caught my attention this morning, and then it angered me at so many levels. But first, let’s get to the matter of DepressedDarth’s tweet. It was a link to like.com that showed celebrities before Photoshop and after Photoshop pictures. You can see all…
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5 WRITER’S REASONS THOR WAS A BORE
Saturday night we went to see Thor: The Dark World at the local movieplex. I did not have high expectations as the first Thor film was enough melodrama for a lifetime. Don’t misread me, though, The Avengers was good. It’s just the Thor brand (okay, and Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3) that I…
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FARRAH FAWCETT, ANDY WARHOL AND A CAR WASH
Truth is stranger than fiction. I read in Saturday’s paper (click here to read the article from the Dallas Morning News, in my paper, the Austin American-Statesman it is protected as premium content, so I’m giving you the freebie link) about a lawsuit between Ryan O’Neal and the University of Texas over bequeathed artwork. Here…