[Translate] No doubt you will have seen the much talked about final play in Monday night’s Seahawks and Packers game, even if you didn’t watch the game itself. This call was the latest and so far, most decisive mistake from the replacement officials. This one single play and subsequent bad call from the officials was the first time that the replacements had...
[Translate] On Sunday, Tony Scott, the famed director of such classic movies as Top Gun, Days Of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, took his own life in Los Angeles on Sunday. To say this blogger is sad of this news is an understatement and makes this entry particularly hard to type. The 68-year-old self-proclaimed “live on the edge” risk-taking adrenaline...
[Translate] Video: Paul Ryan – Mitt Romney VP Pick Allows Racist Comments Shouts Down Woman Who Protests Them U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan was named to be the vice presidential running mate for GOP Presidential Nominee, Governor Mitt Romney. Ryan, the 1st District Wisconsin congressman, has carved a name for himself as a “budget hawk,” proposing a radical...
[Translate] SKYFALL: Sony Pictures just released one of the best trailers in James Bond movie history. In fact, it was issued this morning, July 31st 2012. But in it, we get a great look at what the SKYFALL movie is about before its November 2012 release. Moreover, and unlike previous trailers, it has music reflecting the Bond theme. Some new images: we meet...
[Translate] Sally Ride, America’s first woman in Space, and a major part of the Zeitgeist, died of something I do wish we would find a cure for: cancer. In this case, Pancreatic Cancer. She was 61 years old. Sally reached the distinction of being the first woman in Space, and the youngest, in 1983. That was the year this blogger was a sopohmore at...
[Translate] James Holmes and his decision to shoot into a midnight audience for The Dark Night Rises aside, the The Dark Night Rises is an incredible, and incredibly complex, work of a movie. We have to get back to a discussion of the movie itself, because James Holmes act of committing the worst mass-murder in American history has had such an incredible topic-shifting...
[Translate] William Shatner (the original Captain Kirk of Star Trek) returned to Comic Con for the second straight year (Zennie62 trip sponsored by Tout.com), and in talking about his new movie Get A Life, which is a study of Trekkers, found that he was on a journey of discovery that is, as of this writing, still ongoing. We had about 10 minutes with Mr. Shatner,...
[Translate] Roger Federer won a record-tying seventh Wimbledon Championship, beating Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. Playing what he later said was “some of his best tennis” after a rain delay, Mr. Federer won his his 17th Grand Slam title overall and matched his hero, Pete Sampras’ record, at the Wimbledon All England Club in the process. ...
[Translate] Serena Williams earned her 5th Wimbledon Championship, and 14th major title, in beating Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 Saturday. Overall, Serena dispatched Agnieszka with little fuss and in doing so, tied her sister Venus Williams, with five Wimbledon titles. Serena was about 10 years older than Radwanska and every bit stronger. Here,...
[Translate] Iron Man / Tony Stark returns to Comic Con for 2012 with a special panel introducing Iron Man 3. The panel will assemble in the famous Hall H on Saturday, July 14 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. According to Walt Disney Studios Publicity, Marvel Producer Kevin Feige and “special guests” will “provide an inside look at the ever-expanding Marvel...
[Translate] Tom Cruise And Katie Holmes divorce after five years of seemingly blissful marriage starting in November 2006 in Italy – “TomKat” is no more. Maybe call it “TomNoKat.” At any rate, reports are that it was Katie Holmes who initiated divorce proceedings – asking for, according to the blog TMZ.com, “primary residential...
[Translate] On Thursday, June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5 to 4 vote, declared The Affordable Care Act, or what some call “Obamacare,” constitutional. The lead decider was Chief Justice John Roberts (photo below), who’s view turned on the idea that the law’s provision for an “individual mandate” to get insurance or...
