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When I saw Christian Bale (or almost saw, as he was virtually too thin to actually reflect light) in The Machinist I would never have imagined that he could assume the mantle of Batman. But he does so with stunning authority, and I felt as if I were watching the first major motion picture based on the character. What I was doing, however, was watching the first really good big-budget Batman film. The first one (with Michael Keaton) was passably entertaining, but I have never sought it out to watch it again. The rest of the flock (or would that more appropriately be “colony”?) were not even that good, at least as far as I can remember, and I don’t really remember anything about them, other than Nicholson’s creepy grin and Schwarzenegger’s crazy ice cream man.

But in Batman Begins we finally have what is to me

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So, Michael Jackson has been found innocent of all charges in his most recent court fight. As this drama has unfolded it has all smelled very fishy to me. The family was just a bit too questionable, for example, and had a history of grifting and shady dealings. Witnesses kept flip-flopping on their stories. The mother was quite a freaky subject on the witness stand. It kind of felt like the prosecution was supposed to fail.

Hmmm. That sure has the ring of truth to it, doesn’t it?

I mean, why would the prosecution go after such a high-profile, and hitherto untouchable celebrity like Michael Jackson when they would have to build their case on such a shifty foundation? It seems ludicrous, in retrospect, as if the final outcome was pre-ordained by the very fabric of the prosecutions case, which was the accuser and his

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