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New Year’s Eve Double Feature

Rather than party with the masses in a horn-blowing, booze filled soiree at some swank hotel in the big city, your intrepid reporter worked through New Year’s eve to view and remark on two recent film releases. In other words, I spent the evening in two nearly empty theaters enjoying It’s Complicated and 2012 and [...]

Exit - Stage Right

George Michael,  sports television anchor for decades, who reached a national audience with ”The George Michael Sports Machine” highlights show, has died. He was 70 years old. Michael started his career at WFIL Philadelphia at the height of that stations’ rock & roll heyday, Michael was an on-air DJ and Music Director. George Michael died [...]

Life Ends at 32 for Brittany Murphy

In the following MTV video, the actress shows off her closet of shoes, favorite tennis shoes, “rich people sheets” and speaks of her “sanctuary”, which is the bathtub. Murphy was discovered in full cardiac arrest this morning, in the shower. Attempts to revive her failed. She arrived DOA at the hospital. [Disclaimer: I was [...]

Woodstock Ultimate Collectors Edition DVD Set-Not A Bad Deal!

40 years ago this weekend, Sullivan County New York was invaded by enough people match the current metropolitan population of Seattle. Yeah, it was Woodstock.
I find it strange that not that many people are making a buzz about it this weekend. Sure, some people thought it was nothing more than a sea of mud soaked [...]

Considering Internet Box Office Profits

To hear Barry Diller speak on the topic of the future of Internet content, you’d almost swear it was the voice of Old Man Potter, the cruel banker in the classic Christmas movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC, said Web users will have to pay for what they [...]

Movie Review: “10 Things I Hate About You”

The second stop in my journey through movie reviews of movies filmed on location in the Seattle/Tacoma area is “10 Things I Hate About You.”
Here’s the good news from Amazon.com reviewer Rob O’Connor:
An updated read on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is a teen comedy [...]