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...resignation speech at Monday’s City Council meeting, Murphy recalled some of the many resolutions the council has passed during his tenure, including reform of the city’s Criminal Offender Record Information policy and efforts to clarify the city’s property tax system...
Just as free speech has a limit, freedom of religion has a limit. There are limits in our society. And that's the way we've set society...
Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced "baff." It's not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It's because at one point or another, we all read Donald Barthelme's novel Snow White, a retelling of the classic fairy tale, and became obsessed with it. In Barthelme's version, the seven dwarfs say "baff" instead of "bath." I don't know why. But now we do too. (The dwarfs also sleep with Snow White and sell Chinese-themed baby food for a living. They still say "heigh-ho," though...
...fourteen film awards that were decided by the BSFC in December. These included a tie between “Wall-E” and “Slumdog Millionaire” for Best Picture. Another tie resulted in the ceremony’s sole video message, a joint acceptance speech by Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke, who were both chosen for best actor by the BSFC. Mickey Rourke clutched his small, sweater-clad dog to his chest as Penn expressed his gratitude for the award. “We want to thank you for being indecisive Irish men and women...
...might argue that it is not difficult to play oneself, but in a movie that essentially lays his career before him, Van Damme lets his character emerge gradually, evolving continually until the final, defining monologue. Mechanically lifted above the set, he turns to face the camera and deliver the speech that has been slowly brewing throughout the movie. Van Damme leaves beneath him the heist situation in which he has become embroiled, reflecting on his troubled life up to that point: the custody battle for his daughter (in real life, his son), his long history of drug use and money...