Is this from the New Yorker because it is one of the least funny cartoons I have seen...oh well.
By the by (hi Rhinot) Darryl Strawberry is back in the fold for the '86 celebration this weekend. I guess the Mets must have paid off the remainder of his debt to the IRS...
They already investigated numb nutz...he bets the ponys and plays poker with his friends. It may not be smart but it's not illegal.
Besides, like it was mentioned the other day...like Joe Torre, and many other pro athletes, Lo Duca owns horses and gambles on them. It's legal. Unless baseball wants to outlaw something (highly dubious) that is legal for everyone else than he hasn't done anything wrong...except leave one hot chich for another hot chick (is that wrong?).
I haven't heard any chatter about World Trade here...is it just a movie or a Stone preachfest...if it is just the story I think I am ready to see it...Whaddya say?
PS - my word verification - bvttzqqd - they shouldn't make you type a paragraph to comment!
Rhino--I don't think Scarface was an Oliver Stone film. I thought Wall Street and JFK were great. I liked Natural Born Killers.I recently saw Stone's first film, Seizure aka Queen of Evil, starring Dark Shadow's Jonathan Frid. Really bad.
Gary, of course you loved JFK, you're a conspiracy guy. i turned it off early because i thought it was stupid. Wall Street was a decent movie, but i didn't like the message. It was decidedly anti American, and anti capitalism.
I don't like Oliver Stone' "biographical" or "historical" films because they are neither biography nor history. I think they can be dangerous because many stupid (and not so stupid) people will accept everthing in them as "fact."
The above disclaimer aside,
I absolutely loved "Nixon." Anthony Hopkins was amazing (as usual). Joan Allen was equally, if not more, amazing (only to be expected). And the rest of the cast was, well, amazing also.
Plus, I give Stone credit for painting a relatively sympathetic portrait of the man, who, as history has finally shown, was neither as evil nor quite as bad a president as many people believed at the time. In fact, he'd probably be painted as a "liberal" today.
Wall Street: a silly charicature of what life on 'wall street' was/is like
JFK: ridiculous, and i think that showing the more gory parts of the zapruder film was entirely gratuitous and unnecessary and disrespectful of the family and the american public
Born on the 4th of July: silly, but no matter how weird tom cruise gets, he still makes me hot
The Doors: don't try to recreate jim morrison, it's a sacrilege
Best line about Strawberry from Kevin Mitchell after Straw had claimed to have gotten clean and sober and had "found Jesus": Upon returning from a weekend of fishing in Cabo, reporters asked Mitchell if all that were true about Strawberry.
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Is this from the New Yorker because it is one of the least funny cartoons I have seen...oh well.
By the by (hi Rhinot) Darryl Strawberry is back in the fold for the '86 celebration this weekend. I guess the Mets must have paid off the remainder of his debt to the IRS...
yeah it's not supposed to be funny.
forget strawberry, what about loduca? when is the investigation going to start from seligs office?
They already investigated numb nutz...he bets the ponys and plays poker with his friends. It may not be smart but it's not illegal.
Besides, like it was mentioned the other day...like Joe Torre, and many other pro athletes, Lo Duca owns horses and gambles on them. It's legal. Unless baseball wants to outlaw something (highly dubious) that is legal for everyone else than he hasn't done anything wrong...except leave one hot chich for another hot chick (is that wrong?).
I haven't heard any chatter about World Trade here...is it just a movie or a Stone preachfest...if it is just the story I think I am ready to see it...Whaddya say?
PS - my word verification - bvttzqqd - they shouldn't make you type a paragraph to comment!
I haven't paid to see an oliver stone movie since platoon.
since then i've seen but not paid for,
Wall Street-- it sucked
Born on the 4th--- one of my least favorite movies ever! literally makes me sick thinking about it
JFK-- turned it off about a 1/4 way through
any given sunday-- ok movie
natural born killers-- terrible
and i think that's it. obviously i'm not a fan. platoon and scarface i liked at the time, but i don't ever watch platoon anymore.
"Maybe you can handle yourself one of them First Class tickets to the resurrection" / "So long, Mel; Have a good trip"
You tell your guy in Miami -- your friend -- I kill a Communist for fun, but for a greencard I'm gonna carve'm up real nice"
all i got in this world is my word and my balls
and i don't break'em for nobody
Rhino--I don't think Scarface was an Oliver Stone film. I thought Wall Street and JFK were great. I liked Natural Born Killers.I recently saw Stone's first film, Seizure aka Queen of Evil, starring Dark Shadow's Jonathan Frid. Really bad.
He wrote the screenplay.
Gary, of course you loved JFK, you're a conspiracy guy. i turned it off early because i thought it was stupid.
Wall Street was a decent movie, but i didn't like the message. It was decidedly anti American, and anti capitalism.
I don't like Oliver Stone' "biographical" or "historical" films because they are neither biography nor history. I think they can be dangerous because many stupid (and not so stupid) people will accept everthing in them as "fact."
The above disclaimer aside,
I absolutely loved "Nixon." Anthony Hopkins was amazing (as usual). Joan Allen was equally, if not more, amazing (only to be expected). And the rest of the cast was, well, amazing also.
Plus, I give Stone credit for painting a relatively sympathetic portrait of the man, who, as history has finally shown, was neither as evil nor quite as bad a president as many people believed at the time. In fact, he'd probably be painted as a "liberal" today.
Wall Street: a silly charicature of what life on 'wall street' was/is like
JFK: ridiculous, and i think that showing the more gory parts of the zapruder film was entirely gratuitous and unnecessary and disrespectful of the family and the american public
Born on the 4th of July: silly, but no matter how weird tom cruise gets, he still makes me hot
The Doors: don't try to recreate jim morrison, it's a sacrilege
WTC: i will not see this.
Best line about Strawberry from Kevin Mitchell after Straw had claimed to have gotten clean and sober and had "found Jesus": Upon returning from a weekend of fishing in Cabo, reporters asked Mitchell if all that were true about Strawberry.
MITCHELL: "Not on the weekends, at least."
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