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POPSTom Hanks, say it isn't so In case you didn't notice, Mr. Hanks, the constitutional process worked and the voters spoke. Not once, but twice. Now we will see if the courts will continue to be very UN constitutional and again overturn the will of the people.
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POPSRon Howard: Vatican obstructed 'Angels & Demons' But he said the Vatican nevertheless exerted influence regarding his filming permits, and he was told it would not be possible even to shoot scenes in Rome that had churches in the background. "When you come to film in Rome, the official statement to you is that the Vatican has no influence," he said. "Everything progressed very smoothly, but unofficially a couple of days before we were to start filming in several of our locations, it was explained to us that through back channels and so forth that the Vatican had exerted some influence."
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POPSCommon sense Dualism Admittedly, some people wouldn’t be caught dead talking about souls or spirits. But even for those people who would explicitly reject the notion of a body-soul split, dualist assumptions still frame how these issues are thought about. You can see this when people appeal to science to answer the question "When does life begin?" as if this is an empirical question, and an objective answer would settle the moral debate once and for all. But the question is not really about life in any biological sense. It is instead asking about the magical moment at which a cluster of cells becomes more than a mere physical thing. It is a question about the soul. Interesting talk.
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POPSRomantic Movies That Stir Our Emotions I am a hopeless romantic . Of course the movies are a wonderfull experience for our entertainment but in real life like a garden we need to continue to work on our relationships for them to contiue to bear fruit. In the movies too as in life it doesnt all work out as in the 'The Way we Were" (the chemistry between Redford and Streisand is undeniable), ultimately these differences prove too much for them to overcome. “The final scene gets me every time: Katie and Hubbell run into each other years after they've split. He has a glamorous new woman on his arm. She tells him, wistfully, 'Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.'"
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POPSMillionaires Need To Strike? My main burning question is this: Where do people who make more money for one job than I will make in my entire life get off threatening a strike? If I see 2000 patients a year, I'll average about $22.50 per patient! How much money can these people need? They want a cut of every dollar made on projects that just happen to have their face, voice or mental input attached. If they strike, not only do the consumers suffer, but all the other people involved in the movie industry: the guys and gals that make even less than I do, who don't get a cut of the future earnings of the project. How do they feed their kids? Pay their mortgages? Do these millionaires even care? If they do, I don't see the evidence of it. It's nice that they believe a strike vote 'now', during the current economic crisis, isn't the time to be putting people out of work. Really? And just when IS it a good time?
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POPS30 Upcoming Movie Sequels to say Why??? Maybe I am jaded from working on movies (and many of them went straight-to-video) but the on;y ones I see with positive potential outside the stars are National Treasure 3, The Descent 2 (read the Book -they may get it right for once!), Ice Age 3 (2 was great no matter what they say), Ghost Rider 2 (It's Cage but it is a damn good story too), The Untouchables: Capone Rising (a prequel to the 1987 hit) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (face it folks, Archeology and Pulp-Style cliffhangers will rock because of Indiana Jones!) My biggest disappointment on this list? Easily, People Under the Stairs 2. It was a horrible movie in 87 and I do not see how a sequel will help.
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POPSActors Money Politics The left and MSM decries "big money in politics"-when the money comes from business. They applaud it when it comes from actors, and even lawyers to a significant degree. A leading hallmark of the left is that consistency is not an issue, yet it is always possible to predict the position that a person of the left will hold. Why?
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POPSWhat's so funny about "Kum-ba-yah"? An interesting little exploration of the question: how did the song "Kum-ba-yah" get turned into a standing joke about liberal Christian mushiness? Via http://getreligion.org/?p=2034
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POPSIndie Bookstores trying to stay alive in the era of the internet Bookstores trying to stay alive in a world where most order online...this reminds me of that bad Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie a couple years back- 'you've got mail'... anyway, seems like some bookstore owners are being really creative in ways to keep their small stores unique enough that shoppers still need to/want to keeping going.
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