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Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard stars Bruce Willis – action, action, more action. Live Free or Die Hard Getting some good suggestions lately. Got two yesterday Watched them both & don’t know how I missed 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard. Loved the first 3 Die Hards – didn’t know there was a 4th. IMDB […]

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Cold Blooded Fraud

Ratched is a cold blooded fraud perpetrated on TV viewers. Cold Blooded Fraud I was about to compromise by principles by describing Ratched as a weird but interesting series. That is, until one of my best friends ever – that best friend being Bill Gaffney – chastised my opinion – and I quote – “Come […]

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Ratched

Nurse Mildred Ratched sure ain’t Nurse Ratched from Cuckoo’s Nest. Ratched “Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You” – origin unknown Unfortunately, today, I’m biting the hand of Dorothy Conway Westermeier – a Clifton girl – apologize in advance – but to thine own self I must be true. After I posted about Cuckoo’s Nest […]

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Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – one of the best movies I ever saw. Cuckoo’s Nest The year’s 1975 – and my family’s living in Sunrise, Florida – My Favorite Daughter & Favorite Son are 10 and 8 – the weather’s perfect for outside activities. Nadia Comănec is a media darling on the Romanian […]

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Stand and Deliver

A calculus teacher in L.A. turns a buncha cholos into scholars. Stand and Deliver Another suggestion popped up on Thanksgiving – 1988’s Stand and Deliver. Haven’t seen it in years. So I watched it – and liked it. I was going to say the movie starred Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips – with […]

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Coneheads

Coneheads grabs you by the base of your snarglies. Coneheads IMDB pretends to describe 1993’s Coneheads in eight words: “Aliens with conical crania crash-land on Earth.” – and fails miserably. A suggestion popped up on my screen yesterday & grabbed me by the base of my snarglies. So I took a break from crime today […]

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Homeless with Clint

I gots ta know. Homeless with Clint I was watching the Redskins kick the Eagles ass 30-14 when the first half ended. The date was September 17, 1989, and I was watching from a beachfront condo on the north shore of St. Croix. Shortly after the ‘Skins kicked off to start the second half, the […]

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Waco

FBI agents burned the complex to the ground. Waco Last Sunday, before sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner, my Favorite Grandson and his Favorite Girlfriend told me about the Waco series on Netflix. Both said they liked it. That pulled my trigger. I told them that only two non-Branch Davidians had ever been inside David Koresh’s […]

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Wild Things

Wild Things is much more than girl-on-girl sex and three-somes. Wild Things Wild Things popped up on my screen last night – musta watched it at least 2 dozen times over the years. Confession: each time to admire the girl-on-girl action with Nev Campbell & Denise Richards – plus the threesome with Matt Dillon. But […]

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Taking of Pelham 123

123 is different than One Two Three Taking of Pelham 123 OK – so – last night The Taking of Pelham 123 pops up on my screen – I say, “Damn. Haven’t seen that in about 45 years.” Released in 1974 – always interested in the movie because when I was living in New York […]

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