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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 07:28 AM) This is ABSOLUTE BULLs***. :fyou Tim Russert. It's not like that's EXACTLY what Congress, especially Democrats, are calling for, now is it? Hypocritical f***. But it's a far cry from having some of the congressional minority suggest it may be in order to actually having hearings called. And so far, I believe people are asking for a fuller accounting or for Rove to step down (or be fired), but I don't think a call for formal hearings has found any traction. I don't even know if that could fly with the Special Prosecuter's ongoing criminal investigation still under way -- who could Congress even call to testify if all Fitzgerald's witnesses ar under gag orders?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 12, 2005 -> 07:36 PM) Psshh, I do believe I am the Winner of said contest. You may now kiss said ass. Nuh uhh... I called it first!

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jul 12, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) "Rosebud" my ass. Don't you be knocking Kane, hear?!? That and Casablanca are as close to cinematic perfection as an American film has ever got. Discussion closed.

In the new American spirit of Eminent Domain... I hereby appropriate this vacant lot of an abandoned thread and declare myself THE WINNER!!!

It must be true that Al's had gone downhill in the last decade or so, because when I was in high school (back when dirt was young) the Al's around the corner on Taylor St The REAL Al's!) had very good beef sandwiches. But the BEST beef sandwich I have EVER tasted was also from taylor St – a place called Vittori's that I have heard closed down (is this true?!? what a travesty!). Anybody else here familiar with this place? A Vittori's beef and then an Italian ice from Mario's.... Perfect eats! When I make it back for visits, 'any port in a storm' is my philosophy, and I will hit up the Al's, Portillo's, Bueno, or whatever is close when I feel the need for beef. Ditto for big friggin' burritos, although I'm partial to El Faro for those. There's only one place for chicken back home though, and that's Harold's. Period. (Extra sauce, extra soppin' bread, order of gizzards too.... Mmmmm)

A great line today from abcnews.com's The Note, which ran down the facts of the Rove/Plame controversy very nicely:

Jason!!

Stay moist, Little Trooper.

The word of the day is screed. It's the act of levelling freshly poured concrete or mortar or the device used to do the levelling. And it is what I have spent the last two nights doing trying to level the concrete slab in our guest bathroom so I can lay new tile. It is a royal pain in the arse.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jul 12, 2005 -> 10:46 AM) Why would the media want revenge? The media benefitted from Clinton's sex scandal. If you said the Dems want revenge, you'd be on to something. But, at the same time, knowingly or unknowingly leaking an undercover CIA operative should be a firing offense. And getting off with simple dismissal for an act that is likely criminal if not outright treason would be getting a break. For anybody not in the administration, that is. In this case it's the best that can be hoped for.

I'm taking the day off of work tomorrow so I can see the launch.

I believe it is still unsure whether Jackson ever did buy the remaining song rights with that money. Just a couple of months ago there was a story describing how Sony/BMG (is that what they are called now?) as half-owner would have the right of first refusal if Jackson had to sell the catalog. That story made it sound like Paul was very unlikely to get a crack at buying the catalog back even if Jackson had to sell. The whole history of EMI/Northern Songs/ATV - through the Beatles' failed 1968/1968 attempts to get ownership - is an amzing roller coaster ride in and of itself. They (John and Paul... George and Ringo did not re-up when the Northern contract expired in 1968) were very close to getting control with the financial aid of as well-heeled investor consortium, and then at the last minute John's brusque negotiating tactics ("I'm not going to be f***ed around by men in suits sitting on their fat asses in the city") drove the consortium to side with ATV and they lost the takeover bid. Meanwhile, they were also losing rights to the NEMS empire that Brian Epstein had masterminded. I've always thought that the fractured, erratic genius of the White Album was the perfect mucical mirror to that period of post-Epstein tummault. Hammerhead might be able to fill in some more details, but with thugs like Allen Klein and shysters like Dick James and Lew Grade to deal with, it wasn't likely to end well for the lads. The 1985 Jacko debacle is just another chapter in a crazy story.

What about Jagged Edge? Back before the thriller twist ending was so in vogue, that ending took a lot of people by surprise.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jul 12, 2005 -> 12:48 AM) i can't believe nobody has said memento... that was an awesome ending... Awesome beginning, you mean... no, wait...

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) I'm showing my age here, but the ending to House of Games[/iwas really good. Also, a very little noticed film that was Clive Owen's first effort in the US, Croupier had a good ending. Oooh, that was that Joe Mantegna flick... good call, very shocking ending. In that same vein, from about the same time, whet about the ending to The Grifters?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 04:24 PM) A lot of people hate it but I loved the ending of Saw. The Fight Club ending was very neat as well. I despised the end of Fight Club. Not the part where it's revealed that the guy is nuts (that was cool), but the apocalyptic city in flames stuff was waaaaay over the top.

Horrible, horrible times. It's hard to believe that was 10 years ago.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 03:53 PM) Granted I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it, but these guys (the media) are like sharks with EXTREME blood in the water. They want to devour this so bad they can taste it. They are wanting revenge for Clinton. For sure they are coming at them with guns blazing, but I think it has little to do with Clinton. I think it has more to do with the disdain the administration has shown for journalists, and the orchestrated smear campaigns against journalists and their publications after they have run anti-administration pieces.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 03:35 PM) He deserved it, considering that when he was just asked to repeat answers that he had given a year or a year and a half ago, he responded with basically a no comment. He certainly deserved it. What he was trying to say (ie, at some point in the midst of the ongoing investigation the prosecuters told the White House to clam up) may be true, but it seems more like a convenient cone of silence in this case. How long until Scotty 'pulls a Fleischer' and decides he can't stomach this crap anymore?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 03:22 PM) Scott McClellan gets hammered in White House briefing http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Scotty_Rove.mov wow...

I don't know how I managed not to find out, but the ending to The Sixth Sense truly did surprise me. Back when I was a kid, I was completely surprised the first time I saw the original Night of the Living Dead and the fate that befell the protagonist of that film ('the black guy') the morning after the events of the film.