Posts Tagged ‘sean connery’

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    Brian De Palma- And so it began
    1988- I  was  watching  the  Academy  Awards ceremony on  TV.  The  nominees   for  the  Best  Supporting  Actor  were  being  announced,  and  one  of  them  was  an  actor,  who  to  date  still  happens  to be my  favorite  Bond,   Sean  Connery.   Slightly  older,  with a salt and pepper  beard,  but  still  looking   dashing...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at August 11th, 2009 at 04:08 am
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    The Name of the Rose- Sherlock Holmes At the Abbey
     /**  Spoiler  Alerts What  would  happen  if   you  take  Sherlock Holmes,  make him a  Francisan friar,  change  his  name  to  William of  Baskerville( yes the  same Baskerville  of   The Hound  fame),  and  make  Dr.  Watson  as a  young monk  called  Adso of  Melk,  and  put both of  them together  at  a remote  Benedectine ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at March 9th, 2009 at 07:03 am
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    Michael Crichton Passes Away-I
    What connects rampaging dinosaurs in a theme park, fighter albino gorrilas guarding King Solomon’s mines, a murder mystery in the context of US-Japanese relations and a female being accused of sexually harassing a man? John Michael Crichton, aka Michael Crichton who passed away couple of days back at age of 66 due to cancer. Well whatever his achievements, if...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 6th, 2008 at 08:11 am
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    “Professor, it really is a Dead End!”
    Well I hope so!! LaBeouf’s rather innocuous line in the movie, appears significantly prophetic in the end. SPOILER ALERT!!! Unless you are in some weird parallel universe with no media or internet, you already know – the whip cracking archaeologist is back! And the premise is we are supposed to be happy and lap it all up. I was all for it, lapping up the whole...
    by DPac at May 24th, 2008 at 02:05 am
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