The Week in Entertainment
Film: The Namesake. I really did enjoy this movie. The performances were lovely and the story engaging. Gogol's search for self was moving, as was - in a different way - Asmira and Ashoke's happy life together and her sorrow at missing him and at her own readiness to be herself. All around lovely.
DVD: Неуловимые мстители - The Elusive Avengers. Rousing "Young Partisans"-style Russian films from the 1960s - teenaged Reds battling evil Whites in the early 1920s. I quibble with the cover copy calling them "comedies", though - beloved characters don't generally die in comedies, and heroes don't generally get flogged, either. Ah well, it's that Russian sense of humor, I suppose. But these really are quite engaging films, and very good for learners - the dialog is easy to follow. And DVDs - the wonder! - six sets of subtitles! Ура! Also a couple more installments of Mirage of Blaze.
TV: Bill Moyers - "Buying the War" and the first installment of his "Journal". The former I mentioned here; the latter was a very compelling interview with Jon Stewart. The man may not think of himself as a social critic or a journalist, but he is, both, anyway. The Josh Marshall segment was also interesting, though Jon's a hard act to follow at any time. Also Scrubs, the Gates, House, and Heroes. And I've broken down and gotten DVR so I don't have to choose between House and Veronica Mars, or the Gates and Bill Moyers...
Read: My Jesus and Mo books came - yay! Also Murder on Monday for light entertainment, and Quite Honestly by John Mortimer.
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At 12:16 AM, April 30, 2007
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At 9:07 AM, April 30, 2007
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->mullah cimoc say usa media not free. moyers him afraid for speak the true words most important of this subject:
in pashtu this word neocon (nikan)
meaning "israeli spy in white house and pentagon".
when not say these words him story one big lying.
google: mighty wurlitzer +cia
I watched the Stewart-with-Moyers thing too. I wonder to what extent it's really true that Mr Stewart doesn't think of himself as a social critic/journalist. My guess is that he does accept that role now, and what he really means is that he didn't set out to be those, and he feels like an unlikely holder of those titles.
The problem is that right now there are few journalists toward the left who are unafraid of stirring the bucket... so we have to look to the unlikely ones.
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