Monthly Archives: March 2010

Cyrus and Sparks, Together At Last

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
Fingernails across a chalkboard. A steel fork clanging off a tooth. Waterboarding. A “very special episode” of “Blossom.”  Lima Beans. All things that can make rational people resort to irrational, involuntary shakes, shivers and shouts. To that list we add the pop culture marriage of inexplicable titans: Miley Cyrus and Nicholas Sparks. uuuuurgharghyyiyigack The tween princess and the [...]
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Honest, Abe Needs An Agent

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sitting at an office desk, alone with his thoughts, the President of the United States writes a letter about an upcoming battle, one during which he knows that blood will be spilled. Suddenly, a would-be assassin appears and fires a pistol shot … which the president avoids with Matrix-like artistry. The gun useless, the assassin shows [...]
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Taking Things To The ‘Xtreme’

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
Reality television series have taken us everywhere — from divorce courts to matchmakers offices, weight-loss clinics to four-star restaurants, maternity wards full of crying children to the Jersey shore. But leave it to the French to boldly go where no Real Housewife has gone before. This week’s premiere of the reality show “Zone Xtreme” featured a [...]
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Twist … and shout (Spoiler Alert)

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Warning: At the end of this blog entry, the much-talked about, soon-to-be much-debated ending to the newly released film “Remember Me” will be revealed. Honest, I’m not kidding. So, if you’re one of those folks who a) were planning to see “Remember Me,” or b) hate having movie spoilers revealed, or c) can’t resist temptation when [...]
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The Magic Of Merlin Olsen

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Merlin Olsen died this week. He had been battling cancer for the past couple of years, so it wasn’t a surprise that he passed away. What was surprising was his age. Merlin Olsen was 69. Which seems impossible … since it seemed like he had been around forever. In 1968, Olsen sang “Under the Boardwalk” with his [...]
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Things We Might Not Want To Know

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m not kidding. There are things you might not want to know and, frankly, things I wish I didn’t know. And some of those will be revealed over the next few paragraphs. So, if you’re the squeamish type, I’ll understand it if you decide to move along. Thanks for the page hit; we’ll catch up [...]
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And the Oscar might go to …

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
It’s Oscar weekend and if you’re interested in that sort of thing, you’ve probably been reading all about which films and performances are more than likely to be given Academy Awards on Sunday night. Anyone can predict the Oscar winners … heck, even YOU can predict the winners. But what fun is that? Read enough prognostications [...]
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All of them had hair of gold …

By Robert Galvin | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
There are certain cultural touchstones that appear destined never to go away. “Hamlet,” for instance. The Beatles, certainly. “Star Trek,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The Road Not Taken,” the Mona Lisa … all examples of comets forever crossing the horizon of popular culture, only to return time and time again. Then, there’s [...]
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