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Did I mention that I have a new niece? Dave and Jen welcomed Sofia Marie into the world a week ago Friday (7/16). And, I was fresh out of blanket bears, so I spent today making one for her. I hope Kira will let her little sister use the bear instead of absconding with it (Kira already has three of her own).
Also, my cousin is pregnant, so I wanted to send one for her baby. Here they are:
3/5 stars
While I remember that I did watch Starsky and Hutch when I was a kid, I don’t actually remember anything about it. Since I’m not burdoned with any recollection of the show itself, I was able to just sit back and enjoy the remake.
4/5 stars
This is a fun mockumentary about three folk bands that come together for a concert honoring a recently deceased concert promoter. We watch The Folksmen reunite, while the reunion of Mitch and Mickey is not quite so easy, though Eugene Levy seemed to have a lot of fun with Mitch (he’s not entirely in this world anymore, as it were). Then there are The New Main Street Singers, a revamped version of the older Main Street Singers.
Fun movie with a lot of fun music.
3/5 stars
This was a fun movie, with lots of great music (of course). It follows the life of Cole Porter from his days of obscurity in Paris to his time in Hollywood as a famous, well-loved creator of musicals to his riding accident that nearly lost him his legs.
The one main problem with the film is that I am never convinced by the “older” characters. Kevin Kline and Ashely Judd sport a lot of make-up to make themselves look old, and while they look convincing, the acting never quite matches the age. This is true of any other movie I’ve seen where an actor plays a significantly older person. Perhaps it’s because I know better…perhpas it’s because the make-up never quite comes out right (in this case, it seemed too “hard”)…perhaps it’s because actors just aren’t comfortable in roles that require them to play someone so much closer to the end of their lives.
The article, 10 Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema, counts down the top 10 bad moments in blockbuster science fiction films. These are not dumb moments from b-films — that would be too, too easy. No, these are dumb things that occur in otherwise good movies.
The moments they describe are entertaining. For example, why would the Empire (of The Empire Strikes Back), builders of the greatest space weapon, the Death Star, use All-Terrain Armored Transports to attack the Rebels on Hoth? These AT-ATs are not exactly stable, and really don’t have much fire power…at least compared to what we know the Empire can muster.
My favorite part of the article, though, is the introduction:
Sure, the genre [science fiction] gets respect, not to mention box office yield, but the poor innocent fans are still depicted as lifeless, dateless, and wearing Vulcan ears.
But, and we say this with love, sci-fi fans often deserve the reputation. Once people overhear some pale guy with wizard hair explaining how a light saber simply isn’t possible, as the exposed plasma from the device would irradiate every living organism with a 5-kilometer radius, what are people supposed to think? “Sexy?”
(Sigh)
3/5 stars
This movie reminded me a bit of Phenomenon, in which John Travolta’s character gains super-intelligence and telekinesis. In both, we are given enough time and intruduction to the main character to believe that they are truly what they seem to be. In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey plays Prot, a man institutionalized when he tells a police officer that he is from another planet. Over the next hour, we watch him interact with the psychiatrist and other patients and begin to believe that he just might be from outer space. I won’t give away the ending, but I was definately satisfied by it.
by Barbara Eklof
This is a small book of suggested vows for weddings of all sorts. For the most part the vows were all either too cheesy or too simplistic or too sickenly sweet. However, there were a few bits and pieces with sentiments that I liked an may end up using.
by Vonda N. McIntyre
Snake is a healer on post-apocalyptic Earth. Healers in those days use serpents in their healing. The genetically-modified diamondback and cobra can be drugged to produce venom to heal most conditions. The rare dreamsnake can ease a patient’s suffering, and in cases where the it will ease their passage into death.
During her proving year, Snake travels across the desert where few (any?) healers have visited. However, the tribe that summons her is fearful of snakes, knowing only of desert snakes with deadly-poisonous venom. In their ignorance, they kill her dreamsnake.
Snake feels crippled without the dreamsnake, but knows that there is already a shortage of dreamsnakes, so there is little chance of her receiving a second one. Rather than returning to the healer’s home, she embarks on a quest to find a dreamsnake.
McIntyre creates strong characters into a page-turning story. I enjoyed this one about as much, perhaps more, than her The Sun and the Moon.
This just isn’t fair — too much kitten tumbly going on around here. Fortunately, Ares actually likes to have his tumbly petted…Duncan, on the other hand, will gut your arm if you try.
  
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