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Movie and lots of them

Feb 2, I have seeing a lot of movies of late. I know that some of you are real busy. But then being a bit sadistic once a while is quite a pleasure. I have seen three bond movies since my eulogy of Mr Bond. I saw Golden eye, Moonraker and "The spy who loved me". The last two were very big disappointments and my passion for the bond movies have come down by a few notches. Before these ones I had only seen the Brosnan starrers and read the Ian fleming books. The movies don't capture the essence of the character as I see it. Then I saw "Philadelphia". The most amazing part of the movie is the cross examination of tom hanks where he expresses his passion for law. I quote from his dialogues "every now and again not often but occasionally you get to be a part of justice being done that really is quite a thrill when that happens." Then I saw another movie which fell from the high pedestal I had placed it on. Quoting something interesting from ...

Nat Geo Special

Hi Guys, Jan 31, If you fall on the ground and soil yourself what will you do? Chances are that you will look for water. Now imagine surrounded by water all around and you get dirty. Some deep sea creature do something really interesting in such cases. In fact the green turtles use the rocks on the sea bed to take a bath and remove the dirt and barnacles from their shell. And some like the Peacock flounders take a dip in the sea bed sand. Ergots and the buffalos are the not the only ones to have a symbiotic clean up relationship. Under sea there guys like the Hump heads and the Cleaner Ras taking the famous ergot buffalo role. So many times have i heard of the story of the small fishes coming together to take on the larger ones. Actually its all based on facts. You have certain characters which in groups can be a danger even to the big ones like the shark. Some like the barracudas move in groups of thousands and hunt. There are other interesting characters like the sweet l...