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Christopher Nolan, You Owe Me £17

(1) Comments | Posted 7 August 2012 | (23:50)

Nolan, you and I have a problem. I spent £27 ($42) taking my wife and 14 year old to see The Dark Knight Rises. I want £17 back. If you do not pay, we fight.

Here is the breakdown: My wife and I will let you keep £1...

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Frankie, Noel and The Midnight Beast

(0) Comments | Posted 16 July 2012 | (11:28)

The night after I published The John Amaechi Interview, a though kept smashing around in my slumbering head until jarring me awake: 'What if I focused on getting facetime with famous (or notorious) people who I admire, and reported my findings back to the reader?' That was it,...

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The John Amaechi Interview

(2) Comments | Posted 9 July 2012 | (00:00)

My idea was to write a piece about a fictitious gay NBA basketball player on the threshold of coming out of the closet. The timing seemed right as sports talking heads (1, 2, 3) and NBA power brokers are suggesting the first...

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Kony 2012...I Am Still In

(0) Comments | Posted 21 March 2012 | (13:42)

(To read Part One click here)

I saw the TMZ video of Jason Russell. The images, although disturbing, didn't shake my stance on Kony 2012. I thought: 'Here is a sensitive guy being torn to shreds in a maelstrom of worldwide scrutiny,' and, 'Jason´s back and...

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To 'Kony 2012' Haters: Step Away From the Teenager

(4) Comments | Posted 15 March 2012 | (16:28)

I am angry enough to spit rust. Here is why:

Our 14-year-old son, BK, goes to boarding school. This past weekend was an exeat, which means all kids are cleared off campus after Friday classes so that frazzled house parents can get hammer-drunk on Friday night and still have two...

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Whitney Part Two - The Answer

(27) Comments | Posted 29 February 2012 | (10:45)

(To read Part One click here)

I didn't think there would be a Part Two to this Whitney story. No real need is there. Except that it was not quite finished with me.

Part One was titled Would Whitney Be Alive if There Was No Bobby? It...

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The Oscars: A Live Blog

(20) Comments | Posted 27 February 2012 | (11:20)

As the Academy Awards are across the globe and in the middle of the night, I imposed an assignment on myself to write an inaugural running commentary on our favourite awards show of the year.

Somehow I convinced my wife to stay up and watch. We both knew my...

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Would Whitney Be Alive if There Was No Bobby?

(36) Comments | Posted 21 February 2012 | (23:00)

Look, I do not like the question either. But it has to be asked.

And I am not defending Bobby Brown. He was a disturbed and abominable wife-beating cokehead that wore the conductor's hat for Whitney's train ride to junkie hell. But was her destination inevitable? Was Bobby interchangeable?...

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Terrence Malick Needs an Intervention

(25) Comments | Posted 16 February 2012 | (23:00)

I just watched The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, with Terrence Malick directing.

The first warning should have been the opening ethereal voiceovers whispering about the mystery of Life; and that you literally cannot count to five without being blitzed with a new camera angle....

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