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No, thank YOU. You represent this board with insight and dignity.

Do you know what YASNY means in the ol' language? Clear, lucid. Apt.

As graceful a transition as, say, Tina Turner or AC/DC?

You wanna turn Bulls into a Championship team liteerally overnight? Get Iverson as a FA. Alan, Eddie and Jamal would do all the scoring and Tyson, JYD and Kirk will be the ones to do the dirty work, play defense and set everything up. People say that in NFL the turn-around period is 2 years. In the EC, it could be 2 days. Too bad that salary cap thing is f***ed up. As they say, that's why GM's get paid-- to NOT give money to E-Rob and the likes. Krause is a joke.

You're right, it's.

I'll say. 100-105 wins, best team in NL, probable World Series Winner. As if there was any doubt Cubs were gonna get him. They are not stupid and they have more than enough money. Hendry masterminded the protracted "negotioations" and a month-worth hype out of it. I believe it was agreed upon weeks ago. :puke :puke :puke :fthecubs

Single shot. No reels invovled. All-digital, in fact they had to invent a bigger hard-drive just for the movie. Alex Sokhurov had only ONE chance to get the movie done. 2 days to prep the location. A real-life renowned conductor was flown in for just 2 hours. A single f***-up and the movie wouldn't get done. In fact there was a hilarious blunder that I took for the real thng at first and no way to edit (NO EDITING!) around it. Watch the English-speaking German producer (another reason why DVD is a must) provide background explanations as an optioin during the second viewing. But beware, it's not for everyone's taste and patience. Strangers on Train, eh? The SHOES sequence in the beginning is very cool. Like Psycho, too. That Berstein score....shudder.

If you do see any of them (City of God is the more conventionally exciting of the 3), make sure you get DVD. You might have to overpay by a dollar (less if you netflix it), but the quality is incomparable.

Currently Monster is embroiled in a similar albeit much, much milder controversy: Aileen's portrayal verges on sympathetic. In reality, she was a remorseless, psychotic serial killer. A. Chicatilo (Jack the Ripper times 10) blamed porn.

Good stuff there, Tex. Fisher and Kasparov are in top 3 20th century for sure. Who would nominate as the the third one? Bouncing waves off him? How Bobby Fisher of him. I bet he doesn't like people to look him in the eyes. Actually, "old man kitbitzing after a loss" is one of the biggest pleasures of chess. They almost always have no idea what they are talking about and invariably end up getting chased off by annoyed players/crowd. Stilll not as funny as Karpov getting sworn, spat at at he National Championship and the chin/groin kicks are unbelievably HILARIOUS.

What about that secret society then?

? T-Ben has a good voice. Rod Stewart has a solid-but-memorable one. Their genres and styles are different.

Haven't seen it yet. Had a pirate copy on me hard disc a while ago, but I hate the quality of NON-DivX so I deleted it. I know what it's about, read the script, know a couple of people who were involved in it (technical and artistic side), but until I see the finished product there isn't much to say. It's sad that one of the lead actors, a 12yo boy, drowned shortly before the movie won in Cannes. Really sad. I saw Russian Ark (2003), though. If you're a true history buff (namely, from Peter the Great to Boris The Great, lol) get a DVD and watch it fly. It's 90 minutes long and, believe it not, shot in ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE. ONE. One of my all-time faves, though is Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo Detstvo). It's almost 50 years old, B&W, probably not the best of quality, but man I just love it, pure liquid movie poetry. BTW....If you haven't seen the brazilian flick City of God, SEE IT NOW on DVD. Really good movie.

The great American champion/chess genius-recluse? You never found that fascinating?

Man....I am still laughing just imagining the different ways the tantrums and physical abuse must've happened. You couldn't write that s***, I swear. Do you have an opinion on Fisher the person/player?

Yeah, probably. Actually, it's FAR more real: In the 70's when then 24yo up-and-coming pretender A.Karpov was playing a huge National Title bout with a then-Champ gross-meister who was more than twice his age and much more respected. The latter, known for his huge temper, was LITERALLY spitting on the board and actually KICKING Karpov's shins under the table while muttering unbelievable profanities.....when he began to lose after taking a sizeable lead. He was not disqualified, but people who were there in person was it was so f***in' sudden, surreal and funny, some people had to be carried out on stretchers literally.

Knowing my evil side that loves making fun of incompetent, pompous dopes, oh how I wish I was around the Bevington Era. The TB Episode II: The Phantom Bullpen Menace and The Reversal of Umpire Fortune sound like something I woulda lost my s*** over. I wish they'd hire him as a 3rd announcer-- or the Booth Jester as it's sometimes called. He'd drive DJ mad who'd then drive Hawk even madder.

FSJ, you think he coulda taken down Kasparov? Whatcha think of the Little Grossmiester-Slaughtering Bobby or his recluse period.

50 is elderly? Since when? Oh yeah, in this superficial soulless MTV culture, 30 is pension age.... My great-gramma, bless her heart, just turned 98 (same age as the brilliant folk dance choreographer Igor Moiseev)-- now THAT's old. As far as laughing at him, you don't have to wait-- you can do it now knowing he is probably braindead and doomed for life of heart-wrenching failure and toil. Then again, there is nothing even remotely funny about that.

Mark Knopfler wrote the score.

The movie it's based on, Local Hero, took place and was filked at in Scotland.

Correction: It's GRUPPENFUHRER Hirnrich. Marv Albert: Oh specTACULAR Heinrick Maneuvre!

A Few Not So General's Daughters: Electric Boogaloo, starring Maggie Gyllenhall: --Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more responsibility here than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's brutal rapes, while tragic and antithetical to everything America ostensibly stands for, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you don't want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty, hot piece of defenseless ass. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I prefer you said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand to post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to. --Col. Jessup, did you or did you not order the Code Rape! --You g*dd*mn ***** I d*d!!!

Rape on the battlefield? As they say, all is fair in love and war. These fine upstandin' army boys had the wherewithall and ingenuity to combine the two. They should be commended. :puke