• I am not going to say that every movie sequel is bad, because there are some good ones out there. However in general most sequels are really money making vehicles especially when they are following a very successful movie. I could easily fill this page with hundreds of bad sequels but I am limiting it…

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  • Age 6

    Age 6, I should have the whole world open to me. Age 6, there is still so much for me to do and to see. Age 6, like all my friends, I want to go to school. Age 6, and sometimes I want to play the fool. Age 6, I have yet so many games…

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  • For people who don’t know classical music the name Richard Strauss will mean very little, but for music and movie fans they know the music of the man. His composition “Also Sprach Zarathustra” was made famous by the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”     In the early 1930s, Strauss did not join the Nazi…

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  • On March 2 in 1944, a train halted in a tunnel near Salerno in Italy,  more than 500 people on board suffocated and perished. Occurring during the final stage of World War II, the details of this incident were not revealed at the time and remain somewhat mysterious to date. At 7 PM on 2…

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  • In this PC world these ads would cause outrage and for most rightfully so, but I have to admit that the’dinosaur’ in me finds some of these quite amusing. Ah the good old days.   What can you say? Marlboro Cigarettes 1944 What woman doesn’t want a toaster. This is one is even weird for…

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  • Dord-What’s in a word?

    Dord is a noun in physics and chemistry that means density. Well not really, although it was in the dictionary for 5 years as a valid word. This was the perfect example that even the brightest minds can make mistakes and also that you should not always believe everything you read.. On February 28, 1939,…

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  • The other impact of 9/11

    I was struggling to come up with an appropriate title ,this is the best I could come up with. In this blog I am not looking at the obvious impact of that awful day but to the impact it had on the entertainment industry and also how we looked at different aspects of climate change.…

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  • I will be your voice

    Dear Marta Weisz, you don’t know me and I don’t know you but yet I pledge to be your voice. You were a product of love between 2 people, but you were killed by a product of hate. I say product because when you were born you produced a feeling in your parents which can not…

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  • It is a question I often ask myself “Would I do it, would I risk my life and the life of my Family to safe others? ” Honestly I don’t know. Risking my own life is one thing, but risking the lives of my Family is a different ballgame all together. And yet that is…

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  • I am starting off by saying I know I will be getting angry comments, saying how disrespectful  I am. How do I know this? I did post a blog once with the title Holocaust and Humour. After I published it, many people complained and even called it disgusting. When I asked if they read the blog, they…

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