Entertainment

Finally saw the movie Wall-E with my nephew. This is the latest movie from Pixar Studios and, despite my low expectations going into the movie, I was very surprised at how much I liked it. I definitely liked it better than Cars, though I am not sure if I liked it better than The Incredibles.

This weekend (in between reconfiguring my nephew's new computer ), I had a chance to view a special by CNN called "Black In America", a two part special that examined the lives of Black Americans from different perspectives since the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
(This is evidently will be available for download on iTunes as well).

(Note: Another good examination was done by the NYTimes several years back called How Race is Lived in America, a fifteen part written series that also examined the issue of race in America from different perspectives.)

OK, I'll admit that I am very late to the party on this one, but my generous coworker has (again) shown me the light and hooked me up with the TV show Scrubs. Let's just say that I stop watching it at work, because I was trying to hard to not laugh out loud. (so now I am watching it at home laughing out loud - currently meandering through Season 1).

Since I was a big fan of Alex Gibney's Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, I had a piqued interest in his later movie Taxi to the Dark Side. Very appropriately, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Needless to say, I'll be viewing this when it finally comes to my area (hopefully before it is released on DVD {which is rumored to be on 09/30/08 } ). Update (10/09/08): Have finally had the chance to view this searing documentary, I strongly recommend that people view it, especially Americans; whether they are conservative, liberal, Republican or Democrat is irrelevant. It is very disturbing and disquieting, to say the least, to see the American government condoning the same actions into law that we normally associate with other countries that are violators of human rights. An interesting footnote is a posthumous interview with Alex Gibney's dad, Frank, himself a former Navy interrogator during WWII, stating, among other things, how some of the laws that the Bush administration put into effect made him lose his faith in the American government.