In “True Believer,” he bursts into his walk-up office in Greenwich Village, says hello to his secretary, asks “What is this thing?” about a weird piece of sculpture standing in a corner, and disappears before he can get the answer. The moment has no purpose in the larger context o...
True Believer: Directed by Joseph Ruben. With James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto. A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder
true believer is, Dad. I’m a true believer.” And I was like, “Yeah, you are.” And then he’s like, “You’re one, too, Dad.” And this was in a moment where Giulia was still in a really fragile place, so he asked me if Giulia, he’s like, “Is Mom a true believer...
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was a true believer in the Communist Revolution. He was also a doctor who became a mass murderer in the name of that revolution. As for author Jon Lee Anderson's statement that he has "yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed an...
And that, my friend, gives this female knight of faith so much more credit than her male counterparts in stories where they needed a whore-turned believer to sustain their own faith. 当爱人要她承认自己是个骗子,也就是摒弃自己圣人的身份、做回一个爱人爱的普通人时,她怜悯地看着爱人,说不,我要...
Posted in General | Tagged Moviewatch, WWW Wednesday | 1 Comment December 2024 In Review Posted on December 31, 2024 by smellincoffee Well, welcome to the end of another year. December began quietly here at Reading Freely, as I was preoccupied with a final project that I didn’t finis...
Global warming is causing an increase in pleasant afternoons. A reader receive a plaintive email from an associate who had converted to a global warming True Believer. The reader asked if I would answer the associate. I do so below. In order to protect the anonymity of the associate, I sli...
Talking to Bobby Bones Jelly Roll revealed what he learned from both books. He made it clear that he’s ultimately not a whole-hog believer in either, but appreciates the teachings. How many other country singers do you think have read the Koran?
Talking to Bobby Bones Jelly Roll revealed what he learned from both books. He made it clear that he’s ultimately not a whole-hog believer in either, but appreciates the teachings. How many other country singers do you think have read the Koran?
the tracks literally divided my university town and I thought perhaps I had been accidentally left on an old movie set. How little did I know and still have to learn. I also knew nothing of fireflies and words like “How’s your Momma and ’em?” I had no concept of consistently looki...