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I’m looking forward to your review.

Happy Birthday, POTUSChris!!! Here's hoping you have many more birthday's to come.

It was nice as hell to see the Packers getting beat last night.

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis Genre: Adventure/Action Length: 196 minutes Cinema: 1960 Rating: Not Rated Spartacus, born a slave in ancient Rome, finds himself in a gladiator school run by Batiatus (Peter Ustinov, who won an Oscar as best supporting actor). There he is trained with other slaves to fight in the arena, for the purpose of being sold to Romans who wish to watch, for amusement, combat to the death. There he meets Varinia (Jean Simmons) and falls in love. But when Roman senator Crassus (Laurence Olivier) drops by and insists on a fight to the death right there at Batiatus' school, it evolves into a riot as the slaves revolt and escape. Spartacus eventually organizes them and they cross the land freeing other slaves and building an army. Love is both the engine and the subject of Spartacus. It is because Spartacus loves fellow slave Varinia and is about to be deprived of her by the evil senator Crassus that he starts the revolt in the first place. Her love for him, in turn, gives him the courage to lead his rebel army even though it means certain death. This theme is made flesh in Douglas's performance. Paths of Glory is Kirk Douglas's greatest film, but Spartacus is his labor of love. Spartacus plan is to make it to Southern Italy where they will pay a large group of pirates to sail them far away from the Roman Empire that had enslaved them. The film spends a great deal of time showing us the backstage antics of those in power in the Roman Empire, namely the political warfare being waged between a senator with dictatorial ambitions, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and an older, more restrained senator, Gracchus (Charles Laughton). For 1960, the film was decidedly frank about Roman decadence, which gives it an edge that is lacking in too many sword-and-sandal epics of the era. The film contains a great deal of talk about Gracchus' fondness for many women, and he and Batiatus have an amusing conversation about why corpulent men are better people. There was no rating system in 1960, but this restored version has received a PG-13 for violence, along with a couple of brief moments where Simmons is partially nude. Even if you don’t care that much about the actual movie, get hold of the Criterion DVD version to learn the real behind-the-scenes “dirt.” After hearing Charlton Heston croon inanely about how each of the actors and film personnel in Ben Hur were either “good” or “very good,” this pleasurable DVD sets a new standard and feels like a Roman feast and orgy of film tidbits. It’s compelled me to re-watch Spartacus more times than I would have thought possible! Grade: A

It’s going to be the Cards @ Boston. Cardinals win it of course. Their offense and pitching is purely a dream for White Sox fans.

Yoda, how do you know so much?

That’s an easy one for me. Blues Brothers.

The Cardinals will make it to the World Series. Their lineup is scary as hell and the pitching is very good. These guys have what it takes to win it all. BTW, is Carpenter injured? I didn't see him pitch at all in the series or are they just saving him for round 2?

Roy Oswalt will pitch as good as he has all year long. The defense and offense will be there to help him out and the Astros will eliminate the Atlanta Braves. Go Astros!

Same with me.

Nice hat but the Railcat’s suck!

Thanks for being interested. I am working on a film review right now. My High School passes out their own newspapers (written by students) and they’re looking for a movie critic so I’m thinking about volunteering. That way I can write down my movie review on Word, print it out, give it to my school and while I’m at it I can post that review here at SoxTalk. If you start writing movie reviews, please make sure to post them here at the board.

1.) Shark Tale $31,700,000 2.) Friday Night Lights $20,563,000 3.) Ladder 49 $13,270,000 4.) Taxi $12,050,000 5.) The Forgotten $7,500,000 Friday Night Lights is in my to see list. Hopefully I can see it this coming Friday.

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You ruined your life by registering here. Now there is no escape. :headshake

Okay.... so what exactly is this thread about?

I don’t even think he’ll be playing baseball after his current contract is up. How old is he going to be by that time? 40?

OMG.... that’s like the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while.

Though I hate the Cubs with a passion and wish they never get into the playoffs while I’m alive, the injury bug will always be lurking to bite somebody and it’s a disease that is hard to avoid. I also don’t like to wish any player bad luck but if Prior or Maddux get hurt (or Zambrano etc.) that will really hurt their chances for next year as well.

Happy Birthday, Killa! Hope you have a good one.

Happy Birthday, redandwhite! I wish your Red Sox luck in the playoffs.

Though I know the majority of Cub fans aren’t feeling very good right now; there really is nothing to be so depressed about. Life goes on and next year is another year. The Cubs are going to be a winning team for some time and we’re just going to hope they keep choking and choking. Their starting rotation for next year is good though this was they’re year to go all the way.

Sammy is surely feeling stupid right now. He knows a lot of his fans are losing plenty of respect for him and that he may not stay in the city of Chicago for very long.

ALDS Boston over Anaheim in 5 New York over Minnesota in 5 NLDS St. Louis over Los Angeles in 4 Houston over Atlanta in 5 ALCS Boston over New York in 6 NLCS St. Louis over Houston in 4 WS St. Louis over Boston in 5