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Last night's movie: Chicago (Feb 29 2004 18:05 GMT) - After waiting out the lines at crowds at the box office, plus not wanting to fork over hard cash for two tickets, we finally saw last year's Best Film Oscar winner the night before its successor is named. Seems like we made the right choice: Chicago was enjoyable but not great.The quality of the singing and dancing by stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere was quite good, certainly better than I expected. Then again, as Rebecca Traister points out in an article in today's Times, most actors start out doing these kinds of productions in high school and college, and Zeta-Jones did quite a bit of work on the London stage before hitting Hollywood. |
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Schalter locker am Schalttag (Feb 29 2004 18:01 GMT) - Mein Freund Oskar sagt immer: »Du kriegst eins in die Fresse, wenn du auch nur ein Wort über mich schreibst!« Der Irre aus Hamburg darf endlich ausreisen. |
greg.org: about making films
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On How A Musical Revival Takes Longer Than One Year (Feb 29 2004 18:00 GMT) - Rebecca Traitser, oft of the NYO and some online zine called Salon, notes in the NYT that the studios haven't quite ironed out all the details of that post-Chicago musical revival we've all been waiting for. Ignoring that Miramax-spun history of contemporary musicals for a moment (Moulin Rouge? South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut? 8 Mile? |
About Agnosticism/Atheism
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Stealth Theonomy, 2004 (Feb 29 2004 18:00 GMT) - Organizations and people with America's Christian Right often have ties with the Christian Reconstructionist movement - a movement designed to promote the idea of restructuring America into a repressive Christian theocracy. Many of the items on the Christian Right's agenda... |
About Agnosticism/Atheism
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Recreational Grieving (Feb 29 2004 18:00 GMT) - So many of our actions seem to exist not as expressions of what we really think or feel but, rather, as public performances - efforts to convince others that we "really" think and feel certain things regardless of the internal... |
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