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I started posting straight up classical music on Sunday back in 2011 or so.  I had run down by late in that decade - how many times can you post Beethoven, no matter how great a composer he was?  But The Queen Of The World suggested that I start posting music from Hollywood films because there is so much great music there.  And modern compositions, not reaching back into dusty historical archives.

And it's been fun doing this, precisely because there is so much great "classical" music at the cinema. But what I've never talked about is how truly great music can fuse with truly great acting to make something extraordinary.  Something where 2 + 2 = 400.  That's what we have here, with an Oscar-nominated performance by Kenneth Brannaugh and what really should have been Oscar-nominated musical scoring by Patrick Doyle is what was his first film score.

You see, today is the feast of Crispian. 

The fusion of Shakespeare's timeless script, Branaugh's magnificent performce, and Doyle's amazing score results if one of the top ten scenes from any Hollywood film.  Remove any of those three components and you have something forgettable.

But not this.  Patrick Boyle showed how it's done. 

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It happened around 5 p.m. outside of a beauty supply store near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road.

Police say a 32-year-old man was working as loss prevention at the store when he confronted Edgar Perez Lopez, 33, and Lopez’s girlfriend, who were reportedly smoking pills.

The employee told the couple to leave, leading to a confrontation between the three. Investigators believe Lopez reached for a firearm, and the employee shot him. Lopez was rushed to the hospital and later died.

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Texarkana, Texas, police are searching for an 18-year-old man accused of shooting a man multiple times during an armed robbery early Friday at River Crossing Apartments on College Drive. The 17-year-old accused of taking part in the robbery was shot when the victim returned fire, police said.

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 I built this shop during the winter of 16-17 and installed the kitchen during the spring f 2017.  I installed a small 4-gallon water heater under the sink so that we could wash dishes. I came in from the range yesterday and found that it was leaking.  Well, hell.

Went online to Lowe's and Stine's and didn't see anything there I liked.  Belle searched Amazon and found a small on-demand heater for less than $100.  Overnight shipping, it came in this morning. I snatched the old one out from under the sink, made a trip to the hardware store, came back and installed the new one. It's different, but it works.  Plug and play. The temperature of the water is dependent on how fast the flow.  Wide open, it's just over body temp, but if you throttle the flow down to a trickle, it gets hot enough that you don't want your hand under it.

We'll try this out and see how it works. There may be a learning curve, but if we don't like it, it is easy enough to snatch out of there.

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One man was left injured in a Midtown shooting after firing shots at suspects trying to break into his vehicle as he was sleeping inside of it early Thursday morning, police say.

Police spoke with a man who told them he was asleep in his vehicle parked at the back of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall at 1870 Madison Avenue.

The man said he was awakened from his sleep after hearing what sounded like glass breaking. He began shouting, and the suspects opened fire at him before he was able to grab his handgun and return fire, officers said.

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