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Ding dong the Bush is gone...

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

On second thought...

I just looked at the Academy's list of eligible songs for this Oscar season. I realized that the best song on the list has no chance of ever being nominated--"The Story," by Norah Jones, from Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights, which should also get a cinematography nod but won't because the Academy votes for what they see in a film, not how they ( Read more... )

Rich in Love (1993) - All-star cast bildungsroman from director Bruce Beresford. There’s no reason for this recent film not to be on DVD. Touching story of a teenage girl (Kathryn Erbe) trying to hold her family together after her mother (Jill Clayburgh) leaves, severing all contact with the family, and her ambivalently pregnant older sister (Suzy ( Read more... )

I may have to quit the only job where I'm eligible for health insurance, crappy though it is. The COD Board of Trustees are trying to become the first institution of higher education in the country to pass the so-called Academic Bill of Rights. If that happens, I'll have to quit ( Read more... )

Every year, the studios release the same films again and again on DVD. (Do we really need another release of Lilo and Stitch?) Every year, I wish that films that haven't been released before will come out. Last year, I was delighted when The Major and the Minor and Easy Living, even if they were done with little care and few extras. This month, we ( Read more... )

My father got me up at 1:30 (I was sleeping late because of rampant insomnia) and asked if I wanted to go to Cracker Barrel and a movie. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to vet the movie properly. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone, or I would have bought a ticket for another film and then slipped in to the wrong screen ( Read more... )

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