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<title><![CDATA[This Woman's Work]]></title>
<link>http://seizingtheday.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/this-womans-work/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paisano</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ She&#8217;s Having a Baby is another one of those underrated comedies that touches you in ways that]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://seizingtheday.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sheshavingababy.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;margin:0 5px 0 0;" src="http://seizingtheday.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sheshavingababy-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="sheshavingababy" width="133" height="244" align="left" /> She's Having a Baby</a> is another one of those underrated comedies that touches you in ways that you never forget. John Hughes broke free from his high school brat pack mold (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, etc.) and totally captures the amazing experiences of marriage and parenthood in this wonderful movie. It includes a fantastic soundtrack as well.</p>
<p>Kevin Bacon (Jake) and Elisabeth McGovern (Kristy) were at their best as they portrayed the young newlyweds who survive the salads days trying to make ends meet. Jake struggles with the new concept of being monogamous as he's tempted by a beautiful stranger. He also has to deal with a lifelong friend who has serious commitment issues (Alec Baldwin in a hilarious role).</p>
<p>There are countless funny scenes that poke fun at the american dream and suburban life. One of the best examples is the dancing lawn mower scene where all the men do their weekend yard work samba. Here's the scene:</p>
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<p>Here's the Trailer</p>
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<p>Besides all of the witty and humorous scenes, there are some deep, emotional moments as well. For example, the following video clip will include the unforgettable birth scene which featured Kate Bush's haunting and perfect "This Woman's Work". It is such a powerful scene because it depicts the hopelessness we men feel at that magical but scary time. All the lamas and training we do cannot prepare you for what you will encounter. John Hughes masterfully captures the raw emotions of that whole experience, especially if complications ensue. The best moment is when Jake's teardrops turn into blood from his wife as she struggles to give birth. Jake realizes at that moment that he was a fool to ever doubt his marriage and to even consider being unfaithful and only wanted his wife back.</p>
<p>Here's the amazing sequence of scenes featuring Kate Bush's memorable "This Woman's Work" including the ending of the film. Spoiler alert of course.</p>
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<p>I've been blessed to experience becoming a father three times and I swear that I thought of this movie and especially the ending scenes each and every time! I also watched the movie before the birth of all three children. Somehow it just brings comfort and joy.</p>
<p>If you're young and haven't experienced the glory of marriage and parenthood, then watch this movie and enjoy. It truly gives a good glimpse into what awaits you, my friend.</p>
<p><strong>Here are the lyrics to "This Woman's Work"</strong></p>
<p>Pray God you can cope.<br />
I stand outside this woman's work,<br />
This woman's world.<br />
Ooh, it's hard on the man,<br />
Now his part is over.<br />
Now starts the craft of the father.<br />
I know you have a little life in you yet.<br />
I know you have a lot of strength left.<br />
I know you have a little life in you yet.<br />
I know you have a lot of strength left.<br />
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.<br />
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking<br />
Of all the things I should've said,<br />
That I never said.<br />
All the things we should've done,<br />
That we never did.<br />
All the things I should've given,<br />
But I didn't.<br />
Oh, darling, make it go,<br />
Make it go away.<br />
Give me these moments back.<br />
Give them back to me.<br />
Give me that little kiss.<br />
Give me your hand.<br />
(I know you have a little life in you yet.<br />
I know you have a lot of strength left.<br />
I know you have a little life in you yet.<br />
I know you have a lot of strength left.)<br />
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.<br />
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking<br />
Of all the things we should've said,<br />
That were never said.<br />
All the things we should've done,<br />
That we never did.<br />
All the things that you needed from me.<br />
All the things that you wanted for me.<br />
All the things that I should've given,<br />
But I didn't.<br />
Oh, darling, make it go away.<br />
Just make it go away now.</p>
<p>Here's the MP3 for "<a href="http://skreemr.com/link.jsp?id=6B584B54535F67" target="_blank">This Woman's Work</a>" by Kate Bush that you can play or download</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Re-Emerged and Tagged]]></title>
<link>http://nicolereillan.wordpress.com/?p=245</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nicole Reillan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, despite my looooong absence, I have been tagged by the beauteous and oh-so-talented Catherine ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, despite my looooong absence, I have been tagged by the beauteous and oh-so-talented <a title="The Beauteous and Talented Catherine" href="http://catherineavrilmorris.com/" target="_blank">Catherine Avril Morris</a>, and I thought it may be an apt return to blogging. Or, at least, yet another attempted return. (I'm crossing my fingers AND my toes this time around. I want to get back into the swing of things.)</p>
<p>So. Six Random Things About Me:</p>
<p>1. According to Baby Sister, I make very soft murmuring noises when I'm comfortable and watching television or a movie. I'm still not sure I believe her.</p>
<p>2. I get motion-sick whenever I spend more than five minutes in a WalMart.</p>
<p>3. I don't like peanut butter and jelly.</p>
<p>4. I can't watch people brush their teeth.</p>
<p>5. My doodles are usually hearts or strings of pearls.</p>
<p>6. I created a breakfast dish which my sister and I dubbed "Kevin Bacon Fakin' Makin' Bacon" after a tongue-twister we made up as kids.</p>
<p>There! I'm not going to tag anyone since I've been out on hiatus for so long, but feel free to give it a go if you're so inclined.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Playboy: Who Are You?]]></title>
<link>http://encinoman.wordpress.com/?p=198</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>encinoman</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[If the opening &#8217;spread&#8217; for your magazine is not a woman at all, but an ad for a game fo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the opening 'spread' for your magazine is not a woman at all, but an ad for a game for a Sony PlayStation Portable (the handheld game favored by twitchy teenagers), what does that say about <a href="http://www.playboy.com">Playboy</a>? </p>
<p>As usual, what Playboy says about men (or perhaps about its own irrelevance) is far more interesting than how it shows women, overloaded on top and shaved for action, or with tiny, non-threatening 'landing strips' down there that perfectly match the 'coffee tea or me' ambiance of the Brazilian stewardess spread.</p>
<p>Month after month, Hugh Hefner is surrounded with the usual <a href="http://www.dailyniner.com/girlsnextdoor2.shtml">'bevy' </a>of beauties.</p>
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<p><img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020503/17527__playboy1_l.jpg" border="0" alt="Sexy Playmate wannabes battle to pose naked &#124; 17527__playboy1_l" width="315" height="395" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">The girls remain 20 and pneumatic, but the hair of three of the writers featured, like that of Robert Stone and Pat Jordan, has gone from gray to white.  The third isn't even alive (Kurt Vonnegut.) In the schizophrenic world of Playboy, 2008, those 'real writers' bookend a</span></span> scolding lecture by <a href="http://www.brijit.com/abstract/19123/Zero-Narrative-Nation">Susan Jacoby</a> about how America doesn't read anymore--plopped dead center in the midst of a stroke book.</p>
<p>And I swear I saw the punch lines for the cartoons and the laugh-a-century Playboy Party Jokes 30 years ago.</p>
<p>In the current issue, she's supposed to be a MILF [Mothers I'd Love to Fuck], but the thought of winning a date with siliconed, dyed and war-painted 42-year old <a href="https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/PY/PLD/PLD_sweeps.jsp?cds_page_id=49232&#38;cds_mag_code=PLD&#38;id=1215652548485&#38;lsid=81912009457042935&#38;vid=2&#38;cds_mag_code=PLD">Cindy Margolis </a>is downright scary:</p>
<p align="center"><img src="https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/PY/PLD/images/sweeps/cindy_margolis.jpg" alt="" width="402" height="275" /></p>
<p>OK, I know that <a href="http://mondaymorningmediaquarterback.com/2007/06/12/dirty-secrets-of-mens-magazines-2/">Kevin Bacon </a>and I aren't the <a href="http://mondaymorningmediaquarterback.com/2007/02/02/what-guys-like/">right demographic</a> for Playboy anymore--but who is?  Videogames, MILFs, bewhiskered authors and an 81-year old figurehead; the Playboy lifestyle is looking pretty incoherent these days.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[50 år]]></title>
<link>http://fotolaben.wordpress.com/?p=98</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fotolaben</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fotolaben.wordpress.com/?p=98</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Vår alles kjære Kevin Bacon fyller 50 år idag. Vil ønske alle dere der ute tillykke med dagen. ]]></description>
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<p>Vår alles kjære Kevin Bacon fyller 50 år idag. Vil ønske alle dere der ute tillykke med dagen. Hurra!</p>
<p>1. fact:<br />
- Kevin Bacon har IKKE spilt i Gudfaren. Det har derimot Robert Duvall.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Possible Movie Night Features]]></title>
<link>http://thegrip.wordpress.com/?p=560</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thegrip</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thegrip.wordpress.com/?p=560</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Movie night has been a big success so far and we want to keep it going with good movies every week. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Movie night has been a big success so far and we want to keep it going with good movies every week. This post will be an open forum where people can suggest titles that they think are worthy of Move Night Fame. Please leave your suggestions in the comment section. Here are a few trailers of upcoming movies. Be prepared for some of the best movies ever created.</p>
<p><strong><em>Road House</em> starring Patrick Swayze</strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Over The Top</em> starring Sylvester Stallone </strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Cobra </em>starring Sylvester Stallone</strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Quicksilver</em> starring Kevin Bacon</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mystic River (2003)]]></title>
<link>http://speilet.wordpress.com/?p=472</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>trondjo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Vurdering:

USA 2003 | Regi: Clint Eastwood | Spilletid: 137 min | IMDb

Mystic River åpner med bil]]></description>
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<h5 style="text-align:center;">USA 2003 &#124; Regi: Clint Eastwood &#124; Spilletid: 137 min &#124; <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">IMDb</a></h5>
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<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">Mystic River</a> åpner med bildene av tre gutter som spiller landhockey i gatene. Men idyll forvandles fort til det motsatte idet en bil stopper opp. En av guttene blir lurt med i baksetet, intetanende om at de i førersetet snart skal forgripe seg på ham.</p>
<p>Etter at tiden har gått og guttene blitt voksne, har de også vokst fra hverandre. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000209/">Tim Robbins</a> spiller mannen med den traumatiske fortiden, og det er han som blir mistenkt når et drap begås i nabolaget. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/">Kevin Bacon</a>spiller sjefsetterforskeren som var en av de tre guttene i kameratgjengen. Den siste, spilt av <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000576/">Sean Penn</a>, er offerets far. Et komplekst drama med masse følelser og psykologi involvert starter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/">Clint Eastwood</a> har laget en ambisiøs film. Det skal han ha. Stødig regiarbeid er det også. Dramaturgisk velfungerende og alt føles veldig korrekt. Kanskje litt for korrekt.</p>
<p>Filmen er basert på en bestselger av en roman, forfattet av <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212331/">Dennis Lehane</a>, hvorpå <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001338/">Brian Helgeland</a> har gjort verket om til et filmmanus. Helgeland gjorde det samme med <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255278/">James Ellroys</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/">L.A. Confidential</a> for noen år siden, noe han vant en Oscar for. Helgeland skrev også manuset til Eastwoods forrige film, den langt mer middelmådige <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309377/">Blood Work</a> (2002).</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">Mystic River</a> favner bredt, noe som tildels også føles som et ørlite lite problem filmen drar med seg hele veien. Det er så mye som trekkes frem at man, på tross av filmens lengde, ikke rekker å gripe ordentlig fast i deler av plottet. Det kan virke som om Helgeland har ønsket å ta med alle bihistoriene fra romanen over til filmen. Film er imidlertid et <em>helt</em> annet medium, der det rett og slett ikke er rom for alle detaljer som finnes innbundet i ordinær bokstørrelse.</p>
<p>Filmen lider også litt under en nokså forutsigbar krimhistorie. Når undertegnede har "gjettet" seg til drapsmannen før halvtimen har gått (og jeg er vanligvis ikke noe god på sånt), ser man også fort hvor konstruert <em>den</em> biten av historien er. Men heldigvis har filmen mye mer ved seg enn et mord som skal løses, selv om det riktignok later til å være filmens hovedingrediens.</p>
<p>Dette var forsåvidt en noe negativ innledning på en anmeldelse av noe jeg faktisk anser som en meget god film. Årsaken er ikke bare den stødige regien, hvor en historie brettes ut uten at det tys til de voldsomme virkemidlene, men først og fremst grunnet ekstraordinære skuespillerprestasjoner som griper en. Sean Penn er skummelt god allerede fra første scene. Du ser at Jimmy Markum er en levende person, med et sinne og en personlighet som er forståelig og troverdig. Han gir liv til en karakter som virkelig er tredimensjonal.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">Mystic River</a> er utvilsomt et drama som drives frem på bakgrunn av karakterer vi utvikler et nyansert forhold til. Et karakterstudie som innbyr til utfordringer for skuespillerne, der det blir en enkel oppgave å skille de gode fra de mindre gode. Den oppgaven har Eastwood tatt på alvor. Kevin Bacon er god. Tim Robbins er enda bedre. Sistnevnte er kanskje ingen skuespiller med det store reportoaret, men i denne nedtonede settingen er han minst like fremragende som han var i <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/">The Shawshank Redemption</a>. Disse tre utgjør trekløveret som binder filmen sammen. Men det er tvingende nødvendig med gode biroller for at det skal fungere i filmer som dette. Det har <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">Mystic River</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001315/">Marcia Gay Harden</a> er (som alltid) spesielt god. Det lyser også av <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000401/">Laurence Fishburne</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/">Laura Linney</a> og <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0347509/">Tom Guiry</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/">Mystic River</a> er en mørk og trist film, der det sakte tempoet forsterker effekten av den tragiske historien. Dessverre står kanskje ikke avslutningen i stil med resten. Men etter å ha sett filmen for andre og tredje gang begynner også dét å gi god smak...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cenas de Mortes Mais Chocantes do Cinema]]></title>
<link>http://cinemagia.wordpress.com/?p=968</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tommy Beresford</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Do Terra:
O portal norte-americano FilmSite, especializado em rankings, acaba de atualizar sua lista]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://cinemagia.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/exorcista_capa.jpg" align="right">Do <a target="_blank" href="http://cinema.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2987545-EI1176,00.html">Terra</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>O portal norte-americano FilmSite, especializado em rankings, acaba de atualizar sua lista anual com as mais chocantes cenas de mortes do cinema. No total, são contabilizados momentos memoráveis das telas desde a década de 30, quando o hábito de sair para assistir a filmes começou a ficar freqüente. </p>
<p>De um total de mais de 100 longas-metragens, confira algumas cenas que marcaram as décadas de 70, 80, 90 e 2000. Para quem não assistiu a alguns dos filmes, os relatos a seguir podem contar partes importantes do enredo.</p></blockquote>
<p><!--more [Clique aqui para ver a lista comentada, da matéria do Terra]--><strong>O Exorcista (1973)</strong><br />
Direção: William Friedkin</p>
<blockquote><p>Cansado de tentar exorcizar o demônio Pazuzu do corpo da menina Regan (Linda Blair), o padre Karras (Jason Miller) resolve provocá-lo e questiona seus poderes ao pedir que ele o possua. O demônio atende o pedido e entra no corpo de Karras, que resiste à sua influência e se joga pela janela, rolando degraus de escada e morrendo no final dela. A cena é tão clássica que a escadaria utilizada para rodar o filme, em Georgetown, virou ponto turístico e patrimônio histórico da cidade.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Tubarão (1975)</strong><br />
Direção: Steven Spielberg</p>
<blockquote><p>O clássico Tubarão é repleto de cenas memoráveis de mortes, mas a mais bem-sucedida delas provavelmente é a do próprio vilão do filme, o tubarão assassino. Depois de perder várias pessoas pelos ataques freqüentes do monstro marinho, Brody (Roy Scheider) engana o bicho e joga um tanque de oxigênio dentro de sua boca. Depois de cambalear enlouquecidamente, o tubarão ainda leva vários tiros.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>A Profecia (1976)</strong><br />
Direção: Richard Donner</p>
<blockquote><p>Depois de tentar encontrar uma solução para matar o assustador menino Damien, interpretado por Harvey Stephens, filho do demônio em pessoa, o fotógrafo David Warner (Keith Jennings) é decapitado após ser atingido por um bloco de vidro, que cai de um caminhão. Sua cabeça rola no ar e espirra sangue, chocando os que estavam ao seu redor. O filme ainda reúne outra cena memorável: mostrando todo o seu amor a Damien, a babá (Holly Palance) resolve se enforcar durante a festinha de 6 anos do pequeno demônio.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Carrie, A Estranha (1976)</strong><br />
Direção: Brian De Palma</p>
<blockquote><p>Depois de ser banhada por sangue de porco no baile de formatura, Carrie (Sissy Spacek) usa seus poderes sobrenaturais, até então ocultos, para matar cada aluno que atravessa o seu caminho das mais variadas formas.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Alien (1979)</strong><br />
Direção: Ridley Scott</p>
<blockquote><p>O clássico de 1979 tem uma cena inesquecível. Durante um jantar na nave Nostromo, Kane (John Hurt) tem seu corpo dilacerado por uma criatura alienígena que sai de seu peito. Sangue e pedaços de órgãos voam para todo lado, em um dos momentos menos esperados do longa-metragem.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>O Iluminado (1980)</strong><br />
Direção: Stanley Kubrick</p>
<blockquote><p>O aterrorizante O Iluminado usa da psicologia para tentar retirar dos espectadores seus maiores medos. Ninguém esperava, porém, que a morte do amalucado personagem Jack (Jack Nicholson), que persegue sua família com um machado após ser influenciado por espíritos de um hotel vazio, seria tão simples. Depois de perseguir o filho e a mulher fora do local, o assassino não resiste ao frio e amanhece duro como pedra, congelado pela baixa temperatura.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Sexta-feira 13 (1980)</strong><br />
Direção: Sean Cunningham</p>
<blockquote><p>No primeiro Sexta-Feira 13, Jason Voorhes nem existia, mas sua mãe já saía matando os adolescentes de um acampamento, indignada com a morte por afogamento de seu querido filho. É num desses assassinatos que Jack Burrell (Kevin Bacon) é agarrado e tem uma lança atravessada em sua garganta, provocando um mar de sangue em sua cama.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>A Hora do Pesadelo (1984)</strong><br />
Direção: Wes Craven</p>
<blockquote><p>Johnny Depp, em começo de carreira, fazia filmes adolescentes do gênero B. Talvez ele não soubesse o quanto a série A Hora do Pesadelo se tornaria famosa. Na cena de sua morte, o personagem é engolido pela cama e reduzido a sangue, muito sangue, que se espalha por todo o quarto e choca sua mãe.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Pânico (1996)</strong><br />
Direção: Wes Craven</p>
<blockquote><p>O massacre dos adolescentes da série Pânico começa quando a personagem de Rose McGowan decide pegar algumas cervejas na garagem e é esfaqueada pelo maníaco mascarado. Como se não bastasse, o homicida resolve amassar a cabeça da jovem ao prensá-la entre o portão e uma parede.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>A Outra História Americana [1998]</strong><br />
Direção: Tony Kaye</p>
<blockquote><p>O neonazista Derek tem o ódio em seu coração. O ápice de sua raiva acontece logo no começo do filme, quando ele manda um de seus inimigos colocar a boca em uma sarjeta e pisa em sua cabeça, destruindo seu maxilar e o matando instantaneamente.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>O Chamado (2002)</strong><br />
Direção: Gore Verbinski</p>
<blockquote><p>Depois de tórridas cenas de investigação, o grand finale acontece quando a medonha aberração Samara Morgan (Daveigh Chase) sai da televisão e engatinha em direção a Noah (Martin Henderson), que já estava amaldiçoado pela fita de vídeo assombrada.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>A Paixão de Cristo (2004)</strong><br />
Direção: Mel Gibson</p>
<blockquote><p>Mel Gibson foi alvo de críticas e elogios pelas cenas de tortura de Paixão de Cristo. Na hora da crucificação de Jesus (Jim Caviezel), há closes em suas mãos e pernas sendo pregadas. Posteriormente, ele dá seu último suspiro e morre sob um banho de sangue.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>A Casa de Cera (2005)</strong><br />
Direção: Jaume Collet-Serra</p>
<blockquote><p>A Casa de Cera não chamou muita atenção nos cinemas, exceto pela cena em que a personagem vivida por Paris Hilton, em sua grande estréia nas telas, é morta por uma lança atravessada em sua testa.</p></blockquote>
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<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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<p>I was driving home from NewTunes last night and my iPod served up "Kingdom of Rain" - a song from <a href="http://www.thethe.com/">The The</a> featuring <a href="http://www.sinead-oconnor.com/">Sinead O'Connor</a>.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/C_i9BJgbD98'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/C_i9BJgbD98&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>This is not only one of my favorite songs from The The, but one of my all time favorites, in general. And it got me thinking about Sinead O'Connor.</p>
<p>I've never been a huge fan. I enjoyed the first album, but nothing she did after really resonated with me. However, she somehow has been involved in some of my favorite songs from other artists who's music I've always enjoyed.</p>
<p>Check out her work with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge">The Edge</a> on "Heroine," a song from his soundtrack album for a film called "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Edge/dp/B000003RUW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=music&#38;qid=1215010488&#38;sr=1-1">Captive</a>." (no video for this, but someone did put it to YouTube)</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/3zrOTFqtAlg'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/3zrOTFqtAlg&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Thanks to Julia Turner, who turned me onto this album - and specifically, this song - while at college. The rest of this album is very moody and ambient and not really like this song. But this song made it on most of my college mix tapes and still stands as one of my favorite.</p>
<p>It is the feeling one gets from discovering a little known song like this that attracts me every day to the potential of NewTunes. It is my hope that people have experiences like finding a song like this every day on our site.</p>
<p>But, back to Sinead O'Connor. One of <a href="http://www.petergabriel.com/">Peter Gabriel's</a> more moving songs - Blood of Eden - featured none other than our own Sinead O'Connor.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/T8lF6DOpmxk'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/T8lF6DOpmxk&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>O'Connor's first album, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Cobra-Sin%C3%A9ad-OConnor/dp/B000003JAW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=music&#38;qid=1215010547&#38;sr=1-1">The Lion and the Cobra</a>, was released in 1987. While working on that, she also provided backing vocals for Karl Wallinger's band, <a href="http://www.worldparty.net/worldparty.html">World Party</a>. Not only did she sing on the song "Private Revolution," but she also appeared in the video.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/XyarL2iPeEM'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/XyarL2iPeEM&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>As I said, I've never been enough of a fan to purchase any of her music past Lion and the Cobra, but I'm fascinated by how entranced I am every time she performs with someone else. I don't want to fill this post with videos, but here's a short list of others with whom she's been involved...</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.enya.com/">Enya</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.myspace.com/jahwobble">Jah Wobble</a></li>
<li>Anthony Kiedis (<a href="http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a> (but that was dating))</li>
<li><a href="http://www.davestewart.com/">Dave Stewart</a> (<a href="http://www.eurythmics.com/">Eurythmics</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wyclef.com/">Wyclef Jean</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.moby.com/">Moby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://prince.org/">Prince</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.u2.com/">Bono</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=roger">Roger Daltrey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eltonjohn.com/">Elton John</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.roger-waters.com/">Roger Waters</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mc-lyte.com/enterpage.html">MC Lyte</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.transvisionvamp.com/">Transvision Vamp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kriskristofferson.com/">Kris Kristofferson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/home/main.html">Bob Dylan</a></li>
<li>...and I'm sure I'm missing even more</li>
</ul>
<p>But I wonder if she knows <a href="http://www.baconbros.com/site.php">Kevin Bacon</a>.</p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kekko</dc:creator>
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<link>http://multiplot.wordpress.com/?p=279</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luis Henrique Boaventura</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hoje o Multiplot! está banhado em sangue. Mas nada mais apropriado do que vísceras rasgadas, membr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Hoje o Multiplot! está banhado em sangue. Mas nada mais apropriado do que vísceras rasgadas, membros decepados e vultos enigmáticos espreitando através da noite para embalar mais uma sexta-feira 13. Em virtude da data, uma das mais celebradas por fãs apaixonados - ou seria obcecados? - de Jason, Freddy Krueger e Michael Meyers, resolvemos fazer desta edição dos nossos Tops! uma homenagem a um dos gêneros mais polêmicos do cinema. Aqui estão nossos Tops! dos filmes mais assustadores, repulsivos, esquizofrênicos e doentios de que se tem notícia - lembrando que novamente selecionaremos um top de leitores para colocar junto dos nossos, portanto, participem!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">E pra começo de conversa, uma análise exclusiva do primeiro filme da série Sexta-Feira 13, hoje um dos mais populares do gênero e que, neste dia maldito, completa 28 anos.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>SEXTA-FEIRA 13 (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">O Acampamento de Crystal Lake é um verdadeiro paraíso... Localizado nas imediações de Nova Jersey a extensa área remete àqueles lugares onde se vai pra passar o resto de sua vida, já extremamente produtiva por tantos anos de trabalho... Só que o filme desse acampamento já foi devidamente queimado por um casal de jovens que, movidos a tesão, deixaram um garoto deficiente morrer afogado no imenso lago que circula a região. Isso foi em 1957. O corpo da criança nunca foi encontrado. E foi exatamente aí que os problemas começaram. Um ano depois, o suposto casal que deixou o menino se afogar, é violentamente assassinado, enquanto se entregavam a folguedos românticos...</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Após isso, o acampamento permaneceu fechado e ganhou a fama de local maldito pelos residentes da pacata e pequena cidade de Crystal Lake. E assim ficou por mais de 20 anos, com algumas pífias tentativas de reabertura que nunca se concretizavam, pois alguém ou alguma coisa sempre atrapalhava. Até 1980 quando o filho dos donos do local, Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer) resolve investir mais uma vez no acampamento, justamente para aproveitar as férias de julho. Para isso contrata um bando de garotos na faixa dos 20 anos para ajudá-lo na tarefa. Mas sempre dizem que desenterrar passado é querer se sujar e um a um, são TODOS mortos violentamente num festival sádico que inclui lanças no pescoço, machadadas na cara, esgorjamentos, flechadas em várias partes do corpo, entre outras atrocidades...</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lançado na esteira do sucesso do clássico Halloween - A Noite do Terror, Sexta-Feira 13 sedimentou os parâmetros criados pela obra-prima de John Carpenter. A partir deste filme, somente a criação de um clima de suspense e tensão não era suficiente... Era necessário acrescentar galões e galões de sangue pra chocar o público. Talvez seja isso que torne Sexta-Feira 13 um ícone muito mais popular do que o seu antecessor e principal inspirador: a capacidade de chocar o público com cenas extremamente violentas aditivadas com suspense e tensão. Mas mais do que isso, há um tom iconoclasta e um moralismo às avessas que acredito terem sido os responsáveis pela esperiência saborosa que é assistí-lo (com todas as suas virtudes e todos os seus [muitos] defeitos) e pela sua longevidade, completando nesta data exata (13 de junho) 28 anos de idade.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">É difícil estabelecer as razões pelas quais um slasher faz sucesso. O que move as pessoas a irem ao cinema para ver 90 minutos de alguém matando outras pessoas? Sexta-Feira 13 é herdeiro direto de toda uma geração de filmes trash, feitos para os Grindhouses dos anos 70, onde seus diretores não faziam concessões e utilizavam de todos os recursos possíveis e imagináveis para atrair público. Isso implicava na falta de pudor em relação à violência - que era explícita - e com relação ao sexo, dois fatores que atraem mais gente ao cinema do que um lobo às ovelhas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mas há algo em Sexta-Feira 13 que o diferencia dos demais slashers (inclusive de suas sequências, todas inferiores). É um filme quase judeu, de certo modo, onde a menor das infrações é punida severamente, tudo no velho esquema "olho por olho, dente por dente". No caso do filme, o jovem é castrado pelo mundo adulto por ser inconsequente e lascivo. Esses dois comportamentos tão comuns no jovem abalizam e justificam a sua morte pelas mãos de um adulto, alguém que possui uma moral supostamente ilibada, com conceitos bem definidos de certo e errado e que, portanto, precisa corrigir o irresponsável, o imoral e o distorcido jovem. Se for necessário tirar a sua vida, tanto melhor.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O que Sexta-Feira 13 faz, de forma absolutamente brilhante é personificar esse "adulto corretor" na figura de uma mãe e é esta jogada que o torna um filme tremendamente assustador, comparável aos grandes filmes do gênero terror, seja pelo fato de ser uma mulher a responsável pelo massacre impensado de quem quer que pise no acampamento, seja pelo fato de ser uma mãe, o que levantaria questionamentos do tipo "como pode uma mãe, uma pessoa que gera a vida, tirá-la de forma tão discriminada e sádica?", seja pela possibilidade REAL de, no mais profundo inconsciente do ser humano, imaginar que possa existir uma mãe que faça as coisas que o filme mostra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mas não é só. Seu caráter levítico-vingativo-moralista atinge uma parte do expectador que ele não revela no seu cotidiano: a catarse em testemunhar a morte do outro de uma maneira confortável e sem culpa. Não à toa, o suspense do filme é montado de forma a gerar tensão na espera da próxima morte, sempre. Mais do que isso, o filme revela o moralismo contido no próprio expectador, já que este vibra a cada morte de mais um jovem promíscuo. Faz lembrar a sequência do estupro em Laranja Mecânica, onde a reação padrão da platéia é o riso diante de uma cena aterradora. É o cinema extraindo do ser humano a sua falta de bom senso. E isso vindo de um slasher concebido para faturar em cima do sucesso da obra prima de John Carpenter não é pouco não.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dizem que o sucesso de Sexta-Feira 13 se deve mais ao faro de marketing de Cunningham do que de seu talento como cineasta. Isso soa a uma falácia. Embora o filme possua problemas narrativos e de direção gritantes, há escolhas estéticas que NUNCA mais foram repetidas com a mesma eficiência nas sequências e que aqui contribuem para a criação de uma atmosfera perturbadora. Câmera subjetiva, momentos de silêncio aterradores, escuridão em momentos chave, enfim, clichês típicos de qualquer filme de terror, mas aqui utilizados de uma forma que gerou o resultado final interessante, mesmo que apelativo, porém que sobrevive até hoje.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">É uma pena, entretanto, que esses predicados tenham sido diluídos nas sequências, onde Jason representa apenas a moral, e como esta não morre, ele também insiste em voltar. Mas até aí, nós também sempre voltamos... voltamos de tempos em tempos a ver ou rever esses filmes e perpetrando o seu moralismo que sempre negamos ter.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">3/4</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Daniel Costa</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Top! do Leitor:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Meursault</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.animateonline.org/editorial/wp-content/videodrome01.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="225" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">1. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)<br />
2. Beatrice Cenci (Lucio Fulci, 1969)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/preludio-para-matar-dario-argento-1975/">3. Prelúdio Para Matar (Dario Argento, 1975)</a><br />
4. O Enigma do Outro Mundo (John Carpenter, 1982)<br />
5. Filhos do Medo (David Cronenberg, 1979)<br />
6. Irmãs Diabólicas (Brian De Palma, 1973)<br />
7. Dellamorte Dellamore (Michele Soavi, 1994)<br />
8. Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974)<br />
9. O Inquilino (Roman Polanski, 1976)<br />
10. Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Tops! da Equipe:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Jailton Rocha</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quando se fala em terror a primeira palavra que vem a mente é medo. Um filme de terror eficiente então seria aquele que consegue te passar essa sensação de maneira plena. Sendo assim, o que mais me passou medo seria Chamas da Morte. Não por se tratar de um "ótimo filme de terror", e sim por tê-lo visto quando criança, sendo provavelmente o primeiro filme de terror “hard core” que vi, ficando impressionado com tamanha violência e loucura (assisti na TV com o nome de A Vingança de Cropsy). Nunca mais o vi desde então, mas ainda o guardo na lembrança, só que se o revisse hoje, com certeza, não teria o mesmo impacto de antes. Impacto esse que ainda guardo dos demais filmes dessa relação, que sempre vejo e revejo. Cada um ao seu modo, representa não só esse medo que um filme de terror teria que ter, mas outras coisas que também fazem parte desse universo: insanidade, violência, desespero, é que posso citar agora. Temos medo e muito medo com filmes como Alien, O Iluminado, A Hora do Pesadelo e Halloween; insanidade total em filmes como Evil Dead II e A Mosca; e violência e desespero em Sexta-feira 13 e Despertar dos Mortos. E para provar definitivamente que esse não é um gênero fechado que aceita uma coisa só, o humor característica que se pode julgar como algo contrário ao que um filme terror tenta passar, muitas vezes se apresenta de forma bem eficiente. Um Lobisomem Americano em Londres é um exemplo disso. Humor e Terror juntos em harmonia. Com isso tudo a palavra que pode definir melhor os filmes do gênero a meu ver é surrealismo, já que assim tudo vale, e sempre vamos nos deparar aqui com o irreal, o bizarro, o desconhecido, entre outras coisas, fazendo desse gênero uma coisa bem especial.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/8198/friday06cq5.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="211" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">01. Sexta-feira 13 (Sean S. Cunnigham, 1980)<br />
02. Evil Dead II - Uma Noite Alucinante (Sam Raimi, 1988)<br />
03. Alien - o 8º Passageiro (Ridley Scott, 1979)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/o-iluminado-stanley-kubrick-1980/">04. O Iluminado (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)</a><br />
05. A Hora do Pesadelo (Wes Craven, 1984)<br />
06. Halloween - A Noite do Terror (John Carpenter, 1978)<br />
07. Um Lobisomem Americano em Londres (John Landis, 1981)<br />
08. Despertar dos Mortos (George Romero, 1978)<br />
09. A Mosca (David Cronneberg, 1986)<br />
10. Chamas da Morte (Tony Maylam, 1981)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Daniel Dalpizzolo</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Não sou daqueles que sentem medo vendo filmes – cara foda, hein – e mesmo assim, embora alguns considerem este o sentimento base do gênero em questão, sou fascinado por filmes de horror. Acredito que as escolhas deste TOP! foram feitas menos pelo tormento que estes filmes me proporcionam e mais pelo próprio tormento que os constroem. Por que mesmo na frieza de um rolo de celulóide são encontrados sentimentos. Estes são, portanto, meus filmes perturbados preferidos.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.albumdoailton.blogger.com.br/peep.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/a-tortura-do-medo-michael-powell-1960/">01. A Tortura do Medo (Michael Powell, 1960)</a><br />
02. Repulsa ao Sexo (Roman Polanski, 1965)<br />
03. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/a-hora-do-lobo-ingmar-bergman-1968-2/">04. A Hora do Lobo (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)</a><br />
05. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)<br />
06. Gêmeos (David Cronenberg, 1988)<br />
07. Os Olhos Sem Rosto (Georges Franju, 1960)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/preludio-para-matar-dario-argento-1975/">08. Prelúdio Para Matar (Dario Argento, 1975)</a><br />
09. Os Inocentes (Jack Clayton, 1961)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/inverno-de-sangue-em-veneza-nicholas-roeg-1973/">10. Inverno de Sangue em Veneza (Nicholas Roeg, 1973)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Adney Silva</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">De todos os "gêneros" (escrevo entre aspas porquê separar os filmes em gêneros é uma tarefa um tanto quanto complicada) cinematográficos, o terror é o que consegue, ao mesmo tempo, ser execrado pelos baluartes do ramo (sendo referido como um gênero menor), e amado por milhões de expectadores. Talvez isso aconteça principalmente pelo enorme fascínio que o medo (e suas variações: pavor, temor, terror, asco, nojo, etc...) causa no ser humano. Quem de nós não ficou acordado até mais tarde quando criança esperando aquele filme que o seu irmão mais velho (ou qualquer outro conhecido de idade mais avançada) disse que "era aterrorizante, e que você não conseguiria ver até o fim"? Esse fascínio por esse gênero fez com que muitos cineastas fizessem inúmeras obras-primas. Dentre elas, destaco as seguintes:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/the-birds-attack.jpg" alt="" width="388" height="247" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/os-passaros-alfred-hitchcock-1963/">01. Os Pássaros (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)</a><br />
02. O Exorcista (Willian Friendkin, 1973)<br />
03. M: O Vampiro de Dusseldorf (Fritz Lang, 1931)<br />
04. Alien – O 8º Passageiro (Ridley Scott, 1979)<br />
05. A Mosca (David Cronenberg, 1986)<br />
06. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1969)<br />
07. Halloween (John Carpenter,1978)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/exterminio-danny-boyle-2002/">08. Extermínio (Danny Boyle, 2002)</a><br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/preludio-para-matar-dario-argento-1975/">09. Prelúdio Para Matar (Dario Argento, 1975)</a><br />
10. Carrie, A Estranha (Brian de Palma, 1976)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Djonata Ramos</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">É sempre ruim ordenar um top de preferência com filmes tão brilhantes e que, de certa forma, me marcaram em momentos tão distintos da minha vida. Isso em qualquer gênero, obviamente. Não sei bem qual o critério que estabeleci, não é bem o ato de causar medo, mas o de me torturar, de me fazer roer as unhas, de esfregar os pés incessantemente ao assistí-los. E claro, de me fazer ouvir sons estranhos ao tentar dormir, e, por isso, dormir de luz ligada.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071029/rosemarys_l.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">01. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1968)<br />
02. O Exorcista (William Friedkin, 1973)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/o-iluminado-stanley-kubrick-1980/">03. O Iluminado (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)</a><br />
04. Psicose (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)<br />
05. Carrie, A Estranha (Brian De Palma, 1976)<br />
06. A Profecia (Richard Donner, 1976)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/exterminio-danny-boyle-2002/">07. Extermínio (Danny Boyle, 2002)</a><br />
08. A Morte do Demônio (Sam Raimi, 1981)<br />
09. A Mosca (David Cronenberg, 1986)<br />
10. Fome Animal (Peter Jackson, 1992)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Sílvio Tavares</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Diante da falta de esperança e o sentimento de insatisfação que permeia nossa sociedade, o terror é um gênero que encontra eco em nossos anseios secretos (aqueles mesmos que nos fazem parar frente à televisão quando presenciamos uma cena de enorme violência), no extravasar de nossas emoções mais profundamente abomináveis e no inexplicável prazer em ver a destruição e a degeneração. O cinema explora as diversas vertentes e possibilidades de forma mágica, perturbadora, psicológica e por vezes até poética proporcionando um dos gêneros mais ricos e variados de todos os existentes. Uma pequena lista dos mais marcantes pra mim:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2006-10/26004979.gif" alt="" width="461" height="298" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/a-noite-dos-mortos-vivos-george-romero-1968/">01. A Noite dos Mortos Vivos (George Romero, 1968)</a><br />
02. A Morte do Demônio (Sam Raimi, 1981)<br />
03. Medo (Ji-Woon Kim, 2003)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/a-hora-do-lobo-ingmar-bergman-1968-2/">04. A Hora do Lobo (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)</a><br />
05. Jogos Mortais (James Wan, 2004)<br />
06. A Mão do Diabo (Bill Paxton, 2001)<br />
07. O Gabinete do Doutor Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)<br />
08. Coração Satânico (Alan Parker, 1987)<br />
09. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1968)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/o-massacre-da-serra-eletrica-tobe-hooper-1974/">10. O Massacre da Serra Elétrica (Tobe Hooper, 1974)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Marcelo Dillenburg</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Embora seja frequentemente tratado como um gênero menor, o terror possui uma característica que lhe abre possibilidades tais que, quando bem exploradas, podem levar a resultados fascinantes. A característica em questão é a possibilidade de usar um dos sentimentos mais intrínsecos ao ser humano - o medo - para refletir sobre aspectos inerentes ao nosso cotidiano. Ou você acha que um zumbi do Romero é só um zumbi?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/60/07/04/18651838.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/a-noite-dos-mortos-vivos-george-romero-1968/">01. A Noite dos Mortos Vivos (George Romero, 1968)</a><br />
02. Alien – O Oitavo Passageiro (Ridley Scott, 1979)<br />
03. O Gabinete do Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/o-iluminado-stanley-kubrick-1980/">04. O Iluminado (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)</a><br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/os-passaros-alfred-hitchcock-1963/">05. Os Pássaros (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)</a><br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/exterminio-danny-boyle-2002/">06. Extermínio (Danny Boyle, 2002)</a><br />
07. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1968)<br />
08. Despertar dos Mortos (George Romero, 1978)<br />
09. A Morte do Demônio – Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)<br />
10. O Exorcista (William Friedkin, 1973)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Amílcar Figueiredo</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Esse top não tem absolutamente nada - ou quase nada, já que mesmo o subconsciente deve ter uma parcela de racionalidade - que esteja de fora das minhas reações instintivas, primevas mesmo, sobre o que vem a ser o terror. São filmes que me fizeram sentir medo, repulsa e intranqüilidade durante a exibição e depois dela, tanto pela estória em si quanto pelo que ela representava. São filmes de estéticas diferenciadas e feitos pelos mais diversos diretores, com várias camadas do desconforto que gera a urgência que gera a mudança que gera o crescimento que, por fim, faz tão bem à espécie humana.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://cineplayers.com/img/fotos/alien_02.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="290" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">01. Alien - O Oitavo Passageiro (Ridley Scott, 1979)<br />
02. Gêmeos - Mórbida Semelhança (David Cronemberg, 1988)<br />
03. Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)<br />
04. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1968)<br />
05. O Exorcista (William Friedkin, 1973)<br />
06. O Gabinete do Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)<br />
07. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)<br />
08. Carrie, a Estranha (Brian De Palma, 1976)<br />
09. Wolf Creek - Viagem ao Inferno (Greg McLean, 2004)<br />
10. Poltergeist, O Fenômeno (Tobe Hopper, 1982)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Pedro Kerr</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O terror sofre o mesmo tipo de preconceito que comédia e musical, a dificuldade de muitas pessoas em aceitar a farsa, em ficar cobrando um filme mais quadrado. Tanto terror, quanto comédia, quanto musical, são geralmente mais 'inverossímeis', ficcionais, dependem muito da manipulação - tanto que tem gente que acha que um filme ser manipulador é necessariamente uma coisa ruim. Aí os filmes acabam meio que destacados dos outros, meio que numa categoria à parte, existem bons filmes, boas comédias e bons terrores, que nunca se misturam. Não por acaso, consideram que bom terror é um que causa mais medo, e boa comédia é a que te faz rir mais; que pra mim não podia ser mais longe da verdade. E é só ver que os filmes de terror mais aceitáveis para o público em geral, como O Exorcista e O Bebê de Rosemary são mais pé no chão e com uma temática religiosa mais digerível. Enfim, no meio dessa bagunça toda, aqui vão dez dos filmes que me atingem mais usando sua face de terror.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.bocadoinferno.com/romepeige/artigos/slashers/preludio/rosso6.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="289" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/preludio-para-matar-dario-argento-1975/">01. Prelúdio Para Matar (Dario Argento, 1975)</a><br />
02. Zombie - O Despertar dos Mortos (George Romero, 1978)<br />
03. Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974)<br />
04. O Bebê de Rosemary (Roman Polanski, 1968)<br />
05. Carrie, a Estranha (Brian De Palma, 1976)<br />
<a href="http://multiplot.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/suspiria-dario-argento-1977-2/">06. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)</a><br />
07. Banho de Sangue (Mario Bava, 1971)<br />
08. Gêmeos - Mórbida Semelhança (David Cronenberg, 1988)<br />
09. A Morte do Demônio (Sam Raimi, 1981)<br />
10. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tremors (1990)]]></title>
<link>http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/?p=32</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nickflicksnotchickflicks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/?p=32</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well here it is. Tremors, the film everyone has seen at least twice. I would also wager it improved ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well here it is. Tremors, the film everyone has seen at least twice. I would also wager it improved the popularity of ‘rock, paper, scissors‘ in settling important decisions in the playground and in the workplace. I know this to be true. In fact thanks to the old reliable rock I recently got out of showing a colleague how to use Outlook.<!--more--></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000A5BTU?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=nickflicksnotchickflicks-21&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1634&#38;creative=6738&#38;creativeASIN=B0000A5BTU"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-35" src="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/tremors.jpg" alt="Tremors (1990) DVD cover" width="113" height="160" /></a></p>
<p>Set in small town Perfection, we meet two handymen Valentine and Earl played by Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward. Two easy going guys just going about their business trying to make ends meet and planning to leave the town for good.</p>
<p>Whilst out and about planning the next odd job they discover a body, and the carcasses of the local farmer’s sheep. Determined not to let this ruin their plans they try to leave and find the main road blocked. Then their car breaks down and they discover half a worm like creature attached to the axel. More people start to disappear and it’s soon obvious that the town is under attack by giant worms.</p>
<p>The guys meet up with some of the locals (including shop keeper, teenager, and gun nut couple amongst others) and try and come up with a plan. Due to Perfection being stuck between the mountains there is no phone signal and the nearest town is 38 miles away. So it’s up to Val and Earl to save the day. They go off to find the doctor and encounter one of the worms and manage to take it out. Remembering that there is a visiting geologist in the desert measuring the tremors, they go to warn her and she works out that there are still three more worms out there. The next day they make it back to town and share the bad news. After an attack they become trapped on the roofs. How will they survive and how will help get there?</p>
<p>Looking back at Tremors now, the only thing that really lets it down is the effects compared to today’s CGI. Whilst this is no bad thing it does add a bit more nostalgia to the piece. When I first saw it, it reminded me of the cheesy 70’s sci-fi disaster films I used to enjoy as a child such as Bug (1975) and the 80’s TV version of Day of the Trifids. Another enjoyable modern stab at this genre was 2002’s Eight Legged Freaks which like this is well worth a look.</p>
<p>The chemistry between Bacon and Ward is great and you feel generally disappointed knowing that the film spawned three sequels and a tv show, all without involvement from of Bacon. Having not seen any of them I can’t really comment. Ward returns as Earl for part two and Michael Gross (gun nut Burt) stars in the three sequels and tv series. If you have seen the sequels or TV show let me know if there worth spending time on.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Alan Tudyk, The Red-Haired Wonder]]></title>
<link>http://squintydans.wordpress.com/?p=143</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan M.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://squintydans.wordpress.com/?p=143</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or has this dude (probably still best known as Dodgeball&#8217;s &#8220;Steve The Pir]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it just me, or has this dude (probably still best known as <em>Dodgeball's </em>"Steve The Pirate") had some sort of minor role in <em>every fricking movie </em>that's come out in the last five years?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://leafonthewind.com/wp-content/uploads/alan_tudyk1.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="316" /></p>
<p>Seriously, he warrants his own iteration of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[WSJ article on e-philanthropy and social networks rubs up against a problem ]]></title>
<link>http://dogoodwell.wordpress.com/?p=78</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dogoodwell.wordpress.com/?p=78</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A big ol&#8217; article in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal provides an overview of the world of on]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A big ol' <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121554292423936539.html?mod=2_1590_middlebox" target="_blank">article</a> in today's Wall Street Journal provides an overview of the world of online giving and social networking for philanthropy. It profiles <a href="http://sixdegrees.org/" target="_blank">SixDegrees.org</a>, Kevin Bacon's organization, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2318966938" target="_blank">Causes</a> on Facebook, and references <a href="http://www.socialactions.com/" target="_blank">Social Actions </a>(nice job guys!), but never really does more than provide an overview of the space until the end of the article.</p>
<blockquote><p>The question is how much social networking, together with the other technological capabilities of the Internet, will actually increase giving.</p></blockquote>
<p>I'm a huge supporter of web-based philanthropy, and I think its prospects are exciting. But the reality is that platforms are not the same as incentives: providing a means to give does not provide an incentive to give. Platforms for giving online are successful when their users organize around specific campaigns.</p>
<p>For example, each year, our <a href="http://www.theges.org" target="_blank">Global Engagement Summit</a> at Northwestern partners with <a href="http://www.globalgiving.com" target="_blank">GlobalGiving</a> to put on a <a href="http://www.globalgiving.com/cge.html" target="_blank">Project Challenge</a>, through which our delegates compete to fundraise for their projects. In about two weeks, the dozen or so projects raised around $33,000. This is great - but most of those dollars come from friends and family of the projects in question. The incentives for students is that they can leverage the GlobalGiving brand (which can raise the legitimacy of a student-led project) when they appeal to those contacts, and depending on how successful they are, win matching grants.</p>
<p>The point is that the projects that think that just by listing themselves on the site people will flock to support their mission are not very successful.</p>
<p>I think the real challenge and opportunity in social networking for social change is in enabling virtual communities not necessarily rooted in offline connections to participate regularly in onling giving. Can it even happen?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Filmtips - Death Sentence]]></title>
<link>http://johnnycocker.wordpress.com/?p=18</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnnycocker</dc:creator>
<guid>http://johnnycocker.wordpress.com/?p=18</guid>
<description><![CDATA[


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<p><strong>Såg denna rackaren igår. Den var tidvis rå men lite småtöntig i sina hörn. Men trots sina brister en riktig höjdare.</strong></p>
<p>Om jag har förstått det rätt så är det här en remake, eller snarare omtolkning av klassikern <em>Death Wish</em> med den mustachprydde <em>Charles Bronson</em>... Sak samma.</p>
<p>Filmens handling var väl exakt vad vi förväntade oss, Pappa hämnas familjemedlems död. Men det funkar, ibland är det ganska befriande att se en film som inte tvingar på dig en massa moralkakor. Utan snarare låter dig se lite härligt ultravåld och avskjutna lemmar.</p>
<p>För övrigt är <em>Kevin Bacon</em> en grymm skådis, denna film är absolut inget undantag.</p>
<p>Gillar du våld på film, då kanske <em>Death Sentence</em> är något för dig.</p>
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<title><![CDATA["The Largest Social Network Ever Analyzed"]]></title>
<link>http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/?p=229</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lewisshepherd</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[FACT: According to ComScore data cited in a story in Monday&#8217;s FInancial Times, &#8220;Faceboo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>FACT: According to ComScore data cited in <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/302914bc-40a7-11dd-bd48-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1" target="_blank">a story in Monday's FInancial Times</a>, "Facebook, the fast-growing social network, has taken a significant lead over MySpace in visitor numbers for the first time... Facebook attracted more than 123 million unique visitors in May, an increase of 162 per cent over the same period last year... That compared with 114.6 million unique visitors at MySpace, Facebook's leading rival, whose traffic grew just 5 per cent during the same period... The findings mark the first time that Facebook, launched in 2004, has taken a significant lead in unique visitors, [and] come at a time of change inside Facebook, as the one-time upstart attempts to transform itself into a leading media company.</strong></p>
<p><strong>ANALYSIS:  </strong>This week several members of the Microsoft Institute met in Redmond with a visiting friend from government, and among other talks we had a very interesting discussion with Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft Research principal researcher and manager.  Eric's well known for his work in artificial intelligence and currently serves as president of the <a href="http://aaai.org/" target="_blank">Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence</a> (AAAI).</p>
<p>We talked about one of Eric's recent projects for quite a while: "<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/pubs/msn-www08.pdf" target="_blank">Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network</a>," a project which has been described by his co-author as "the largest social network ever analyzed." </p>
<p><!--more-->One interesting facet is the story of that co-author, Jure Leskovec, who collaborated on the work while a grad-student intern at Microsoft Research; <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/" target="_blank">here's his student page at Carnegie Mellon</a>, where he's finishing his PhD in Computer Science this summer.  That page doesn't yet note that he's taking a teaching position at Stanford University -- Go Stanford, Beat Cal!</p>
<p>The Leskovec-Horvitz study took just one month's worth of anonymized data capturing high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. the Internet's most popular IM environment.  Since they were examining the patterns and collective dynamics of communications among large numbers of people, not individual conversations, the dataset contained "summary properties" of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people over the course of that month.</p>
<p><a href="http://lewisshepherd.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/leskovec-horvitz-im-usage-map.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-237" src="http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/leskovec-horvitz-im-usage-map.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="151" /></a>The communication graph constructed includes 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, "creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date."  Check out the "map" on the left, of the geo-located conversations - to the eye it actually contructs an understandable physical map of the world's landmass.  Another view, a "communications heat map" of the data, brings to mind <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWorld-Flat-3-0-History-Twenty-first%2Fdp%2F0312425074%2F&#38;tag=shespi-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325" target="_blank">Thomas Friedman's influential best-seller "The World is Flat"</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0 !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shespi-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></p>
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<p>Some of the study's findings may have been intuitive, some not so much:</p>
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<li>We find that the graph is well-connected and robust to node removal.</li>
<li>We investigate on a planetary-scale the oft-cited report that people are separated by "six degrees of separation" and find that the average path length among Messenger users is 6.6. </li>
<li>We also find that people tend to communicate more with each other when they have similar age, language, and location, and that cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender." </li>
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<p>You know, I can't help highlighting the "Kevin Bacon" aspect noted by the authors: "To our knowledge, this is the first time a planetary-scale social network has been available to validate the well-known "6 degrees of separation" finding by Travers and Milgram [a 1969 study]. The earlier work employed a sample of 64 people and found that the average number of hops for a letter to travel from Nebraska to Boston was 6.2 (mode 5, median 5), which is popularly known as the "6 degrees of separation" among people. We used a population sample that is more than two million times larger than the group studied earlier and confirmed the classic finding."</p>
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<p>I won't include many of the other interesting findings, but it's a fascinating study and is now leading to other hypotheses and research.  It was also presented a couple of months ago at the <a href="http://www2008.org/" target="_blank">Beijing WWW 2008 Conference</a>.</p>
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<p>Some more general points: Eric's "<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/" target="_blank">Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group</a>" within MSR includes work on machine learning and decision making, search and retrieval, sensor fusion, human-computer interaction, ecommerce, hardware devices, computational theory, and cryptography.   <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/" target="_blank">Here's Eric's own page</a> on the Microsoft Research (MSR) site, with links to many projects and published papers, and where he describes some of his focus areas:</p>
<blockquote><p>I'm interested in computational foundations of intelligent sensing, reasoning, and action -- with a particular focus on methods for grappling with uncertainty about environments or situations. I'm also interested in models of human cognition, and in developing computational systems that leverage insights about cognition to help people to achieve their goals. Much of my work makes use of probability and decision theory, decision analysis, and, in particular, Bayesian and decision-theoretic principles. My research spans both theoretical issues and concrete, real-world applications. I'm interested in <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/vista.htm" target="_blank">information triage</a> and alerting that takes human <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/cacm-attention.htm" target="_blank">attention</a> into consideration, spanning work on <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/attend.htm" target="_blank">notification systems</a>, <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&#38;sc=emerging08&#38;id=20243" target="_blank">surprise modeling</a>, <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/scalable_fabric.htm" target="_blank">multitasking</a>, and psychological <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/interrupt.htm" target="_blank">studies of interruption and recovery</a>. Other interests include principles of <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/mixedinit.htm" target="_blank">mixed-initiative interaction</a> that can support fluid, efficient <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/Mixed_initiative_reflections.pdf" target="_blank">collaborations</a> between people and computing systems, methods for <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/ccfetch.htm" target="_blank">guiding computer actions</a> in accordance with the preferences of people, <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/qa-dt.htm" target="_blank">search and information retrieval</a>, and <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/coordinate.htm" target="_blank">collaboration</a>." <em>- from home-page of Eric Horvitz</em> </p></blockquote>
<p>Every time I talk with Eric I learn something new and unexpected, this time including something about how to learn new and unexpected things. I suppose that's inevitable given his interest in surprise-modeling.</p>
<p>By the way, when he says above that his "research spans both theoretical issues and concrete, real-world applications," he means it.  A couple of months ago Microsoft got pretty wide coverage in <a href="http://www.techmeme.com" target="_blank">TechMeme</a> and elsewhere (see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/technology/10maps.html?_r=2&#38;oref=slogin&#38;oref=slogin" target="_blank">New York Times story</a>, or <a href="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/microsoft-clear.html" target="_blank">WIRED magazine</a>) for the release of the ClearFlow traffic system, which uses Eric's team's AI research for "a smarter way to keep you out of snarls" (WIRED's phrase) with "an ambitious effort to add AI machine-learning techniques to the complex problem of predicting traffic congestion" (again WIRED).  The system combines predictive algorithms based on years of traffic data correlated with many other events and variables (time of day, weather, holidays, sporting events), combined of course with the normal live traffic data from networks of highway sensors.  You can <a href="http://maps.live.com" target="_blank">use that system today at Live Maps</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Six degrees of Nick Flicks]]></title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;">In honour of the next film to be reviewed I thought it would be sad to do a ‘six degrees of Kevin Bacon’ on the previous six films reviewed. I guess this could mean the next film to be reviewed stars Kevin Bacon. Wait and see!<br />
<!--more--><a title="Black Dog review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/black-dog-1998/"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="Black Dog review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/black-dog-1998/">Black Dog (1998)<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;">Patrick Swayse (Black Dog) -&#62; Keanu Reeves (Point Break) -&#62; Al Pacino (The Devils Advocate) -&#62; Robert De Niro (Heat) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (Sleepers)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">4 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="Bubba Ho-Tep review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/bubba-ho-tep-2002/">Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep) -&#62; Bridget Fonda (Army of Darkness) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (Balto)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">2 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="Teen Wolf review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/teen-wolf-1985/">Teen Wolf (1985)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Michael J Fox (Teen Wolf) -&#62; Elizabeth Shue (Back to the Future 2) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (Hollow Man)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">2 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="Passenger 57 review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/passenger-57-1992/">Passenger 57 (1992)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Wesley Snipes (Passenger 57) -&#62; Laurence Fishburne (King of New York) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (Mystic River)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">2 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="The Hard Way review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/the-hard-way-1991/">The Hard Way (1991)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">James Woods (The Hard Way) -&#62; Joe Pesci (Casino) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (JFK)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">2 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="Timecop review" href="http://nickflicksnotchickflicks.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/timecop-1994/">Timecop (1994)</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Jean-Claude Van Damme (Timecop) -&#62; Lance Henrikson (Hard Target) -&#62; Bill Paxton (Aliens) -&#62; Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">3 moves</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Kevin Bacon has used the six degrees concept to start a website to raise money to charity. You can find out more at <a title="sixdegrees.org (external link)" href="http://www.sixdegrees.org">sixdegrees.org</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Film View #1 - Mystic River]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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I look up to Clint Eastwood, not only as an actor but as a marvelous director who always knows how ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">I look up to Clint Eastwood, not only as an actor but as a marvelous director who always knows how to pull my emotional strings. He can work with actors well and get the best performance possible out of them, unlike some director´s like Tim Burton who only has actors that are great actors. The greatest director´s are the ones that work well with actors, show hints off their style and leave their mark on cinematic history. As off now Clint is leaving a large trail of great films and he has always hit his mark. This time i got to watching his 2003 film: Mystic River, many people remember it mostly for losing the Oscar to the third installment in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Luckily, Eastwood has had many critical hit´s since then and has earned a large amount of awards and a few Oscars.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">This film tells the story of three former childhood friends who lost their friendship after a traumatizing event. 25 years later, they have all gone their separate ways but when one off their daughter´s is murdered they all start to connect to each other in a different way. The story and characters shine in their spotlight and the actors are fantastic, especially Tim Robbins and Sean Penn.  The mystery of the case holds the viewer´s interest and it leads to a conclusion that is worth your time. The character´s motivations are all understandable untill the last few minutes of the ending, the film could have ended a few minutes earlier but there is the aspect of Sean Penn´s character that is interesting enough to forgive that "second ending".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">You can spot traces off Clint Eastwood´s film style in dramas: The music, character motivations and the ending. So to the fans of Eastwood´s films that have not seen this one, put it on your must see list. Mystic River is without a doubt one of his five strongest films.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>*****</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ve just wasted my time with this game called &#8220;Six degrees of Kevin Bacon&#8221;. I]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://trylobyte.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/kevin_bacon.jpg"></a>OK, I've just wasted my time with this game called <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon">"Six degrees of Kevin Bacon"</a></strong>. It's a game where you try to connect an actor/actress to Kevin Bacon (<em>Tremors, Hollow Man, Death Sentence, etc</em>). It was conceived during the early 90s but I just found out about it LOL</p>
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<p>Here's a good start: <a href="http://oracleofbacon.org/index.html">http://oracleofbacon.org/index.html</a></p>
<p>Type any actors you know and you'll be surprised at how they are connected to Kevin Bacon. I tried to look up for any actors that I think wouldn't be connected to Kevin Bacon but I was wrong, almost every actor is connected to him in various degrees. Here are some examples that I tried:</p>
<h3>Charles Chaplin</h3>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Chaplin,+Charles">Charles Chaplin</a> has a Bacon number of 3.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Chaplin,+Charles">Charles Chaplin</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Picture+People+No%2e+3%3a+Hobbies+of+the+Stars+(1941)">Picture People No. 3: Hobbies of the Stars (1941)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Beal,+John+(I)">John Beal (I)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Beal,+John+(I)">John Beal (I)</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Firm,+The+(1993)">Firm, The (1993)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Martindale,+Margo">Margo Martindale</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Martindale,+Margo">Margo Martindale</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Rails+%26+Ties+(2007)">Rails &#38; Ties (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a> </p></blockquote>
<h3 style="text-align:left;">Charles Q Murphy (Eddie Murphy's brother)</h3>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Murphy,+Charles+Q%2e">Charles Q. Murphy</a> has a Bacon number of 2.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Murphy,+Charles+Q%2e">Charles Q. Murphy</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Three+Days+to+Vegas+(2007)">Three Days to Vegas (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Amor,+Jay">Jay Amor</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Amor,+Jay">Jay Amor</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Death+Sentence+(2007)">Death Sentence (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Zhang Ziyi</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Zhang,+Ziyi">Ziyi Zhang</a> has a Bacon number of 2.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Zhang,+Ziyi">Ziyi Zhang</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?TMNT+(2007)">TMNT (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Gellar,+Sarah+Michelle">Sarah Michelle Gellar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Gellar,+Sarah+Michelle">Sarah Michelle Gellar</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Air+I+Breathe,+The+(2007)">Air I Breathe, The (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Yuji Okumota (bad guy from Karate Kid II)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Yuji+Okumoto">Yuji Okumoto</a> has a Bacon number of 2.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Okumoto,+Yuji">Yuji Okumoto</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Robot+Wars+(1993)">Robot Wars (1993)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Eastin,+Steve">Steve Eastin</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Eastin,+Steve">Steve Eastin</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Rails+%26+Ties+(2007)">Rails &#38; Ties (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Govinda (Bollywood comedian)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?govinda">govinda</a> has a Bacon number of 3.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Govinda">Govinda</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Ek+Aur+Ek+Gyarah%3a+By+Hook+or+by+Crook+(2003)">Ek Aur Ek Gyarah: By Hook or by Crook (2003)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Puri,+Om">Om Puri</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Puri,+Om">Om Puri</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Wolf+(1994)">Wolf (1994)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Raynor,+Michael">Michael Raynor</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Raynor,+Michael">Michael Raynor</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Rails+%26+Ties+(2007)">Rails &#38; Ties (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Peter O'Brian (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBlM6CSZDIc">lead actor of the notorious B-action Rambo rip off movie, The Intruder</a>)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?O'Brian,+Peter+(III)">Peter O'Brian (III)</a> has a Bacon number of 3.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?O'Brian,+Peter+(III)">Peter O'Brian (III)</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Angel+of+Fury+(1992)">Angel of Fury (1992)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Rothrock,+Cynthia">Cynthia Rothrock</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Rothrock,+Cynthia">Cynthia Rothrock</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Eye+for+an+Eye+(1996)">Eye for an Eye (1996)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?David,+Keith+(I)">Keith David (I)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?David,+Keith+(I)">Keith David (I)</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Novocaine+(2001)">Novocaine (2001)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Darren Ewing (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv43e5MtvpM">the "Oh My GOOOOOOOD!" kid from the legendary bad movie Trolls 2</a>)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Ewing,+Darren+(II)">Darren Ewing (II)</a> has a Bacon number of 2.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Ewing,+Darren+(II)">Darren Ewing (II)</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Unaccompanied+Minors+(2006)">Unaccompanied Minors (2006)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Valderrama,+Wilmer">Wilmer Valderrama</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Valderrama,+Wilmer">Wilmer Valderrama</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Beauty+Shop+(2005)">Beauty Shop (2005)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Jalaluddin Hassan (Malaysian actor)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Jalaluddin+Hassan">Jalaluddin Hassan</a> has a Bacon number of 4.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Hassan,+Jalaluddin">Jalaluddin Hassan</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Gemilang+(1997)">Gemilang (1997)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Fazira,+Erra">Erra Fazira</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Fazira,+Erra">Erra Fazira</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Hidden+(2008)">Hidden (2008)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Atkins,+Christopher">Christopher Atkins</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Atkins,+Christopher">Christopher Atkins</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Stageghost+(2000)">Stageghost (2000)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Barron,+Dana+(I)">Dana Barron (I)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Barron,+Dana+(I)">Dana Barron (I)</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Saving+Angelo+(2007)">Saving Angelo (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>P.Ramlee (legendary Malaysian actor)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Ramlee,+P%2e">P. Ramlee</a> has a Bacon number of 4.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Ramlee,+P%2e">P. Ramlee</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Ibu+mertuaku+(1962)">Ibu mertuaku (1962)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Fiji,+Ali">Ali Fiji</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Fiji,+Ali">Ali Fiji</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Beyond+Rangoon+(1995)">Beyond Rangoon (1995)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?McDormand,+Frances">Frances McDormand</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?McDormand,+Frances">Frances McDormand</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Friends+with+Money+(2006)">Friends with Money (2006)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Hinkle,+Marin">Marin Hinkle</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Hinkle,+Marin">Marin Hinkle</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Rails+%26+Ties+(2007)">Rails &#38; Ties (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Jamal Abdillah (Malaysian singer/actor)</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?jamal+abdillah">jamal abdillah</a> has a Bacon number of 4.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Abdillah,+Jamal">Jamal Abdillah</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Suratan+kasih+(1995)">Suratan kasih (1995)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Jailani,+Osman">Osman Jailani</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Jailani,+Osman">Osman Jailani</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Saint+Jack+(1979)">Saint Jack (1979)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bogdanovich,+Peter">Peter Bogdanovich</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bogdanovich,+Peter">Peter Bogdanovich</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Dukes,+The+(2007)">Dukes, The (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Kay,+Dominic+Scott">Dominic Scott Kay</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Kay,+Dominic+Scott">Dominic Scott Kay</a> was in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Title?Saving+Angelo+(2007)">Saving Angelo (2007)</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bacon,+Kevin">Kevin Bacon</a></p></blockquote>
<p>I F***ing give up!!! Everybody is connected to Kevin Bacon!! hahaha!!!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[<i>Rails &amp; Ties</i> Leaves no Dry Eyes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rails and Ties
{Drama}
 
MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Running Time:  1:38
DVD Release Date:  June 17, 200]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">DVD Release Date:<span>  </span>June 17, 2008</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Alison Eastwood, daughter of Clint Eastwood, makes her directorial debut in the touching DVD movie drama Rails &#38; Ties.<span>  </span>Railroad engineer Tom Starks (Kevin Bacon) is struggling to cope with his wife Megan’s (Marcia Gay Harden) terminal cancer.<span>  </span>He struggles even more when his train hits and kills a suicidal mother and he realizes he is numb to his feelings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Davey (Miles Heizer), the boy of the mother who killed herself is initially placed with a foster mother determined to discipline.<span>  </span>Davey runs away the first night in his new home and tracks down Tom’s address.<span>  </span>He confronts Tom about killing his mother and after a heated confrontation, they settle down to have a conversation about the details of the wreck and what happened.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Regretting that she and Tom never had kids, Megan feels a special connection to Davey and does not want to turn him into the police.<span>  </span>She persuades Tom that they should keep him with them and care for him for the time being.<span>  </span>Tom reluctantly agrees and he and Davey begin to develop an awkward relationship.<span>  </span>Tom is somewhat put off by Davey’s overdeveloped maturity and his desire to bond.<span>  </span>He is not sure how to feel as he struggles with his guilt over the train accident.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Kevin Bacon joins "My One and Only" family film...]]></title>
<link>http://brocknroll.wordpress.com/?p=771</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Actor Kevin Bacon decides to take a break from doing too many dark films he&#8217;s been doing late]]></description>
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<p>Actor Kevin Bacon decides to take a break from doing too many dark films he's been doing lately to star in a childhood adventure family film titled "My One and Only" which also stars Renee Zellwigger, Nick Stahl and Chris Noth. Bacon will play a philandering band leader which his mother tries to leave behind.</p>
<p>The film has already begun filming in Baltimore, Maryland and it is being directed by Richard Loncraine.</p>
<p>Variety Reports:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987776.html?categoryid=13&#38;cs=1">http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987776.html?categoryid=13&#38;cs=1</a></p>
<p>Movie sounds interesting. I'll wait for a trailer to decide whether to see it in theater though.</p>
<p>Kev</p>
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<description><![CDATA[The tough go to Blockhead&#8217;s&#8230; everyday. Here&#8217;s a quick run-down of what&#8217;s hap]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tough go to Blockhead's... everyday. Here's a quick run-down of what's happened during the past two weeks:</p>
<p>1. Molly loves her job so much that she's cried at work. Out of sheer misery.</p>
<p>2. Everyday, Molly and Kayla meet at Blockhead's for $3 margaritas. Somedays, they drink their dinner. Other days, the former just vents about having too much work. And the latter vents about having... none.</p>
<p>3. An air-conditioner proved to be a valid investment after three days of 100-degree weather.</p>
<p>4. Convinced that we had 'bedbugs' after furnishing our room with street furniture, we fought the bites like none other. Molly told a supervisor that it had been a good couple days in the city because she had gotten "NO BUG BITES!"</p>
<p>5. Last Saturday, Kayla went to a birthday party and returned home a little spritzed. After a robust showing of Xanadu and returning home to no air conditioning, Molly stripped down to her skivvies and laid by Kayla's windows. Kayla returned home around 2 a.m. to find Molly, aptly clothed in black lace lingerie, awaiting her arrival. Really, it was just hot as shit and they both needed some air.</p>
<p>Needless to say, we are taking the Chinatown bus to Boston next weekend to legalize our civil union.</p>
<p>6. Kayla and Molly normally wear many hats. Fedoras, sombreros, berets, we've worn them all. So, it was only fitting that we put on our "college party" hats for our first real Friday night in the city... especially since our banker friends, making the big bucks, were buying our drinks. Molly pulled on her hat so tightly that when the shot of Patron came around (after we got picked to enter the bar from a crowd of saucy Mexicans) that she dry-heaved almost all the way to the Empire State Building. Might we say that the view was phenomenal. We went to the West Village, then, to a swanky joint, where Kayla chopsticked some kid's 3 a.m. scallop sliders because she was too poor to eat dinner.</p>
<p>It should have been a peaceful ride home, but neither of us (SHOCK) had any cash. As Mo likes to say, "Why use cash when you can use 'Bank of America: Keep the Change:'?" I agree. Since the cabbie's credit card machine was broken, we decided to challenge him.</p>
<p>"I'LL CALL THE POLICE!" the cab driver said.</p>
<p>"I DARE YOU TO CALL THE M-F-ING POLICE," said Molly,</p>
<p>Needless to say, we did then enjoy a peaceful in Hell's Kitchen.</p>
<p>7. It was around noon when Kayla "dragged" Molly out of bed to embark on an epic journey to Rockaway Beach, where her childhood friends, Laurel and Kelsey, were visiting. After a hangover and a half, we boarded the A train and switched about 4355777730 times before arriving at 90th St. Kayla almost puked at every subway stop, and she "shushed" the kid singing on the train. Molly refused to take off her sunglasses, until we arrived at Jeremy and Clare's house.</p>
<p>Since Mo hadn't eaten, we wandered around Rockaway for some grub, and nothing presented itself. Finally, the clouds parted and a "Bagel Joint" appeared. We ran toward it, only to find kids' clothes at discount prices inside and a sign that read "NO BAGEL" on the exterior. The only chain for a mile was Popeye's.</p>
<p>It was then we ventured inside a deli where Molly refused to get a sandwich because there were flies swarming around the non-refrigerated meat. She settled for a bag of SunChips, and offered to get Kayla a bottle of water, and we proceeded to the counter. It was then we saw a mother deck her child ("You're pissin' me off!") and the clerk told us that there was a $10 minimum.</p>
<p>Molly: I would not work for ONE hour to eat SunChips at this god-forsaken deli.</p>
<p>Kayla: I hear ya.</p>
<p>Upon that statement, Kayla set down her half-drunk bottle of Poland Springs on the shelf of the Rockaway Deli. It might be like a time capsule. I bet you would still be able to find it 10 years from now.</p>
<p>8. Jeremy and Clare "Clark" Hilger are the best hosts ever. They deserve an award.</p>
<p>9.  The Laurel Jones quote of the week, on hearing that there's an airbed upstairs: OR we could fill it with WATER and make it a WATERBED and have a REAL PARTY. (End quote.)</p>
<p>10. We just got corndogs for dinner and Molly said, "That's why homeless people are so fat. Bad shit is cheap."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mystic River]]></title>
<link>http://mawazh.wordpress.com/?p=35</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Herkunft und Jahr: USA 2003
Originaltitel: Mystic River
Regie: Clint Eastwood
Darsteller: Sean Penn]]></description>
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<p>Herkunft und Jahr: USA 2003</p>
<p>Originaltitel: Mystic River</p>
<p>Regie: Clint Eastwood</p>
<p>Darsteller: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, ...</p>
<p>Genre: Drama</p>
<p>Inhalt:</p>
<p>Einst waren sie Jugendfreunde, Jimmy, Sean und Davey, bis ein Verbrechen alles zerstörte. Zwei Männer, die sich als Polizisten ausgeben, entführen eines Tages Davey und mißbrauchen ihn daraufhin tagelang, bis er schließlich entkommen kann.<br />
30 Jahre später ist nichts davon vergessen, die Wunden sind vernarbt, aber sie schmerzen noch. Jimmy (Sean Penn) ist nach einer Gefängnisstrafe jetzt ruhiger geworden, verheiratet und Vater zweier Töchter. Davey leidet, trotz glücklicher Ehe immer noch unter den Ereignissen von damals, während Sean (Kevin Bacon) inzwischen Polizist geworden ist.<br />
Als Jimmys ältere Tochter Opfer eines brutalen Verbrechens wird, nutzt Sean seine beruflichen Kompetenzen für einen privaten Rachefeldzug, in den auch seine immer noch mit ihm verbundenen Freunde mit hineingezogen werden...</p>
<p><img style="vertical-align:baseline;" src="http://www.theflickchicks.com/flick-chicks/images/movie-photos/The%20Flick%20Chicks%20Movie%20Reviews%20mystic%20river.jpg" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></p>
<p>Kritik:</p>
<p>Wieder mal ein toller Film von Clint Eastwood. Das Drama zwischen den 3 Freunden ist packend inszeniert. Das Ende ist eventuell etwas übertrieben.</p>
<p>Wertung: 9/10</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/" target="_blank">IMDb</a></p>
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