Movie List

What would observations on life be without a favorite movie list. Is it too cliche? Too bad. It's my blog.

Not in any particular order:

• High Road to China - Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong -- Fun, Action and GREAT scenic photography
• Local Hero -- Burt Lancaster - a sleeper if there ever was one
• Life as a House - Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christiansen -- One of the best films Kevin Kline has ever done! Overlooked by everyone... see it and see it again.
• Love Actually - Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson and many, many more. Wonderful weaving of many lives and loves during the holiday season in London.
• Snow Dogs - Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn -- I know, silly movie and utterly harmless. Hmmm we need more movies like this.
• Red Dawn - Patrick Swaze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson -- Haunting premise, improbable but well portayed.
• We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson, Madeline Stowe - I heard the book is even better

That's the short list.

FWIW

First Post

If I talk to myself, is anyone listening? Sometimes. Well, maybe by writing in this blog on what I observe in daily will be therapy. One can try.

Let's start with the TV coverage of the Olympics.

Watching the coverage on NBC TV is making me nuts. The actual coverage is great. But why do they stretch the programing till 11:30 p.m. EST? I would love for my son to see the complete competition, well let's be correct, a replay of the coverage. I suppose in order to sell advertising and boost ratings they stretch out the night as late as possible.

Are the Olympics about young athletes achieving dreams so that even younger people can make it their dream? Then why are the greatest performances shown so late. It's not live. As is the case with the Olympics being held outside the US most of the coverage is "held" till prime time -- 8 p.m. Kids are missing the best performances because they are held so late. Oh Well.

FWIW