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In My Humble Opinion
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(1) Believe me I was a Michael Jackson fan. I thought the man had real talent in singing, dancing and composing. I also thought he was a little whacko at times and then it got more than whacko when he was charged with child molestation. Still he was found innocent and I accept that.
It also was regretful he died at the relatively young age of fifty. I am sure he had many more great entertainment events in him. Still the news coverage of his death has been insane. For days now it has been Michael Jackson from dawn to dusk and beyond. It is as if the world has stopped and nothing is happening except the grief for Michael Jackson.
Poor Farrah Fawcett. She had been getting some attention during her fight for cancer but when she actually died all was forgotten in the race to tell another angle of the Michael Jackson story. And don’t even think about Ed McMahan. He wasn’t even in the ballgame.
I saw anchors on CNN reading from different blog posts. A lot of these voiced my sentiments – enough is enough! The anchors actually looked embarrassed by it all. You know they don’t chose what goes on the air.
It is getting close to a week now since he died and things are still going strong. Maybe soon sanity will prevail and we will get back to hearing the actual news of the world. One can only hope.
(2) What a summer it has been at the movies. The biggest hit so far has been “Star Trek” and it has no big name stars in the cast. Then we get a 200 million dollar weekend from “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Yeah it looks like those box office idols Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox have worked their magic again.
“Hangover,” not one of my favorites but a hit just the same, stars Bradley Cooper, Zack Galifianakis, and Ed Helms. Have you ever even heard of these people before this movie? I barely had and I review movies for a living.
I predict the day of the big salaries for the superstars is in its final hours. Brad, Angelina, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Julia Roberts – they can all be replaced by lesser knowns who will work for a fraction of their pay. If the movie is good it will make money and if it isn’t it won’t. The star power will be less and less important.
(3) Have you seen the trailer for “The Time Traveler’s Wife”? This looks like one of the most romantic movies in years. It has that sort of “Somewhere In Time” vibe to it. It stars Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. I am a big Rachel McAdams fan; Eric Bana not so much.
Still I think this is a tearjerker that will prove to be the movie for which women have been waiting this summer.
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