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Entries from February 2005

Hollywood’s Annual Festival of Self-Adoration

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments

It’s Oscar time. This Sunday evening we forget about war and oppression and find out who we really hate. For my money, that’s the advertisers, the choreographers, and anyone who takes the Academy Awards seriously.
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The Last Sunday Newsletter

February 20th, 2005 · No Comments

This is Bayflicks’ last Sunday newsletter.
No, I’m not giving up the site. I’m just moving the newsletter from Sunday afternoon to Friday morning, because movie recommendations are more useful before the weekend. The weekly schedules will still [...]

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What I Don’t Have Time to Watch

February 13th, 2005 · No Comments

Inevitable death isn’t the only problem with mortality; there are also the time constraints. I simply don’t have enough decades to read every good book, meet every interesting person, or see every movie that arouses my curiosity.
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Buddhist Report

February 6th, 2005 · No Comments

Americans have a hard time believing that Buddhists make movies. We imagine them sitting under mango trees, contemplating the world and mastering their desires, not scouting locations and sweet-talking investors. But, of course, Buddhists do all of [...]

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