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Air passenger offenses.
Here 's a piece about annoying people on planes. Yeah, I know it's the cliché topic for standup comedians, but a couple things. First, those …
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"The Parallax View."
A famous sequence from the highly esteemed political movie (which you can see tonight, free, at Cinematheque , in Madison): Glenn Erickson has a lot …
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"If you don't like your life, change it."
Just an intriguingly simple bit of advice from Laurence Olivier , who, had he lived, would turn 100 years old today.
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Disorderly acting.
A woman looked out the window the Madison Public Library, thought she saw an armed assault taking place on the top level of the Overture parking ramp…
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At the Breakfast Club Café...
... what are you seeing as you want to see — in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions?
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Disrespecting Ronald Reagan.
Last night, simulblogging the Screen Actors Guild Awards, I expressed surprise that Ronald Reagan's picture was shown first in the "In Memo…
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Do you recognize these faces?
Have you seen the movie ? Quite a trip! It's what "I Shouldn't Be Alive" would be with a larger budget and the most harrowing, amaz…
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Leskidowddaheer.
You just don't get it , do you? Get what? Get outta here . ADDED: "Get" in the you just don't get it sense first appeared in 1892,…
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100 cheesy movie quotes.
I'll let you decide if they're the "cheesiest... of all time." Nearly all are post-1980, so it seems unlikely. Via Unreality Mag .
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"The 808's candy-colored keys, clunky preset sounds, and small size made it seem more like a Fisher-Price toy than a serious instrument."
"But that was part of its enduring genius. There was nothing intimidating about the little Roland machines — unlike most synthesizers and drum m…
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"Although he directed a few films in the decades after 'Heaven’s Gate,' Cimino kept a low profile, and plastic surgery made him almost unrecognizable...."
"Cimino circled many projects that never came to fruition, including a life of Dostoevsky developed with Raymond Carver; adaptations of 'Cri…
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"IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes."
Beautiful (but turn down/off the sound if you don't want to hear the word "fuck" a few times): Via Metafilter . Here 's the actual …
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Mighty Mouse, digital camera.
I ordered one of these . Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Yeah, I'm a sucker for all things Apple. I ordered a ne…
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"This is it: crunch time for getting the slanderous ABC television docudrama 'The Path to 9/11' yanked off the air."
That's what the Democratic Party just emailed me: The network schedule has this slanderous attack on Democrats slated to start on Sunday night, S…
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"The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces."
Come on. Let's watch "Primer." And "Dark City." And "Gattaca."
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Who will play Freddie Mercury in the movie about the great rock star?
Sacha Baron Cohen. Interesting!
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"Quirky situations."
Since when is that a basis for giving a movie a PG rating? (Seen on the trailer for the movie "Sky High," which looked insufferable. Doesn&…
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