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Posted by on Aug 4, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 0 comments

Why Spies Do What They Do (Movie Review: A Most Wanted Man)

 

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Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final on-screen appearances, A Most Wanted Man, based on the book by John le Carre

 

In the real world of clandestine intelligence-gathering operations, otherwise known as “spying,” no bullet ever gets fired.  The good guys don’t swing on trapeze wires between skyscrapers over breathtaking city skylines.  The villains aren’t giggly chrome-domed psychopaths holding hissing white Persian cats.  The real spy game is subtle, and at times — messy.

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Posted by on Jun 7, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Restaurant Reviews | 0 comments

Movie Review: Fed Up

 

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“Fed Up” likely won’t solve this very serious problem.  It probably won’t even have much of an impact on what we buy and eat.  The food lobby and commercial advertising are too powerful.  But someday, when half of this nation is obese and we’re broke trying to figure out how to care for 100 million diabetics with flooded doctors’ offices, we can’t say that we weren’t warned.

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Posted by on May 24, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Politics | 0 comments

Gore Vidal and the United States of Amnesia

 

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Gore Vidal had style.

He once famously wrote, “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to do, and not giving a damn.”

The controversial writer and perpetual protagonist certainly knew who he was.  He knew precisely what he wanted to do.  And there’s little doubt that he didn’t give a damn what others either said or thought.  It matters not where you’re positioned on the political map — one has to admire that feisty spirit.

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