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Let's face it, all the gals think George Clooney is the bomb. He's here for them. EYE CANDY OF THE WEEK
George Clooney
NOW PLAYING: In the FILM REVIEWS Section, we bring you a reprint from G21: The World's Magazine (our predescessor) of CATRIONA STUART's review of the important film "Giuliani Time." Take a gander, please. Don't YOU ever wonder why so many Blogs are bull and doring? I know I do. You expect to find the same thing every day. How un-creative! I'd like to visit a Blog where I could expect the unexpected. So I decided to create one. This Web Blog was haphazardly produced without using Spell Check one danged time. We like it that way. ESOTERICA: In the coming weeks, expect our partnership with CinemActivist.com to provide you with reviews of great documentaries from Cinema Libre Studio, PBS, the History Channel, the Visioneerng Group and Working Films that provide you knowledge and move you toward activism. Just so you know. Depending on the events of the day, we'll likely be bringing you information about a great new film on New Orleans from independent director Alex LeMay, "Desert Bayou," slated to appear in New York City and New Orleans in early October before rolling out across the country. You can catch "Desert Bayou" in the following cities on these dates:
City Cinemas Village East 181 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 (212) 529-6998 www.angelikafilmcenter.com Showtimes: 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 10:15 Fri - Sun: 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 10:15 12 October: Westgate Art Cinemas 340 Westgate Mall Madison, WI 53711 (608) 271-4033 www.marcustheatres.com Showtimes: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 19 October: Varsity Theatre 1207 25th Street Des Moines, IA 50311 (515) 277-0404 www.varsitydesmoines.com 26 October: Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (801) 321-0310 www.saltlakefilmsociety.com 02 November: Angelika Film Center & CafÈ 510 Texas Ave. Houston, TX 77002 (713) 225-1470 www.angelikafilmcenter.com 
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G21: Lightning StrikesRod Amis's BlogTo read this article in Deutsch, Francaise, Italiano, Portuguese, Espanol, Korean, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Chinese and Russian, copy and paste the complete URL ("http://www.g21.net/ls/index101607.html") and enter it in the box after you click through.
The only good to come of this imbroglio is that the diatribes (full of disinformation) of the wacko barbarian hordes provoked the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times to do real journalistic fact-checking on the Frost family's financial situation and - contrary to the assertions of the hordes - demonstrate that even a middle-class family in this country can't get health care coverage that would help them avoid financial ruin in the event of a catastrophic illness in the family. ITEM TWO: The Departments of Transportation in states like Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Texas trying to cut secret 75-year deals with foreign companies to profit from PUBLIC roadways, paid for with our tax dollars, rather than continue the commitment to the national highway system that President Eisenhower considered an asset and protection for our nation. ITEM THREE: Last month it was TOPS, this month it's Cargill. Once again beef believed to be tainted with the e.coli virus is being recalled here in the United States. Gee, wonder why? Could it be that the hamburger you buy on your supermarket shelves could contain meat from any many as 16 different countries, with various levels of meat inspection protocols? And where is the agency responsible for monitoring the quality of our food supply? Asleep at the wheel. Let's keep the gub'ment off our backs as we die from food poisoning, shall we? I'm just getting started. A well-heeled former friend of mine, the only Black Republican I've ever known personally, asked me once, "Rod, what is it you're rebelling against?" after reading an issue of G21: The World's Magazine years back. Being in a jocular mood, I quoted him Marlon Brando's line from the film "The Wild Ones": "Whaddaya got?" By now, he as well as you, Gentle Reader, should be aware that it is the litany of harsh wrong-headedness, ideological blindness and flat out malignance - as evidenced by the items above and others like them I've shared with you over the years - that are the source of my rebelliousness. The way to make the world better, after all, could simply be to make improvements - in incremental steps - to those items we see need fixing. This edition of the Blog offers you a reprint, in our FILM REVIEWS section, of CATRIONA STUART's review of the film "Giuliani Time." We think it's a fitting time to remind of the film, in case you missed it, and what it has to reveal about the man who would be the Republican Presidential nominee. Your comments are welcomed. Life Of RodYou will notice that the left sidebar now features the theatrical release dates for the documentary film about New Orleans evacuees, "Desert Bayou," which I've been flakking to high Heaven hither and yon and all over the Web with the help of anyone I could dragoon (in varioius states and at various Blogs) to help out. That's why you haven't seen much of me here or elsewhere. IF you're a regular, you know that I was in New Orleans for a preview screening of the film a few weeks back. Next week, I have to head down to Houston to do it again. Meanwhile, I'm supposedly coordinating a national campaign to generate word-of-mouth (WOM). A couple weeks back, my pal Becky Altemus decided to ask me, "Rod, you're a writer. How did you end up getting involved in the film business?"Well, I guess I wrote a couple of decent movie reviews, I said, and they decided to give me a call. After all, I was already flakking, behind the scenes, for a software company. At the end of the day, I guess, everyone needs a good copy writer with a fat rolodex. I used to whine about the near-daily calls from the CEO of the software company. Never again. Movie people are just as frenetic and there are more of them to talk to; conference calls are de rigeur. Within two days, last week, I had my agenda changed three times. Nothing is written in stone. What I would normally take as a plan ultimately turns out to be a trial balloon. AND because it's a national campaign, the man in the middle (or should I say, "the low man on the totem pole"?) has to adjust to everyone else's schedules. Sheesh! Sleep? Write? Who has the time? But seriously, folks, if you are in or near any of the theatres or cities listed on the left, drop in the check out the film. We need butts in seats so that I can say I did my job... I finally had to break down and get a pair of those cheapo "reading" spectacles from Walgreen's this past weekend. Yes, it's even become difficult now, for the first time in my life, for me to read things on a computer monitor - the only place I've been able to comfortably and consistently read for over a decade. Another sign of my advancing dotage. When the words on the screen began to become more blurry and difficult to focus upon, I became quite dismayed. It never bothered me when I was deficient in the "real world" because I don't live there much anyway; but when faced with losing capacity in my own universe, I was saddened and a bit frightened, honestly. It was as unsettling as the prospect of suddenly losing my fingers: no fingers, no writing: life is over. My pal Matt says his philosophy for assessing situations is to ask, "What's the worst that could happen?" From his perspective, the worst won't likely happen and anything less than the worst is an acceptable result. My own philosophy, on the other hand, is to absolutely expect the worst to occur - based on the past experiences - and then if anything lesser occurs to breathe a sigh of relief before going on to the next disaster to worry about. Stop laughing. Take money. I have spent too many days awakening to a prayer to have a mere $20 in this lifetime to take a single penny for granted. I hold onto a nickel until it screams. Even when I know an expense is necessary and I can certainly afford to make the investment to increase my prospects on a given contract, I hold off on spending anything until the last possible moment. I should have bought these spectacles over a month ago. They only cost a few bucks and make my life a lot easier. But I so afraid of being broke again that I put it off until even working here on the Internet was becoming near unbearable. "What a maroon!" Talk to you again soon. BIG NEWS! You can now and henceforth find all of the G21 PODCASTS over at Blip.tv. Just click on the link http://blip.tv/users/view/g21guy and you can download to your iTunes or iPod and hear some of the thought leaders for this new century that I mean to bring to you. It will be updated with new episodes regularly, as you must know. You're welcome. This dance video is so chock full of great music and performances that even I haven't seen them all yet. (Click on the "MENU" link on the tool) So I decided to leave it up a while longer to give you a chance to catch up. Enjoy!: Cheers! RAKeep me in your prayers as I keep you in my own. Thanks for visiting. "Work like you don't need the money, "Love like you've never been hurt, "Dance like no one is watching ... " Talk to you in a day or so. Be well. Leave a Comment
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16 October 2007: Herewith the Short List of last week's outrages for your consideration: