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May 2008
5/30/08
Some thoughts on SEX AND THE CITY and the mainstream media response to Scott McClellan
5/28/08
More random notes.
5/20/08
AOL Truthwatch: misleading headline re DANCING WITH THE STARS.
5/19/08
Tarsem's THE FALL--and why you may see fewer arthouse films like it.
5/16/08
James Frey's back again and providing a litmus test as to how you fit in with the literati.
5/15/08
Keith Olbermann followed the war herd in 2003--will he do it again?
5/10/08
POETISTA--a poem still relevant four years later.
5/10/08
A symbiosis of sorts between SPEED RACER and how I perceive Los Angeles poetry.
5/8/08
Eric Priestley--poet from Watts--fighting to keep his home.
5/8/08
REDBELT: Did David Mamet crib from Buster Keaton?
5/8/08
USA TODAY: unfit troops being sent into combat.
5/4/08
Some signs of the economic times.
5/3/08
Sidney Blumenthal helps Hillary win ugly; fellow traveler Joe Conason lends support.
5/2/08
AMPTP repeating bullying behavior with SAG during negotiations.
5/1/08
The annual E-Book Free for All is here again--passing along info.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
5:29:00 PM EDT
Feeling Mischievous

REDBELT: Did David Mamet crib from Buster Keaton?


David Mamet's homage to mixed martial arts and notions of honor vs. venality--REDBELT--will expand into more theaters tomorrow (May 9th).  I saw the film on Tuesday and thought it watchable, if sometimes overwrought.

Without giving too much away, the fight-scene climax seems to owe something to a similar finale in the Buster Keaton silent boxing-match comedy BATTLING BUTLER.

If anyone has seen both films, feel free to comment.



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