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Unhappily, this seaquel is even sillier than the original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves...
...Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has gone to spread the joy around, with complicated categories that still leave such impossible competitions as this year's between Leonard Bernstein and Vic Damone for the Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Music. And to make it all even sillier, the networks often pay for their employees' memberships in the academy-big heartedness that fosters the cynical notion that network loyalty is expected come ballot time...
...second prologue that he wrote in 1912 in the form of a sermon delivered by the god Ra to the audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd for discussion" (but he goes on to discuss it anyhow...
...audibly to stay in tune, but for all his trouble he was consistently flat; occasional sounds had no pitch at all. In the simplest pieces he was mildly affecting, but whatever he thought should be grandiose was rendered with grunts, gasps, bodily jerks, and fierce glances that are even sillier in recital than they are on stage...
...Nothing makes a man look sillier than...