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You Know You’re Spending Too Much Time at a Film Festival When…

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

You start every conversation with “Seen anything good?”
Your spouse asks what you want for dinner, and you answer “The usual–popcorn.”
You step outside on a beautiful afternoon and run immediately back into the theater.
You see people on the street talking in a foreign language, and your eyes automatically drop down for the subtitles.
You have an irresistible [...]

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Top Ten Insurance Films

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I just received the strangest press release. It was from the Insurance Information Institute, “a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry.” Not really my kind of organization.
But the subject was movies. The release proudly announced the “top ten insurance films of all time.” And no, these aren’t educational shorts with titles like “Why [...]

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