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Michael Rosenbaum Talks Smallville — A JewReview.net Exclusive - Slice of Scifi

Michael Rosenbaum, Lex Luthor on Smallville, gave an interview that reveals that next year’s seventh season will be his final season, and probably the final season for the show. He also gives a vague tease for the rest of this season, and the seventh:

This year is a big year, but next year is going to be the biggest year of all; it’s the final year and everyone’s going to see what Lex Luther is really capable of. All hell’s going to break loose!

Click the link above for more of the interview.

I think the timing is right for the show to end. They’ve been building the Clark/Lex story to a crescendo lately, and it’s time to finally let it loose. Plus, Clark is getting to the point where it seems like he’s on his final excuses to not take up his destiny and finally become the “Man of Steel” we all know and love. I’m sure they could keep coming up with excuses to keep him rooted in Smallville, and denying his calling, but I think anything else they come up with after he cleans up the “Zoners” and deals with the Lex/Lana thing would just seem lame and tacked on. (Of course, there are people who would say they’ve already passed that point.) I think the current storyline they’ve got going is a strong one, though, and when they finish playing it out I think I’ll be happy with the result.

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Dustin Hoffman plays a down-on-his-luck anti-hero who reluctantly saves 54 people from a plane crash, including a news reporter (Geena Davis) whose purse he steals in the process of saving her, before disappearing into the night.

John Bubber (Andy Garcia) is the homeless guy who gives Bernie LaPlant (Hoffman) a ride back into the city and becomes the only person to learn the true story of the crash and Bernie’s role. When a million dollars is offered for an interview with the mysterious “Angel of Flight 104″, Bubber steps forward and takes Bernie’s place in the spotlight (and the money). The media turns him into a national celebrity and heroic inspiration to all, while Bernie is forced, through various circumstances, to watch the growth of the pretender’s legacy.

Hero is one of the best movies that no-one seems to have heard of. It’s a well mixed dramatic comedy, with superb acting and a great script. It’s a simple story, really, about flawed humans: characters who can be heroic in one instance and deceptive the next. Plus it’s simply entertaining.

If it didn’t have such a prevalence of unsavory language from the main character, I’d recommend it unreservedly as an uplifting tale about the heroes in all of us.

I also love the poster - it does such a great job of conveying the media view displayed in the movie, and introducing the triumvirate of main characters. And the tag line sums up the movie perfectly:

We’re all heroes if you catch us at the right moment.

To those who can deal with the language, I highly recommend it.

Four and a half stars.

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Some of you know about the other site I had up, caddickscabin.com, that housed all my family pictures and some other stuff that less than nobody ever looked at. Well, the domain came up for renewal, and I just couldn’t justify keeping it, so it’s gone.

Instead, I moved the content over to cabin.caddicks.com, at least temporarily, until I can sort through it and figure out what’s worth keeping. Don’t get too excited… if you go there now all you’ll see is the former home page and one active link. The other two links are dead, including the link to the gallery.

The gallery is the first thing I’m planning on evaluating, and I think instead of migrating it en masse, I’m going to pick and choose from the hundreds of pictures and try them in some new gallery software: Coppermine.

So if virtually nothing is working, why bother posting about it? On the off-chance that someone looking for the gallery knows about this blog, at least they will know the pictures aren’t gone.

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