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Mary-Louise Parker is one strange cookie.
I think the first time I saw her was in Fried Green Tomatoes, waaay back in 1991 (I can’t believe that was actually 15 years ago. WHAT?), where she played the tragic-young-sweetheart-turned- battered-housewife-turned-surprisingly-sassy-best-friend. Good chick flick, actually. Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet. Anyway, I was around [...]
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A movie called “The Net” came out In 1995, the year I moved to America. God. Almost twelve years ago. Before Google, before Wikipedia, before iTunes and Amazon; in the heyday of dial-up America Online. HA.
The Net was a Sandra Bullock vehicle: Sandra, post-crashing buses with Keanu and making mind-love with Sly, but PRE-crashing cruiseliners [...]
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“the chicken stops here”
I saw Grizzly Man for the first time a few weeks ago. It was an interesting movie; painful to watch at times, but excellent overall. Anyway, I can be a bit slow on the uptake, and it wasn’t until I was halfway through the movie that I realized it was by Werner Herzog. This held [...]
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Few things in life give me more comfort than the knowledge that I have multiple seasons of a good TV show on tap, that I will be able to watch them consecutively and that there is no immediate danger of running out. During my five year hiatus from watching American television, countless shows had the [...]
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Over the last five months or so, I have seen no less than thirty TV shows. No joke. I made a list. And I don’t mean like, catching an episode or two when I happened to be home; I don’t even own a television set. I’m talking full series marathons on DVD or [...]
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