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I FINALLY got to see Trouble Man last night. This movie has to be one of the most slept on blaxploitation pics i've seen. I thought Robert Hooks was pretty bad arse as Mr. T. I also saw a couple TV faces too! Gordon Jump (Mr Carlson from WKRP) was a spineless criminal on the streets and William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell on DALLAS)...

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....Because CN is doing a Looney Tunes marathon on New Year's Day as a test run to see if there's enough interest in putting the WB cartoons back in rotation on CN or Boomerang. Now I realize most of you will either be hung over or watching the Bowl games but if any of you have Nielsen boxes have that TV tuned into CN.

I mean, most other countries in the world has the classic WB shorts showing somewhere yet in the US it's not being shown AT ALL. That has to be some kind of crime or...

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Well a small part of it at least.

So Christmas Eve I experienced full blown kidney stones. Let me tell you it was the worst thing ever. Now to please Mr. The C i'm not going to go into TOO much detail

Let's just say I had chills, fever, so much pain that I felt like death was an option and crawling to my toilet bowl to puke and then laying on the washroom floor for 20 minutes crying my eyes out.

Yep, not exactly the best X-Mas Eve ever.
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The Mumbai terrorist attacks proved once again that CNN is still the most trusted name in news in a lot of ways. CNN is still the first place most people go for breaking news events. Over the course of the Mumbai bombing news coverage CNN led in the 25-54 demo over the three days of coverage and won the Thursday rating overall. FNC still had the most viewers from sign on to sign off but if anything CNN is the first place most people go when there's breaking news of huge import. Yet, I still hear...

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So with the Rosie Live! train wreck on TV right now it brings up the fact that the variety format just can't work these days. There's a thread about the show in the OS forums and I made mention that the variety format is actually good but the shows that spring to mind were on TV long before most of us were born.

Now here's why the variety format can't work today, back in the day the format worked great because you had ENTERTAINERS. Today it's far too specialized. Singers are singers,...

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