{"id":812,"date":"2003-07-17T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:49:43","slug":"movies-tv-novels-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Movies, TV, Novels &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/z071703identity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00008EY9G\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;Identity&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> features <strong>John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet<\/strong> in a sweet little mystery <strong>directed<\/strong> by <strong>James Mangold<\/strong> of <strong>&#8220;Cop Land&#8221;<\/strong> fame. It reminded me of something that could have been an episode from the classic years of <strong>&#8220;Twilight Zone.&#8221;<\/strong> It&#8217;s got a twist ending&#8230; followed by another. It&#8217;s definitely<strong> worth a rental<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009RDG9\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;The Hunted&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> stars <strong>Benicio del Torro<\/strong> as a <strong>special forces soldier<\/strong> who has gone off the deep end and <strong>Tommy Lee Jones<\/strong> as the man who trained and therefore feels compelled to bring him in before more people are killed. This movie features some of the most <strong>brutal and realistic knife fights<\/strong> ever put on film [way to go <strong>Rafael<\/strong>!] If you like action\/adventure then this one may be worth a look.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009ZPUA\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;A Man Apart&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> could have been so much better. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it wasn&#8217;t bad but it wasn&#8217;t great. <strong>Vin Diesel<\/strong> plays a cop whose wife is murdered after he brings down a drug lord. <strong>Vin<\/strong> then goes after his wife&#8217;s killers. I&#8217;m glad I saw it and you may be too if there&#8217;s nothing better on&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Michael Crow<\/strong> has with just two books, become <strong>one of my favorite authors<\/strong>. I told you about him <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">after I&#8217;d finished his first book, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451410866\/craizabls\/103-4973120-7321455\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Red Rain<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. It was one of the <strong>best crime novels<\/strong> I&#8217;d read in years. Well, I&#8217;ve finished his second, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670032220\/craizabls\/103-4973120-7321455\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>The Bite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, and it is just as good. Check him out, you&#8217;ll thank me later!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Miramax Films<\/strong> and <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong>,the <strong>writer-director<\/strong> of &#8217;90s landmarks <strong>&#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Reservoir Dogs&#8221;<\/strong> have announced unusual <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">plans to <strong>splice<\/strong> his long-awaited new action film, <strong>&#8220;Kill Bill,&#8221;<\/strong> into<strong> two movies<\/strong> and release them within months of each other<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if fans will turn out since <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;Kill Bill&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> doesn&#8217;t have the built in fan base of <strong>&#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;The Matrix.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; One of <strong>Sharon Osbourne&#8217;s dogs<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>was eaten by a coyote<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> \u2014 and husband <strong>Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong> managed to save another dog from a similar fate. As a dog owner, I can imagine the pain that they&#8217;re going through. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>The Emmy nominations<\/strong> have been announced and here&#8217;s who I&#8217;m pulling for&#8230; <strong>Best Drama Series<\/strong>: <strong>&#8220;24&#8221; \/ Best Actor in a Drama<\/strong>: <strong>Michael Chiklis<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;The Shield&#8221; \/ Best Actress in a Drama<\/strong>: <strong>Jennifer Garner<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;Alias&#8221; \/ Best Supporting Actor in a Drama<\/strong>: <strong>John Spencer<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;The West Wing&#8221; \/ Best Supporting Actress in a Drama<\/strong>: <strong>Lena Olin<\/strong> for<strong> &#8220;Alias&#8221; \/ Best Comedy Series<\/strong>: <strong>&#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; \/ Best Actor in a Comedy Series<\/strong>: <strong>Ray Romano<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; \/ Actress in a Comedy Series<\/strong>: <strong>Patricia Heaton<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; \/ Supporting Actor in a Comedy<\/strong>: <strong>Peter Boyle<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; \/ Supporting Actress \/ Comedy<\/strong>: <strong>Doris Roberts<\/strong> for <strong>&#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Since we&#8217;re talking about the best in television&#8230; <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>one of the best shows on tv will soon become a comic<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. <strong>&#8220;The Shield&#8221;<\/strong> is going to be published by<strong> IDW<\/strong> &#8212; the same people who publish the comic adaptation for <strong>&#8220;CSI&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Niles&#8217; novels<\/strong> [like <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977526\/craizabls\/002-5019288-9248823\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Guns, Drugs and Monsters<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097122823X\/craizabls\/002-2068293-3882450\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Savage Membrane<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">]. This could turn into something very cool.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>SANTA FE, N.M<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; A <strong>New Mexico family<\/strong> is <strong>suing their local Catholic church<\/strong> over a funeral Mass in which <strong>they claim <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>a priest said their relative was only a middling Catholic and going straight to hell<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. And that was the nicest thing he could find to say??<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>ALBANY, N.Y.<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; A <strong>convicted murderer<\/strong> wants the <strong>state of New York<\/strong> <strong>to pay $500,000 for his sex change<\/strong> and a <strong>key ruling in his case<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">has <strong>moved him closer<\/strong> to his dream<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> of serving the rest of his sentence in a women&#8217;s jail. Yeah, he&#8217;s a convicted murderer, let&#8217;s help him achieve dream. <strong>Yeah, that would be REAL justice<\/strong>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Identity&#8221; features John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet in a sweet little mystery directed by James Mangold of &#8220;Cop Land&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}