Street Hawk

Advantages: Partially entertaining
Disadvantages: a bit far fetched and sometimes dull

...Creators: Bruce Lansbury, Paul M. Belous and Robert Wolterstoff. Directors: (Various including) Birgil W. Vogel, Richard Compton, Daniel Haller and Joel Zwick. Producers: (Various including) Burton Armus, Paul M. Belous, Robert Wolterstorff and Medora Heilbron. Writers: (Various including) Hannah Louise Sheare, Burton Armus, Deborah Dean Davis and Robert Wolterstorff. Stars: Rex Smith, Joe Regalbuto, Richard Venture and Jeannie Wilson Released in January 1985 this short lived series lasted only until May of the same year? creating 13 quite good 50 minute episodes about a rather special motorbike. ** BRIEF IDEA ** When ex-police officer Jesse Mach, (played by Rex Smith) is chosen by federal agent Norman Tuttle, (played by Joe Regalbuto), to trial "Street Hawk", a top secret creation of a futuristic and very powerful...

blissman70 08.11.2008 · Read review
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Black Hawk Down

Advantages: Excellent Film
Disadvantages: Not many

...Recently there was an article which really sparked my emotions, both sadness and anger, surprisingly it was in The Sun (the most professional and reliable of the daily papers) the article was on the sate of Somalia and the history of the wars going on in the country. Quoted in the article was a film called Black Hawk Down, which I had heard of but never, had the opportunity to watch and had no clue about, later on when in discussion on the article, somebody brought the film up and highly recommended it. Buying the Film I bought the film in Blockbuster when I was returning a rental; it cost £4 which I thought was highly reasonable for a DVD, especially one which was recommended and according to the front of the DVD won two Oscars, and looked to carry an exciting cast set. Director The film is directed by a man called Ridley...

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A Feast of Stephen

Advantages: Funny, honest, humane, readable
Disadvantages: Occasional lapses of judgement

...One suspension from school, two expulsions, underage sex, a suicide attempt, arrest and imprisonment. A proud CV for your average ASBO. A more surprising series of events for a bright public schoolboy in the 1970s. But those are the key moments of Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's seductively readable chronicle of his first 20 years. Or, more precisely, the 12 years between leaving for preparatory school at the age of eight, and his departure to another prep school, this time as a junior master. Like many others, I admire Stephen Fry. My favourite comedy has always been that which delights in the richness and absurdity of the English language. And that is where Fry excels. I first noticed his talent in his short radio essays back in the 1980s, for which he adopted the guise of stuffy academic Donald Trefusis. I've since...

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Jokes + Guitars = Stephen Lynch

Advantages: A different take on comedy, great social commentary
Disadvantages: Some tracks can be a little basic or short

...Stephen Lynch is an American stand-up comedian and musician from Pennsylvania and he specialises is jokey songs mocking everyday life and plying on social stereotypes and clichés. He has four albums out, two studio relases and the other two are live performances. He also has his own Comedy Central specials and starred as the lead character in the Broadway adaptation of 'The Wedding Singer,' a performance which he recieved an award nomination for. Stephen moved to New York to pursue his career and from starting in comedy clubs, he is now well known in the US, a regular on TV and radio and is expanding his global fanbase rapidly. When I first heard his music I thought it was a bit cheesy and camp, but I have now come to realise that this is part of its appeal. I had been shown him by a couple of people (one of whom is a ciao member...

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Hawks is Back! (not Chesney)

Advantages: Good Game Play
Disadvantages: Novilty wearing off

...Tony Hawks Proving Ground for the Wii.... Having only recently bought a Wii console I was a bit unsure as to what games to get that would have the best game play. Initially with the console I got more sport like games but because I purchased several of sport type games I was soon a little fed up and that took me to my local Game store where I swapped Mario Olympics for Tony Hawks Proving Ground (and Call of Duty). The game was priced at £29.99pencebut luckily enough was on a boy one get one free offer so with the swap of my Mario game I only had to pay an additional £10 to get Tony Hawks and Call of Duty. I thought this a great deal. The age rating on this game is a 12 so there is not really much blood and gore thankfully as it is only a skateboarding game! Now I have played many Tony Hawks games right from the first one...

newby2 17.09.2008 · Read review
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Hawks Hatchet Job

Advantages: Reasonably amusing
Disadvantages: Predictable, unlikely

...Anyone who has read "Round Ireland with a Fridge" in which Tony Hawks gives an account of how he dragged a small refrigerator around the coast of Ireland to win a bet, will be forgiven for assuming that hawks has now moved further afield to heave a Steinway through the mountains between France and Spain. For once, this is a Tony Hawks book that has not come about because of a crazy bet; in the best he has taken on bets to demonstrate his tennis skills (in "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis") and has traveled the world in the hope of having another hit single (in "One Hit Wonderland" he tried to add to his tally of one hit single, the first being the unmemorable "Stutter Rap" by Morris Minor and the Majors), as well as dragging a white appliance along the coastal byways of Eire. " A Piano in the Pyrenees" sees our hero by a small...

fizzytom 10.01.2007 · Read review
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Time is of the essence

Advantages: Well written, interesting, accessible
Disadvantages: None

...The mark of a true educator, which Stephen Hawking certainly is, is that he would take time (very valuable time, in his case) away from research and contemplation of the great mysteries of the universe to write a piece that would serve to help explain to the greater number of less-scientifically-adept persons the fruits and implications of modern scientific research from the cutting edge of physics. Hawking is ranked in popular and scientific thinking on a par with Einstein, and has motor neuron disability that severely restricts his ability to move, even to type or write, so, when he takes time to write something for general consumption, it is probably going to be worthwhile. And indeed, this is. 'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In...

frkurt 19.01.2003 (08.02.2004) · Read review
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Review of A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

It's Science Jim, But Not As We Know It!

Advantages: surprisingly entertaining, satisfyingly informative
Disadvantages: none

...Have you ever wondered why stars are different colours, if time travel will ever be possible, or what would happen if you were sucked in to a black hole? Written by one of the most brain-worthy members of our species, Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, A Briefer History Of Time aims to help you to answer these questions. And, rather than the notions of boring equations and long drawn out explanations of quantum physics that I expected, this book was surprisingly entertaining, interesting and easy to understand. Penned in collaboration with physicist Leonard Mlodinow, who has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and has obviously mastered the art of marketing science to the masses, A Briefer History of Time is an adaptation of Hawking's best-selling A Brief History of Time, which was...

VC81 07.04.2006 · Read review
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Complicated Science for Dummies.

Advantages: Hard stuff made easy. Hawking's clear writing
Disadvantages: Still not totally clear for the layman.

...or equations of chemistry). I'd heard about A Brief History of Time ages ago from the friend of an ex-girlfriend of mine, and I really thought it was something that I should have a look at, given my interest in the subject. One day, a few years ago, when I was feeling flush, I bought it on a semi-impulse buy and thoroughly enjoyed it. By now there can't be too many people who are unaware of Professor Stephen Hawking. He's appeared on notable television programmes such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "The Simpsons" (a fantastic episode with some of the funniest Simpsons lines ever - especially the bit where Homer adopts a "robot" voice to try to get Prof. Hawking to pick up the bar tab). You know the guy - he?s widely regarding as one of the foremost minds of our time, and many people rank him alongside Einstein, Newton and other...

TheDuke 19.03.2003 · Read review
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Ash Wednesday - Ethan Hawke

Advantages: Almost a good book
Disadvantages: Shallow narrative and two dimensional characters

...Ash Wednesday - Ethan Hawke I bought this on whim when I was recently stocking up on books for my daily commute. I had no idea that Ethan Hawke was now writing books but was swayed by the cover art and blurb and was intrigued to see the kind of work he was putting out. Pretty thin reasons for buying a book but there you go. Here's what I thought. As an actor Hawke has been around for many years now, first coming to prominence in the saccharine Robin Williams blub fest that was Dead Poet's Society. Since that time he has appeared in many Hollywood films of varying quality but has managed to build himself a solid reputation as a semi-serious thesp. As an author he published his first novel, 'The Hottest State', in the late nineties and followed it several years later with 'Ash Wednesday'. 'The Hottest State' is a tale...

brereton66 25.10.2006 · Read review
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