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Toronto, 2002.12.20

So tonight I happened to catch part of a panel doing a summary of the year's movies on TV. To my amazement, the hostess expressed some discomfort with the choice of the movie title "The Two Towers" given 'this post-911 environment'. I have to assume that she's aware that the movie is named for the book, which is now 50 years old?

rand()m quote

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.

—-"Raymond Shaw", The Manchurian Candidate