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By Naomi Klein - September 5th, 2001
Part of the tourist ritual of traipsing through Italy in August is marvelling at how the locals have mastered the art of living—and then complaining bitterly about how everything is closed.
"So civilized," you can hear North Americans remarking over four-course lunches. "Now somebody open up that store and sell me some Pradas NOW!" This year, August in Italy was a little different. Many of the southern beach towns where Italians hide from tourists were half-empty, and the cities never paused. When I arrived two weeks ago, journalists, politicians and activists all reported that it was the first summer of their lives when they didn't take a single day off.
How could they? First, there was Genoa, then: After Genoa.
The fallout from protests against the G8 in July is redrawing the country's political landscape—and everybody wants a chance to shape the results. Newspapers are breaking circulation records. Meetings—anything having to do with politics—are bursting at the seams. In Naples, I went to an activist planning session about an upcoming NATO summit; more than 700 people crammed into a sweltering classroom to argue about "the movement's strategy After Genoa." Two days later, near Bologna, a conference about politics "After Genoa" drew 2,000; they stayed until 11 p.m.
The stakes in this period are high. Were the 200,000 (some say 300,000) people on the streets an unstoppable force that will eventually unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi? Or will Genoa be the beginning of a long silence, a time when citizens equate mass gatherings with terrifying violence?
For the first weeks after the summit, attention was focused squarely on the brutality of the Italian police: the killing of 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani, reports of torture in the prisons, the bloody midnight raid on a school where activists slept.
But Mr. Berlusconi, whose training is in advertising, is not about to relinquish the meaning of Genoa that easily. In recent weeks, he has been furiously recasting himself as "a good father," determined to save his family from imminent danger. Lacking a real threat, he has manufactured one—an obscure United Nations conference on hunger, scheduled for Rome from Nov. 5 to Nov. 9.
To much media fanfare, Mr. Berlusconi has announced that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meeting will not be held in "sacred Rome" because "I don't want to see our cities smashed and burnt."
Instead, it will be held somewhere remote (much like Canada's plans to hold the next G8 in secluded Kananaskis).
This is shadow boxing at its best. No one had planned to disrupt the meeting. The event would have attracted some minor protest, mostly from critics of genetically modified crops. Some hoped the meeting would be an opportunity to debate the root causes of hunger—much as those pushing for slavery reparations are doing in Durban.
Jacques Diouf, director of FAO, seems to be relishing the unexpected attention. After all, despite being saddled with the crushing mandate of cutting world hunger in half, the FAO attracts almost no outside interest—from politicians or protesters. The organization's biggest problem is that it is so uncontroversial, it's practically invisible.
"For all these arguments about this change of venue, I would like to say I am very grateful," Mr. Diouf told reporters last week. "Now people in every country know that there will be a summit to talk about the problems of hunger."
But even though the threat of anti-FAO violence was dreamed up by Mr. Berlusconi, his actions are part of a serious assault on civil liberties in After-Genoa Italy. On Sunday, Italy's Parliamentary Relations Minister Carlo Giovanardi said that during November's FAO meeting, "demonstrations in the capital will be prohibited. It is a duty," he said, "to ban demonstrations in certain places and at certain times." There may be a similar ban on public assembly in Naples during the NATO meeting, which has also been moved out of the city.
There was even talk of cancelling a concert by Manu Chao in Naples last Friday. The musician supports the Zapatistas, sings about clandestinos and played to the crowds in Genoa. That, apparently, was enough for the police to smell a riot in the making. In a country that remembers the logic of authoritarianism, this is all chillingly familiar: First create a climate of fear and tension, then suspend constitutional rights in the interest of protecting "public order."
So far, Italians seem unwilling to play into Mr. Berlusconi's hand. The Manu Chao concert took place as planned. There was, of course, no violence. But 70,000 people did dance like crazy in the pouring rain, a much-needed release after a long and difficult summer.
The crowds of police ringing the concert looked on. They seemed tired, like they could have used a day off.
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Adrian Grenier Joins Oceana to Protect Bluefin Tuna
Last week Oceana launched a new bluefin tuna PSA campaign featuring "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier. In March, Grenier joined Oceana to swim with the endangered fish and help get the word out that they are "going fast" -- literally and figuratively.
Bluefin can grow to 15 feet in length, weigh up to 1500 pounds and can swim at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour. They are on the verge of extinction as a result of overfishing, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico further threatens their survival.
The Gulf is the only place where the Western population of Atlantic bluefin tuna reproduces. After the spawning season (April to June), baby tuna continue to swim through the Gulf region where they can accumulate toxins in their gills from the oil itself and from the chemical dispersants.
"I hope that my involvement will bring attention to what is going on in the bluefin fishery," Grenier said. "I want these PSAs to encourage people to get involved and help Oceana save these amazing creatures."
Watch the PSA and get involved with Adrian and Oceana to protect bluefin!
Adrian Grenier Wants To Stop Bluefin Tuna From Going Too Fast from Oceana on Vimeo.
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Oil Spill Quote of the Day
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"This is a much bigger problem than people are making out," said Barbara Block, a Stanford researcher who is among the world's leading experts on the bluefin tuna. "The concern for wildlife is not just along the coast; it is also at sea. We're putting oil right into the bluewater environment."
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While oil-covered birds have become an emblematic image of catastrophic oil spills, sea birds aren't the only ones affected. Oil is extremely toxic to all wildlife, and the toxic effects on marine life begins as soon as the oil hits the water.
Here are 10 examples of how marine life may be affected by the Gulf spill in the coming days, weeks and years
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The Scanner: Moving Forward Edition
Happy Friday, everyone.
It's been a rough few weeks for the oceans at CITES, but now it's time to pick up the pieces. If CITES taught us anything, it's that the work of the ocean conservation community is more important than ever.
This week in ocean news,
....Rick at Malaria, Bed bugs, Sea Lice and Sunsets discussed one of the more shady aspects of CITES: the secret ballots, which were invoked for votes on bluefin tuna, sharks, polar bears, and deep water corals.
…The Washington Post reported that Maryland is cracking down on watermen who catch oysters in protected sanctuaries or with banned equipment. Once a principal source of oysters, the Chesapeake now provides less than 5 percent of the annual U.S. harvest.
…For the first time, scientists were able to use videos to observe octupuses' behavioral responses. The result? The octupuses had no consistent reaction to one film -- in other words, they had no "personality." Curiously, other cephalopods display consistent personalities for most of their lives.
…The New York Times wondered if the 700,000 saltwater home aquariums in the United States and the associated trade in reef invertebrates are threatening real reef ecosystems.
Sights on CITES: The Bitter End
This is the ninth in a series of dispatches from the CITES meeting in Doha, Qatar.
As Oceana marine scientist Elizabeth Griffin put it: "This meeting was a flop."
CITES has been a complete failure for the oceans. The one success -- the listing of the porbeagle shark under Appendix II -- was overturned yesterday in the plenary session.
The future of bluefin tuna, the eight proposed species of sharks and red and pink corals now hangs in the balance.
"It appears that money can buy you anything, just ask Japan," said Dave Allison, senior campaign director. "Under the crushing weight of the vast sums of money gained by unmanaged trade and exploitation of endangered marine species by Japan, China, other major trading countries and the fishing industry, the very foundation of CITES is threatened with collapse."
Maybe next time -- if these species are still around to be protected.
The failure of CITES means that Oceana's work – and your support and activism – is more important than ever. You can start by supporting our campaign work to protect these creatures.
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The Scanner: On the Bright Side Edition
Happy Friday, ocean fans. It's almost spring, and a surfing alpaca exists in the world. Things are looking up.
Before we get to the week's best marine tidbits, an important announcement: Oceana board member Ted Danson will be answering questions live on CNN.com on April 1, so send your ocean queries in, stat!
Also, don't forget that today is the last day to take the Ocean IQ quiz for a chance to win prizes, including a trip with SEE Turtles.
This week in ocean news,
…Yes, CITES failed to deliver on bluefin tuna yesterday, but as Monterey Bay Aquarium's Julie Packard pointed out, at least the conversation is changing. Bluefin is now in the same rhetorical realm as endangered land creatures such as tigers and elephants.
…Deep Sea News wrote a requiem for a robot -- the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) that was lost at sea last week during a research expedition to the Chilean Subduction Zone. On a recent dive, ABE had detected evidence of hydrothermal vents. At the time of its loss, ABE had just begun a second dive to home into a vent site and photograph it.
Adrian Grenier Wants to Save Bluefin
While delegates from around the world voted against bluefin's future today, "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier was working to get the message out to protect them.
Grenier is traveling with Oceana to swim with the massive fish and record a PSA, and today GQ got a few images prior to the dive. Via GQ's twitter feed, here's a sneak peek photo.
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Sights on CITES: Bad News for Bluefin
This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from CITES. You can read the other dispatches here.
Breaking news out of Doha: a trade ban on bluefin tuna (Appendix I listing) has been defeated, 20 votes to 68.
Although there were repeated calls from delegates from the E.U., U.S. and Monaco to allow time for parties to meet and arrive at a compromise position, a Libya delegate forced a preemptory vote on the E.U. proposal, which resulted in a 43 to 72 vote, with 14 abstaining.
Campaign director Dave Allison called the defeat "a clear win by short-term economic interest over the long-term health of the ocean and the rebuilding of Atlantic bluefin tuna populations."
The decision could spell the beginning of the end for the tigers of the sea.
Here's Oceana's Maria Jose Cornax on the decision:
Sights on CITES: An Insider's Tour
This is the third in a series of posts from CITES. Check out the rest of our dispatches here,
In today's dispatch from Doha, Oceana shark scientist Rebecca Greenberg gives us an insider's tour of CITES, from the main conference hall to one of the most important strategic lobbying areas: the coffee station.
You can also read updates from author Charles Clover on MarViva's Doha Diary blog.
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The Symbian Foundation has laid out a version release schedule, and a development timetable that calls for five iterations to be in production at a time. The version of Symbian currently shipping requires a separate graphical layer, S60, but with "Symbian^2" those layers are combined in the first open-source version of the OS, …
More research needed Bill
"The plan is nothing if not aggressive - even Apple doesn't try and launch two versions of its OS a year"
On the other hand this is exactly what Ubuntu does with its April and October releases and manages very well on a very wide range of hardware - and the range would be even wider if device makers would release OSS drivers.
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Semi annual Ubuntu releases are not substantially different following on each other: maybe new kernel minor number change and some number of new minor number library changes. The bulk of the code does not change. You are comparing apples to oranges.
I re-read Bill's article again. It's not clear that Symbian are planning to completely re-write each version from scratch. Now that *would* be nutty!
Symbian's been doing this for years
This isn't a new thing. Symbian's been on a release treadmill for at least the last five years; the bi-weekly release snapshot to vendors is a part of their development methodology, and new platforms require new OS code; twas ever so.


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I don't subscribe to this belief that the characters I'm watching on-screen have to be likable. Some of the most compelling characters we've gotten over the years – Tony Soprano, Daniel Plainview, Walter White – have been among the most despicable. I don't have to get all warm and fuzzy when characters like this take the screen… I just want them to be interesting. But when you eliminate that complexity and replace it with annoyance, creating characters that are both unlikable and grating, what you're left with is a film that becomes unbearable to watch, something like David O. Russell's latest, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.
In this bizarre romantic comedy, Bradley Cooper plays Pat Solitano, a filter-free motormouth incapable of not saying inappropriate things on a regular basis. Remember Jack Nicholson in AS GOOD AS IT GETS…? Even he had more acceptable social skills, and he was an asshole. Granted, he was an asshole with a bit of a sickness, but at least he had an excuse. Pat believes he has some sort of excuse, too, having walked in on his wife having an affair to their wedding song. In the moment, he snaps, nearly beating her lover to death, resulting in some time away at a mental facility for eight months as part of his plea bargain. His clinical diagnosis is bipolar disorder, but that seems like a cop-out reason in this over-diagnosed society we live in to explain his ordinarily rude behavior. Russell must have thought Cooper's natural charm might make this type of obnoxious character funny, and he couldn't be more wrong. Pat's motivations are to continue on with his positive life outlook in the hopes of getting back together with his wife who has since left, and he'll spend nearly the entire movie going on and on about their great marriage and how much he loves her, even though he caught her fucking one of her fellow teachers in the shower to "My Cherie Amour" and then had to pay a severe penalty for his impulsively violent reaction to it. I'm not really sure where the silver lining can be found in that.
Oh, it must be that it then opened up the opportunity for him to cross paths with Tiffany, played by Jennifer Lawrence, a young widow with her own problems, aside from the fact that Pat is quick to remind her that her husband is dead constantly to the point that even I started to get visibly irritated at not only his lack of tact but his obsession with making others uncomfortable. After all, the first one or two times might be considered an accident… once you get behind that, you just become a prick. However, for some reason that makes no sense to either the characters who seem to hate each other at one point or to me, they continue to defy both logic and reason in arranging to spend time together. Pat at least has some far-fetched reason, in that Tiffany is a way for him to get a letter to his now-departed wife, but this once again goes back to the ludicrous idea that trying to get back together with his wife, who has a restraining order against him, is an intelligent thing to do, and it's hard to find any intrigue in a characters whose entire sense of being is one made up of stupidity and bad decisions.
In any event, Pat agrees to help Tiffany enter into some dance competition in exchange for delivering his letter, I kid you not, setting off an inevitable and understated chain of events that are supposed to be romantic in this twisted world, in which Pat ultimately needs to come to terms with his love life, deciding between the woman he thinks he loves and the one he doesn't yet realize he has feelings for. That puts the movie in the contrived quirkiness of two fucked-up individuals who really have no other choice but to try to help each other… and that's not a good thing.
If there's one part of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK that didn't have me itching to leave the theatre as quickly as possible, it was Robert De Niro as Pat's father, Pat Sr. The elder Pat lost his job and for some reason decided to become bookie, hoping to make money taking bets on his beloved Eagles. This father-son relationship is fascinating to me as we learn more about Pat the father. Let's just say the apple didn't fall very far from the tree, as reflected in why Pat Sr. isn't making treks down to watch the Eagles in-person as big of a die-hard fan as he is. Then you factor in a blue-collar father doing the best he can for his son but not knowing how to really deal or react to a son growing up who may have had a different psychological makeup. Now that's a movie I'm interested in seeing. Watching one scene between De Niro and Cooper where dad puts on the table that he feels as if he's failed his son carries more emotion in it than the entire rest of this film which tries its hardest to be different while, in reality, not straying too far from the formula of a Katherine Heigl movie.
There are scenes that run on for far too long, desperately in need of an editor perhaps more than an Apatow production. There's a dance sequence so poorly shot you wonder why Russell even chose to have a dance competition be a part of the climax. Outside of the periodic Chris Tucker appearances that give the film a little bit of life, there isn't much silver lining to sitting through SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. This is a dysfunctional movie about dysfunctional characters that you can't wait to get away from. Who really wants to spend a lot of time with that?
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And Robert DeNiro should retire, considering his choice of material for the past 20 years.
Another movie reaping awards and praise... guess I'll have to see for myself, because though I despise much of Russell's personality, I loved The Fighter. He's capable of greatness, I think.
Just from the basic plot synopsis this doesn't sound good, but the rest of it...this sounds like a flubbed play all around. (Of course, since the Kidd said he didn't like it, who's going to immediately say they DO like it? :} )
Nov. 15, 2012, 6:30 p.m. CST
Should have been Marky Mark as Pat. He's great in anything Russell throws at him.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
@ the bear: Chris Tucker is reportedly in talks to do some crappy American remake of a foreign film that won kudos.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
He's also starring in the fake Facebook page promoting Last Friday.
by kindofabigdeal
Starring every funny (or non funny) black comedian that ever lived that isn't Tyler Perry.
Real rough
He has the whole "ernest" thing down. Cooper just comes off as an uber-prick that you begin to wonder why anyone would bother communicating with.
I mean "earnest," not the guy who goes to camp/jail/etc
Apparently the Kidd doesn't. But Jennifer Lawrence is so adorable. Ok, you win, I'll wait for Netflix. But still. Adorable.
I noticed the Kidd supplants his real feeling about how he wishes things were in his life from the actual movie content. Bradley Cooper's character is grating but once most of the audience realizes he's suffering from a debilitating social disorder, you begin to sympathize with him. Jennifer Lawrence is oozing sexuality and for good reason. Recently widowed and lost in the world, she finds comfort with sex. These two broken souls find each other during the near-lowest points of their lives and help pick each other up. Apparently, the Kidd couldn't sympathize with either character and he was like a parent forced to take their children to an animated movie and mentally prepared to hate all animated movies. Both actors ooze charisma and sometimes take you out of the movie because they start transcending their respective diseases but the movie was great. I'm assuming you're playing devil's advocate to everyone else. I get it. I have friends who like to argue, just to argue. I send them Christmas cards and talk to them once or twice a year.
Nov. 15, 2012, 8:37 p.m. CST
ahhh Jennifer Lawrence....that's all i got....Jennifer Lawrence....ahhh
by Sean
Nov. 15, 2012, 8:41 p.m. CST
This film is clearly not the cinematic achievement that Breaking Dawn is....
by YourMomsBox3D
You're a clown Kidd.
Thought maybe there was a new magazine or something.
Nov. 15, 2012, 9:04 p.m. CST
I hope she goes the Hathaway route, and frees her knobs
by kstewandthecuntsman
Seriously, I wanna see them almost as much as I want to see KStews naked B cups. Okay. maybe a little more.
The supporting cast is good, especially Chris Tucker and I liked seeing Beansie from The Sopranos. The dance training montage could have been cut down by a lot though.
I can just imagine seeing your wife fucking someone else to your wedding song. would fracture any man's mind. as i feel it was right that he whipped the guys ass... So he has a bi-polar disorder... It's funny someone mentioned bradley cooper is 38 and jennifer lawrence is 22... But you forget he's bradley fucking cooper in real life, he can probably pull chicks like lawrence. im surprised he aint smashing that. i mean is it that hard to imagine she be attracted to a guy like him. The trailer looked really good. I dont see how kidd can nitpick a quirky movie about two dysfunctional people falling in love.
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WAS ENDLESS Seriously Actually this whole movie felt about twice as long than it it's actual running time.
Nov. 15, 2012, 10:34 p.m. CST
As much as i desire to see Lawrence naked, i respect actresses far more when they don't strip for the camera. Everything so far points to her being very grounded, sensible and smart...she's got morals this girl and i'd rather not see another one corrupted
by Sean
Nov. 15, 2012, 10:49 p.m. CST
Me no likey Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper stinky. Stinky like poo poo.
by 3D-Man
And yet you'd NEVER see a movie with a 38-year-old chick and a 22-year-old dude bumping uglies.
Nov. 15, 2012, 11:36 p.m. CST
@nasty in the pasty, there's been others so your wrong.
by Norman Colson
Just looked it up on IMDB there's a movie called P.S. with laura linney... She's fucking topher grace in that one to be exact. Also stella got her groove back... Angela Basset and Taye Diggs
Nov. 15, 2012, 11:49 p.m. CST
I stoped reading at *this over-diagnosed society we live in*.
by ROBRAM89
Go fuck yourself, whatever your real name is.
I think the kidd takes things in movies a bit too seriously.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 1:07 a.m. CST
So, let's get this straight: According to Kidd, Breaking Dawn 2 is okay, but Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook aren't???
by SifoDyasJr
I think I've figured it out: The Kidd is secretly Armond White
I must strongly disagree. Have seen Silver Linings Playbook and found it to be engaging, thoughtful, emotionally powerful and well crafted. Awesome acting by Bradley Cooper - From personal experience, I found his portrayal of bipolar syndrome disturbingly accurate and emotionally powerful. Yes, his character is grating and draining, but this is true to how bipolar people can be. His character's moment of clarity later in the movie is all he better because of the comparative restraint in his behaviour as compared to how he behaves during his more manic moments. Jennifer Lawrence is luminous and portrays an emotional fragility which I found believable and emotionally engaging. As the narrative unfolds, her character's willingness to open herself up to help someone else evidences a compassion and willingness to risk herself which moves the viewer to empathy and sympathy for her character. Added to the two central performances is a wonderful turn by Robert de Niro and a sparkling script. So, in the spirit of the upcoming season - bah humbug to you, Billy the Kid, and strong encouragement to the AIC fanbase to go see this movie.
While you're right, there's still a difference because the movies you mentioned make a point of the age difference. This movie, like many May-December Hollywood flicks, seems to just ignore the age differe and act like a 38 year old and a 22 year old dating is totally par for the course (I'm making a presumption here, as I haven't seen the movie, but in the book the two characters are closer in age and experience, so that they changed the age of the character to cash in on the new hotness of Lawrence makes me suspect they didn't rewrite the role to acknowledge her youth).
Is obviously better.
Nov. 16, 2012, 2:54 a.m. CST
Looks to me like one of those "human" films that are every bit as artificial as your standard summer blockbuster
by No Respectable Gentleman
Like ... oh, yeah, THE FIGHTER. And this one might win Best Picture by default.
Seriously, it's like reading the same review over and over. If I hated movies this much, I'd just watch Break videos all of the time and laugh at people hurting themselves.
Nov. 16, 2012, 8:46 a.m. CST
@ghost of chainsaw, re: older woman and younger men
by Nasty In The Pasty
The thing is, when it's an older woman/younger man pairing, that's ALL the movie is about, but when it's an older man/younger woman pairing, it's just taken as an obligitory perk. See how many actors well into their fifties and even sixties frequently get paired with hot young actresses in their twenties and early thirties, like a sixtysomething Robert De Niro having kinky bondage sex(!) with Carla Gugino in that awful Righteous Kill movie. It's one reason I greatly enjoyed the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affiar...you had a mid-40's Pierce Brosnan romantically paired with the also mid-40's Rene Russo, where as in his Bond films of the period, he was frequently cast opposite actresses at least a decade younger, if not more. Juts once I'd like to see a MILF-y actress in her forties cast opposite some hunky young man in his twenties, and call no special attention to the fact.
Nov. 16, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Another fail, Kidd. Maybe you should wait for the RT reviews to come in, and then decide what movies to review. Just a suggestion.
by dahveed1972
Nov. 16, 2012, 9:15 a.m. CST
Oh, and Armond White is a troll. The Kidd just has really bad taste and an inability to understand certain complex themes.
by dahveed1972
Nov. 16, 2012, 9:19 a.m. CST
Plus he has an infantile belief that the characters should be "likable", and he has a very narrow definition of "likable"
by dahveed1972
Nov. 16, 2012, 9:21 a.m. CST
The only David O Russel movie that is approriate for people like The Kidd is Three Kings. Leave his other stuff to the grown ups.
by dahveed1972
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:09 p.m. CST
nasty in the pasty said what I was going to re: older women/younger men...
by Mikey Wood
...that's usually the plot of the movie. How SHOCKING is it that she, an alder woman, is banging HE, a younger man. It's not nearly as scrutinized when it's the other way around. THAT being said: I am thirty nine. I would spend large amounts of personal time with Jennifer Lawrence. Someone up top described her as "luminous" and I think that's dead on accurate. Good LORD, is she pretty.
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:39 p.m. CST
Is the Kidd an actual kid?? His reviews read like a 13yr olds....
by Modtel
I've got a buddy, a real good buddy, kind of a best friend if we werent in our mid 30's. Now, this buddy has a live-in 25 year old girlfriend who is the spitting image of Jennifer Lawrence with the darker hair she has in this movie. I mean she looks exactly like her except my buddy's girl has bigger tits......seriously.....and she's shorter with a big ass that's about six months away from not being a big ass in a good way. Now, this could happen with my buddy's girl....she's made it pretty fucking clear that shes interested. There's only two problems: 1. Good Friend 2. I hate the bitch. She's just like nails on a chalkboard to me. But she's smoking fucking hot. Do I go for it?
you can do better she'll try to turn it around on you. just you wait...
Nov. 16, 2012, 3:57 p.m. CST
Bide your time, man. No need to decide right away. Remember the advice of the old bull.
by dahveed1972
I know, I know. She's smoking hot though. Scroll up and look at that picture of Jennifer Lawrence bulging out of the tank top. She looks just like that, I mean, they could be twins.
You see, there is kind of a time limit on this though. Like I said, that ass is getting bigger by the day and a few months down the line, it's not gonna be pretty. The thighs are starting to go with the ass, too. I was just with them both forthe last three hours and if I'm gonna do it, now's the time. Ha ha. I know I won't end up doing it, he's my boy. In the immortal words of Johnny Depp a few days prior to getting fed to a bed, "Morality sucks."
Or do you not believe that bipolar disorder is a real diagnosis? I've known people with bipolar disorder. It is real. It is not something they can just "shake off" or "get over". It is a genuine mental illness. Here's a thought: if you have no sympathy for people who suffer from mental illness, perhaps you shouldn't watch films about the subject, and you certainly shouldn't review them. You could have actually learned something from watching this film, but instead you chose to wallow in your own ignorance. Lucky you.
Seriously, Kidd, your reviews suck for a thousand reasons, but get what the above TBer said imprinted into your stupid fucking skull. My wife is bipolar. The characters aren't "annoying," they are FUCKING MENTALLY ILL. Jesus Christ, you are such a piece of shit. Just die.
I didn't read too much of the review, because I'm trying to avoid spoilers. I'm kinda shocked the Kidd didn't like this. Did he say if he was a David O Russel fan? I love the Huckabees. And Flirting With Disaster is hilarious.
She wouldn't lose an ounce of weight to play a malnourished character in a movie called "The Hunger Games"? Not exactly DeNiro level commitment.
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My dome is hovering just a tick under 250 and has been for about 2.5 hours -- mine is at 88 degrees, but it came right out of the fridge. Once you hit the 160s you'll stay there for the majority of the day. And, if it gets done before you are ready to eat, wrap it in foil (tight), and then a few towels, and then put it in a cooler. Works like a dream to keep it hot, but moist, for a few hours.Mayberry said:Exactly 3 hours in. Grate temp is hovering at 250°, and the internal meat temp is already up to 117°. this seems like it's going a little faster than I expected. Does this seem right on track, or is it too early to tell?
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In addition to boxing, for years I have helped friends and customers with cable, dish and other third party TV venders. Some background. Approximately every three to five years, cable, dish, and U-Verse negotiate for retransmission of their signals with the station owners. In 1992 the federal government passed cable regulation, which allowed over the air broadcasters the right to charge cable and Dish carriage for their programing. Previous legislation allowed for standard cable services to be "Must Carry." Stations now have a choice of "Must Carry" or "Retransmission Consent." Due to the economy, and loss of major commercial advertising being replaced with infomercials for the last ten years, stations every three to five years demand rate increases from ALL third party cable/dish providers as the two sides work toward an agreement to keep ther signals on the air. There are two sides to the argument. Station owners say they have to raise rates due to inflation and the cost of programing content. The cable, dish, and U-Verse companies say that they have to negotiate reasonable deals to keep cost down as more and more people turn to third party TV cord cutting. The big dispute ("Internet search TWC CBS carriage dispute for more information.) is going on right now. In three major cities, LA, New York, and Dallas, CBS is demanding according to TWC a 600% rate increase for their programing. CBS counters that the fee increase amounts to pennies a day. ONLY LOCAL CBS PROGRAMING IN THOSE CITES WOULD BE AFFECTED. LOCAL STATIONS WITH CBS NON-NATIONAL CONTENT WOULD NOT BE EFFECTED. BUT FOR BOXING, IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT FOR TWC SUBS IN THIS DISPUTE, SHOWTIME (OWNED BY CBS) MAY BE PULLED IF THE TWO PARTIES CANNOT COME TO AN AGREEMENT BY JULY 24TH. The problem is that switching providers does not help long-term because every provider has faced these issues of retransmission consent in the past. About 95% of the time, there are hundreds of retransmission consent contracts that are done all the time without the customer knowing about them. Dish Network has been forced to drop many channels due to retransmission consent. I believe, but am not sure that Direct TV for a time lost Verses. I don't know if this is still true or not. Cablevision of New York last year, lost several stations for a while due to a retransmission fee dispute. This is just a heads up that Showtime could be lost for about 14 million subscribers, (Not just the effected markets) for next week's Berto-Kasses fight, if an agreement or extension is not reached! How much of a negative impact will this have with Showtime Promoted Companies, such as Mayweather Productions, and Golden Boy Promotions, if this dispute is long-term? How long do you believe the stand-off will last? Jack |
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