Day: March 5, 2006
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Stephen Colbert picked all the major Oscar awards
After the end of the Oscars, I watched Thursday’s Colbert Report, and Stephen Colbert picked all five of the top awards correctly, using The Da Colbert Code. Funny segment, though I couldn’t find a link on the website (yet?). Of course, his faux conservative schtick meant he couldn’t choose Brokeback Mountain, which helped him keep…
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Oscar sounds a bit desperate
Each of these montages during the Academy Awards seems to make a plea to the audience to keep watching movies. There is an insistence that the DVD isn’t enough, with either a bit of nervous laughter or earnest plugging (the president of the MPAA). Where’s the self-confidence? None of us want to listen to the…
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Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Only took me six years to watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Metacritic score of 69), and four months of a stuck Netflix queue. I enjoyed it. Almost makes me want to re-read The Odyssey, just to pick up the references. The connections are not hidden, but there were several moments when I’m sure there…
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Living the cliché, kindergarten-style
Read the quote below from The New York Times article “In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet“: After years of decline, the number of children under 5 in Manhattan, where the most competitive [pre-school] programs are located, increased by 26 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to census estimates. Yet the number of…