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Archive for September 21st, 2009

Indulge Me

Monday, September 21st, 2009

If you can’t make the Washington Capitals preseason game tonight and you have time to kill, wish us luck at the Emmy Awards and then click on Nanking and watch it on SnagFilms.com.

Nanking has been recognized with many awards and tonight it is up for three more. But to be honest, the reason this film is so powerful and moving is because it focuses on the heroics of Westerners and the Chinese people who found a way to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

The film is dedicated to the memories of the heroes who saved all of those people; the survivors of Nanking; and to Iris Chang.

Wish us luck.

The Queen

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Guess who sat next to us at dinner on last night at Cafe Milano here in DC?

Helen Mirren - The Queen; the Academy Award winner; actress; and a woman of grace and style. She floated into the place. Everyone stopped talking and stared. She is regal and quite nice. She is in town for a while performing at the Shakespeare Theatre.

I wanted to invite her to tonight’s Washington Capitals game but my wife kicked me under the table at that notion.

My Sharona

Monday, September 21st, 2009

She lives! She is real. She sells real estate in L.A. The song is now 30 years old and perhaps the greatest one hit wonder of all time from The Knack. Now I can’t get that song out of my head.