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There's a Reddi Whip commercial with the Mona Lisa and today someone smeared whipped cream on the glass. Too amusing, life reflecting art or something? http://gogd.tjs-labs.com/show-picture.php?id=1294077865
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Page 3 of the Notorious L'Italien Report on Police Corruption in Medford, Massachusetts.
You taxpayers funded it, and your mayor sweeps the malfeasance under the rug
Happy Fxxxng Memorial Day from Breanna!
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Don't Let the Girlfriend Fool Ya, Tom Cruise is Back, and he's looking for a new wing man!
Maverick
The Sequel to Top Gun
An Evaluation by Joe Viglione
Tom Cruise, the film-making businessman, plays to his strengths in what is a quasi-Mission Impossible saga. This critic has no idea who the enemy is that has some nuclear something somewhere that now-teacher Maverick (Tom Cruise) has to train his children to blast into oblivion. Vladmir Putin and Osama Bin Laden are not blamed for this, and it could be an alien entity taking over Iraq for all we know: the plot doesn’t depend on a known enemy…how strange is that?
The original Top Gun was much too cutesy for me to ever sit through, and to this day I haven’t seen it beyond maybe ten minutes. Unlike the Firm or A Few Good Men, which I watch repeatedly (great scripts, great direction) there’s always some mis-step in Cruise’s acting that drives me bonkers, you know, the cringe factor. The good news? Maverick gets down to business so there are only a few blips of that (CF, cringe factor) in this, and that is probably due to Cruise’s maturity and how many films he’s actually appeared in…somewhere around 60 if you want to count all the credits on IMDB. Older and wiser, Tommy boy delivers a solid performance as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, indeed, Cruise’s aging works to his benefit.
Here’s the thing….what I took away from this film was how loud the fighter jets were and how old your great, great, great, great grandpa Ed Harris looks. If Harris’ appearance was a screentest for Grandpa Munster he wins, hands down. Chilling in that it tells the older members of the audience (raising my hand now) how mortal we all are. Jon Hamm looks every bit his 51 years in 2022 (but the film was probably made as far back as 2019, so he’d be 48 during the moviemaking)…and Hamm used to be a head-turner.
Where the hoopla over the original May 1986 release put images in your head even if you didn’t see the original Top Gun, which I sub-title Risky Business Goes to the Sky, this thirty-six year later sequel works best when the gang is intent on finding a solution to the problem of that nuclear arena some unknown entity is developing. Do we really need to see Tom Cruise in a mindless love relationship? It’s so pathetic and a distraction from a film’s true elements which are drawing massive crowds to opening Memorial Day weekend: the fighter jets and the drama.
Now sixty-three year old Val Kilmer looks like half-way to Ed Harris, and the good-looking young student men learning from Maverick might as well be a bunch of Ken and Barbie dolls, their performances and their presence are nondescript, probably to keep Mr. Cruise front and center. Maverick takes his students to volley-ball or something on the beach so they can get their shirts off, but Baywatch it is not. Tom Cruise, get a clue, after jumping on Oprah’s couch declaring your alleged love for one of your alleged wives, your romantic scenes in ALL your motion pictures have taken a hit. Shirt off in the water, the image you still project is that of a jumping jack on Oprah’s couch. Stick to the airplanes, please.
Seventy-two year old Ed Harris was so cool as Wayne Tarrance in The Firm a mere twenty-nine years ago, but as an old fossil in this, he’s there more for curiosity sake. The Mitch McDeere (Cruise) Wayne Torrance (Harris) mind-games were a key part of The Firm’s fun. At least they get to reunite here.
For all his work in film Cruise is “only” worth about $600 million dollars…this critic thought it would be a billion by now! Get the guy a good accountant. But fear not, Maverick is already breaking records and will bring in a new haul for this quirky, head-scratching anomaly of a movie icon.
The end result is that Maverick is a lot of entertainment with director Joseph Kosinski delivering exactly what movie-goers want in 2022.
Found on the web: Tom Cruise is reportedly earning $13 million upfront for the new 'Top Gun' sequel, but he could get tens of millions of dollars more in box office bonuses for meeting certain milestones
Rear Admiral: The end is inevitable, Maverick. Your kind is headed for extinction.
Maverick: Maybe so, sir. But not today.
He got that right when it comes to the box office. Pete "Maverick
IN MEDFORD, GAY PEOPLE ARE USED LIKE PROPS; ZAC BEARS AND HIS BULL HORN YELLING AT N.E. BAPTIST CHURCH WAS AN AFFRONT TO EVERY SELF-RESPECTING HOMOSEXUAL
NEIL OSBORNE'S RECORD ON GAY RIGHTS IS A DAMN DISGRACE
NO HUMAN RIGHTS IN MEDFORD
DIVERSITY DIRECTOR NEIL OSBORNE USES GAY PEOPLE AS A PROP; DIANE MCLEOD, HIS PREDECESSOR, THREW GAYS TO THE WOLVES Medford Gay Pride is an Oxymoron! Gay Pride in Medford? What's There to Be Proud of In a Homophobic City Where the TV Station Made Gay Slurs and City Hall did NOTHING ABOUT IT Ugly treatment of the homosexual community by Medford Police Department, the now defunct TV3 and City Hall itself beyond SHAMEFUL - an editorial coming soon... https://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2022/05/gay-pride-in-medford-whats-there-to-be.html
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For Immediate Release – May 27, 2022
Contact: Jackie Piques, Director of Communications (jpiques@medford-ma.gov), 781-888-4534
Medford to Celebrate PRIDE with Events Throughout June
PRIDE Month in Medford kicks off June 2nd with flag raising at City Hall.
Month-long events series to include “Dinner, Drinks, & Drag,” an outdoor dance/skate/mingle party, youth story time and teen Zine workshop, PRIDE celebration & more.
MEDFORD – Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director Frances Nwajei, and the Medford PRIDE Planning Committee are proud to announce a month-long series of events in celebration of PRIDE Month. For the first time, the City of Medford is planning to celebrate PRIDE with a combination of events, workshops, interfaith gatherings, and more. PRIDE Month in Medford will kick off with a flag raising event outside of City Hall on June 2nd and culminate with a PRIDE celebration at Andrews Field on June 26th.
In early 2022 Mayor Lungo-Koehn convened a PRIDE Planning Committee, led by Nwajei, to help plan for the City’s celebrations. Six committee members along with numerous volunteers and City staff have worked to plan a series of events across multiple platforms and media to allow Medford community members of all ages and interests to participate. The celebrations will include:
A full, updated list of events will be available at www.medfordma.org/city-events.
“We have an incredible and well-rounded series of events planned for the month of June, with even more to be announced soon. I am so thankful to Frances Nwajei and the entire PRIDE Planning Committee who have worked tirelessly to design a new logo and materials, partner with community organizations and businesses, and launch Medford’s first ever PRIDE Festival,” said Mayor Lungo-Koehn.
Medford city services are available to all residents, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, language ability, economic situation, or immigration status.
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Jackie Piques
Director of Communications
City of Medford
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn
781-393-2529
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