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Late reviews: ‘Halloween’ and ‘Death Sentence’

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Two films opened last Friday without timely advance screenings, and now I have the reviews for you: “Halloween” (verdict: bleh) and “Death Sentence” (verdict: OK!).

I had actually seen “Death Sentence” when I sent out “In the Dark” and posted the Friday movie round-up late last Thursday night: The screening was at 10 p.m. I could have mentioned that it was worth seeing, even if I didn’t have the review written yet. But if Fox is going to screen the movie at 10 p.m. the night before it opens, why should I go out of my way to tell people it’s good? They want the word to get out about their products, they can screen them in a more timely fashion. SO THERE.

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‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: The adventures of Raoul

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

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Every now and then a person enters your life and you think, “I could write a column about this person every week and never run out of material.” Or at least that’s what I think. Such a person for me was Pablo, known in “Snide Remarks” as Raoul, my housemate from Christmas 2003 until June 2004.

I direct your attention to the two columns I wrote about him, “Doing Tiempo” and “Señor Clean,” which appeared seven weeks apart in spring 2004. (I referred to him again at the end of “U-Haul Come Back Now, Ya Hear?,” a few weeks later.) Reading these columns again reminds me of more stories I could tell about him, like how he was obsessed with Princess Diana and would constantly re-watch a video tape of some TV special about her, or how one time he was late with his rent because he had accidentally washed his paycheck.

Good ol’ Pablo. I have no idea what became of him. He’s the kind of person who, despite being dim-witted and disaster-prone, will probably never actually be killed or even injured. He’s probably a millionaire now.

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