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  1. Depression is a bitch. Having my first real big crash since about '98. Going deep into my toolbox, but maybe it's just compounded by age & a sense of inevitability. Trying every day. Feel like I'm barely keeping up the facade as a functioning person. I'm just someone observing a life happening around them.
  2. Hey, he had an uncle who was a professor at MIT. This means dotard was gifted super intelligence, libtard.
  3. I'd like to know about the lighter he was using. Looked badass.
  4. Apple TV+ has a great doc on Steve Martin (STEVE! martin: a documentary in 2 pieces) and one of the more powerful moments is when Steve is going through his personal library of old scripts and he starts talking about Planes, Trains and Automobiles. He is moved to tears when he describes the scene where Neal returns to the depot to find Del sitting alone, and Del admits that his wife is dead and he doesn't have a home. Apparently there was a lot more to that scene that didn't make it into the film, and Steve talks very movingly about just how powerful Candy's performance was during filming, and how glad he was that the camera was over his shoulder capturing John's full face because Steve couldn't contain his emotions during John's delivery.
  5. Amen. And it's not just the new guard. Shit, Jack Welch disciples and castoffs from GE have been destroying stalwart companies for decades. Jim McNerney may go down as the most incompetent CEO of all time, having played a significant role in the erosion of two institutions once synonymous with safety and integrity--3M and Boeing--by infecting them with the GE cancer of "shareholder value is the only metric that matters" mindset.
  6. The most annoying, insufferable, loud mouth bitch at our local pub is involved with hard money lending. Just listening to her rant on & on about the "services" they provide that banks & credit unions can't has made it clear to me that they're about as ethical as payday loan providers.
  7. Yeah, Hanks went borderline hagiography with this one. Not saying anyone was looking to see all of his dirty laundry aired. The intro w/ Murray when he openly talked about how difficult it would be to find anyone who could relate a story about John doing something boorish set the stage. Everyone loved him and he was a sincere, relatable dude. That sentiment and his image wasn't going to be damaged 30+ years after his death by at least acknowledging his drug use/abuse. The highlight was Aykroyd's eugology ("John was grand") and the closing of the interstate for his funeral procession.
  8. Bijan. 81 yards. Housed it.
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  10. He's the most deserving of this major award.
  11. More than enough space to hold all of the hardware in aggy's hall of champions.
  12. Oh yeah. That totally happened. And that "person" (because he doesn't even know who it was, just not him) almost assuredly had tears in her eyes, right?
  13. He's gonna be throwing ketchup bottles all over the place today.
  14. But-and follow me here-if they all tune into the "All-Racist....err, American Halftime Show,' how will they know what to be outraged about? I mean, if they don't actually see or hear the afront to their wet tissue soft sense of security, will they still be threatened? And if Lee Greenwood does get the gig, he should be forced to play the most blatant money grab of all time that he's tried to scrub from history.
  15. It's as tough a task as naming your favorite song by the Stones in the Music thread (but Marty would almost surely go with Gimme Shelter). I've said before that Raging Bull is the very definition of perfection. Direction. Acting. Writing. Cinematography. Editing. Everyone was absolutely at the top of their game. But Rupert Pupkin may be even more damaged than Jake Lamotta. Or Travis Bickle. Maybe my favorite Marty quote ever was when a reporter asked him how the director of Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, etc could make a period piece like The Age of Innocence? His reply was "it's the most violent film I've ever made" or words to that effect. And he was right. If he never made a single movie he'd be a hero just for his film preservation efforts.
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