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Gender equality
As somebody pointed out recently, there are quite a few female protagonists in RomComs whose closest ally/confidant is a gay man, but you never see a male protagonist with a lesbian best friend.
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Mr. Lucas knows his history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hoth
A Wehrmachtsgeneral whose troops played a central part in an increasingly hopeless battle in a harsh, snow-covered environment? Named Hoth? What a crazy coincidence...
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Others will no doubt have pointed this out before me, but....
...there is some kind of discrepancy between these two news stories, isn't there?
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
and
US advance deployment of "Bunker Buster" bombI know that this is probably just an unfortunate coincidence, but still ( Read more... ) -
Na, wenn es jetzt offiziell erlaubt ist...
Weil ein "Bild"-Leser in einer "taz"-Kinowerbung als Bilderbuchproll dargestellt worden war, sah sich das Boulevardblatt verunglimpft und klagte auf Schadensersatz. Ohne Erfolg. Der Bundesgerichtshof hat jetzt entschieden: Der Spot ist von der Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt.
Hamburg/Karlsruhe - Im Streit um einen ironischen Werbespot hat sich die ( Read more... ) -
Important German Word for the Teutonically challenged
"Totschlagargument": literally "Argument to batter someone to death with". Any sort of argument that immediately robs the other party of any way to respond intelligently ( Read more... ) -
Thursday Tune: Bilingual Edition
In the german corner, all the way from 1920something, Herr Paul O'Montis:
Mein Bruder macht beim Tonfilm die Geräusche
Makes you want to wear smart clothes and drink cocktails. (and give Marilyn Manson the finger).
And now, from psychedelic 1966, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with their take on the material:
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The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day
The trailer can be found here ( Read more... )
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