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The American  |  Director Anton Corbijn  |  Score: 6.1 Appropriately enough, the vast majority of guns in this American assassin abroad film are equipped with silencers, the bullets barely make a sound before slicing through their given targets. The film follows suit. In what could only be described as a deliberate pace, with great...
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Paul Collins – The King of Power Pop! (Alive Natural Sound Records – 2010) 3 out of 4 **** Paul Collins’ new record, The King of Power Pop!, is better than any Paul Collins record circa 2010 has a right to be.  That is not to say it is an excellent record.  His choice...
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Red Riding: Blu-ray Edition  |  Directors Julian Jarrold, James Marsh & Anand Tucker  |  Score: 6.8 The bodies of the dead largely outweigh those of the living in this curious triptych of films based on a quartet of novels by David Pearce, each a separate piece from a specific time period set around the...
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Dr. Clifford N. Lazarus ••• Norman, a twice-divorced thirty-six-year-old lawyer, came for therapy.  He often ran into interpersonal problems, but recently he had lost three close friendships, had a serious falling out with his parents, and his fiancée had broken off their engagement.  No wonder!  Norman had more rules and regulations than the Army,...
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Hmmmm.   Back to school.  A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background.  My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close.  I had her late in life, an only...
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While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One,  “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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A Fish Story…….. A guy who lives at Lake Conroe  (50 miles north of Houston ) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish that had apparently tried to swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!! The fish was...
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct  |  Director Jean-François Richet |  Score: 7.6 Jacques Mesrine was a renowned gangster in France, well-known for his brutal murders, kidnapping, bank robberies and extortion in the ’60s and ’70s, but made legendary for his sneering arrogance and ultra-confident air, a combination of Dillinger and Liam Gallagher. As portrayed by Vincent...
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Dr. Clifford N. Lazarus ••• Al could not understand why he had no close friends.  He saw himself as honest and caring.  What he did not realize was that he had so many shoulds, oughts and musts that it was impossible to be around him without being corrected or criticized.  “One thing I don’t...
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Well, here I am ,writing again! I have learned to love writing, and I do not obsess over it.  I hope people like what I write and want to read it, but, if they don’t what can you do!  Obsessing over it isn’t going to make people read what I have to write or...
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