Gale and I went to see "Public Enemies" at the Regal at Crocker last night. They didn't wait for Harry Potter, as the price is now $10.00 per ticket for an evening show. That's the highest I've paid locally. And the trailers included one for "The Informant", the Soderbergh movie coming out in October. Excellent book, BTW.

"Public Enemies" had Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard (Edith Piaf) in the starring roles. I liked it. It was a nice study of how J. Edgar Hoover (played by Billy Crudup) had to get as much publicity as he could for the FBI back then, because they were not exactly capturing a lot of criminals. Therefore, a capture or killing of Dillinger (Public Enemy No. 1) was their main priority.

Christian Bale played Melvin Purvis, the main in charge of the Chicago office and the primary hunter of Dillinger. It showed how some of the techniques in tracking criminals were in their infancy. And it noted how Dillinger was making it tough on the other criminals in Chicago by constantly grabbing headlines and bringing attention to them, making it tough to conduct business.

Johnny Depp was terrific as Dillinger. Good, but not great, movie. One criticism was pieces of dialogue seemed to be overridden by music or some other noises in general. I lost track probably about 5 or 6 times. Quite annoying.

Meal of Links

Here are your 4th of July TV Marathons. TV Land has "Andy Griffith" and SciFi has "The Twilight Zone" (again).

Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. I now have a headache.

7 Hollywood Hoaxes. The movie, "Hoax", with Richard Gere wasn't that bad. Wasn't it "Capricorn One" that faked the moon landing?

Exercise Yard

I loved this one-act play about the Indians. Jhonny Peralta playing Jhonny Peralta made me laugh quite a bit.

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