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Post by Brian on Dec 26, 2008 1:50:07 GMT -8
We finally got to see "Frost/Nixon" tonight and believe it should win Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay Adaption after it garners at least two nominations each for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
I've been following Watergate from the winter of 1973 when the story really broke through every release of tapes by the National Archives since, and Ron Howard not only captured the history, he delivered a classic movie combining brains and guts with fear and loathing -- followed by redemption attained if not chosen by either man, in the long run.
You don't have to remember or even be interested in what got lumped into Watergate or what snowballed beyond the Vietnam War to appreciate "Frost/Nixon." I'd love to blab about any aspect of this film if anyone's interested.
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Post by Brian on Dec 29, 2008 0:34:13 GMT -8
There's so little on television. But instead of reading more, I keep watching Lawrence Kasdan's masterpiece about love and race, "Grand Canyon," shot in Los Angeles a year before the rebellion in April 1992.
For some reason, it runs every Christmas on the two dozen premium channels we get, and I invariably sit for big chunks. Kind of like "It's a Wonderful Life" for grown ups of a certain age. Back in the day.
If any of these beautiful characters had cellphones or the Internet, Kasdan would have had no springboard for any of the plot's connections. But his lessons are timeless.
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Post by Brian on Jan 3, 2009 15:24:56 GMT -8
In case Bruce checks out this message board today -- and hasn't already seen this, since I don't have his phone number: Lucinda Williams will perform for half of an "Austin City Limits" repeat tonight at 11 on KLCS.
That's a broadcast station, Channel 58, owned by the L.A. Unified School District, so he should be able to see it. Lucinda will perform songs from her previous album, "West."
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Post by Brian on Jan 4, 2009 0:27:45 GMT -8
"Austin City Limits" only showed five songs, not all from her 2007 album. A rocking set, despite opening with Lucinda mumbling into the mike and flapping her forearms for "Righteously." You can watch "Unsuffer Me" or an interview and read the liner notes and setlist here: www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=634What a wonderful band she had. How did I miss this broadcast the first time? She ends her segment with another of her trademark sweet and soulful, heartfelt yet thoughtful ballads, "West." If Bruce still has VHS -- or anyone else is interested -- I taped the show. I first saw Lucinda performing at a benefit for Santa Monicans for Renters Rights in the late 1980's on the pier, in a room next to the merry go round. Found out later that she had lived with an old friend of mine, whose father owned Roger's Pharmacy in Montrose, where Rocky Cola is now, when she came to L.A. from La.
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Post by Jeanne Lavieri on Jan 4, 2009 19:07:25 GMT -8
Thanks for the link and the offer of the video, Brian. She's a poet and I like the guitars in her band. I just borrowed Essence (2001?) from the library and have been enjoying that. The song "Broken Butterflies" seems particularly powerful to me.
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Post by Brian on Jan 10, 2009 1:30:08 GMT -8
Oh, geez, I just flipped to C-SPAN and saw my Congressman Buck McKeon, ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee, looking much thinner, speak against a bill to reverse the Supreme Court decision on pay discrimination. Buck's enjoying his role leading the debate on the floor for the Republicans and warning us about trial lawyers.
God willing, we sufferers in upper Tujunga will be reapportioned back into Brad Sherman's district after the next census in 2010. In the meantime, can the Democrats field and fund a decent candidate for the 25th district, please? I will help.
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Post by Brian on Jan 26, 2009 0:05:15 GMT -8
If it's Sunday, it's "Meet the Press."
David Gregory is doing a fine job. I say that not just because he's a Dodger fan.
Anyway, House Minority Leader John Boener was on to oppose Obama's stimulus because there weren't enough tax breaks for the rich. As if the last eight years hadn't proved they do not work.
What went unstated were the specifics of the Republicans' counter-proposal -- they want the richest one percent to get the same dollar amount as the working poor, and those too poor to pay income taxes get no rebate of their FICA withholding. But he did say that we should extend Bush's tax breaks another three years, until 2013.
This national emergency calls for the richest to return some of the spoils of the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress.
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Post by Janette on Jan 29, 2009 8:28:24 GMT -8
Hello, and thanks for the opportunity to join you.
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Post by Brian on Mar 24, 2009 23:22:40 GMT -8
How weird to watch Condoleezza Rice on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," talking about her love of music and not much else. It could only have been more bizarre if Steve Earle had been the musical guest:
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Post by martine on Sept 25, 2009 20:13:32 GMT -8
while you were all out eatting at Gourmet-a-Go-Go, I was placating myself with this: www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb090925neil_finnan hour long KCRW webcast of Neil, Elroy, Bic and Lisa performing select songs from 7 Worlds Collide II * The Sun Came Out. Also includes a very nice interview with Neil.
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