Thursday, September 3, 2009
Body Building Tips
It's important to keep your lifting routine varied. If you've been saying "Ooooooof" every time you lift, try switching to "Ungggggh." To gain respect in the gym, bludgeon with a dumbbell the first guy who offers to trade sets with you. Weightlifting is not just a sport for men. It is also enjoyed...
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Video-Camera Tips
Video cameras are a fun and easy way to record those special moments in life. Here are some tips for getting the most out of them: Video-Camera Tips An important rule of thumb for the video-camera novice is that everybody in the world wants to see your toddler gorge on a slice of cake. Pointing the...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
20 cases of mutant TV
1. Valerie / Valerie’s Family: The Hogans / The Hogan Family (1986-91) A long-term relationship with a TV show can be like a long relationship with any public institution. Sometimes the shows adapt to the needs of their patrons, evolving in tone, style, and purpose over time. Sometimes there’s...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
21 great films to put the recession in perspective
1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) It’s a powerful (and depressing) indicator of how much times have changed to look at the difference in the political and social climate now and when John Ford’s The Grapes Of Wrath was released. Back then, Ford’s movie was eagerly anticipated as a film adaptation of...
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Friday, February 20, 2009
The New Cult Canon: Eyes Wide Shut
“The important thing is, we’re awake now, and hopefully for a long time to come.” —Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is a movie out of time—or to put it another way, it’s timeless. It was released in the middle of 1999’s summer-movie season, preceded by Wild Wild West...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Mostly Singing, Partially Dancing Case-File-And-A-Half #131
There’s garden-variety bad. Then there’s dispiriting, enervating, “Why does fate allow this to happen, maybe the Taliban is onto something, how will I find the strength to wake up and face another day” awfulness. The 1996 abomination Theodore Rex belongs in this second category. With a budget of...
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Monday, February 16, 2009
30 (mostly sexual) odes to various body parts, from top to bottom
1. Original cast, “Hair” The title song to the quintessential ’60s stage musical doesn’t bother getting into why long hair is politically and personally important to the unshorn hippies who gallivant their way through the story—it’s just an energetic, pure-and-simple love song to “Long beautiful...
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Monday, February 9, 2009
29 falling-in-love movies we actually believe in
1. Trouble In Paradise The meet-cute is one of the many standard and stale features of romantic comedies, but there’s never been a better one than the charming encounter between two professional thieves in Ernst Lubitsch’s screwball classic. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins, both extraordinary...
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Friday, February 6, 2009
What Terminator: Salvation Will Be Like
Filming Terminator: Salvation was clearly a harrowing ordeal. But, personally, I think that pre-judging the quality of a movie based on some scurrilous gossip backed up by an amazing audio clip turned killer remix is just wrong. That's why I prefer to pre-judge Terminator: Salvation based on the...
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Hell is plastic: 18 calamitous music and movie packaging gimmicks
1. The Simpsons head-box DVD sets Starting with the sixth season of The Simpsons, Matt Groening and company offered up DVD sets encased in limited-edition "Simpsons Head" boxes, slick plastic shells modeled after the show's stars. (Season six was Homer, Season seven was Marge, and so forth.) But as...
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