In the liner notes for this re-release of Lalo Schifrin’s score for the fifth and final installment of the Dirty Harry series, writer/Director/Producer Nick Redman states that the final track - “The Pier, The Bridge, And The City” closes the album out with “one of the loveliest instrumental renditions of Harry Callahan’s melancholy ‘love’ theme, […]

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A Hero For His Time
Who was Kracek?  If you have to ask, you probably weren’t a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.  In those days there was a Kracek in most every squadron. Kracek was the hands-down best pilot in the unit. He was the stand out guy who was always calm, decisive, quick on […]

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While all fans of the Underworld films have come to expect epic vampire- and werewolf-filled battle sequences, the more musical fans have also come to expect top-notch soundtracks filled with a high level of quality tracks, often almost doubling as something like a rock/industrial score. And the soundtrack to the third film in the series doesn’t […]

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Now that Jackie Chan is a 54 year old international star, he can relax a little, loaning his talents out to entertain children (and willing adults) in films like Kung Fu Panda, The Forbidden Kingdom, and the upcoming The Spy Next Door. And if anyone’s earned the right to do so, it’s him because in the […]

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A news article in the Christian Science Monitor describes an Anthropology class that teaches students to understand cultural change by making up fake cultures, and then going into the “big bad globalist conqueror versus poor natives who lose their wonderful culture” mode to teach them about globalization.
The people of Mekka’ kneel in the dirt, sorting […]

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Elyria, Ohio - Daniel Petric, 17, was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder, and attempted aggravated murder along with other charges.   The state prosecutors said that Daniel planned to kill his parents over a disagreement about the video game “Halo 3″.  Daniel’s defense attorney said that because he of his age and his addiction to […]

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Are we a step closer to a world without autism? The British newspaper, the Guardian had a lead feature written by Health Editor, Sarah Boseley on the new research by the Cambridge University Autism Research Centre. Professor Simon Baron Cohen and his team followed 235 children from birth to the age of eight. The study […]

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Roughly a thousand people turned up at the sprawling Schara Tzedeck Synagogue on Oak St. in Vancouver on Thursday evening to a high security – no purse or back pack got through the door unexamined — “Community Solidarity Gathering for Israel”. Some in the overflow crowd at the rally organized by the Jewish Federation of […]

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The family of a man who is said to have died as a result of exposure to the deadly substance asbestos may finally get a compensation payout as a result of the success of a newspaper appeal. The man, George Cotton, died from the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma last April, and his family have been […]

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