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Susan Granger Reviews
Review: Takers, Wait for the DVD


Jimmy Buffett wrote a song called "Overkill" and that's the word which best describes this high-powered yet formulaic heist movie that's punctuated with shootouts and explosions, particularly a stylized machine-gun gangbang with Russian mobsters that decimates a Los Angeles hotel suite.

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Arizona Fishing Report Aug 25 - Sept 19

The predatory fish will likely feed all night, so don't expect lots of first light surface boils (although it can still happen). Typically, the good daytime bite will come in late morning, around 9-10 a.m., following a moon bright summer's night. Also keep in mind that black-colored topwater lures, including buzzbaits, can sometimes get you dramatic action at night if you can find active predatory fish from bass to pike.

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Entertainment
Stallone, "Bullets are easy , emotions are hard"

I like two types of films, action and westerns, both with guns, balls and beautiful women. Bullets and blood are exactly how Sly closed out his infamous Rambo franchise and as a director he has learned a vital ingredient in filmmaking-to surround oneself with the finest in the trade that can compliment the grittiness and violence his more recent films are known for.

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Outer Critics Circle Announce 2009-10 Season Nominees

NEW YORK, NY - Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April 26, 2010) its nominees for the 2009-10 season in 23 categories. Broadway stars and siblings Sutton Foster, Outer Critics Circle Award winner, and Hunter Foster Outer Critics Circle Award nominee, presided over the (11AM) announcement ceremony at Manhattan’s historic Algonquin Hotel.

Quantum Leap Thinking

Achieving the "New Normal"

By James Mapes - If you pay attention, you can learn life lessons at the most unexpected times. My wife and I had just arrived at our condo in the U.S. Virgin Islands, our place of renewal, healing and productivity.

I had not seen my next-door neighbor for over two years. The truth is that we have spoken perhaps a dozen times over the past two decades. He only comes down every November to prepare his place for rental and soak in the Caribbean atmosphere. As one often does with someone who is not particularly close, I engaged in polite chatter. I reintroduced him to my wife and asked him how life was treating him.
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700 Million Gallons To Spill From Tempe Town Lake Overnight

Tempe, Arizona - Approximately 10:10 pm one of four large rubber bladders made by Bridgestone; holding back Tempe Town Lake's near 1 billion gallons of water, ruptured-allowing the lake to be drained into the seasonally dry Salt River bed.


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The Not-So Okay... Corral: Tombstone Boarding House

Walking by the Tombstone Boarding House, you would never guess that behind the white picket fence lurks an assortment of ghosts. The spirits are as tranquil as the setting so you won't be frightened if you spend the night.

The adobe house, originally known as the Barrows Boarding House, was built in 1880 by Tombstone's first bank manager and was remodeled and enlarged in the early 1930s. This is where Shirley and Ted Villarin, owners of Tombstone Boarding House, reside. A unique breed of entities occupies their second dwelling, the one you can rent for the night.
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UofA Fraternity Brings Hopeful Events For Local Charities

TUCSON, Ariz. - Setting an example in community outreach from a collegiate fraternity is rarely seen on a national level. With news headlines typically bearing images of drunken binges, drug epitomes and how many cups one can sell at a keg party to pay tuition.

University of Arizona's Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity steps outside that paradigm bringing not only benefit to local charities but provides a more nationally recognized example of what American fraternal organizations were designed to represent. Do what you can to attend and support some this weeks events in Tucson hosted by the University of Arizona.
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SEQUESTRO (Kidnapping), Grade: B

There are reasons that tourists go to Rio, to the Amazon jungle, to Salvador de Bahía, but not to São Paulo-except to disembark and take a domestic aircraft to a place more amenable to travelers. One is that Brazil's largest city is for business. It is filled with skyscrapers and the hum of traffic with no beaches or waterfalls to speak of. Perhaps a more important reason is the explosion of crime. São Paulo is the most crime-ridden big city in the Western Hemisphere. Many of its criminals have realized that sticking up stories is not the most lucrative way to make a living so they have resorted to kidnapping. In many cases, even after ransom is paid, the victim is killed. In one particular case documented by Jorge W. Atalla in "Sequestro" ("Kidnapping") a small child is rescued, one who was destined to be killed whether or not ransom was paid because she knew the abductor: her nanny.

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD 'Two words. Zac Efron.'

There might have been a time that movies about folks who see beings that nobody else can was risk-taking, but then again, maybe not, since even in 1946, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey was able to see Clarence the angel in "It's a Wonderful Life" and the same actor in 1972 saw a six-foot rabbit with a wonderful name. When Cole Sear announced in 1999 "I can see dead people," others in his life treated that gift as no big deal. Seeing things that nobody else can see may be a cliché but M. Night Shyamalan knew how to win over an audience by evoking terrific performances and displaying a suspenseful plot-with a great twist at the conclusion.

Susan Granger Reviews

Cairo Time - A Mature Romance

When women's magazine writer Juliette Grant (Patricia Clarkson) arrives in Cairo to join her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a U.N. refugee camp organizer, for a vacation, she is met at the airport by Tareq (Alexander Siddig), his former security officer and colleague. He tells her that Mark's been unavoidably detained in Gaza and graciously escorts her through the crowded streets and sweltering heat to her hotel.

Cats and Dogs: Certainly Not Worth The 3-D Price

As an afternoon diversion for youngsters, there's nothing really wrong with this live-action caper comedy; it's just that there's no originality. It's "Spy Kids" with anthropomorphized household pets - and certainly not worth the 3-D price bump.

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