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What's The Point?

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This is a fabulous animated film. The story teaches our children good lessons about peaceful existence, individuality, and self-worth.

Once upon a time, a long way from here, there was a tiny village where everything, the houses, and the carts, the bridges and the barns, everything, all had points on them.

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3146171161?ref_=vp_rv_ap_0

Reading Bans

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It is time to push back against spineless mental midgets without a moral compass who are banning books considered literary classics.

What It Means to Be a Writer: John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About Slicing Through Humanity’s Confusion. 1962.

SIN TU VISION

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Without the late Andrew Jerrold Perenchio's amazing vision, there may never be the Spanish-language Television Network Univision.

We are all sinners whether we acknowledge this in public or not. Years ago one man's SIN revolutionized American entertainment.

In religion, sin is a transgression against divine law. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally considered actions, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful, or alienating might be sinful.

CSNY Carry Spot On

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David Crosby, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young carry on and decide to remove their marvelous music 🎶  From Spotify. 

See Streaming TV

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Following a long global pandemic, streaming services are beginning to tank as investors question their growth development prospects.

Their shares continued to slide and are tumbling by double digits after streaming video services see a slowdown in subscriber growth.

Before all streaming services were readily available, some Americans tried to be home in time so they could be prepared for must see TV when it actually aired.

RIP Sidney Poitier

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Sir Sidney L. Poitier KBE was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and the first black actor to win an Oscar.

Of all the great scenes in all the great films he starred in, this scene from the 1967 classic, “In The Heat of the Night,” is the greatest- and the BLACKEST- in Hollywood history. https://twitter.com/MichaelCoard/status/1479491337166667788?s=20

Don't Look Up

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On the heels of a #NASA quietly stellar year, from the James Webb Space Telescope to the Perseverance rover comes this comedy.

My wife and I watched Netflix's Don't Look Up, from writer/director Adam McKay, of Network fame, which features a star-studded cast playing out a satire about the end of the world.

Remembering Betty White

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Betty White, star of classic sitcoms, a perennial presence on TV, and a golden girl died Friday, December 31 at the young age of 99.

CBS News Correspondent Mo Rocca looks back on the life of the Emmy-winner, and talks with "Mary Tyler Moore Show" creator James L. Brooks, and White's costar on "Hot in Cleveland," Wendie Malick.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/remembering-betty-white/