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Man, culture is definitely in the shitter when Fast Times is the choice of chardonnay-swilling elitists. On the other hand, it may just be laziness that Grant Roberts was never nicknamed Spicoli.

Very beginning. He's a grumpy groan who is dragged into the cause of liberty as martial law comes to Boston in the aftermath of the massacre. NOT TRUE. He had made studious arguments for liberty and the rights of Americans going back over a decade before that, and was a member of societies so devoted. Sam Adams, rabble rouser to the point of anarchy. NOT TRUE. He was thoughtful man consciuos of his choices. Worst of all is John Hancock --- in a scene concocted in a seeming attempt to inject grusome inhumanity masquerading as realism --- inciting a crowd to tar and feather a customs worker. NOT TRUE. Hancock was prudent and fair-minded (the disposition which got him the presidency of the Congress), and that incident apart from Hancock appears to have been the product wholecloth of British propaganda. This portrayal --- which left me fiercely (thugh thankfully briefly) sympathic to the British alone by the end of that episode (I wanted to retroactively impose martial law on Boston) ---- is extra upsetting when I read that it was a British director. Hancock and the Adamses were Whigs, and they pubilckly cried out against vigilantism. I'll also toss in that the foreshadowing of his disappointment with his son Charles is the sort of heavyhandedness that you come to get used to in telefilms, even on big-budget cable channels. This isn't a biography. It's a MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT, and it doesn't appear to deserve to be taken seriously.

I really don't want to oversell it, so I'll remain silent. IT'S A FUCKING AMERICAN TREASURE! THERE, I SAID IT!

Barry Zito for seven was stoopit, and I hope not a new standard.

Whoah.

I also wonder if --- though we're not hearing it --- Maine or Perez might go in the package. They're going to need somebody ready to step into Santana's place in the rotation. Pelfrey maybe.

Yeah, I'm looking at beyond 2008. Things fall apart.

Seems to me that we're as likely to soon enough need those pitchers as those hitters. More, I think.

A buffed up Ben Kingsley plays a hit man sent to San Francisco to enter AA after his drinking screws up his work. He falls for a chick. Hilarity ensues.

Newsday is now describing a Met-Twin deal for Santana as "likely" and "within 10 days."

Turn this thread into a poll NOW!!!!

I posted my last message in the other thread without even seeing this. What gives?

You're in the midst of the Accidental Pregnancy Film Fest, aren't you? It's Immediate Family on Friday and then a Saturday matinee of The Snapper.

Jackie Earle Fucking Haley.

There should be an Eric Roberts Film Festival. Of course, when I subscribed to HBO, they pretty much had an Eric Roberts Film Fistival every Wednesday-Thursday from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM.

C'mon, she doesn't hit you like a drag queen? http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS208US208&q=%22gwen+verdon%22&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Gwen Verdon, not really sexy.

I don't think it does matter a bit more. And I didn't say he was mad. I said he scoffed, but the case was quickly closed, implying that he realized the attention that a repeat Oscar winner could (and did) bring to the film.

Nobody got Rowand to the Giants. Michigan J. Frog was the sole Matsui oracle.

Tom Hanks plays who Tom Hanks wants to play. When Opey first heard that Jim Lovell was publishing a memoir, he made a personal visit to appeal for the film rights. Lovell, kind of full of himself, asks who was in Cunningham's mind as the actor to play him. When told of Tom Hanks' interest, Lovell scoffed, and pointed out to the bald big shot that he looked a lot like Kevin Costner as a younger man. Red reminded him that Hanks had won two Oscars in the previous two years. Case quickly closed.

It had a Bill Squier song in it! Once they showed him doing an (absolutely awful) routine to "The Stroke," this film owned me. I couldn't help it. I had to surrender.

Is the title a reference to the Velvet Underground's "Heroin," in which Lou feels "just like Jesus' son"?

Andy Pettitte returns to the Yanks on a one-year deal. Seems to me that the best strategemary is to just predict that everybody will return to his last team.

How 'bout that money KazMat got?

Noobody got Torii Hunter. (DocTee apparently just freaked out skipped him.) Nymr and Sharpie get congratulations on Kerry Wood. As does Michigan.