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• Smackdown 05/10/13

  
  BoredWrestlingFan.com — Authority: 134
  Well, here we are again. Friday. Smackdown. Ratings are slumping for all things wrestling, as they tend to do in the summer time (Except TNA, of course, their ratings never change). Things like NHL and NBA playoffs don’t help either. But since it’s too late to watch any games, I certainly have the time to ...
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• Review: The Nonsensical ‘Java Heat’ Makes Waste of Mickey Rourke

  
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  I believe Mickey Rourke to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. Thought to be the second coming of Brando in the 1980s, he turned in incendiary performances in such films as The Pope of Greenwich Village , Diner and Barfly . His career – and physical appearance –  suffered a major setback in the ...
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• Java Heat: Open Up a Can of Cultural Exchange

  
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  Cultural Exchange is a beautiful thing.  A Muslim police officer will teach a mysterious American to wear a Batik to formal Indonesian affairs.  He will return the favor by indoctrinating his reluctant by-the-book ally in the finer points of American buddy-action movies.  Get ready to learn what’s good for you in ...
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• 100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Pope of Greenwich Village, #21

  
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  To appreciate just how well director Stuart Rosenberg and writer Vincent Patrick captured wiseguy street corner ethos in this classic mob tale, you have to understand the meaning of an Italian phrase that has come to define the way certain mobsters act. The phrase is faccia una bella figura . Literally, it means ...
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• Half of The Smiths reunite for a song

  
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  Two of The Smiths reunited to play, ‘How Soon Is Now?’ at a show in Brooklyn. Johnny Marr invited Andy Rourke onto the stage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and told the crowd: “When I was 15, I formed one of the first bands with my best friends. He was at that time one of the best musicians ...
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• Only Dirk Diggler Could Go To China

  
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  “Only two permits have been issued for pornographic filming so far this year” in Los Angeles County, according the L.A. Times : Film permits issued for X-rated films in Los Angeles County have dropped this year to almost zero in the wake of a law requiring condom use during porn shoots. Only two permits ...
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• Buffalo ’66 (1998)

  
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  Somebody should make a list, or write a paper, or both, about films in which a man kidnaps a woman who decides she likes being kidnapped and falls in love with her captor, and they live happily ever after.  ”Buffalo ’66″ and the 2001 film “Bandits” would top the list. I know that Stockholm Syndrome is a ...
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• Just Lions – Monsters

  
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  When I left work on Friday evening I was booze-bound, off to meet my Best Man and friends from home via a quick trip to the Tattershall Castle to drink onboard ship in the sunshine. The opening bars of this song are the ones that I wish I had been hearing as I began my mission, game-face on, no cares in the world, a ...
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• An Important Secret About The Competitive Health Club And Fitness Industry

  
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  I know , please dont give me a hard time about it. I just keep trying to make sure youre paying attention to what is REALLY going on out there in this great big world of ours. Admittedly its hard, when our heads are down and we are slugging away at obstacles and opportunities everyday. But things have changed, really ...
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• Re-Watch: Iron Man (2008) + Iron Man 2 (2010)

  
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  Iron Man / Iron Man 2 Director: Jon Favreau Writer: Mark Fergus , Hawk Ostby , Art Marcum , Matt Holloway / Justin Theroux Based on: Stan Lee , Larry Lieber , Don Heck and Jack Kirby ‘s comic Cast: Robert Downey Jr. , Gwyneth Paltrow , Terrence Howard / Don Cheadle , Jeff Bridges , Mickey ...
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• Derval ORourke set for European Indoor bronze...???

  
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  Back in March, I had a post up about Turkish athlete Nevin Yanit having been suspected of failing a drugs test. Turkish authorities denied that anything was wrong but today, Yanit was officially charged with doping offences.The IAAF said in a statement........."The IAAF is now in a position to confirm that both Asli ...
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• The Weir, Donmar Warehouse

  
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  Conor McPherson’s 1997 play is one of words not actions. Stories are told, traded like currency; talk becomes an art form. The Weir is set in a rural Irish pub, beautifully evoked by designer Tom Scutt, a building of old stone wreathed in thin mist, with tatty rattan lampshades and walls the colour of old men’s ...
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• Wearable Technologies And Their Impact On Health & Fitness

  
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  When Becky Stern , director of wearable electronics at Adafruit Industries says, “ Having technology on you, around you, inside you 24/7 is going to be totally commonplace ,” shes right (check out the video below). The resulting implications for society and whole industries in general is immense. The melding of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Music Review: Declan O’Rourke at the Irish Arts Center

  
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  Even during his droll songs, the singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke offers reassurance in the face of inevitable sorrow.        
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• Review – The Weir, Donmar Warehouse

  
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  Another week, another theatrical first.* Well, a first for us. Though sadly what led to this first is becoming a norm. Barely two weeks after leaving  Children of the Sun with a fire alarm – triggered by a stage effect – ringing in our ears, still more ringing dominates the punters’ leaving-the-theatre ...
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• Deputy City Manager Jill Arthur being investigated for misconduct

  
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  Santa Ana Deputy City Manager Jill Arthur was placed on administrative leave this week pending a city-commissioned investigation into allegations that she engaged in misconduct following a traffic accident, according to the Voice of OC . The Voice of OC reported that “According to sources familiar with the ...
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• NYFA’s Paul Warner Directing at The Baryshnikov Arts Center

  
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  NYFA Directing Instructor, Paul Warner New York Film Academy Directing Instructor, Paul Warner is directing a new contemporary multi-media dance theatre opera with a group of iconographic international performers at The Baryshnikov Arts Center  in New York City. Warner has directed more than fifty stage ...
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• Collaboration: What Do Transmissions Have To Do With Health Clubs, and Fitness and Wellness ?

  
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    I’ve deep respect for so many of the leaders and innovators in the fitness, wellness and health club business. I don’t want to appear as though I’m kissing up by naming names (you know what i mean). But, and this is a BIG BUT, some of those on that list might be suffering from a little short ...
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• What They Were Reading: Clive James

  
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  “AfterShakespeare, my favorite poet is Dante. My favorite novelists are Proust andTolstoy, closely followed by Scott Fitzgerald, and perhaps Hemingway when heisn’t beating his chest. But in all my life I never enjoyed anything more thanthe first pieces I read by S. J. Perelman.” “Idon’t do much ...
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