JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

#nfl: you are on to something…there is a zeitgeist in the air that only the #SuperBowl can blow away.

“We do the best we can” (famous #HarvardLawSchoolProfessor {Kaplan?}) taken to the bold Gates and Bloomberg message “Do the best with a hard hand” means we have a shot. Peace, hope and love.

Rollerball (1975) A Film by Norman Jewison, Screenplay by William Harrison

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, 2014

“We Shall Overcome” 

The awful reality is what I overheard Jimmy Caan repeat so I could barely hear it one day: “Destroy…destroy…destroy”. Jimmy was such a great protagonist as Jonathan E for Houston Energy that I was always rooting for him, but in the end, in 2014, the movie is essentially “Pro-League”. Part of the myth that held the Rollerball League together was that we could all “dream” to be Jonathan E, but in Corporate eyes, if not the fans’, he was an ideal, not a person. Jonathan disagreed. He was a person, with feelings (Corporate Executives took his wife away).

For Jonathan, it was about keeping fans hopeful and thirsting for more—and getting paid for it. That’s what he thought, until the owners try to force him out…he’s too good, “They’re scared of you Jonathan, all the way to the top they are.” [Cleon Jones’ character]. For the owners (maybe I’m less hypnotized by the women in the film than I was almost four decades ago and can see it now), it’s about going on after the League’s pseudo-destruction in the Final. After all, at the end of the film, Jonathan E is still growling destruction, and there is a New York player injured, but still on the track next to his a motorcycle (Alec Baldwin?). Without a new League, poor Jonathan E will have nowhere else to go.

Note: 49er Head Coach Jim Harbaugh echoed the words of Jimmy Caan last night in the post-game show on Fox. Perhaps for his downed player NaVorro Bowman, perhaps to show solidarity with the NFL Owners regarding the “review” rule which may have cost the Niners the game and Bowman hero-status, Harbaugh said, “We are destroyed but not defeated.*”

*Paraphrased from the second hand account given to me by my wife Lucia

The NFL Superbowl is in New York this year, as was the Final game in Rollerball.

Rollerball (1975) A Film by Norman Jewison, Screenplay by William Harrison

The awful reality is what I overheard Jimmy Caan repeat so I could barely hear it one day: “Destroy…destroy…destroy”. Jimmy was such a great protagonist as Jonathan E for Houston Energy that I was always rooting for him, but in the end, in 2014, the movie is essentially “Pro-League”. Part of the myth that held the Rollerball League together was that we could all “dream” to be Jonathan E, but in Corporate eyes, if not the fans’, he was an ideal, not a person. Jonathan disagreed. He was a person, with feelings (Corporate Executives took his wife away).

For Jonathan, it was about keeping fans hopeful and thirsting for more—and getting paid for it. That’s what he thought, until the owners try to force him out…he’s too good, “They’re scared of you Jonathan, all the way to the top they are.” [Cleon Jones’ character]. For the owners (maybe I’m less hypnotized by the women in the film than I was almost four decades ago and can see it now), it’s about going on after the League’s pseudo-destruction in the Final. After all, at the end of the film, Jonathan E is still growling destruction, and there is a New York player injured, but still on the track next to his a motorcycle (Alec Baldwin?). Without a new League, poor Jonathan E will have nowhere else to go.

Note: 49er Head Coach Jim Harbaugh echoed the words of Jimmy Caan last night in the post-game show on Fox. Perhaps for his downed player NaVorro Bowman, perhaps to show solidarity with the NFL Owners regarding the “review” rule which may have cost the Niners the game and Bowman hero-status, Harbaugh said, “We are destroyed but not defeated.*”

*Paraphrased from the second hand account given to me by my wife Lucia

The NFL Superbowl is in New York this year, as was the Final game in Rollerball.

BOWMAN WILL NOT BE FORGOTTON—Get well brother: 49er Faithful to the end. Your coach was right, #NinerNation will rise with terrible retribution. Crabtree pressed the wrong face out of frustration: the refs and NFL execs. may as well have robbed us on the train at gunpoint. Refs were scared of the stadium and the crowds. Can you blame them. Forgive and forget—until next season. Don’t think I can root for the #Seahawks against Denver. John Elway: All American.

Blue Jasmine (Woody Alan back in NOR.CAL #Ninernation (WeLikeJets) and Cate Blanchett

12 YEARS A SLAVE: (The suffering woman abused and oppressed: the Story that Must Be Told, like The Color Purple).

Blue Jasmine (Woody Alan back in NOR.CAL #Ninernation (WeLikeJets)

12 YEARS A SLAVE: (The suffering woman abused and oppressed: the Story that Must Be Told, like The Color Purple).

American Stories In Cinema 2013 {2014 #SAG/AFTRAWARDS}

NEBRASKA (“How would you like a hat?” (hands him a cheap cap)

THE BUTLER (Son was right, don’t have to be butlers anymore if you don’t want)

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (“KEEP ON LIVING”) MM

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

BREAKING BAD (WE ARE NOT WHITE NAZIS)

CANDELABRA (“It takes two”)

AMERICAN HUSTLE (“RESILIENCY”)

#RITAMORENO (Star)

#Donald Trump (the guy that emphasized the producer of American Hustle term “RESILIENCY”)

#CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Long Haul Drivers and Pirates/Risk)

Re: Thomas L. Friedman’s The World Is Flat (2005)

Haven’t read the book yet, although I did read an exhaustive book review and saw the promotional interview with Charlie Rose on the show of the same name.

After nine years, the world is no longer “flat” (again), it’s multi-national and global (again).

Many voices are being nudged out of #SocialMedia sites by promoted corporate interests fueled by rising stock prices and settling social media regulations.

“Homeless” are beaten to death, and foreign elites emigrated for those “top of the world” situations, for which the nudged do not “qualify.” [Anyway, they complain too much].

“Freedom of Speech” embodied in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution is not “free speech”, especially when the “platforms” facilitating the “speech” are restricted and closed to targeted “classes”. Once one becomes a lawyer for instance, speech is especially restricted, regulated, compartmentalized, categorized, billed, filed upon and yet ironically, rarely advertised.