Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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
Continue readingLiam 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
Continue readingI’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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingYesterday, 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
Continue readingBack 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
Continue readingThe great Walt Disney would have been 110 today. Here’s his and my favorite piece of Disney animation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKN_dz8YBE[/youtube]
Continue readingIn 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
Continue readingI’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
Continue readingTiVo 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.”
Continue readingJane 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
Continue readingDon 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,
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Continue readingI 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: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXHeP9PydQ[/youtube]
Continue readingYou 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
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