Saturday, my wife and I visited our local dollar theater to watch a movie called 'August Rush'. I had seen this move advertised many months ago, but I wasn't sure at the time if I wanted to see it or not. However, today with few discount movies available we chose August Rush and we were both happy with that selection. Young actor Freddie Highmore did a wonderful job playing a young man that was blessed with a God given talent for music. From birth, Highmore's character, August Rush was able to hear the beauty of music in every day life in a way no one else around him could interpret.
The August Rush character was conceived in a one night stand by a young musically inclined couple played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russel. After an accident before Rush's birth, his mother was told by her father that the child had been killed. Eleven years later, this big lie starts to unravel as August Rush's grandfather nears death and tells his daughter that her son did not die, but was put up for adoption instead. Most of this movie involves showing the power of music and how music can bring people back together that have been separated for years. 'August Rush' is a 100% fairy tale that was fun to watch. Everyone that has ever had a favorite song that they just can't get out of their head will find this movie very enjoyable.
The name August Rush was given to Freddie Highmore's character, Evan Taylor, by a life long street singer/panhandler played by Robin Williams. Soon after Evan Taylor ran away from a boys town facility to search for his real parents, he ran into Robin Williams character, Wizard, living on the streets of New York City. Almost immediately, Wizard saw the tremendous musical talent inside of Evan Taylor and for the rest of this movie the Wizard tried to keep Taylor from finding his parents, who by that time were actively searching for him along with a child welfare worked played by Richard Jeffries. Just like in any movie fairytale, 'August Rush' has a happy ending which reunited both parents and young Evan Taylor. On several occasion I found myself wiping back tears in this movie. Even though this lost and then found story has been told in different ways over the years in a variety of movies, 'August Rush' was well worth the price of admission.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
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Rudy Giuliani Bets All On State Of Florida
Early on in Campaign 2008, Rudy Giuliani made the tactical decision to focus all of his energy and money on large Republican states. That strategy put him at a big disadvantage in states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina since those contests occurred before the first big state Florida held a primary. Because Rudy Giuliani bet the farm on only large and delegate rich states he current has fallen out of the news coverage. It is too early to know if Rudy Giuliani's decision to only campaign in large delegate rich states will prove brilliant or dumb, but we won't have long to wait too long before know for sure.
In many ways, the Rudy Giuliani strategy to campaign only in large delegate rich states is smart. While smaller states are currently in the news, they will matter little once Super Tuesday rolls around. If you do the math, Giuliani wins in Florida, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California and New York would propel him to victory in the GOP. The only downside to this kind of strategy is that the larger states always vote last and valuable momentum is lost to the candidates that seem to be winning it all in the first few primaries. The sad fact is that the mainstream media and most Americans are so short sighted that they only follow daily trends without looking at the big picture in presidential campaigns.
The biggest advantage Rudy Giuliani has right now is that no clear front runner has emerged in the first few primaries, so his big state strategy could still be effective. If one of the other GOP candidates had already won two states and was on the road to win two more today, then Rudy Giuliani might have been toast. However in 2008, Republicans find themselves divided on whom they want to represent them in the November election. That division has kept Rudy Giuliani's hopes alive that once the campaign gets to Florida he will earn more delegates in that one state alone than all the other candidates current have, combined. Since the mainstream media follows the current trend of the day, they will quickly move on to the Rudy Giuliani bandwagon and act like they knew all along that his big state strategy would work. All Rudy Giuliani has to do now is win big in Florida.
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