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Something else we can blame on Hollywood! You know, Kim Jong Il is obsessed with Hollywood -- particularly the Godfather. We should just get him a part in a Martin Scorsese flick and maybe he'll agree to disarm his nuclear weapons program.
Thanks for that tidbit. I really didn't know that about Castro. I knew Hitler was rejected as a painter.
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CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 7:20 AM
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JANESOPINION
My creative genius has been locked away in a giant vacuum sealed Tupperware container forever. It was just released and -- still fresh!
Thanks a bunch, Jane.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 7:10 AM
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Cunninglinguist, And
just think, Fidel started out playing the part of a poolside spectator in a 1946 Esther Williams movie Easy To Wed also starring Lucille Ball. He could have maybe been big in Hollywood, LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on August 3, 2006 at 7:08 AM
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MOON_SPIRIT
Much appreciated. Never get tired of complements. My ego is insatiable. Y'all come back now, ya hear?
Thanks for the nice comments
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 7:05 AM
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BLANCHE01
oh, oops, 'twas you who made reference to Rolling Stones magazine, not Passionflower. My mistake. I need more coffee. Thanks for the glowing review! Sign me up to write for Rolling Stones; I can turn that thing around.
Thanks for the visit.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 7:01 AM
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PASSIONFLOWER!
Couldn't agree with you more. It's funny, in the late '60s the independent film mavericks came into being, taking business away from the big studios who were pumping out trite, played-out vanela cinema. Now those mavericks have gathered moss and become just what they rebelled against back then.
Rolling Stone magazine is... well, it's sad what has become of the once great mag.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 6:57 AM
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MADEMOISELLE
Yes, I'm gullible like that and you should be ashamed for exploiting my... uh, simpletoness. 
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 3, 2006 at 6:56 AM
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Great post, CL!
I loved your last sentence -- smoking Fidel's rolled up corpse. Your creative genius has been working overtime lately!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on August 2, 2006 at 7:07 PM
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CL, you are one hell of a.....well, a......cunning linguist. (I know it's been said before but, it is so true.) ......love that about 'ass' and 'hole'......and we refer to fictional events as surreal? 
posted by
syzygy
on August 2, 2006 at 6:46 PM
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Cunninglinguist, lol, "our country has drinking problems, they have
drinking solutions" is priceless. Not to mention your last graph, nice summation of the current state of affairs, you should be in Rolling Stone, they need a new curmudgeon after Hunster S. Thompoon got whacked.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 2, 2006 at 5:47 PM
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I agree that Hollywood is out of ideas...
But there are literally thousands of people out there like Passionflower and Cunninglinguist who often have new and innovative ideas for shows or skits or concepts or whatever. But Hollywood is way too scared to step out and take a chance on something unknown, unfamiliar or untested.
As long as they have these age-old hang ups, they won' t get any fresh new material.
But that's not what your post was about at all, was it?
posted by
Passionflower
on August 2, 2006 at 5:40 PM
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Actually, I don't know if he can sing or not either. I just made that up.
And, now, I feel really bad about it ... because you just automatically believed it like that.
"Whenever you read a good book,
it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you,
which is why I don't like to read good books."
posted by
Mademoiselle
on August 2, 2006 at 1:15 PM
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MADEMOISELLE
there were better episodes of Murder of She Wrote? Angela Lansberry, now there's a hottie.
Hey thanks for dropping by. Didn't know Castro could sing, but I know he does business like a Soprano. I never got into Miami Vice. Hollywood is clearly out of ideas.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on August 2, 2006 at 12:36 PM
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But, on the other hand, Castro has always had a tremendous singing voice.
So that pretty much balances things out in the eyes of God. And, I would tend to agree.
P.S. "Miami Vice" (though technically #1) had a very disappointing opening weekend. The rankings can be very misleading, not unlike The NYT "best seller" list, or one of the better episodes of "Murder, She Wrote".
"I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes,
I bet you can really see it in those genitals."
posted by
Mademoiselle
on August 2, 2006 at 12:25 PM
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