We’ve got fashion and cooking in this TV review post. Project Runway is a hit fashion design reality contest now running full speed on Lifetime TV. There’s pics of winning, losing and mediocre fashions plus some critiques, comments on the contenders.
Running now we’ve got Hell’s Kitchen as well as BravoTV’s Top Chef Vegas. We’ve got reviews on the shows, the food and the contenders.
Finally, we follow up on Melissa D’Arabian, winner of this past year’s Next Food Network Star. Her food is cheap to make but read what the real cost is.
All with pics and video you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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Lifetime’s “Project Runway” A Fashion Hit
I have quite enjoyed “Project Runway” now featured on Lifetime. As I understand it, this series of a reality show for fashion designers was featured on another cable network and just changed over to Lifetime this week. I daresay this is an indicator that the show has been very successful as Lifetime is a network for women and women are probably the base audience for this series. Alongside our fine homosexual brethren I add with a smile.
So far I’ve been busy compiling pic montages of the series and have little verbiage to add. I think this is a great series but it is definitely for fashion afficiandos let’s not kid ourselves.
I have a few comments on the remaining nine contenders as it’s a bit dizzying to keep up with all the fashion designs, who did what, as well as observe personality quirks of the contenders.
Epperson, now here’s an odd fellow. He has about thirty pounds of hair on his head and once he had to wrap all the dreadlocks up in a scarf and he looked like one of those fellows who ride around on flying carpets. Epperson does do rather unusual designs and one thing to note about this show, the ordinary is not where you want to go. The show doesn’t cotton to out-of-this-world fashion designs either, be cautioned. But it is a show designed to capture the designer with a fashion flair that would still be acceptable to your ordinary female.
A couple of very young females are very much in contention this season, to include Shirin, Althea and Carol Hannah. I’m talking young women in their early to mid-20’s here. Quite impressive to be in the top ten on this American Idol of fashion design.
Finally, somebody tell Gordana to please find some shampoo and wash her damn hair. Gordana is NOT, ahem, one of the younger females in this contest. She’s not such a bangup fashion designer either.
On to the pic montages and join in for additional opinions, caveats, brickbats and unrequested opinions.
2009 Contenders for Project Runway Christopher
Johnny-sent home
Louise-sent home
Irina
Ari-sent home
Nicolas
Mitchell-sent home
Shirin
Gordana
Carol Hannah
Ramon-Lawrence-sent home
Logan
Malvin-sent home
Qristyl-sent home
Epperson
Althea
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is a book that combines sports, politics in a page-turning thriller.
If that sounds impossible, read the review then get the book. Because it's a well-written story that you'll not put down until you figure out what Cal is up to.
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Three movies reviewed in this post. "Perfect Stranger" has a smashing ending and good acting by Haille Berry.
"Incredible Hulk" brings back the comic book character in an action packed film worth every second.
And "The Brady Bunch Movie" is packed with satire that had me smiling for every second. Loved the Monkees!
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So we've got this year's Food Network Star and we eagerly await Melissa D'Arabian's first cooking show.
We wrap this year's contest in this post and make a promise we'll be sure to keep.
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Lots of information on Obama's awful health care plan, a challenge for yon reader to turn in the Fishy Fish, cartoons that tell it like it is.
Plus a Muslim wedding that will shock you, a video on Clunkers for Cash that will break your heart.
We end with a sure smile and more in this weeks Thoughts.
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Obama Will Give You Public Health Care No Matter What You Want
The White House is calling for the names of all people publishing information that we might consider “fishy” as regards the proposed health care takeover by the gubmint.
What with my name being FISH, yon reader should free to report me to the gubmint. For this president is determined to do what HE, the Almighty Won, wants, never mind your peon selves. And he doesn’t mind breaking every cherished right we hold so write the White House and tell them you got a FISH acting downright FISHY as regards that terrible health care thing he wants to ram down our throats.
Don’t believe for a minute that care won’t be rationed, don’t believe a thing the traitorous AARP would tell you (an organization funded by the TEACHERS UNIONS!), and for sure don’t believe that if you’re 80 years old and need hip replacement that you’re going to get it.
Don’t believe it. Just so y’all are sure to report me, below a couple of cartoons and such that encapsulates the Obama healthcare proposal handily.
Tell them you saw it here, on this Blog. Hey, I already had my heart bypass.
Town Halls Next Week-Link to Future Ones
Conservative Bloggers are being asked to list links and lists of upcoming town halls. Now understand that Obama, the almighty one who knows what’s best for you, is sending out his union thugs so be careful out there.
Link to list of all future town halls and places to get more information HERE.
Town Hall Events to Counter Protest. July, August, September 2009
Delineated below, the Town Hall’s scheduled in the upcoming week.
Health Care Listening Session
Chaseburg Village Hall
Chaseburg, WI 54621
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 11:30 AM
In attendance, Sen. Russ Feingold S (DEM) District
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Health Care Town Hall
North Central Texas College
Gainesville, TX 76240
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start Time: 2:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Michael Burgess H (REP) District 26
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Health Care Govt in the Grocery
King Soopers
Brighton, CO 80601
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time:
In attendance, Rep. Ed Perlmutter H (DEM) District 7
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Health Care Town Hall
Center for the Visual Arts
Denton, TX 76201
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 11:00 AM
In attendance, Rep. Michael Burgess H (REP) District 26
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Health Care Listening Session
La Crosse City Hall
La Crosse, WI 54601
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start Time: 7:30 AM End Time: 8:30 AM
In attendance, Sen. Russ Feingold S (DEM) District
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Health Care Town Hall
Mooresville Town Hall
Mooresville, NC 28655
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 6:00 PM End Time:
In attendance, Rep. Patrick McHenry H (REP) District 10
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Health Care Town Hall
McMinnville Police Station
McMinnville, OR 97128
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 5:00 PM End Time: 6:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. David Wu H (DEM) District 1
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Health Care Listening Session
Borough Hall
North Arlington, NJ 7031
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Town Hall
City Hall
Horicon, WI 53032
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 2:30 PM End Time: 3:30 PM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Listening Session
Borough Hall
Elmwood Park, NJ 7407
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 7:00 AM End Time: 9:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Town Hall
Caestecker Public Library
Green Lake, WI 54941
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 9:30 AM End Time: 10:30 AM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Town Hall
Pontiac City Hall
Pontiac, IL 61764
Monday, August 10, 2009
Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Timothy Johnson H (REP) District 15
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Health Care Town Hall
Good Samaritan Hospital
Portland, OR 97210
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 1:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. David Wu H (DEM) District 1
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Health Care Listening Session
Senior Center
Wallington, NJ 7057
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Listening Session
Municipal Complex
Palisades Park, NJ 7650
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start Time: 7:00 AM End Time: 9:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Mobile Office Hours
Courthouse
York, NE 68467
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 12:30 PM
In attendance, Rep. Adrian Smith H (REP) District 3
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Health Care Town Hall
Hickory City Hall
Hickory, NC 28601
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start Time: 6:00 PM End Time:
In attendance, Rep. Patrick McHenry H (REP) District 10
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Health Care Listening Session
Borough Hall
Rutherford, NJ 7070
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Start Time: 7:00 AM End Time: 9:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Town Hall
James Warren Lincoln County Citizens Ctr
Lincolnton, NC 28092
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Start Time: 6:00 PM End Time:
In attendance, Rep. Patrick McHenry H (REP) District 10
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Health Care Listening Session
Municipal Complex
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 7632
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Town Hall
Lenoir Library
Lenoir, NC 28645
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 6:00 PM End Time:
In attendance, Rep. Patrick McHenry H (REP) District 10
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Health Care County Tour Stop
TBD
Cottonwood Falls, KS
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 4:30 PM End Time: 5:30 PM
In attendance, Rep. Jerry Moran H (REP) District 1
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Health Care Town Hall
Community Center
Oakfield, WI 53065
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 10:00 AM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care County Tour Stop
Tabor College
Hillsboro, KS 67063
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 2:30 PM End Time: 3:30 PM
In attendance, Rep. Jerry Moran H (REP) District 1
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Health Care Constituent Outreach
Piedmont Regional Library
Winder, GA 30017
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 12:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. John Linder H (REP) District 7
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Health Care Listening Session
Municipal Complex
Secaucus, NJ 7094
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Constituent Outreach
Suwanee Library
Suwanee, GA 30024
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 5:00 PM End Time: 7:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. John Linder H (REP) District 7
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Health Care Town Hall
Seaside Public Library
Seaside, OR 97138
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 4:00 PM End Time: 5:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. David Wu H (DEM) District 1
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Health Care Listening Session
City Hall
Hackensack, NJ 7601
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 9:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care County Tour Stop
Chamber of Commerce
McPherson, KS 67460
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Jerry Moran H (REP) District 1
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Health Care Town Hall
Municipal Building
Watertown, WI 53094
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start Time: 3:30 PM End Time: 4:30 PM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Town Hall
Marquette County Courthouse
Montello, WI 53949
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 3:00 PM End Time: 4:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Town Hall
Municipal Building
Adams, WI 53910
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 11:00 AM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Town Hall
Community Center
Wild Rose, WI 54984
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Thomas Petri H (REP) District 6
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Health Care Listening Session
Borough Hall
Fairview, NJ 7022
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Health Care Town Hall
Columbia Learning Center
St. Helens, OR 97051
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 4:00 PM End Time: 5:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. David Wu H (DEM) District 1
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Health Care Listening Session
Borough Hall
Teterboro, NJ 7608
Friday, August 14, 2009
Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 12:00 PM
In attendance, Rep. Steven Rothman H (DEM) District 9
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Bad Guy of the Week/Emmanuel
Good Guy of the Week/Issa
I first met Obama’s nasty chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, when he stood in front of Ken Starr’s Grand Jury hearing room and lied, the man lied like a rug and he did it with a smile on his face.
This White House is not only intimidating anyone who speaks out on the Almighty One’s health care plan, via the lovely, fine, fine Rahm Emmanuel, members of congress are being intimidated for daring to suggest that perhaps Obama’s robbery of the U.S. Treasury disguised as a “stimulus” package wasn’t such a good idea.
Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Emanuel saying “While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress.”
A Republican, ladies and gems, with gonads. If these pubs would get out of the tanning booths and risk mussed head hairs maybe us poor peons out here questioning this health care debacle wouldn’t be getting beat up and mistreated by paid union thugs.
Gotta love Obama. America won’t be America anymore…just give him time.
Federal Tax Revenues Looking Mighty Bleak
Well duh. You rob the U.S. Treasury and call it a “stimulus” and of course collected tax revenues start to fall.
Here we have a legitimate way for the gubmint to finance itself and Obama done mess this up.
Cash for Clunkers…heh
These are the people who want to run our health care.
I’ve never been particularly attached to cars. By me a car was a thing to transport me from place to place and the more comfortable it was, all the better.
But I came across the video below and folks it makes me sick.
For this Cash for Clunkers program has turned out to be such a debacle and please don’t fall for the meme that..well it’s booming at the car dealers…as reason for its fabulous success.
Americans aren’t stupid although Obama thinks we all are. We get $3,500 to $4,500 off of a brand new car off of some car we’ve been hating for quite a while, of course we’re going to take advantage of it. God please Bless America.
The recipients of this joke by the gubmint, which had crashed servers and no money within three days of this thing going into affect, were Ford, a company that didn’t get a dime of bailout money, and FOUR foreign made cars!
Heh.
The really heart-breaking thing is that every so-called clunker turned in cannot be re-sold although there are probably teenagers across the fruited plains who could use these vehicles to get to local jobs. My own daughter is driving an old car with 250,000 miles on it that in order to get into it she must climb through the back window.
And yet these cars all have to be totally destroyed. Watch that cute little car being destroyed in the video below. My daughter could use this car. They only have one car and she is left alone during the day with the baby while husband works.
What a waste.
WATCH AND BE PREPARED FOR HEARTBREAK BELOW.
A Grand Pedophile Wedding
At a mass-wedding last Thursday, which has been organized by Hamas, 450 couples got married in Gaza. Birth-jihad (referring to producing masses of children in order to flood the "enemy" with willing minions) seems to be the favorite weapon of both Fatah and Hamas against Israel. But this time Hamas served this cake with a cherry on top of it.
While the age of the Hamas-grooms ranges from 16 to 36, the age of the "brides" ranges from 6 to 10.
Ending With a Smile- HOW BAD IS THE ECONOMY? I'll tell you how bad the economy is . . .
It's so bad that . . "
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
Jewish women are marrying for love.
Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren't paying their taxes.
Hotwheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer and Citigroup.
McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
A truckload of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico .
The most highly-paid job is now jury duty.
People in Africa are donating money to Americans.
Motel Six won't leave the light on.
The Mafia is laying off judges.
And finally...
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Great news...the guy who made $50 billion disappear will be investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear.
STARS:
Florence Henderson, Shelley Long, Jack Noseworthy, Jean Smart, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Gary Cole, Jennifer Elise Cox, David Graf, Olivia Hack, Jesse Lee Soffer, Henriette Mantel, Michael McKean, Paul Sutera, Christine Taylor, Betty Thomas, Megan Ward
When I first clicked in to see this movie I thought “nah, this is gonna bore”. I mean…The Brady Bunch?
I was, of course, of a perfect age to watch this film as The Brady Bunch was quite the hit in my day.
Not that I’m proud of this.
The Brady Bunch was a TV show based as much on sixties schlock and non-reality as most anything. We are to believe that this lady with three daughters and a man with three sons, all at the same ages, married and commingled their families, all without rancor, screams, fights, tears, hatred and an occasional murder?
Maybe you hadda be there, but the Bradys were as saccharine a group of individuals as most any on the planet. The kids were cute and goodness Alice the live-in made was a real card and who the hell had a live in maid anyway?
I suppose children my granddaughter’s age thought The Brady Bunch was something akin to reality but the series was the stuff of mockery even in that less cynical era.
But today, a movie about it?
Heh.
Well the joke was on me evidently or else I wasn’t alone as I rolled my eyes at this cotton candy confection that purported to be reality.
Now I look at the likes of, say, “Andy of Mayberry” or even “Leave It to Beaver” and there are those who would point and jump and ask…do you really think THESE shows depicted any sort or reality.
Folks, there was just something about the Brady Bunch that deviated too far from the reality of how difficult it must be to successfully combine two families with the demographics of the Brady Bunch what with this life presented as essentially one big love and laugh-in.
Somewhere in the 50’s there really might have been a housewife with a cute but mischievous little boy and a polite adolescent son and who wore pearls while vacuuming. And there was, was there not, Eddie Haskell? As for Andy of Mayberry, I can believe that there was a small town somewhere policed by a wise sheriff like Andy and we’ve all known or had sidekicks who take themselves a bit too serious.
But The Brady Bunch pushed my suspension of disbelief so far that it just broke.
Which is why I loved “The Brady Bunch Movie”. This movie poked fun at everything that was wrong with the original TV series. Like Mr. and Mrs. Brady being portrayed as sex maniacs. Heh. I mean in the series I don’t think those two were ever even shown in a bedroom together. You had to wonder. Or no, maybe that was just me.
And the jealousy between those quasi-siblings. Marcia was really resented by her younger sister, eh? Besides, Marcia wasn’t really all that as it turned out.
Mr. Brady really did live on a cloud somewhere, didn’t he? Mrs. Brady too didn’t have a clue, huh?
The movie plot was neat, even with the happy ending with everything tied up in a bow with the Brady house being saved. It was exactly like the show ended up but the movie was poking fun at these neatly packaged endings big time.
Loved the Monkees!
I urge anyone who ever watched the Brady Bunch TV series to watch this movie. Go ahead, reserve it on Netflix. You’ll find it brings smiles and a final closure that no, it wasn’t just you rolling your eyes as Alice entertained and cooked or Mrs. Brady remained hopelessly naïve or Mr. Brady saved the world, all the while as these six kids were thrown together amidst smiles and the occasional but loving spats.
There’s lots to criticize with this movie but it does have two great things going for it. The movie’s star-Halle Berry, gave a terrific performance and the movie’s ending was perhaps the most surprising ending to a movie in many a year.
Stars of this movie:
Halle Berry-Rowena Price
Bruce Willis-Harrison Hill
Giovanni Ribisi-Miles Haley
Halle Berry plays an investigative reporter who embarks on a mission to get evidence on the person she thought murdered her childhood friend. The suspect was Harrison Hill, played shallowly by Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis thinks his smirk is all that is needed to carry his character.
Berry, along with a male pal played by Giovanni Ribisi, who I’ve never heard of, begin a goal to get evidence against Harrison Hill who was, per the childhood friend, having an affair with her.
The story follows this effort and it was successful. In a few tense scenes, Hill got suspicious of Berry and who she was. Berry was posing as a temp for Willis’ agency.
The ending of this movie is its best part. In fact I was just about to turn off the DVR, somewhat satisfied and entertained. I only do reviews of movies that stand out in some way and up until the end, this movie was not deemed one deserving of a review.
I won’t reveal the ending, duh, but believe it was a real surprise, so much so that I dropped the remote and watched with a dropped jaw.
Below a scene from the movie. Halle Berry is to be commended for her acting. She does it well and it’s what she was meant to do.
