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If you don't know the ins and outs of play, bridge can seem like an intimidating game--but it doesn't have to be! Armed with the techniques and strategies in the pages of this book, you'll be bidding and winning hands like a boss! A good book for beginners, it has lots of advanced techniques useful to experienced players, too. This is as  close to an all-in-one bridge book you can get.

 

 

About the Author

H. Anthony Medley holds the rank of Silver life Master, is an American Contract Bridge League Club Director, and has won regional and sectional titles. An attorney, he received his B.S. from UCLA, where he was sports editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author of UCLA Basketball: The Real Story and Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed and The Complete Idiots Guide to Bridge. He was a columnist for the Southern California Bridge News. He is an MPAA-certified film critic and his work has appeared nationally in Good Housekeeping, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Click the book to order.
 

  

 

Charlie’s Angels (2/10)

by Tony Medley

120 minutes.

R.

I guess women want to prove they can do anything a man can do, including making totally idiotic “action” films that have no relationship with real life. Director Elizabeth Banks has done it in spades with this movie, which is just an unfortunate extension of the chick flick genre.

It’s got all the stuff men put in their silly action movies, ridiculous car chases, fights with one killing blow after another with the combatants always jumping up for more virtually unscathed, banal dialogue that is intended to be clever, scenes that make no sense whatsoever, falls that defy reason, papier-mâché characters, etc., etc., etc. OK, ladies, you can make action movies as stupid as the men! At least Farah Fawcett’s Charlie’s Angels had world class gorgeous women like Farah to make up for the weak scripts (and, as I recall, even Farah flew the coop after one season).

Star Kristen Stewart is a talented actress who has done some exceptional work, i.e. Adventureland (2009) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2015), forget those trivial vampire things she was in. She is coming out soon in the titular role in Seberg, a film I am eagerly anticipating. She doesn’t need to do junk like this. I hope she uses more discretion in picking her roles in the future.

In short, this film, which has the same “plot” as all the others of its genre, is devoid of tension, pace, drama, humor, intelligence, beauty, and reason.

 

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