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"When can I eat cheeseburgers again?" the heart patient asked his doctor.
"Never!" was the reply.

Okay, I just came up with another.

The Italian Knob

Ye-es!

Andrew Lane's
Black Ice
3rd in the Sherlock Holmes : the Legend Begins series
With a 4th one out, which we'll get to later, and a 5th one promised

When young Sherlock comes to Russia to absolve his older brother Mycroft of a murder charge in the U.K., he finds himself trapped between two secret organizations. One is known, and one is unknown, but . . .

both are all-seeing, all-knowing -- both are international in scope -- both are large -- and both are ruthless.

Besides bringing up the idea that it is those who you think you can trust are those who you can't trust, and those who you think you can't trust, are those who you can trust, the series, for a series for teens, has nothing prosaic about its threats to life and limb. So far death and near-death have come about by . . .

bees -- boat oar -- brass knuckles -- cosh -- falcons -- feral kids -- icicle -- knout -- leopards -- lizards -- ship's machinery -- slingshot -- whip -- and wild dogs.

And next time: back to the beginning or 1 of 6 and a half dozen of the other.

I almost always laugh when people say they want to see more originality from Hollywood. It's films like this, sequels which do well at the box office--one of the reasons, there are others--as to why there is so little originality from Hollywood. It is only when sequels start to do poorly, will there be a chance for greater originality from Hollywood (IMHO.)

Couldn't agree more. If people paid money to see original stuff, Hollywood would make it. Only a small minority of filmgoers value originality.

It said a lot about the moral degradation and even the economic inefficiency of the institution of slavery.

It raises a lot of questions, but since everyone is already against slavery most of the questions I had revolved around the filmmaker's techniques and motivations. The ending was actually kind of courageous filmmaking. All of Franco & Prosperi's movies are like this: very cynical, with tons of exploitation sitting alongside some serious artistic content.

And 4 More Things You May Not Know About "The Princess Bride."

(1) 1 of my top 50 films.
(2) It has one of the best casts I have ever seen in the film, and (IMHO) is worth seeing just for the cast alone.
(3) The swordfight between Cary Elwes and Mandy Pantinkin is one of the best swordfights and one of the best action scenes I have ever seen in a film.
(4) And it is one of the few films that I think is actually better than the book upon which it is based, even though the book was by noted screenwriter William Goldman.

"Let's stay home and watch television tonight," he said.  And on every channel was a Paulie Shore movie.

Not mine, but seemingly everone else's. The sequel to "300" took in $45.1 million at the box office making it the #1 film that weekend, and a couple of things worth noting.

I almost always laugh when people say they want to see more originality from Hollywood. It's films like this, sequels which do well at the box office--one of the reasons, there are others--as to why there is so little originality from Hollywood. It is only when sequels start to do poorly, will there be a chance for greater originality from Hollywood (IMHO.)

And once more we see a critical divide between audiences and critics. Here we see a film that did well with audiences at the box office, but poorly with critics, while "Peabody and Sherman" did better with critics, but less well with audiences.

And in the future, may we see at the box office . . .

They are old. They are tired. They are on the way out. Which is a bit harsh and not totally true, but my thoughts did come from an article I saw in "The New York Times Magazine" on how interchangable have become the actors who have played the Superheroes in the recent Superhero theatrical films.

And as the newest and brightest star in the Superhero firmament, the article said it was . . .

(1) An actor with a black belt in martial arts.
(2) An actor who has a starring role on "Kickin' It."
(3) An actor who has abs that just will not quit.
(4) An actor with a modicum of acting talent, as he is regarded as being the best thing in both the newest "Conan" and "G.I. Joe" films.
(5) An actor that is a babe magnet, as pre-teen girls, teenage girls, and even older women in their 20s, think he's hot.
(6) An actor named Leo Howard.
(7) And who is only 16 years old.

That last is what bothers me. Not that there have not been young performers before, as they date back to the times of William Jonson and Ben Shakespeare, if not before. It is just that performers seem to be getting younger and younger, or I am getting older and older, or both.

Still if Marvel Studios did it with "The Avengers," I can see them doing it with "The Young Avengers," with him and 11 or so more young performers, depending how many of The Young Avengers Marvel Studios want in the film.

It said a lot about the moral degradation and even the economic inefficiency of the institution of slavery.