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Still essentially a silent film.  Only some of the musical numbers were synchronized and even the famous first words were ad-libbed and only left in on a whim. Overall, a good film for its era.  If you’ve seen “The Jolson Story”, you’ve essentially seen the same movie.  A Jewish cantor’s son wants to sing modern [...]

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Nothing has changed here at work.  Incompetence reigns supreme.  I know better than to expect things to get any better but still, I am fooled every time things start to look up.  I want to believe that people can’t possibly be this stupid or this lazy.  They can indeed. So nothing has changed at work [...]

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Teresa, Becca and Lizzy watched all three of the Die Hard movies this summer to get ready for the fourth one.  They never got to the theater to see it and so when I brought it home they wanted to watch it.  I warned them that this was going to be softer and tamer because [...]

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Another one that I would have never bothered to watch if it weren’t for my “special antenna”.  Pay to see a two hour episode of the Simpsons?  Why?  And that’s right where they start the movie.  It opens on an extended “Itchy and Scratchy” movie and Homer stands up and yells “Boring!”  Then he goes [...]

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