The Best You Never Saw...

Here are the best films that were never given acclaim and widely ignored by audiences and critics when tthey were released .

meaning... they are as good as the best films... that came out in each year.....
but no one other than me seems to think these are great films...

These are since 1970.. only... .

So here is my list

1. Black Hawk Down ... 2001

2. Great White Hype ... 1996

3. Oh Brother , Where are thou..1999

4. Bloodsport . 1988

5. Desperado .. 1995

6.. Dusk till Dawn ..1995

7. Amistad .. 1997

8. Ooctober Sky .. 1999

9. Anna and the King... 1999

10. V for Vendetta .. 2006

11. Three Kings ....1999

12. Legends of the Fall ...1994

13. Last of the Mohicans ... 1992

14. Far and Away ... 1992

15. Dead Calm...1991

16. Samurai X....1974

Kramer vs Tribbiani...

Since there are no new Tv shows that I like.. in the age of "Reality"...

I end watching repalsy of Seinfeld and Friends....

I noticed that no one views the make up of the Friends show as I do :

What is Friends?

My summary would be

Friends : 5 New York Jews and 1 New York Italian ...Mr Joey Tribbiana...
"How Youuuuuuuuuu Doin'..!

and how would I summarize Seinfeld... well that is more complicated as the Seinfed was incomparabaly richer.

but a likewise comparision would be...

Seinfeld : 3 ( much smarter) NY Jews and 1 NY Italian ( George "Cant stand you" Castanza )

So you could say in a sense... that Friends - Seinfeld = 2 Jews... ( you can laugh now )


When Seinfeld came off the TV air waves... in 1998.. it was the Highester rated TV and comedy show...

Friends from 98 and onward .. would take Seinfelds spot at Top..

America seemed to accept Friends in place Of Seinfeld without any discomfart.. sort of like a change in the White house....!

Seinfeld came to TV in 1989... during a Bold movement in the Tv Business by the NBC TV station ( which was behind in success to the CBS and ABC stations ).

The movement was to replace the standard American family.. of Smiths/JOnes/and Williams in the family sitcom with hip Jewish singles living the new and trendy city
single and trendy big New york City Lifestyle...

As the 90s bloomed ... down went the american family on TV .. and came many other seinfeld type imitataions...
and During the flux of this trend came Friends and eventually... Sex and the City...which would explout the original intent of the movement spawned in the early 90s .. ten years later on HBO... in much more graphic and shocking detail than ever hoped for...

Seinfeld was the first and best show to exploit this...

The growth of this trend on Tv just tells me that that audience , metropolitan white people ( smiths and jones)... prefer seeing the NY jews than anyone else ..even themselves on TV...

The best indicator of this is the Friends the show..

The original idea of the show was:

the 2 main characters :

brother and sister : Ross and Monica Gellar.... New York jews...to appear normal and unquirky...

then..

the 2 sidekicks :

Monicas friend and sidekick... the blonde Rachel Green ...
...and...
Ross's friend...and sidekick...Chandler .. funny last name Bing.. who doesnt say anything unless it is sarcastically cynical and iritating to one of the other characters..

All of the four characters above... are presented as being of Jewish descent assimilated into America via the forturned of New York...
Such people are those I refer to as " New York Jews" ....
to a foreign viewer they may seem as the ordinary american ... but as I said.. that would be false .. becuase the ordinary american of the 1980s... micheal j fox.. was deliberatly removed .. in favour of the Gellars and those of their sort.. the "New York Jews" ..

the 4 characters are there for the audience to laugh with ....

and now to mention the other 2...for the audience to laugh at ... i said AT... and not WITH..

Monicas other friend... Phoebe Buffet...to call her ditzy would be severe understatement...

Unlike Joey... the other girls dont make fun of her .. as Chandler does.. because no one wants to see a cranky girl... as chandler appears cranky any time he makes a joke...

Phoebe makes her presence felt by saying silly things.. to allow the audience to laught at her... but unlike Joey.. whose statments make sense .. with twist..
Phoebe is totally absurd.. you cant treat her as a character but as a random interjection of nonsense to excite the audience...

Although she does not have an obvios jewish name... the actress Lisa Kurdrow.. has an obvious jewish name with typicall new york jewish physique..
so she is basiccally a jewish character..

then the last character..

Chandlers roomate ;..... the stereotype NY italian .. Joey Tribbiani...

and what makes him a steotype:

No education... and hence he works as an actor... and is unaware of the lackluster level of achievement he has unless he is informed by Chandler in his characteristic Jewish fashion... his two male counterparts are the opposite... one is a professor and the other some financial engineer...

Slow wit... chandlers sarcasm jokes are usually misunderstood by Joey... and usually unrealiezed by Joey... while the audience is laughing at Joey.

Ladies Man... he has the italian "mafiaso" confidence that he can have anyone one... so women are his only area of expertise .. while the 2 jewish boys... must game plan their first and second move after the slowly develop the confidence to step up to the plate...

All his lines generally reflect his dull wit.. and the lines spoken to him by chandler are almost always insulting of him for his foremention lack of intelligence...

His character is almost a deliberate bashing... of the stereotype New Italian persona and the New York Italian identity... from the minds of college educated , manhattan residing, media influential New York Jewish Community.

I could intrepret this as massice cultural statement coming from the top of the New York Jewish community expressing their feelings about the entire New York Italian culture.


so where does this leave the show ?

the show is basically has the jewish actors/characters as the main characters with the only outsider... the NY italian joey as their token "minority" to be pounced on by the other 4.. and ridiculed to the audience...

and this this formula... seems to have hit the jackpot with audience of white peopel of all ages.. who responded to this formula by making it USAs top show... for 6 years...

Twins: Iranian - New York Italian

Shah Reza Pahlavi....
the last official king of Iran.. ousted in a coup detat in 1979...




Frank Vincent...

Italian American Actor... came to fame after playing true to life NY Gambino mob man...Billy Batts... and later as Phil Leotardo on the Sopranos...







I realized the striking likeness in their features after... I found that.. that Tony Sopranos used the name " Shah of Iran " as a nickname on the show for the character of Phil Leotardo..

Im sure one of the castmembers probably used it on the set and the writers picked up on it..

So now you can see for yourself...

Bush - Whacked..?

So OBAMA IS HERE....
as the rapper ludacris said so in his song... " Obama is Here".

So far I think he is the only person to make an official song about Barack despite the record level craze over the election... in the internet age....

Meaning , the 1996,2000, and 2004 election did not get so much media and society craze like this election.

I found out that Obama won when I was waiting in line in a shop in London while on holiday.

While travelling throughout Europe, I met lots of people.

When I told them I was from Washington DC, they all smirked and quickly asked me about Bush jr ( Mccain ) vs Obama...

Every single person I met , was against Bush and consequently against Bush jr( Mccain )..

I cant count how many people I met.. but it was alot..

In usa , during the previous 3 elections... I never came across such one sided opinions..

I refer to Mccain as Bush Jr.. because people generally cant find a political identity of his own..

Everyone , especially people overseas.. think of any Republican candidate an extention of Bush...

so Mccain is the next closes thing to Bush...
so the election .. to the audience overseas...

was Bush jr ( Mccain ) vs Obama

The overwhelming one sided support was for Obama... almost like it was here...in USA...

so this made me wonder...

why did OBAMA win.. with such a large majority vote over Jr ( bush jr aka mccain )


1. People who hate Bush automatically voted for the opposite party without considereing anything else

2. Obama is Black.... otherwise indifferent blakc and white ppl voted for Barack just because he is black because they think.. they somehow contribute to " racial equality " if a Black finally makes it

3. Barack also pulls in ignorant Jay-Z/Anchor Man generation kids.. 18-25 aged ppl... who vote for him because they think Barack is hip.. and all the other guys are old and boring...

so when i consider all of this .... I find it hard to be impressed with Barack.. becuase all the reasons i mentioned above.. dont relate to any of his credentials or abilities...?

so what should I think of all the new Elect..?

Black Movies...

so what is a Black Movie...?


- Story Is set in a black neighbourhood in America.. that are poor ,chaotic, dangerous,

- Story is about some Black People
- Is made by a Black Director, Writers who are from the black neighbourhoods being represented...

- Has Black actors..maybe rappers


The films were low budget as they were aimed at a small market.. Black People..

The movement of Black Movies started in early 90s and made a big impact with select critics but not much national acclaim. THe movement produced up to 15 films.. and then just ended...

Here I will mention the best Black/ Ghetto Movies:


1. Boyz in the Hood - 1991

2. Menace To Society - 1992

3. Jasons Lyric - 1993

4 Poetic Justice - 1994

5 Above The Rim - 1994

6. Juice - 1991

7. Friday - 1996

8. New Jersey Drive - 1996

Gisele to the Pope

An interesting question has been posed by the Brazil orn and raised Internationally famed supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church regarding one of the Catholic's Churchs favorite discussion topics...." contraception " ( via condems...)

The Church has alwas pronounced the same position on the subject....

" NO Condoms ... Only the Natural Way ..." ~ POPE

which is against the "modern american scientific way".....

Gisele has posed the following against the POPE with an interesting choice of words:

" To prohibit condoms is ridiculous, just think of all the diseases transmitted without them,".
"How is it possible to not want people to use condoms and also not have abortions? It's impossible, I'm sorry "

~ Gisele Bundchen


I wonder if anyone has given her the obvious answer the Pope or any sensisible person could have told her...! It appears she has totally missed the obvious one and had not even bothered to counter the reason for it... as most Americans do when they challenge the pope...

Seinfeld Soup Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L06udJXhfK0&feature=related --or click on article title..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uY3znlUE4g

I saw this video on you tube featuring.....a news reporter's interview with New York City Soup Shop Owner , Al Yeganeh.

Not just any soup shop....but the one that was featured on Seinfeld in the 90s.

This was a famous episode where the real life soup shop and owner, Al Yeganeh, was portrayed on the Seinfeld show by an actor and termed as the " SOUP NAZI ".

The term NAZI .. . is used here in the "post modern" American convention as meaning ..." too strict and disciplined" for "normal" Americans.

The show came to be ... when the Seinfeld writers noticed the popualarity of the Soup shop in NYC and also the notoriety of the owner among the countless customers on NYC. Seinfled writers found the owners character as comedic material fitting for the show and put him an episode.

Al Yeganeh, founded the shop in New York City and developed the shop into a successfull business by making top quality soups. He was not informed that he and his shop would be represented on the show and basically riduculed for the American viewers to enjoy.


Al Yeganeh's character is represented as too strict for casual nature of the Americans who come to shop. Strict refers to the rules he has in the shop for customers who come in. The rules are otherwise normal rules requiring ordering correctly and precisely and being well mannered in the shop. Failure to follow the rules,,, would result in Al Yeganeh removing you from the shop.

On the TV show, Al Yeganeh is portrayed as unreasonable and the blunders of the careless Americans, inherent to the image of normalcy accepted in America., as mild and minor. SO when the Americans blunder and make a mistake, and break the rules...they are denied the soup and thrown out.

When I first saw the show... in the 90s... I thought that it was a fiction..
Then I found out it was based on real character... and thought it has to be an exaggeration...but after seeing this video clipon you tube.. I can see that it is accurate match between the character on the show and the original person.


The writers of Seinfeld , who represent the intellectual portion of the American population, as they are Harvard educated millionaires, interpret the behavior of the soup man in the same way as the regular Americans...which is extremely rigid to a ridiculous level..

This episode shows how far removed American culture is... throughout the segments of American population to any establsihed standard of discipline in any environment... in this case a restaurant....

This concept of Discipline is one of the landmark features of the culture Gap between todays America and all other culures ( Muslims,. Indian, and Chinese).

Here the original character is Al Yeganeh. He is an immigrant of Iran and represents the culture of Iran in his disapproval of American attitude of apathy, blundering , and casual outlook in the form of their behavior in the shop.

In real life, the displeased New york customers had given him the nick name of terrorist, relating his Irananian Muslim background.

I assume terrorist is more insulting to him than NAZI.. which is what the TV show used.

Even though it is used for humour...it shows how Americans perceive the basic wualities of Asian culture...and how they would even humour it with other wise controversial terms as NAZI...

Here .. even though the character is IRanian.. the same type of culture gap could have resulted from a Chinese or Indian owner...
I wonder what nickname would have come for each of those.

The Name .. NAZI.. is only works if the guy is atleast in appearance... close to European.. and close to the original Nazis....

Here is a link to the video from you tube. showing how Al Yeganeh made his repuation...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uY3znlUE4g