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Jan.22.2011
The missus and I had to mail a couple of packages and, having left home a few ticks too late, barely made it to this day's mid-afternoon showing of True Grit. Coming movie trailers go on interminably these days, leaving me wishing desperately for a newsreel and Mel Blanc's voice behind some wacky...
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Dec.12.2010
Three of my favorite actors, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, and Matt Damon, have just completed a re-make of the 1969 movie, True Grit. If you're old enough to remember the original - or stay up late watching old movies - you know the movie's story line.
What may surprise you is that the movie was...
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Apr.27.2010
Reading C. Jung's newly released Red Book, I stumble upon the following pithy notion:
We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it. Events have no meaning. The meaning of events is the way of salvation that you create. (C. Jung, Red Book, p. 239)
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Sep.17.2008
It was my birthday, so my wife let me choose the movie. She hadn't quite forgiven me from last year when I convinced her and my cousin to rush to No Country For Old Men. Not knowing anything about the movie at the time, I found the title funny, and I said, "You want to laugh, don't you? You'll...
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