Biopics

   I recently watched a YouTube video about how biopics are often inaccurate. For instance, John Nash had auditory not visual hallucinations. Morzart and Salieri were good friends, not enemies.                                     I don't think I want to watch any more biopics. I don't want to find out that Sherlock Holmes wasn't the world's greatest detective or James Kirk won't captain the Enterprise. It would break my heart.

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How Did He Do That?

  My six year old nephew became enamored with the Jerry Lewis movie "The Nutty Professor." He wanted to know how the professor changed into Buddy Love. I told him, it was special effects. He didn't buy that. He wanted to look up potions. I knew we would get Harry Potter, so we looked up chemistry and we checked YouTube for experiments. He did his own experiments at the kitchen sink using salt, pepper, cinnamon, cocoa and bath powder. Basically, he used anything he could get his hands on.
  We were watching the movie one day and my nephew asked, "What is he?" I was thinking, he's a professor, a chemist, a scientist. My nephew came up with his own answer. "He's a potion artist!"

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Television

When I was a kid there were only three channels, four if you count PBS. There was CBS, NBC, and ABC. We didn't get CBS so we only had two channels, three if you count PBS. At midnight, after playing the Star Spangled Banner, the networks went off the air and didn't return until morning. There was nothing to watch so you went to bed. You watched your t. v. shows when they were scheduled and if you missed an episode you had to hope that one would appear in the reruns. Then came cable and we had more choices, but still you had to watch when they wanted you to. Now we have DVR, DVDs, Hulu, Netflix, You Tube, On Demand and we hold the power to watch when we want. All I can think is, there isn't enough time. We can watch whole seasons of past shows and binge whole seasons of new shows.  Add to that movies and specials and there are the best of and worst of list and cat videos and your friends with their own You Tube channel. Let me take a breathe. I am not going to criticize anyone for watching so much since I do it myself. I want to take time to, as the saying goes, smell the roses. Thank God iPads are portable.

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