From the category archives:
Finding Forrester was on HBO yesterday after lunch and despite having to check the server every 15 minutes or so, I managed to see most of the movie. I’ve seen it before and loved every minute of it. And because I already knew how the story would end, I watched more leisurely, focusing on the [...]
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We have BBC in our Dream satellite subscription but I have never seen the “Harry and Paul” show. In fact, I’ve never heard of Henry Enfield until today and only because the show has the become the subject of an official protest by the Philippine government.
The scene, first broadcast on 26 September, was part of [...]
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Remember that commercial where Mike Mikee Cojuangco says that Dream service is “Anytime, anywhere”? It was never true. Even with the recent system upgrade, Dream satellite broadcast is still interrupted when it gets cloudy. Considering the amount of clouds and rains we’ve been getting during the past couple of days, it means when there’s a [...]
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That’s Christine Keeler in the photo. If you haven’t heard of her before, modern history credits (or discredits) her for bringing down the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
A woman brought down a government? It’s a matter of perspective, of course. Keeler had an affair with John Profumo, the British [...]
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Finally, we got to see Iron Man. Loved it! Not only because I am a huge Robert Downey Jr. fan but because the feeling that I was going to puke which prevailed during the first 15 minutes or so of the movie did not last long enough to allow prejudice to build. See, when the [...]
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So you’re tired of my rants about PLDT DSL. So am I. If anything good came out of my very limited time online for the past so many days, it’s the fact that I was able to catch up on my reading. I finally found the time to read Anthony Capella’s The Wedding Officer sent [...]
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First, you have to read about anesthesia awareness because that is where the story revolves around.
‘Awake’, starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard, opens with a doctor (Howard) thinking about the patient that he lost. The patient is 22-year-old Wall Street wiz kid Clay (Christensen) who had been in line for a compatible heart [...]
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Weeks after I started my book list and movie list, I neglected them. I was trying to update both, realized how many books I’ve bought and movies I’ve seen that I hadn’t added to the lists. Too many, in fact, that I can’t recall all of them right now.
There are two films, however, that have [...]
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My head feels like it’s floating and it’s been this way since I got out of bed this morning. See, I stayed up until 1.00 a.m. to watch Chinatown.
When Chinatown was shown in the local movie houses, I was still in grade school. When it was nominated in the Oscar Awards, I saw the trailer [...]
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When I read about the controversy surrounding two parenting (sic) shows in the UK, my first instinct was to check Auee’s blog to see if she had posted her thoughts about it. See, she’s my source for anything and everything UK. I don’t think Bringing Up Baby and The Baby Borrowers are aired in the [...]
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