Bookworm on Mar 19 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet Today’s news — if you can call it news — is that Rosie O’Donnell, is not only to the left of Left politically, she’s no lady when it comes to her day-to-day interactions with people, especially people in subordinate positions: Through all the changes [in the form of the just-cancelled The Rosie Show], some [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet This is a mini “review” of Game Change for two reasons. First, I’ve only managed to slog my way through the first half of the movie. Second, I don’t have much to say. I tried to watch the whole thing, honest I did, but couldn’t. Not only were the untruths offensive, it was really [...]
Bookworm on Feb 21 2012 | Filed under: Death penalty, Hollywood
Tweet I’ve mentioned before that I pretty much sat out the first decade of the 21st century when it came to pop culture, which is how I entirely missed Ricky Martin. Having young children simply left me uninterested in things other than diapers, soccer carpools, etc. Now those same children are bringing me back into [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet I was surprised at how many of my “real me” Facebook friends watched the Grammys. (One of them was even in the audience.) Even in my younger days, when pop music mattered more to me, I wouldn’t have watched the Grammys. In past years, though, as I’ve become increasingly aware of the moral decay [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet One of my absolute, all-time, never-get-tired-of-watching favorite movies is Groundhog Day. Jonah Goldberg gives it the review it deserves: [S]omething important is going on here. What is it about this ostensibly farcical film about a wisecracking weatherman that speaks to so many on such a deep spiritual level? It is a great movie, simultaneously [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood, Islam
Tweet Liam Neeson’s flirting with converting to Islam, a religious quest made possible by the fact that the religion has great calls to prayer and everyone does it (at least in Muslim countries) — and, no, I’m not exaggerating when I belittle his expressed motive when he contemplates abandoning the Catholicism of his childhood in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood, Military
Tweet I’m not surprised that there is a fair amount of rape in today’s military. The facts on the ground readily explain, although they never excuse, it. To begin within, our troops have grown up and lived in a hypersexualized culture. Up until a few decades ago, in movies and on TV screens, even married [...]
Bookworm on Jan 02 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet I watched a dreadful movie last night, really dreadful. But here’s the interesting thing: even though it was a terrible movie, with a creepy plot, I didn’t turn it off and walk away. Instead, I watched it from beginning to end. Why? Star power. The movie was a Rock Hudson/Doris Day classic from 1961 [...]
Bookworm on Dec 30 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet Yesterday, I did something I almost never do: I saw a first run movie. In this case, the kids and I joined family friends to see Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol. I was not sanguine, because I’m not a Tom Cruise fan and because it’s the rare movie lately that doesn’t either bore or [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood, World War II
Tweet Back in 2004, entirely coincidentally, I ended up at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the same morning that veterans of the Battle of the Bulge had gathered for a reunion. Some got there under their own steam. Many, though, were on walkers or in wheelchairs. They were so frail. And so many [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet The great Walt Disney would have been 110 today. Here’s his and my favorite piece of Disney animation:
Bookworm on Nov 29 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet In my younger days, if buxom wasn’t your thing, I had a figure to die for. Two children and a few years later and . . . well, I’m trim, but it takes a lot of work. Given the realities of child bearing, age and gravity, there’s nothing more irksome to me than a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet I’m not the artsy type who appreciates movies at a level above and beyond mere entertainment. Given that fact, you’d think that news of director Ken Russell’s death would pass me by, unnoticed. His films, after all, are bizarre, twisted, dark and perverse — none of which I find particularly interesting. And yet…. I [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet TiVo captured The Breakfast Club. My son’s comment after watching it for 20 minutes and then walking out on it: “That was terrible. All the kids were really messed up.”
Bookworm on Sep 05 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet Jane Fonda is back in the news today, with a British tabloid reporting on Fonda’s one big regret in life: she didn’t sleep with Che. Actually, the whole thing is a bit more nuanced than that. The Daily Mail report looks at Fonda’s life in the 1970s. (A previous story examined Fonda’s bed hopping [...]
Bookworm on Aug 13 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet Don Quixote is reading Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, which led us into an interesting lunch time conversation about covert versus overt propaganda. The overt propaganda shows we discussed were All In The Family and Family Ties. In both, week after week, year [...]
Bookworm on Jul 03 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Hollywood
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Bookworm on Jun 23 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet I was watching You Were Never Lovelier, and my 12 year old son walked in the room just as Rita Hayworth launched into the song below. “Pretty?” I asked. “Beautiful,” he replied, in an awed voice. For a generation raised on Lady Gaga, this is like watching angels:
Bookworm on Jun 12 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet You already know that the New York Times and the Washington Post, apparently intent on proving that it is always possible to sink even lower, have asked for their readers to troll through the 24,000 or so emails that Sarah Palin generated while she was governor. One only wishes that they had showed that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet Shapiro’s book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, already is one of several I’ve chosen for vacation reading. He’s now releasing excerpts from his interviews: See more revealing videos here. (And by revealing, I don’t mean underwear shots, I mean “thought” shots.) I don’t know about [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood, Islam, Military, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet Both the SEALS and Charlie Sheen have been in the news lately, the SEALS for an extraordinarily well-planned, brave and effective operation, and Charlie Sheen because he’s a drugged-out piece of human detritus. Did you know, though, that the two — that is, the SEALS and Sheen — have something in common? Yup, they [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2011 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Hollywood, Media matters
Tweet Last night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question: what was the takeaway from Breitbart’s talk? Eat their eyeballs? Women’s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs? The fact that the Tea Party [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood, Military
Tweet My husband and I recently watched two movies about the military. Or rather, I should say, he watched one and I watched the other. The movies’ tones were instructive, especially because I later got corroboration for my sense that Hollywood’s post-Vietnam hostility to the military has real world consequences (that is, it’s not “just” [...]
Bookworm on Mar 02 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet England’s Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in the 13th Century as part of a convent, eventually transformed itself into the world’s first facility dedicated to the mentally ill. By the 16th Century, when it housed only the mentally ill, it was famous for the cruelty with which those patients were treated. The word “bedlam,” which [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2011 | Filed under: Hollywood, Israel
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