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LAW&ORDER vs HANNIBAL LECTER We got to watch “Fracture” last Sunday. It’s a good movie. (Well, anything is better than watching Spider-Man 3 all over again.) Basic plot: Man discovers wife his cheating on him. Man kills wife. Man surrenders to police. Man manages to outwit the police and the lawyer. Man is played by Anthony Hopkins . The man he plays is Ted Crawford, a structural engineer who’s specialized in finding the faults and fractures of airplanes that crashed. As it turns out, his obsession in finding the weaknesses in objects can easily be extended to people. It’s a whodunit with a twist (because you already know he did it). So, maybe the right term for this movie is that it’s a howdunit. Once explained at the end of the movie, it all makes sense and makes for a good pay-off. And yet, through out the movie, this little voice at the back of my head (who strangely enough, sounded like Grissom) kept asking: why didn’t they find the original blood trail? Why didn’t they check...

I got tagged by Carl : “Each player of this game starts with 6 weird things about himself or herself. People who get tagged need to write a blog entry of their own as well as state the rule clearly. In the end, you need to tag 6 people as well and list their names. Don’t forget to let them know they’ve been tagged!” SIX WEIRD THINGS ABOUT ME: 1 When I was a kid, I used to watch “Jennifer Slept Here” on RPN9. It was about a teen-age boy who suddenly discovers his house is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful blonde actress. I liked it so much, I pretended to have an invisible ghost friend—which lasted a total of one school day, because my classmates started to think I was a freak. 2 When I was a kid, I also used to watch “Hardy Boys” and “Karl Kolchak: The Night Stalker”. One day, I was reading a book about horoscopes and under “possible occupation” for Scorpios were detective or occult investigator. So, I was determined to become one or the other. Then I found out that detectives don’t ...

Your Last Full Show Over Sunday lunch, my mom was talking about getting a senior citizen’s card so she can watch movies for free. She then told me about how she once got to talk to a security guard of a mall where an old man was found dead in the mall’s movie theater. She said that after the body was found, the security people let the audience leave first before switching on the lights and brought out the body through the back of the mall. And it turns out, this has happened more than once. (Which makes me wonder what’s in that mall that causes senior citizens to come in… and never come out . Hmmm… seems like a case for Trese. And for some reason, I am suddenly reminded of that scene in “Solyent Green” , where this dying old man was wheeled into a room full of movie screens and was shown beautiful sceneries like sunsets at the beach and then they were put to sleep and they were turned to the food Solyent Green.) As my mom finished her lunch, she casually mentioned that she wouldn’t m...