Predictions before Tuesday morning
Here are my full predictions for the Academy Award nominations, scheduled to be announced Tuesday morning. I never make predictions in the Documentary, Foreign Film and Short film categories, but all others are here.
Let’s see how I do and then follow up with commentary later in the week.
Best Picture – With 10 nominees this year [...]
Creating New Jobs to Get out of the Recession: How will we do it?
Well, I just lost this one by mistake but lets try again. We need a massive amount of job creation to get out of this Recession, which in some areas of the Economy is a Depression.
During the recent Bush administration there were 3 million jobs created with a population growth of 22 million. That was [...]
High Fidelity, Almost Famous and other movies from the year 2000
A few days ago I posted a list of 6 films that are on my list of the decade’s favorites. Here I continue with another 5, all of which were released in the year 2000, which seems to have produced many of my favorite films. Could that be because it was the first year since [...]
Fool me once…
…shame on…shame on you. Fool me…can’t get fooled again.
It seems Democrats have not learned President George W. Bush’s lesson.
In a maddeningly frustrating article about how Democrats have decided to throw in the towel, Senator Evan Bayh had this to say with regard to using reconciliation to get the Health Care Bill passed: “It would destroy [...]
The Best of the Aughts
Sometime back in, I don’t know, 2002 maybe I threw together a list of my 50 favorite/best films of the 90s. I never considered it to be perfectly in line with what I would have considered the best films, but rather a combination of films I greatly admired on a personal level, thought were at [...]
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