Denver Auto Show 2011 Introduction
Oct 13th
Jann Scott introduces the 2011 Denver Auto Show and we take a look at the Boss Mustang 302 from Ford.
The 2012 Ford Shelby GT500 injects blood-pumping performance and retro styling into a package that is nevertheless easy to live with every day. Among muscle cars, it’s the top dog. Pros: Incredible power, inspiring engine note, aggressive styling, relative exclusivity. Cons: Harsh optional suspension, unimpressive interior, no telescoping steering wheel.
Jann Scott’s weekly Auto reviews is coming back
Oct 13th
Jann Scott, Pete EgGen photog and Gabe Lee producer cover NASCAR race for C1N
Jann has built race cars, raced semi-professionally and worked in the auto sales retail business for many years. He has reviewed automobiles since 1969, and the first car he ever reviewed was a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach I for Country Senses Magazine. Since then he has reviewed automobiles in print, on radio and on TV. Jann was the Auto reviewer for the Colorado Daily, Daily Camera and KNUS radio. He is the Channel 1 networks world wide auto reviewer. Jann has produced and hosted Route 66 a 22 part travel series. He hosts the Great American road Trip which routinely has an automobile co-star. You can catch his TV reviews on 22Boom nightly at 9:00 pm on Comcast Channel 22 in Boulder County . Jann has also hosted an annual TV special on the Denver Auto Show here on C1N.TV and on cable. What makes Jann Scott interesting is that he so multi-talented. Not just here on C!N but in life. He has a lot of interests and talks about them on TV.
Jann Scott host the 2012 Denver Auto Show Special where we look at a whole bunch of different cars and speak with Tim Jackson the Denver Auto Show coordinator and he give us a little history on the show and soem of the trends going on in the market, then Jann hits the floor to look at the new cars and trucks for 2012 and 2013 as well as some concept cars.
“The Master” an Exercise in a Waste of Time
Oct 13th
“Exercise in a Waste of Time”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
The Master has received good reviews and bad reviews, and this is definitely one of them.
It was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, known for directing the 1997 Boogie Nights and the 2007 There Will Be Blood, both of which I thought were very good and enjoyable to watch.
On the other hand, between those two excellent films, Anderson directed the 1999 Magnolia and the 2002 Punch-Drunk Love, which I didn’t enjoy.
So, perhaps the story on Anderson is that he makes either good or bad films, which, if true, means that I am looking forward to his next film.
In this film, Anderson was supposedly inspired by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, but, if so, the story has been fictionalized, and there are no references to either the man or the religion.
The story takes place mostly in 1950, but there are flashbacks to World War II and some background on one of the characters, Freddie Quell, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and Quell’s service in the U.S. Navy and the South Pacific.
Freddie has emotional disturbances from his wartime experiences, and when he gets out of the Navy, he has trouble keeping a job because of his obsession with sex and his alcoholism, which he feeds by making his own hootch from whatever ingredients he finds at hand.
Then Freddie meets Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who claims to be a doctor, writer, and theoretical philosopher.
Dodd, who is called The Master by his followers, tells Freddie, “I do many, many things.”
Freddie inspires Dodd, who claims that his teachings can allow people to access their past lives, and that his process exercises can even cure such diseases as leukemia.
Dodd’s wife, Peggy, played by Amy Adams, seems to have just as much influence in The Cause, as it is called, and Laura Dern even shows up as one of The Master’s converts.
The story moves from on board a boat to New York City, to Philadelphia, to Phoenix, Arizona, and finally to England, but it could have been edited better.
Both Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and even Amy Adams deserve much better.
The Master is quirky, thought provoking, interesting, but also boring, much too long, doesn’t pay off, and in the end is a colossal waste of everyone’s time.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
