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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
Time for a Change
The Darwinist True Believers have been trashing the world of science far too long. The preposterous idea that all life forms evolved from the same single cell is now under fire by proponents of the scientific discipline referred to as Intelligent Design. These people cannot be dismissed as ignorant fundamentalists. EXPELLED is a movie that has been badly needed and one must congratulate Ben Stein in meeting that need with an artistic success. If confirmed Darwinists can stop snickering for a while, perhaps we can put all the cards on the table and see who holds the winning hand. The field of Molecular Biology did not even exist in Darwin's time. Thus, his conclusions may be excused as the reasoning of an ignorant (compared to present Molecular Biologists, for example) man. However, continued belief in Darwinism at the present time is simply inexcusable.
Miss Julie (1999)
A Gripping Drama
This play is a stark portrayal of the heavy price that must be paid when social conventions are thrown to the winds. Moral relativism as a topic of cocktail party chatter is amusing, as a guiding principle in real life one discovers that there is nothing very amusing in the bottomless pit to which it can lead. The acting of Peter Mullan and Saffron Burrows is nothing short of electrified and provides a neon lit twenty four hour period in which life changing decisions transport the main characters to levels of existence of which they had not previously even dared to dream. As the play begins, there is not even a hint of the journey that is in store for Miss Julie and her father's valet as their incipient flirtation with disaster rains sparks amid the tinder of an aristocratic manor house.
Swanee River (1939)
Suicide?
My mother took me to see this movie in 1939, when I was 6 years old, at the Sanders theater across from Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I liked the music, and still do, but have this memory of Stephen Foster killing himself with a straight razor. I remember the water in the wash pan next to him filling with blood. Heavy stuff for a six year old. I asked my Mom why he would do that and she said she didn't know. Of course, later in life I found out why.
The music was great and the color very impressive for the time. Anyway, I always liked Don Ameche and remember seeing him sing and dance on Broadway in 1953 at the Winter Garden theater co-starring with Hildegarde Neff. I believe the show was Silk Stockings.