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	<title>Gaiam Blog &#187; Stephen Simon</title>
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	<description>Experiences in living green, healthy and happy</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ghost Town&#8217; enchants and stays with you</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/ghost-town-enchants-and-stays-with-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greg Kinnear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ricky Gervais]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the kind of person who always seems angry at or disgusted by the world? He&#8217;s the kind of guy who seems to wear a big sign around his neck that says, “Don&#8217;t bother me for any reason at any time.” Ever wonder why he is the way he is?
What about the guy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mamma Mia! What a Movie!</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/mamma-mia-what-a-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mamma Mia!”  &#8212; what a movie! Exhilarating, dazzling, breathtakingly beautiful for your eyes, rockingly wonderful for your ears, and energetically enchanting for your heart, “Mamma Mia” is pure, unadulterated fun.
Based on the smash Broadway hit, “Mamma Mia” revives the old-fashioned movie musical with such a flourish that I kept thinking—where have you BEEN, musicals? Welcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Must-See Film of the Summer</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/the-must-see-film-of-the-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pixar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wall-e]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wall-E”, the latest film from the inestimably brilliant Pixar Studios, is a completely original work of staggering, visionary genius. The film also possesses so many brilliant nuances and human insights, and has such a pure and gentle heart, that it truly has no filmic antecedent.
Wall-E is a robot, living alone (almost) on earth, cleaning up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, God: Say it With Laughter</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/oh-god-say-it-with-laughter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/oh-god-say-it-with-laughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spiritual-cinema]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago (1976), my first job in the film industry was as the assistant to a legendary film producer named Ray Stark. Ray produced such classics as “Funny Girl,” “The Way We Were,” and “The Goodbye Girl.” Even though I went out on my own in 1980 to produce “Somewhere in Time,” Ray and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking the Dead</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/waking-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/waking-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our subscribers at The Spiritual Cinema Circle recently left an entry on our message boards that included &#8220;I just wish Hollywood would wake up.&#8221;
That would require much more of a resurrection than an alarm clock. Waking the dead is still quite a challenge for us mere mortals.
Truly, the Hollywood system is not something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Academy Falters, the Critics Fail, and the People Rule!</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/the-academy-falters-the-critics-fail-and-the-people-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film-critics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I have blogged recently about the pathetic state of mainstream movies and film critics, most particularly the ugly, violent films that were praised by critics and also nominated for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Well, the Oscars were broadcast on February 24 and, lo and behold, the show received the lowest rating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Films of 1998</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/films-of-1998/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/films-of-1998/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my two recent blog posts about the darkness and cynicism in films over the last several years, particularly 2007, I’ve been asked to recommend some movies that would dissipate the bad taste from last year. As I started to look for some of those films, I was intrigued to discover how many amazing films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscars: &#8220;Juno&#8221; Lights Up a Dark List</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/oscars-juno-lights-up-a-dark-list/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/oscars-juno-lights-up-a-dark-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy_award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best-film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best_actor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Never have I written a blog or column that generated as much response as the last one I wrote about the dark, violent preferences of both critics and Hollywood. Now it&#8217;s plain that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has the party line: The Academy Award nominations were announced on January 22 and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Favorite Films of 2007</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/five-favorite-films-of-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/five-favorite-films-of-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I list my own five favorite films of 2007, I’d like to point out that think it would be wonderful, and more honest, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &#38; Sciences (commonly referred to as The Academy as in “I’d like to thank The Academy”), of which I am a member, changed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Hollywood Smoking?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/what-is-hollywood-smoking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/what-is-hollywood-smoking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best-film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a message for both the mainstream film industry and its film critics: You have both lost all connection with film audiences.
Hollywood has seemingly decided that “quality” now equates with dark, violent and depressing; consequently, 2007 was one of the bleakest years ever for film distribution. To make matters worse, and to illustrate anew [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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