I was talking to my good friend, retired Western Stuntman Jack Young and he shared a long kept secret with me.
Jack calls Tucson, Arizona home these days. Although he was based in Hollywood during his years as a stuntman he spent a good deal of time in Tucson on location. He fell in love with […]

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This is a guest article by Mannie Barling. There is little doubt the the film It’s A Wonderful Life has been watched and enjoyed by many millions of people. It is a timeless classic that crosses generations. I won’t date Mannie, but I will say this, he was an invited guest at the event….. Simon […]

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The president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, who is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), said that Christian Bale is a hero for trying to visit Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng who is kept under house arrest in China.
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is […]

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When it comes to the world of Organized Crime people tend to think of the big five New York crime families. The names Gambino, Columbo, Bonanno, Genovse, and Lucchese were not ones that you wanted to hear if you fell out of favor over some ‘minor’ money issue….
For decades the Families operated with impunity. Why […]

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It takes a lot to shock Hollywood. But the news that Newt Gingrich has bumped Jon Corzine as supervillain Two-Face in the next Batman is making jaws drop in Dream City. Corzine was reportedly in like Flynn; his duplicitous doings at MF Global made him Two-Face to the max. Sure, Jon had heavy competition from […]

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This just in from Hollywood– Jon Corzine, who until about a week ago was Top Dog in the tanking Wall Street unreality series My Own Private MF Global has been cast as supervillain Two-Face in the next Batman opus. Buzz sez Bat producer Michael Uslan saw the Reuters piece The Two Faces of Jon Corzine […]

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Some of the progressive blogs are lauding the protests against Wall Street as if these protests were an uprising of the “PEOPLE” against the rich, and a copy of the heroism of the Arab Spring.
Now, I am aghast at the Wall Street shenanigans as much as the next person, but when the president and his […]

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Money Ball is deservingly going to draw comparisons to The Social Network primarily because both are true stories about people who found success doing the seemingly impossible by going about their business in an unlikely and unusual way.  The other comparison will come from the fact that both had academy award level performances.

Money Ball is […]

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How do respond to the bravery of men who catch a man eating crocodile, to protect their children from harm?
You tell them they should be ashamed of themselves, and that they should let the dangerous animal go free.
Yes, the foreigners who pay all that nice money to PETA to get foreign women to dance half […]

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The latest “Western” movie from Hollywood, about aliens and starring a petulant British actor, was a bomb, and that led many “experts” to again predict the demise of the Western as a film genre. Of course, the real reason for the problem is the nihilism of Hollywood, not the lack of stories.
So could I suggest […]

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Joe Biden’s visit to China has gotten little respect in the US press, who seem to despise his “everyday man” approach to things and who trumpet his verbal gaffes without noticing his common touch is something desperately needed by the elitist Obama administration.
During his trip to China, he visited an ordinary Chinese restaurant and ate […]

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The president is taking a much needed vacation, this time to Martha’s Vineyard.
So what does the Washington Post have for a headline this morning?
As rebels close in on Tripoli, Obama getting updates on Martha’s Vineyard
Why yes.
Martha’s Vineyard isn’t exactly in the middle of nowhere, and they do have internet connections, an airfield and a […]

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I am old enough to remember when women were exiled into specific specialties in medicine (quick: how many women Urologists do you know), and a similar problem was seen in college (few women in my advanced science classes) and in the newspaper (where women often were expected to write fluffy reports for the fashion and […]

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While the economy collapses, the Middle East is on fire, and our beloved President seems to be as unable to communicate with the American people as the previous president, the news stories are full of a tweeting congressman.
Jokes are easy to make about the problem, especially since the congressman’s name is easily mispronounced to resemble […]

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Well, this year’s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally got some publicity today when Sarah Palin and family accompanied them as private citizens. As the mother of an Iraqi veteran, she is entitled to this.
Most of the half million attending the rally seemed pleased.
So of course most of the press coverage was about Andrea Mitchell finding the […]

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If you aren’t already frightened for the direction in which this country is headed, then the first few minutes of “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1” will scare your pants off!  In order to Expedite the exposition process Atlas Shrugged starts out with a media montage of life in the year 2016.  America’s infrastructure is crumbling, and America’s industry […]

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There are hundreds and hundreds of music genres, and new ones seem to crop up constantly. I recently stumbled upon a band from a Scandinavian country who are pioneers in Prog Metal Folk music. I will not divulge the bands name for two reasons, one because the name is completely unpronounceable, and two, the music […]

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The name Tommy Roe is one that everyone born prior to 1960 remembers. During the 1960’s Tommy Roe had a string of hits both in the US and elsewhere in the world. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the songs certainly will. Here is a refresher for you from 1969:
Dizzy

There are many people […]

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Sean Patrick Griffin’s new book Gaming the Game won’t make disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy happy. In 2007, Donaghy was busted by the feds for conspiring with pro gambler Jimmy “Baba” Battista and their mutual boyhood pal, low-level drug dealer and all round dogsbody Tommy Martino. Donaghy had been supplying Battista with picks on games […]

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The thing about this movie is that I never felt bored.  That’s important because unlike some movies that are very focused on a single character, causing to that character to be central to every scene, I never felt tired of our hero in Limitless.
 
The lead actor in question here is Bradley Cooper who plays Eddie […]

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ArcheologyNews reports that a researcher claims Henry VIII didn’t die of a combination of syphillis, obesity related diabetes and malaria, (and perhaps a bit mentally unstable from cerebral syphilis and the mercury used back then to treat it).
No, they claim it was a rare complication of the Kells’ antigen called McLeod syndrome.
Research conducted by […]

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Jose Henriquez, the Chilean Miner has sent a special message to parents and carers of children and adults with autism to mark Autism Sunday 2011 which falls on Sunday 13th February. Jose Henriquez was one of the 33 miners trapped underground in the San José mine in Chile. Henriquez organised daily prayers deep down in […]

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I wonder how much of the “red state/blue state” divide is based not on “politics” per se, but on misunderstanding of culture, so that the two groups use words to mean different things.
I’ll start with a quote from President Obama at the recent prayer breakfast, taken from an article by Ruth Marcus in the Washington […]

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I class myself as blessed. I know the strangest people, and they in turn introduce me to others. Oh, do not get me wrong, I love all of these people. I feel privileged to call them friends. But, to the average person some of them may seem just a little eccentric.
Several weeks ago I was […]

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Despite the fact that the shooting in Arizona was caused by a mentally ill person, the spin was followed by a week of Sarah Palin bashing.
With the State of the Union address, it’s calmed down a bit, but nevertheless Time Magazine decided it was important news to complain that Sarah Palin put the flag on […]

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Amy Chua’s article in the Wall Street Journal, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” has gotten enough publicity to make her book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a best seller.  She’s clear that she uses the term “Chinese Mother” to represent a certain way of treating children that may be found in people from many, […]

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Last week Mannie Barling, Ashley F. Brooks, and I had a very special guest on the program, well known movie and TV actor Patrick Kilpatrick. I am sure that many people wondered what a famous actor and producer could possibly be doing on a radio program about health and nutrition?
Patrick himself gave the ultimate […]

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Over here in the Philippines, we have a lot of political murders, and entering politics can be risky. The dirty little secret is that most of these are against low level politicians, and they are not really about disagreeing with a person’s politics, but about who will control all that lovely money that is funneled […]

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For a mere ten million dollars the fine people at Rogue Pictures have put together a slick looking movie in Skyline. However outside of the scary looking aliens, blue LED light effects and space ships, there isn’t much going for this movie.Staring Donald Fasion (and I use the term ‘staring’ loosely as Fasion is merely […]

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Will Ferrell is famous as one of Hollywood’s top comedic leading men known primarily for his overacting and generally crazy onscreen antics.   However, Ferrell has a complementary talent: (other than his sexy crooning vocals featured in “Semi-Pro”) voice acting.
Ferrell voices the title character “Megamind” an evil blue alien who crash-lands on earth after his home […]

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