Special Thank You

I would like to thank the 1500 plus Robert Downey Jr. fans who keep clicking on the photo link. You got me to 3500 a mere fifteen days after I hit 2000. I love you people.

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Notice

I am off for the Holidays and don’t know when I’ll post again. Please leave comments and I’ll try my best to get some computer time to update. I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season, and please be safe. And don’t forget to watch a lot of good movies, enjoy some classic [...]

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Performances of 2008 Part 2

Michael Phelps, the 2008 Summer Olympics

Seriously, it’s an achievement that transcends nationality. Eight gold medals in the pool, and the guy becomes an instant celebrity.
Kristy Yamaguchi, Dancing With the Stars

The spring season was far superior to the recent fall one, despite the telegraphed ending. There was no way Kristy could lose outright, as she had [...]

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Movies of 2008

10. My Winnipeg
Canadian oddball surrealist Guy Maddin creates a masterpiece about his hometown, leading me to believe that if you live in Winnipeg, you must think like this man. Astonishing visuals and a surprisingly warm feeling.
9. Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris takes on the current mindset that torture is okay because the ends justify the means. [...]

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Quotes of 2008

”It’s very simple. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and, as it always has, rock crushes scissors.”
—Sheldon (Jim Parsons), explaining his new game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, on The Big Bang Theory
” [...]

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Christmas Music

Straight No Chaser:

Some Pogues:

The Killers, directed by Matthew Gray Gubler:

Do they Know It’s Christmas 1984:

John Lennon’s classic ” Happy Xmas ( War Is Over)”

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The Top Ten Television Shows And Moments of 2008

10.  The season nine premiere of CSI
I stopped watching after Tarantino made a mark and other shows popped up. But the news Gary Dourdan was leaving was enough to make me tune in and see the cast actually act for what seems like the first time in four seasons. Emotionally charged, and William Peterson reminding [...]

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Happy 26th Birthday, David Cook

Reigning AI champ David Cook turns 26 today. So, a little DC for the gurls out there in the world.

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Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees

The nominees for the SAG awards were announced this morning. The complete list below. As per usual, my picks are in bold.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
RICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale – “THE VISITOR” (Overture Films)
FRANK LANGELLA / Richard Nixon – “FROST/NIXON” (Universal Pictures)
SEAN PENN / Harvey Milk – “MILK” (Focus [...]

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Dave Karger Has A Theory ( And some Proof To Back That Up)

Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly’s divine Oscar Watchman, has put forth his theory on what films are the front runner for the Best Picture race come Oscar time. He also backs that up with some proof of his theory, although I’m convinced he needs to go back further, to at least the early 90s, to solidify [...]

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More Award Season Lists

American Film Institutes Top Ten of 2008:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Frozen River
Gran Torino
Iron Man
Milk
Wall-E
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler
The Boston Film Critics Circle ( runner-ups in brackets)
Film: “WALL-E” and “Slumdog Millionaire” (“Milk”)
Director: Gus Van Sant “Milk” and “Paranoid Park” (Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan“Slumdog Millionaire”)
Foreign Language: “Let the Right One In” (“Waltz with Bashir”)
Ensemble: [...]

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Holy Crap!

I hit two thousand hits today, for which I ust thank my devoted BBAC readers ( I love you gurls!) and that freaky night where I got two hundred hits from that Alphainventions thing ( I still don’t get it.) To put in perspective. I had a Blogger blog for three years and I hit [...]

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Ten Books For 2008

Five fiction, five non-fiction, ten great. These are not in order, because I simply cannot choose.
Beautiful Children ( Charles Bock)- an astonishing debut novel, set in Las Vegas, about a missing child, the seedy underbelly of America’s city of sin is a character in it’s own right. Stunning, searing prose makes a slightly leaden premise [...]

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Top Songs of 2008

25. Constatines ” Hard Feelings”
Canadian art-punks bring us a grinding, hard charging about the difficulty of emotions.
24. Ne-Yo ” Closer”
Usher’s heir apparent delivers on a R&B-hip hop jam that is smoother than creamy peanut butter.
23. T.I. ” Whatever You Like”
He’s such a generous guy, over trippy hio hop beats and a surprisingly warm chorus.
22. Jordin [...]

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Albums Of 2008

20. David Cook David Cook
The mysteries of life. Idol winner’s first albums as a rule are supposed to suck hardcore. Except if you’re Kelly and manage to sneak ” Low” on yours.
Or Carrie and you luck out with ” Before He Cheats”. But David C. managed to do something surprising- delivering a rather cohesive ( [...]

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Actor Van Johnson: 1916-2008

Most people would recognize the face if not the name. Van Johnson was a huge star in the 40s and 50s. But like many of the era, he fell away from favor as acting styles changed and the grittier Method style became fashionable. He was actually a really good actor, and a teen heart throb [...]

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Oscar Host Announced

Imagine my surprise while wandering about HuffPo today when I came across the news that Hugh Jackman was tapped as Oscar host. To those of us who actually watch the Tony Awards, this is awesome news, as Hugh’s previous hosting gigs were the theater honors. He can actually sing and dance, unlike some other previous [...]

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Commentary on the Golden Globe Nominees

Every year this mythical group of foreign journalists who write about Hollywood deign to call up the press to announce this list of movies and actors and writers and directors they like and then a month later throw a deliciously over the top party with food and booze and hand out some knick knack. Last [...]

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Complete List Of Golden Globe Nominees- Television

Commentary later, my picks highlighted, yadda yadda yadda.
BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Dexter
House
In Treatment
Mad Men
True Blood
BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY
30 Rock
Californication
Entourage
The Office
Weeds
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – [...]

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Complete List of Golden Globe Nominees-Film

As always, I have highlighted my picks for who I think will win. Commentary tonight.
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST PERFORMANCE [...]

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