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A Comical look at a True Story, Pain & Gain isn’t Funny to Some
“Pain & Gain Actor Anthony Mackie defends Director Michael Bay’s decision to portray Tragedy as Comedy” By Christopher “Flood the Drummer”® Norris If you’ve never read the story of the “Sun Gym Gang” as chronicled by writer Pete Collins in his 1999 three-part series called Pain & Gain, which was published by Miami’s New Times, then don’t rely on Director Michael Bay’s New movie “Pain &Gain,” which touts “This is a true story,” to give you authentic chronological accounts of the case; nor its preceding murders, tortures, and kidnappings. You can however rely on a ton of laughs from the movies loaded cast which stars Mark Wahlberg as the…
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Wanted: A Man! To Be A Blog Contributor That Is
It's mutually beneficial in that it promotes blog traffic, still, I'm very picky when it comes to doing this. I don't want Tinsel & Tine to become too commercial, especially since I don't get paid to post these "Guest Posts"...
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Serving Up: Jack the Giant Slayer
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor One of life’s beautiful mysteries is the ageless, universality of myths and fairytales. Why are these stories still so familiar to us century after century? It occurred to me, Joseph Campbell, the father of mythology, would be a good one to turn to on this subject, so I did a quick Google search to find out how he defines the difference between a myth and a fairytale – Campbell describes fairy tales, used interchangeably with “folk tale,”as pastime and as the myths whose meaning has been lost over time. I found a blog from a doctorate student in Mythology. She expresses myth as metaphors and…
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What makes you root for Parker is his moral code of ethics, he's not into violence and taking lives unless it's necessary, he always does what he says he's going to do, he strictly believes in the old adage "honor among thieves" and he doesn't cheat on his girlfriend, no matter how good Jennifer Lopez's butt looks in everything she wears or doesn't wear.
