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Play like a pro with expert knowledge from a champion of the game
If you don't know the ins and outs of play, bridge can seem like an
intimidating game--but it doesn't have to be! Armed with the techniques
and strategies in the pages of this book, you'll be bidding and winning
hands like a boss! A good book for beginners, it has lots of advanced
techniques useful to experienced players, too. This is as close to
an all-in-one bridge book you can get.
About the Author
H. Anthony Medley holds the rank of Silver life Master, is an American
Contract Bridge League Club Director, and has won regional and sectional
titles. An attorney, he received his B.S. from UCLA, where he was sports
editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, and his J.D. from the University of
Virginia School of Law. He is the author of UCLA Basketball: The Real
Story and Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed and The
Complete Idiots Guide to Bridge. He was a columnist for the Southern
California Bridge News. He is an MPAA-certified film critic and his work
has appeared nationally in Good Housekeeping, The Los Angeles Times, Los
Angeles Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Click
the book to order.
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Charlie’s Angels (2/10)
by Tony Medley
120 minutes.
R.
I guess women want to prove they can do anything a
man can do, including making totally idiotic “action” films that have no
relationship with real life.
Director Elizabeth Banks has done it in spades with this movie, which is
just an unfortunate extension of the chick flick genre.
It’s
got all the stuff men put in their silly action movies, ridiculous car
chases, fights with one killing blow after another with the combatants
always jumping up for more virtually unscathed, banal dialogue that is
intended to be clever, scenes that make no sense whatsoever, falls that
defy reason, papier-mâché
characters, etc., etc., etc. OK, ladies, you can make action movies as
stupid as the men! At least Farah Fawcett’s
Charlie’s Angels
had
world class gorgeous women like Farah to make up for the weak scripts
(and, as I recall, even Farah flew the coop after one season).
Star
Kristen Stewart is a talented actress who has done some exceptional
work, i.e.
Adventureland
(2009)
and
Clouds of Sils
Maria
(2015), forget those trivial vampire things she was in. She is coming
out soon in the titular role in
Seberg,
a film I am eagerly anticipating. She doesn’t need to do junk like this.
I hope she uses more discretion in picking her roles in the future.
In
short, this film, which has the same “plot” as all the others of its
genre, is devoid of tension, pace, drama, humor, intelligence, beauty,
and reason.
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