Archive for the 'Movies' Category

Colo(rado) Boy Fights Off Attacking Coyote With Snowboard–Yahoo headline, Dec. 8, 1:22 pm

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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Image: (Boy from Christmas Story) movieposter.com; (Lamp from Christmas Story)via thingsyounevernew.com;(Coyote) farm2.static.flickr.com;(Snowboard) Burton Supermodel via backcountry.com;(Stone Cold Steve Austin in The Condemned) via collider.com

Whaddya lookin’ at?!

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Identify the movie, the scene and the questioner of each of the following examples. 30 points.
 
1. Well, what the HELL is a jimp?!
2.  What’s a mook?
3.  What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you?
4.  What’s a fugazy?
5.  What’s Shabbos?
6.  What are these electrolytes?
7.  What a dump?
8.  What’s a yute?
9.  What’s a liger?
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I’ve only found four productions, but Pop Music, Broadway, Film and Television each contributed to the project.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»

The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image […]

It seems as if KRQV-News Channel-5 has hit one out of the park!

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Guerra Reveals Evidence
Wednesday , November 26, 2008    Posted: 07:14 PM
Guerra unveils why his investigation led him to the Vice President
WILLACY COUNTY - District Attorney Juan Guerra says his investigation took him all the way to the top, to the Vice President of the United States. He showed NEWSCHANNEL 5 records that he says could be […]

After picking up Mikey in front of Jack Dempsey’s, Captain McCluskey made them stop in Riyadh for a restroom break.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Hamdan To Be Sent To Yemen
Bin Laden Driver Spent 7 Years at Guantanamo
By Josh White and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; Page A01
The U.S. military has decided to transfer Osama bin Laden’s former driver from custody at Guantanamo Bay to his home in Yemen, ending the seven-year saga of a man the […]

Herein is a fascinating video of the world’s regard for our fearless leader.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Please find story and video of G20 brush-off here.
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Images: (Rocky VI) via supersatellite.com; (W) via via idesign.wordpress.com

I await the official word from some evangelical, religious cult from Pan-Appalachia…

Monday, November 17th, 2008

in order to assess blame for the cause of this latest tragedy.

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AFP

The photo shows the horrific, southern California fire.
 
Look closely.

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Whose face appears in the terrible flames?
 
Is it Osama?
 
Satan?
 
The A.I.G. CEO?

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No. 
 
It is Anthony Quinn as the bedouin leader, Auda abu Tayi,
from the 1962 David Lean classic–LAWRENCE OF ARBIA.
 
I don’t get it it!

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Image: (Anthony Quinn […]

Numbers 25 & 32 on the 2007 American Film Institute list combine to form…

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

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Miniature private eye, Atticus Finch, has his afternoon nap disturbed by a large tomboy named Scout Gutman, who–with the help of a morose African-American historian–is obsessed with finding a piece of furniture valued for its clunky beauty. Finch’s partner Sam Gunzel and the attractive Brigid O’Shaughnessy join in the hunt to find the chiffero designed […]

All of us know how some out-of-ideas film makers have destroyed great movies by re-making them. I foresee a near future in which auteurs will combine the American Film Institute’s Top 100 List in order to glean more ideas.

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Because the Holiday Movie Season is riding on the west wind, I shall add more films to the original  list of three which appeared last March.
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A wealthy San Francisco psychiatrist is haunted by his past life of poverty which had forced him to work as a high wire rigger for the Moravian Circus Duplicitous. A […]

Constitutional law professor says W’s last minute regulatory signing madness is “akin to befouling the well.”

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

 Professor Jonathan Turley feels that W is tromping on the will of the American people. 
What’s new?  The worst president in the Republic’s history is like a fungus blown by the winds in order to savage the people for years to come.
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(babs)turleymagic.com; (w) AP Photo/ Ron Edmunds; (movie)vcientertainment.com (curls) beauty.about.com;
Please find the MSNBC Countdown video […]

Man, they’re tough. I saw a Lowe’s manager take back a 600-year-old chain saw.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem
By SHAWNA OHM, Associated Press Writer Shawna Ohm,

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AP – This undated photo made available by the Israeli Antiquities Authority on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008.

JERUSALEM – A luxurious gold, pearl and emerald earring provides a new visual clue about the life of the elite in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. And […]