sharpshiny

sharpshiny

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1 week ago @ Big Hollywood - Theater of the Absurd:... · 0 replies · +2 points

I often used to go the movies alone. Thanks for calling me a creep.

1 week ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Woman in Black' R... · 2 replies · +2 points

You beat me to it, Oscar. I watched the original on Youtube some time ago and it was outstanding. And I know exactly which scene you're referring to without even looking.

Brilliant, bloodcurdling production. Hard to know how it could be improved upon.

1 week ago @ Big Hollywood - He's Out: Cameron to L... · 1 reply · +28 points

So he's giving up his Canadian citizenship, is he? Does this mean he's going to pay the Canadian "departure tax" (which is the equivalent of a capital gains tax on all your property as if you had sold it on your date of departure)?

2 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Wings' (1927) Blu-ray... · 0 replies · +6 points

I actually saw "Wings" on the big screen a few years ago. A couple of things stood out:

1. In what I remember as a two-minute cameo Gary Cooper absolutely steals the whole movie.

2. The last kiss of the movie is doubly heart-breaking as it reminds you of a time when American was so blissfully innocent. If you've seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about.

2 weeks ago @ Big Government - Sen. Rand Paul Detaine... · 0 replies · +2 points

This just about made my day. "Don't touch my junk!"

3 weeks ago @ Big Government - Richard Cordray: Law B... · 0 replies · +2 points

This is an important story and I'm glad BG is covering it, but there's even more here than meets the eye.

Richard Cordray was one of the many state and federal officials whose influence resulted in the national "foreclosure freeze" of 2010-11. An untold number—perhaps millions—of foreclosed properties, even those in escrow, were indefinitely suspended because there was supposedly something wrong with the foreclosure documents—a problem related to the so-called "robo-signing" nontroversy.

I was one of many victims of this. I had made a downpayment and financed a mortgage on a foreclosed property and was about to sign the dotted line when this foreclosure freeze came down. It shut me out of the home I had paid for for seven and a half months, costing me untold thousands of dollars because I had to keep constantly refinancing my loan as rates changed, getting new appraisals, etc.

In the end, of course, there was nothing wrong with the documents at all (Duh!) and our generous, benevolent government finally allowed me to take possession of my property.

Meanwhile, the recovery of the real estate market was delayed by more than half a year because it cannot possibly recover until all these foreclosed homes are finally sold and taken out of inventory.

IMO, this is the unreported scandal of 2010-11, and Richard Cordray's fingerprints are all over it.

3 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Palace Guard Comic Wan... · 0 replies · +2 points

According to the 2010 census, the population of Texas is 45.3% Non-Hispanic White, 11.8% Black, 37.6% Hispanic or Latino of any race (and the rest Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, etc.).

But in Wanda Sykes's twisted, racist little mind, everyone from Texas is a white racist.

3 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Extremely Loud and Da... · 0 replies · +5 points

Hey, Hollywood: do you really think that after Tom Hanks said America was racist for fighting the Japanese during WWII, I have any interest whatsoever in hearing what he has to say about 9/11?

Dream on.

3 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Reviewer: HBO's 'Game ... · 1 reply · +5 points

I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't this become libel and/or slander at some point? To suggest she didn't know which side the Germans were on in WWII is beyond the pale, even for Hollywood conservative-bashing.

3 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Class Act: Mark Wahlbe... · 3 replies · -21 points

Mark Wahlberg blinded a man in his youth. Maybe when Wahlberg writes his victim a check for a million dollars, I'll believe in his redemption.

Until then, well, you know what the Bible says about an eye for an eye...