I don’t even remember why I had “Leaving Las Vegas” on my list of movies to see. After watching it I might think of a few reasons though… Directed by: Mike Figgis Genres: Drama, Romance Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, Kim Adams, Emily Procter, Stuart Regen, Valeria Golino, Graham … Continue reading Leaving Las Vegas
I feel like I am becoming a celebrity. People started to recognize me on the street because of this website. Today I had the second incident in my life when someone knew who I was without me or anyone else telling. The guy just came up to me and said “Hi, Leonid. How’re you doing?”. … Continue reading Becoming a celebrity
I was reading up on the subject of kung fu. History of Shaolin monastery makes a good part of it. As does Beijing Opera which created lots of kung fu movie stars (Jackie Chan as an example). Yang Style Tai Chi Homepage Tagged as: art china chinese health kung-fu kungfu sport weapons Beijing Opera Tagged … Continue reading Daily del.icio.us bookmarks
Visual arts in general and photography in particular are the main themes for today’s set of links. By the way, these links are actually from August 19th. I haven’t bookmarked any links today and Delicious API was a bit malfunctioning during the last few days, so I could post my link dumps. I am going … Continue reading Daily del.icio.us bookmarks
If I remember correctly, I heard about “Catch-22” in connection with “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and that is one of my favourite movies, so I had to see “Catch-22” too. Directed by: Mike Nichols Genres: Comedy, War Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, … Continue reading Catch-22