Following the troubling news about Patrick Swayze’s pancreatic cancer, and after reading Perez Hilton’s suggestion for a gesture, I thought I would do one better and watch Swayze’s hit movie ’Dirty Dancing’ again – as I have only watched it once, 21 years ago.
A couple of nostalgia notes:
1. I first watched the movie when it came out [...]
Nobody Puts Swayze in a Corner
March 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 100% vent free
John’s Not Mad – Alin and Shani Aren’t Either
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free
I have always been fascinated by Tourette’s syndrome, which naturally manifested in my seeing virtually every documentary ever made on the subject, including:
John’s Not Mad (1989)
Twitch and Shout (1993)
The Boy Can’t Help It (2002)
I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me (2005)
Teenage Tourettes Camp (2006)
Hidden Lives: Tourette’s on the Job (2007)
Tourette de France (2007)
That is [...]
Beaufort Loses Best Foreign Film in Academy Awards
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments · venting
While it would have been nice to get the very first Oscar for an Israeli film, Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort was not Oscar material in my book.
Here is Cedar making his good-for-you-face to Austrian winner Stefan Ruzowitzky for Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters):
More info on your mainstream media.
Academy Award Nominations Concur: America is at a Crossroads
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free
With all the excitement of an Israeli film nominated for an Academy Award for the first time in twenty years, I did not pay enough attention to the Documentary Feature category:
Three out of five films nominated deal directly with the Iraqi conflict, including ‘No End in Sight‘, which I wrote about in a post titled [...]
