Virginia Tech lessons
As students return to college classrooms across the country, school officials should give careful consideration to a new report on the horrific murder of 32 students and faculty members, and wounding of dozens of others, at Virginia Tech in April.
Original post by telegram.com- Opinion
Roxbury tragedy
What started out as a serious but unremarkable fire in Roxbury Wednesday night became another painful reminder that few structure fires are truly routine.
Original post by telegram.com- Opinion
State in dire need of reforms in road, bridge maintenance
The Minneapolis bridge collapse is just the latest evidence that too often it takes a tragedy to get our leaders to do what they should be doing in the first place. Crass as it may sound, turning the lessons of tragedy into real change requires us to be opportunistic - we must act while public attention is still focused on the issue at hand.
Original post by telegram.com- Opinion
Voters in towns to go to polls Sept. 4
Once again the town of Ashby has the opportunity to prove that logic and common sense reign in this town: the override vote of Sept. 4.
Original post by telegram.com- Opinion
Criminal’s sentence should match crime
The sentences an Arizona court gave to a former Orange restaurant owner, age 73, who killed his friend and cut him up into pieces and cashed $27,000 of the man’s Social Security checks are a travesty of the law (”Man who killed friend gets 11 years in prison,” Telegram & Gazette, Aug. 22).
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Review - Halloween (2007)
HALLOWEEN [R]
As far as remakes of modern horror classics that did not need to be remade go, rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie’s tribute to John Carpenter’s 1978 original is not a bad one. The Massachusetts-born longtime horror fan pays a solid tribute to the genre-defining slasher film in all kinds of ways, from the casting of a who’s who of fan favorites to the fidelity to the original loony-verse down to Carpenter’s eerily effective and beautifully simple score.
Zombie solidly re-invents the legend of Michael Myers, an inherently evil 10-year-old boy (think Hitler meets Hanson) played by newcomer Daeg Faerch, compelled to kill, kill, kill. To the boy’s credit, it is a pretty big part, painting this portrait of the artist (as a crazy young man) in bloody knife strokes, especially in the way that Zombie has written him. The lad and Zombie both humanize Myers, also known as “The Shape,” before turning […]
Original post by Robert Newton
Review - Death Sentence
DEATH SENTENCE [R]
From the purveyors of the torture porn trilogy Saw and the writer of Death Wish (the 1974 revenge flick starring Charles Bronson that the world may have forgotten if not reminded of it in this movie’s marketing) comes this empty contemplation on the nature of violence. Center of the movie universe Kevin Bacon plays Nick Hume, an Everyman whose life is torn up when his oldest son and golden boy is randomly murdered in a gang initiation ritual. When he learns that the young killer, played by Garrett Hedlund (Eragon), might be out in less than five years, he (oh, man…) takes justice into his own hands and dispatches the lad, an Old Testament style smoting that he develops a taste for. Director James Wan does not adequately chart Nick’s descent toward destruction, and the snuffing of the cardboard cutouts he lays waste to is no tragedy at […]
Original post by Robert Newton
My eggs
My water aerobics ladies are worried about me. They don’t understand why I’m still single, and they don’t think I should have so much trouble finding a good man (which I can agree with). Plus I’m pretty sure they think my eggs are rotting. Good thing I have them looking out for me. I can’t tell you how many dates with grand-sons and nephews I’ve turned down.
Original post by linnea