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  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2014/02/my-top-10-movies-of-2013.html My Top 10 Movies of 2013 - Picture's Up - 10. American Hustle: This movie evaporated from my mind like snow falling on warm ground. Yet it left a pleasant aftertaste. The strength of the ensemble is difficult to ignore. Jennifer Lawrence puts another feather in her cap here, believably creating a woman far removed from Winter’s Bone’s Ree Dolly...
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2014/02/hoffman.html Hoffman - Picture's Up - The late, greatly lamented Philip Seymour Hoffman, with Baxter Harris, in 1992's Scent of a Woman. Stunned, shocked, depressed. He was not supposed to go this young. I confess I was not aware that he had a drug problem, so this news came completely out of left field to me....
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2013/12/otoole.html O'Toole - Picture's Up - I know little of Peter O’Toole’s career, and I have seen only a fraction of his output: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, and perhaps a few other films. His death, all the same, was a blow. He is beautiful in Lawrence; the blue of...
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2013/11/dispatches-from-lonelyland.html Dispatches from Lonelyland - Picture's Up - I've been watching Stephen Merchant's Hello Ladies since it debuted and have mixed feelings. As comedies go, it is only intermittently funny, and tends to rely too heavily on the tic of modern comedy (powerfully inaugurated in Merchant and Ricky Gervais's The Office) wherein awkwardness functions as a stand-in for...
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2013/10/aliens-hitting-the-fan.html Aliens: Hitting The Fan - Picture's Up - All together now: "They mostly come out at night... mostly." One of the themes in James Cameron's Aliens is meritocracy, and the way extreme circumstances can enforce it. The ascending chaos which dominates the story functions as a kind of sorting mechanism, through which false hierarchies are upended and true...
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2013/04/roger-ebert-1942-2013-.html Roger Ebert: 1942-2013 - Picture's Up - I first became aware of Roger Ebert as one half of “Sneak Previews,” or “At the Movies,” or whatever the show was called when I was a kid. Apart from vague memories of bad sweaters, petulant arguments, and the ending tagline “the balcony is closed,” I don’t have much recollection...
  • http://picturesup.typepad.com/pictures-up/2013/02/before-we-were-all-bound-to-hate-it.html Before we were all bound to hate it - Picture's Up - Below is an email I wrote in 1999 describing the experience of watching The Phantom Menace on opening night at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. It is of some historical interest. I have acceded to the conventional wisdom that generally loathes the prequels, though if you got me drunk enough...

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  • Carol A. Bletz - No more breaking hair or split ends.

    I've been using Mane and Tail hair strengthener for the last year. My hair is colored and as I've gotten older it became dry and brittle with kits of breaking. I put this on my wet hair before mousse or blow drying and it's made a world of difference in my hair strength very little breakage and no split ends. I tried lots of other products to strengthen hair and it always seemed to make my style flat or made it look oily. I love this product and use it even on my dry hair with a little blow drying to freshen my style. When wet and freshly shampooed I use about 20 squirts. On restyling about 12. And a bottle lasts a long time.

  • Justin Hartley fanatic - just excellent!!!

    i was impressed with this book. it was everything that i was looking for & more. it even helped out that i received sooner than i expected. great service! will buy from them again.

  • SaveEnergy - Very nice, 12+ is better value

    I have been using this honey for over a year now and have found that it certainly does ward off colds and minor infections in children. At the first sign of cold, if it is given half a tea spoon, thrice a day, then it will hold colds at bay and not let them get worse.

  • HELEN NOAHUBBI - Frustrating

    About 4 days ago the app started messing up. Whenever I select a movie or show it will play for 30 seconds and then it starts flashing. I have reinstalled it and have called the app store and it still doesn't work.

  • Ayelet - Lost 3 lbs. in one week!!!!!

    My friend recommended me this product, at first I hesitated but after reading that it's all natural, and unlike other fat burners, this is gelatins free which makes it Kosher, I bought one.