Product Review: Prostretch
I have to tell you, I have battled with tight calves for a long time and some of the problems I have had while running come from that. I recently tried the prostretch at my gym and I love the results. so much that I went out and bought one for home use. I have seen a big difference in my calves...
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Movie Review: Porco Rosso
One of director Hayao Miyazaki's ("Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke") earlier works is a film called "Porco Rosso". "Porco Rosso", like his other films, is an animated movie and this one features a pig as an ace pilot and bounty hunter. But before we think this movie is going to veer into the...
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Movie Review: Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
A film by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld I hope that this movie does not get dismissed or categorized as that cute lesbian movie because Kissing Jessica Stein is much better than that. Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) seems to be channeling Woody Allen (in his Annie Hall days), as a neurotic,...
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Book Review: Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Before the incredible success of "The Da Vinci Code", Dan Brown wrote "Angels and Demons", the first book to feature Robert Langdon as the protagonist. Langdon is a Harvard professor and a symbologist. He studies and lectures on religious symbols and is an expert. His assistance is requested when...
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Book Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Think about everything that must have happened since the dawn of the creation of the universe in order for life to exist and for humans to have come into being. Now, how much do you actually know about what went on? From the Big Bang to the creation of our planet to human life, there are many...
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Movie Review: Unchained Memories (2002)
A film by Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon This HBO documentary is a powerful film. In the 1930 s the United States government commissioned journalists to conduct interviews with those former slaves who were still living. The result was a collection of more than 16 volumes of interviews, the words of...
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Movie Review: Disney's Ice Princess
I saw Ice Princess on Friday night in a pretty empty theatre. I think there were 6 of us, including the party of 3 I was in. I thought it was a wonderful movie. Some funny parts, some touching parts, an all around family (with a more girl-type) friendly movie. I'd recommend it, especially for Mom's...
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Book Review: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
This is the second collection of the Best American Nonrequired Reading series. Like the first volume, this is a collection of a wide variety of writing, both fiction and nonfiction alike. Also, like the first volume, there are a few excellent pieces in this collection with the rest being good, but...
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Book Review: The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
The Lady in the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier s fourth novel. She is the author of the best selling (and recently a major motion picture) Girl with a Pearl Earring . Tracy Chevalier seems to write the same sort of novel each time, but because the subjects are different, the ways the novels play...
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Movie Review: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
You don t go into theatre to see Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and expect to see a modern classic of American Film. You go into a theatre to see the new Deuce Bigalow movie to see a dumb movie that may very well be funny. After all, Adam Sandler s career was made on such movies, as was Jim Carrey...
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