Wayne Newton Returns! On Wednesday, October 28, we went to the VIP gala official opening of Wayne Newton’s “Once Before I Go” at the Tiffany Theatre at The Tropicana Hotel and Casino. The show, which took 2 1/2 months to write, is a live memoir of Newton’s life and his career with antidotes about his friends Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis Presley, and Bobby Darin, who gave Newton his signature song “Danke Schoen.”
Saw VI. Number 6 in the series has the return of dead Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), his co-conspirator wife Jill (Betsy Russell) and Det. Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) who has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. It seems Jigsaw spent a lot of time making audiotapes. Hoffman sets in motion Jigsaw’s final game. (But what about Saw Vll?) Only evil people are subjected to Jigsaw’s game of survival, so there is a good reason for his cruel sadism!
The many strange acts include a wolf-man and a bearded lady. Darren meets a vampire, Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), who takes a liking to him. Here, vampires are not evil creatures. They never kill when they feed, do not bite in order to transform others, and do not have an evil purpose in life. They just want to get along with everybody and get cable. This movie is based on the first three young adults books. The series consists of twelve books split into 4 trilogies. I was troubled that the character of evil Mr. Tiny is an obese gay seducer of teenage boys. Mr. Tiny also manages a boy band.
Amelia. A bore. This life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart is a failed attempt at making a romantic screen star out of Hillary Swank. Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world, had an affair while married but it was okay with her husband, played by Richard Gere, who was madly in love with her. The senior citizens I saw the movie with were there because “Amelia” had the longest running time. They talked, ate BBQ, dropped buckets of popcorn, couldn’t sit still, but were happy to be killing 2 hours. I had to loudly scold the lady next to me.
My One and Only. Set in the 1950s, glamorous Anne Deveraux (Renee Zellweger) leaves her cheating band leader husband and takes off across the U.S. with her two teenage sons. She’s searching for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. Zellweger looks way past her age and it’s a surprising, rather uncomplimentary role.
The Burning Plain. Written and directed by Guillermo Arriaga, the film follows the story of several different people separated by time and space: Sylvia (Charlize Theron), a restaurateur in Oregon who is hiding from her past; Mariana and Santiago, two teenagers trying to piece together the shattered lives of their parents in a New Mexico border town; and Gina (Kim Basinger) and Nick (Joaquim de Almeida), a couple who are dealing with a clandestine affair because they are both married. I adore Theron. She can do no wrong when she plays real women.
Food, Inc. A shocking documentary by Robert Kenner confirms I am right! Food is bad for you. I’m thrilled I refuse to indulge in America’s Number One obsession. Food, Inc. shows that all our food is controlled by a very few multinational corporations engaged in the global food production business. Health and safety codes are overlooked in order to provide cheap food based solely on corn. Everything is made by manipulating corn. Cows are now fed on corn instead of grass. All our food is diseased! However, our food is engineered to taste fabulous and, let’s face it, not that many people are dying from Salmonella poisoning. Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces. 
The Fourth Kind. With the viral success of “Paranormal Activity”, we now have controversy over “The Fourth Kind.” There will be “Paranormal Activity 2.” 
Like others who saw an advance screening of the film, I did some research online. Is Dr. Tyler a real person or a fictional character?
What is amazing to me is that nobody in Nome, Alaska has ever heard of alien abductions. The sheriff (Will Patton) thinks Dr. Tyler is causing her patients to kill and wants to arrest her! For what? Being a clueless psychologist? I know Alaska is far away, but Dr. Tyler and all of Nome, Alaska has never even heard of alien abductions or abduction stars Betty and Barney Hill (pictured). The Hills claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials on September 19–20, 1961.
Theirs was the first widely-publicized claim of alien abduction (pictured: drawing of the alien who abducted the Hills), adapted into the best-selling 1966 book The Interrupted Journey and a television movie. The Hills began the decades of other people claiming to have nightly visits from aliens from other planets. I met Betty Hill and know many people who claim to be repeat abductees. Most abductees have many children with alien rapists living on other planets.
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