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Mar.11.2013
Two new articles in Gentry magazine by author/historian Steven Travers focus on the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants’ ownership group,...
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Mar.12.2013
"The Missiles of October" starred William DeVane as JFK and Martin Sheen as RFK. Both of these actors portrayed the Kennedys better than any actors...
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Mar.14.2013
Robert Redford made a clunker called "The Way We Were" with Barbra Streisand that desperately tried to explain, apologize for, justify, glorify and...
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Mar.15.2013
Robert Redford was behind the entertaining political movie "The Candidate" (1972), which goes a long way towards explaining how the game works. This...
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Mar.16.2013
"All the President's Men" (1976) was Robert Redford's breakthrough from pretty boy star to filmmaker with clout. Redford, a former baseball player at...
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Mar.17.2013
"The Parallax View" was big liberal Warren Beatty's attempt to describe a conspiracy involving shadowy government agencies. It is entertaining and...
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Mar.18.2013
The conspiracy movies included two fictional stories, "Marathon Man" and "The Parallax View", as well as the Watergate movie, "All the President's...
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Mar.19.2013
"The Wind and the Lion" was a beautiful John Milius film and story, with a pulse-pounding sound track. Brian Keith plays Teddy Roosevelt, who orders...
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Mar.20.2013
"The Godfather" (1972) was a stylized masterpiece. Its auteur director, Coppola, laced it with the subtlest Leftist message that may have avoided the...
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Mar.21.2013
TV shows began to veer into social territory in the 1970s, especially "All In the Family". Carroll O'Connor played Archie Bunker, the epitome of...
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Jun.27.2010
My AC is on, that means it’s summer time. It also means that occasionally the windows may be open, and because we are in the yard the doors sometimes...
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Aug.14.2010
Spyware is sold legally in the United States. This software records chats, emails, websites visited, usernames and passwords, and basically...
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Aug.23.2010
I was 17 once. I hung around with good kids, not so good kids and very bad kids. Teens heavily influence one another in ways that can have a direct...
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Sep.25.2010
The sage advice used to be “don’t tell the world you are on vacation via your outgoing answering machine.” Then we pretty much eliminated answering...
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Dec.04.2010
The Christmas shopping season traditionally kicks off on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. This also begins a time when criminals swarm the...
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Dec.09.2010
Last year around the holidays I wrote about burglars preying on churches. This year is no different. The Boston Globe reports “You know things are...
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Dec.18.2010
In Greek mythology, Zeus is the father of all gods and men. Today in the tech world, Zeus is the father of all computer viruses. The Zeus Trojan...
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Dec.19.2010
Electronic funds transfers at the point of sale (or EFTPOS) skimming is a relatively new scam that has become more prevalent over the past few...
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Jan.17.2011
The decade was filled with stupid criminals.  Here is a list of the top six stupid criminals. Lawn Mower Getaway: AOL reports Sheriff’s deputies in...
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Sep.12.2011
If someone asked me to go “gold farming,” I’d probably assume we were going to grab a couple pans and head north to a stream in New Hampshire, and...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.