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The Snob: Happy endings
BOULDER, Colo. - Who doesn't love a happy ending? I do!Now, this is not what you might think it's about. I'm referring to movies, of course.Sure, when you're young, it's...
The Snob: The Granny Project
Annihilation threatens. Turmoil encroaches. Resentments fester. Pips squeak.Who wants some warm, fresh chocolate-chip cookies?Purveyors of doom and gloom are trying to scare the living crap out of us. You know,...
The Snob: Me-dot-com
BOULDER, Colo. - Forget about MySpace. Don't waste your time with Facebook. Twitter's a joke.They're just not good enough.There just aren't enough applications, gadgets and tools to give people an...
The Snob: Make mine a polka!
BOULDER, Colo. - Do you have what it takes to be a rock star? Are you filled with musical passion? Have you spent months crafting your sound in your garage...
The Snob: Give peace a chancre
BOULDER, Colo. - Let's face it -- in addition to being wrong, war is noisy, messy and rude.Everyone seems to despise it, but no one seems to able to stop...
The Snob: Hole in my head
BOULDER, Colo. - Either of my regular readers may have noticed the recent absence of my column from these pages.Well, there's a perfectly good reason for that. I had brain...
The Snob: Childhood’s nightmare ringmasters
T he free babysitter will soon be on the blink.That's right, when we switch over to HDTV at midnight Feb. 17, your television and mine and our neighbors' will all...
The Snob: Schlock around the clock
Recently, we lost three of Hollywood's great but underappreciated queens -- Nina Foch, Beverly Garland and Van Johnson.OK, just kidding, Van.Anyone with a taste for campy film classics of the'40s...
The Snob: When audiences turn deadly
Twenty years ago on a beautiful December night I dashed down the main street of a picture-postcard Colorado mountain town, pursued by a bar-full of angry, drunken patrons intent on...
The Snob: Take our Pirate Aptitude Test!
Ahoy there, maties!If you're like me (and nowadays, who isn't?), you've heard a lot recently about pirates. That's right, those high-seas hooligans who have made such a fuss on the...