Self-Defense Training Videos

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My friend Heather is understandably pround of her work with Girls Kick Nuts Girls Fight Back, a personal safety/self-defense education group for women/girls.  She's also understandably proud of her all-too-brief appearance in the GFB promo video. Self-defense training is important.  And it should only be taught by people who know what they're talking about. The GFB girls seem to know … Read More

Fatal Attraction: The Original Ending

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Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) doesn't try to kill Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas).  No bathtub scene.  In the original version, she exacts her revenge in a different way. Test audiences hated the original ending (shown below), so the cast was called back together to reshoot the ending as we now know it. But here's how it originally went.  If you're a … Read More

Downfall Redux

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One of my favorite internet memes is to take the bunker scene from the film Downfall (a German movie about the last days of Hitler, which was nominated in 2005 for the Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film) and add "better" subtitles.  It's that simple, but the results are often laugh-out-loud funny. Here is one entitled "Real Estate Downfall": In this one, Hitler reacts … Read More