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This morning we went downtown to see Be Kind Rewind, which was good. It started a little slow in the beginning (”Is it going to be Jack Black doing this all 94 minutes?) but got really good when they started making the movies.

And then we ran some errands and jumped on a bus for home [...]

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Peter showed me this last night, technically, surprised that I hadn’t seen it, but I almost died.

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This made me laugh:

Telegraph - Only teenagers have teenage dreams, by Michael Henderson

There is something embarrassing, to be frank, unmanning, about the inscription on the memorial to John Peel, the broadcaster, who passed away four years ago. Freshly carved in a Suffolk graveyard, the stone reads: “Teenage dreams so hard to beat”. [...]

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Macleans - Happy Birthday, Violet and Daisy The most famous Siamese twins of the 20th century were born exactly 100 years ago, by Mark Steyn

What they really felt about life, we can only guess. But Browning’s Freaks remains a compelling glimpse of a lost tradition. The plot’s simple. Cleopatra, a blowsy Teutonic bitch of [...]

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Yesterday Peter and I went and saw Rambo.

It was exquisite.

I grew up on movies like that. Good, clean exploding heads, dismembered limbs and disembowelings. Lately, movie violence has trended more towards meaty thwacks of people in extreme pain, which bothers me more, and I hadn’t realized how much I missed a really, wonderful, giggles-inducing violent [...]

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I expect a number of you will see who wrote this and immediately throw yourselves between me and my computer shouting, “Don’t be taken in!” But given who wrote this, it’s fascinating:

The Times - Britney Spears: person or news commodity? She’s a great singer but obviously ill: we in the media have to decide to leave [...]

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The season premiere of Lost starts in five minutes in Nova Scotia.

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The Times - Cheap Shot, Bill An inexcusable appeal to the baser instincts in American politics

America’s racial divisons are never far from the surface in South Carolina, home to many blacks whose ancestors worked plantations as slaves. African-Americans make up 55 per cent of the Democratic electorate, and they voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. [...]

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ABC (Oz) - Del Toro in talks to direct The Hobbit

Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro is in talks to direct two films based on JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, entertainment press reports. Del Toro - best known for his Oscar-winning 2006 drama Pan’s Labyrinth - is on a short-list [...]

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The Times - The confessions of Clarkson’s secret bride Top Gear speaks to the little boy in all of of us, by Melanie Reid

Every mother with a son; or rather, every woman who shares a house with a male of any age who likes to watch Top Gear - and that’s most of us [...]

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So we hiked downtown (and back!) yesterday afternoon to watch Juno, and: I really, really liked it. The main actress was great (and cute!), her not-quite-boyfriend was great (and still cute!), her best friend was hilarious, her dad was awesome, and her step-mom was just beautiful. But the first, maybe, twenty minutes or so are [...]

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Macleans - Why we love that alien hordes stuff It’s all delicious fantasy for us. But in some places, they’re actually living the apocalypse, by Mark Steyn

The pop-cultural detonation of national landmarks is a mostly American phenomenon. In other places, it happens for real. Godzilla thomping his way down Fifth Avenue and hurling Buicks [...]

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(Okay, let’s do this thing… Fingers crossed…)

BBC - New Bond film title is confirmed

The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed. … Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond’s heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale. [...]

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The Times - Force in Virtue or in Song Forty years from Jagger, the case of Amy Winehouse demands different words

Almost 41 years ago, Mick Jagger was arrested, tried and sentenced to imprisonment for the illegal possession of four amphetamines without a prescription. While he was on bail awaiting his appeal, this newspaper took [...]

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So, while I’m on the subject of movies, and can access my servers for long enough to do this for the first time since Sunday, I should do my take on Cloverfield.

Bubblehead gave it “3 Uncomfortably Vivid 9/11 Reminders out of five,” but I thought it was damned near perfect. Given what it is, that [...]

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