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Word of the day : milieu
: environment ; the physical or social setting in which something occurs or
develops
Well, the hits just keep on coming:
- A tragic explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco has, according to the most recent reporting, killed 15 and injured at least 175.
- The Senate voted not to pass gun-control legislation yesterday. Although it's only a first setback, it was still shameful and disgraceful and an embarrassment to anyone in this country with half a brain. I'll take that back: Most gun-owners should have rights and are responsible, and I have no problem with them owning guns. I do have a problem - and I think everyone should - with a Congress that willingly ignores what the majority of Americans want done, the same Americans that voted them in, Reps and Dems alike. Disgusting.
Here are the new movies opening this weekend:
Not much. There's Oblivion, Tom Cruise's new sci-fi epic, co-starring Morgan Freeman. Directed by Joseph Kosinksy (the Tron sequel), it's getting average reviews. There's also director Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem, a disturbing-looking movie about a radio DJ in Salem, Mass. troubled by eerie visions of the past.
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Vamps, Amy Heckerling's campy, affectionate tale about two members of the undead (Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter) trying to be young and romantic in New York City, is a vampire movie that - thank God! - doesn't take itself too seriously, unlike the Twilight movies. It's a jokey, silly movie with mediocre-at-best CGI but there's actually an affectionate, nostalgic undercurrent here - about living outside your time, watching the world (and history) go by without being able to do anything about it. It's a movie about aging, folks. Lot of pop culture references, of course (would you expect otherwise from the Clueless scribe?), and plenty of familiar faces, all of whom are in the cheesy spirit of the thing: Sigourney Weaver, Wallace Shawn (as a Van Helsing), Justin Kirk, Richard Lewis.
Image courtesy of:
http://art-magique.blogspot.com/2011/04/gustave-moreau-1826-1898.html
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