I'm still here.
Work, family and laziness stretch my time, and now and then ,when I realize that this blogging thang is really fun and ego-satisfying, I think: get off your booty and post.
Of course, the question is: who's out there? Who's reading? Is there gratification in spending precious time posting nonsense when there are millions of others doing the same thing, struggling for eye-time?
Work, family and laziness stretch my time, and now and then ,when I realize that this blogging thang is really fun and ego-satisfying, I think: get off your booty and post.
Of course, the question is: who's out there? Who's reading? Is there gratification in spending precious time posting nonsense when there are millions of others doing the same thing, struggling for eye-time?
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Sideways and Million Dollar Baby are THE flicks to see. Forget Closer, Bad Education, Kinsey, etc.: these two gems will battle it out for the best film of 2004.
God bless Clint. The 74-year-old ragged vet can still pierce the thin sliver of membrane that separates art from individual emotions -- whatever that means.
Here's a flick that Warner Bros. begrudgingly put into production in August 2004 (can you imagine the ignorance and utter stupidity of the WB brass questioning whether an Oscar-winning cinematic legend -- coming off the justly acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Mystic River -- could make a low-budget drama work?) and wrapped in early November that has suddenly captivated and humbled the normally-snobby and elitist critical community?
Mr. Eastwood, may you continue for many years.
God bless Clint. The 74-year-old ragged vet can still pierce the thin sliver of membrane that separates art from individual emotions -- whatever that means.
Here's a flick that Warner Bros. begrudgingly put into production in August 2004 (can you imagine the ignorance and utter stupidity of the WB brass questioning whether an Oscar-winning cinematic legend -- coming off the justly acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Mystic River -- could make a low-budget drama work?) and wrapped in early November that has suddenly captivated and humbled the normally-snobby and elitist critical community?
Mr. Eastwood, may you continue for many years.
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Useless fact (thanks to Variety): the DVD National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation sells 500,000 copies every Christmas season.
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Current reads: The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins, and Train by The Man: Pete Dexter.
