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		<title>The Iron Lady Goes Haywire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Meryl Streep and Gina Carano might have more in common than meets the eye.  One is an acting legend taking on her umpteenth role in Phyllida Lloyd&#8217;s Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady.  The other is a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) star who many are saying has no business acting as the lead in her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5533&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Box of Kittens for Kirsten Dunst and Michael Fassbender</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/24/a-box-of-kittens-for-kirsten-dunst-and-michael-fassbender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s The Schleicher Spin&#8217;s annual &#8220;Box of Kittens&#8221; consolation prize to those snubbed by the Academy.  A lot of kitties in boxes will be going out this year. My dear Kirsten, you tried to pull a Natalie Portman, but l&#8217;Academie snubbed you.  Michael Fassbender, you starred in every film under the sun (hey, it worked for Jessica Chastain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5556&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union Drinking Game V. 2012</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/23/state-of-the-union-drinking-game-v-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  If I were President Obama, I wouldn&#8217;t want to get on national television on Tuesday night.  The more the media focuses on the current Republican Presidential Primaries, the better he looks.  He&#8217;s best out of the spotlight right now, but it is his duty&#8230;and tradition&#8230;so the show must go on at 9pm EST Tuesday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5527&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memories, Incidents and The Cat&#8217;s Table of Tall Tales</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/19/memories-incidents-and-the-cats-table-of-tall-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite piece of short fiction to appear in The New Yorker last year was hands-down Michael Ondaatje&#8217;s The Cat&#8217;s Table - a poignant and evocative piece about an eleven year-old Sri Lankan boy&#8217;s coming of age on the high seas while sailing on a rowdy cruise ship (The Oronsay) to boarding school in England.  I was overjoyed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5513&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Soundtracks of Our Lives</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/17/the-soundtracks-of-our-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[When the Pawn...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People don&#8217;t listen to music the same way they used to.  Everything is downloadable.  We pick our favorites on a song-by-song basis and almost gone now is the extended play and enjoyment of a full album/cd.  Even I fall victim to this with iTunes and my iPad.  But I&#8217;ll still listen to CD&#8217;s in my car [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5501&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 6th Annual Davies Awards in Film</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/04/the-6th-annual-davies-awards-in-film/</link>
		<comments>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/04/the-6th-annual-davies-awards-in-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Look Back at 2011: Box office receipts were down in 2011 &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean it wasn&#8217;t still a very solid year for cineastes.  A sluggish economy; the ascendance of launching specialty films through VOD; and an unseemly glut of similarly minded, awkwardly titled sequels, prequels, threequels, reboots, preboots, 3D flicks, animated tales and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5451&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to This!</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/02/listen-to-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A silent film star of romantic adventures named George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) refuses to ride the wave of the future at the onset of talkies and instead watches his career and marriage disintegrate while an ingenue he helped land her first role named Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) becomes the toast of Hollywood. Michael Hazanavicius&#8217; The Artist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5471&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready for&#8230;DUN DUN DUN&#8230;2012?</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2012/01/01/are-you-ready-for-dun-dun-dun-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year from The Schleicher Spin!  We&#8217;ve finally reached the year named after my favorite comedy of all-time (yes, I&#8217;m talking about Roland Emmerich&#8217;s 2012 - have I not told you already how much I love this film?) and I couldn&#8217;t be more stoked!  We have so much to look forward to this year:  Christopher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5440&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2011/12/31/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the height of the Cold War, a botched extraction in Budapest forces the head of British Intelligence (John Hurt as Code Name: Control) to resign, and &#8220;The Circus&#8221; goes through a house cleaning.  Not content with a forced retirement, veteran spymaster George Smiley (Gary Oldman, in a devilishly subtle performance) becomes determined to weed out the alleged mole at the top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5429&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Horse is a Horse Of Course Of Course</title>
		<link>http://theschleicherspin.com/2011/12/27/a-horse-is-a-horse-of-course-of-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David H. Schleicher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that is of course unless that horse is a War Horse! People have been crying for years that they don&#8217;t make films like they used to, but don&#8217;t tell that to Steven Spielberg. That silly Jewish lad from Haddon Township, NJ has been making films like they used to since the 1970&#8242;s.  His patented brand of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theschleicherspin.com&amp;blog=626190&amp;post=5415&amp;subd=davethenovelist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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