TV Review: NBC "Medium"Written by Paul Griffitts
Last night I watched new NBC show named, “The Medium”. The premise of show is that Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. Ok now what happens from there is more medium then good from my viewing perspective. Allison Dubois a.k.a. Witch of Endor (I Sam. 28:7) and her 6 year old encounter a kid in school yard who hit it off with shy 6 year old, only trouble is that kid died 5 years ago in a car accident outside school. This presents a problem for 6 year old little girl who doesn’t want to give up her playmate that only she (and unfortunately viewer) can see. But Mom to rescue who explains that in afterlife there is a place where everybody hangs out (everybody who is dead that is) and can groove together and look down on us and watch us like we are a movie for their entertainment.
| | Can We Handle the Truth?Written by Gary Revel
Most people in America are busy with details of achieving their goals and making their own place in world. They have little time for themselves and don't want to spend it on some lost cause that most people don't care about. So it is with injustice of assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Even though most don't believe James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King Jr. or at least not by him-self, they also don't have time to try to figure it out. Some would say they just don't care; so what's use of making a movie of story of my investigation of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination?What good will it do to have a full-length feature movie presented throughout nations theaters that explores this matter when nobody has time to care about it in today's environment? This is a question that I have asked myself for years; and continue to ask. Many believe very strongly that story needs to be told and it needs to be told in just such a motion picture. Some believe that it is a story that has historical importance and is best served by being written in conjunction with a treatment of civil rights movement and presented in a non-fiction literary work. Still others tell me that it should be a TV movie done in tight commercial presentation that is best suited for today's contemporary television audience. Some would like to see it as a documentary or docu-drama. There are also those that just don't care about anything related to assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and would rather everyone just quit talking about it.
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