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Saturday, 6 September 2003

Move Review 43: Moulin Rouge
Mood:

down
Great costumes, one great song and dance: "Lady Marmalade." The rest of it was practically unwatchable. This includes bad singing/dancing and over the top acting. There are great modern musicals out there like "Grease", "Tommy" and "Godspell", but this one is way out of that league. Perhaps, you have a different opinion. One and a half stars.
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Posted by qualteam at 11:18 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:22 PM EDT

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Friday, 5 September 2003

Movie Review 42: Phantasm
Mood:

cool
Very original thriller that had incredible mysteries connected to it. Some made sense. Some didn't. I was pulled into the story line even with this film's warped logic. Well worth a viewing. Three stars.

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Wednesday, 3 September 2003

Scary Supernatural Villains
Without a doubt, there's a big appetite for scary supernatural monsters that are practically unkillable. Even over-exposed slice and dice bullies like Jason, Freddy and the Creeper have a large following. I call them bullies because they like to pick on beings that are much weaker than themselves.

In my screenplay, Hotel California, the antagonists are a powerful mysterious group in Area 53 called "the caretakers" who abduct humans and run strange experiments on them. The actual place of these experiments is hidden by fantasy worlds that "entertain" the guests at the hotel.

Can you play the ancient Katimavik game and discover its terrible secrets?

Posted by qualteam at 10:58 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 11:27 PM EDT

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Tuesday, 2 September 2003

Number One At The Boxoffice: Jeepers Creepers 2
Mood:

spacey
The thrills may be cheap and the reviews bad, but "Jeepers Creepers Two" delivers the shocks that its audience wants.
The reviews are entertaining too.

Read the lyrics.

Posted by qualteam at 9:06 PM EDT

Updated: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 9:12 PM EDT

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Monday, 1 September 2003

Top Ten Karaoke Favourites
Mood: lyrical
Over the last ten years, I've enjoyed singing in karaoke bars very much. I've discovered that upbeat 50s and 60s music is still well-liked. While I enjoy the music of Al Jolson, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Nate King Cole, they're not that popular with karaoke audiences that prefer rock and roll.

Below are my top ten karaoke crowd-pleasing songs:
1.Burning Love 2.Hang On Sloppy 3.Devil With The Blue Dress 4.Little Devil 6.Cracklin' Rose 7.The Wonder Of You 8.The Wanderer 9.Roll Over Beethoven
10.All Shook Up
Al Jolson is my favourite singer of all time. Here is his website.

Posted by qualteam at 9:11 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 1 September 2003 9:16 PM EDT

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Sunday, 31 August 2003

Movie Review 41: The Sum Of All Fears
Slow moving plot gradually picks up speed towards a spine tingling ending. Terrorists get hold of an A-bomb which they plant in Baltimore, USA. Story has interesting stuff to say about truthful information and disinformation, but the film runs in many confusing directions that reduces the tension until half way through. Movie should have been carefully edited to one and half hours instead of two. Two and half stars.
Other Reviews For "The Sum Of All Fears"

Posted by qualteam at 8:35 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 31 August 2003 8:40 PM EDT

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Saturday, 30 August 2003

Review: The Canadian National Exhibition
Mood: happy
The "Ex" is over a hundred and twenty-five years old. It always has something for everybody. My favourite is the air show this weekend.
See you there or see you square. Three stars.

Posted by qualteam at 8:48 PM EDT

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Friday, 29 August 2003

Joke Of The Week
Mood: hug me
A dog limps into an old western town. He spies a saloon and and manages to drag himself through the swinging doors. The music and the commotion stop as all eyes are upon him. With considerable pain, he climbs onto a bar stool and orders a bottle of whiskey which he guzzles down. He looks into the bartender's eyes and says, "I just want to know who shot my paw."
The dog's day job.

Posted by qualteam at 9:40 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 29 August 2003 9:43 PM EDT

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Thursday, 28 August 2003

We All Should Have A Dream
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

The full text of Mr. King's speech can be read
here.

Posted by qualteam at 11:22 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:29 PM EDT

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Wednesday, 27 August 2003

Voting On The Tentative Agreement Begins Today
There will be no rubber stamp on this tentative agreement negotiated by the CUPW negotiating committe.
Lots of controversy and emotions have been stirred up in many areas. The heart of the "no vote" has expressed itself on the Sudbury message board. Not exactly the media for intelligent communications. The "yes side" is represented by the National Executive Board.

Who's going to win? Here's my prediction:"60% yes", "40% no".

Posted by qualteam at 7:03 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 7:29 PM EDT

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