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Where Have I Seen This Dangerous Man Before?

11/28/2012

Damian Lewis

After being out Sunday night watching the Giants slaughter the Packers, I managed to catch up on Homeland and Boardwalk Empire yesterday, which seems to have become an exercise in rooting for the survival of people who are duplicitous at best and downright evil at worst.
With the conclusion of Homeland's ninth episode, season two, I wasn't quite sure what Brody (played by the English actor Damian Lewis) was up to, or which side he was being honest with. Perhaps he doesn't quite know yet. At least I have finally figured out who Brody has reminded me of for the entire first season and handful of episodes of the second. Coincidentally, another tough guy with admirable qualities but -- from my vantage point as a young Knicks fan -- one thoroughly embedded with the enemy.
That would be Dave Cowens of the hated 1970s Celtics.

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Is The Vice President Platinum?

11/4/2012

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The last thing I expected when I rolled into the parking lot of a Marriott Hotel a few miles from the Denver airport late Friday night was a security checkpoint and a full inspection of my rented Toyota that included a none-too-Rover-ish dog sniffing suspiciously for, I don't know -- that half-full bottle of after shave I cleverly slipped past security in Newark?
       Maybe there was a warrant out for the guy, me, who had chastised the Avis employee for trying to bill for a vehicle upgrade that had unequivocally been turned down (a chronic problem, I have learned, with Avis people, who then claim they didn't hear correctly or cop the plea of being a trainee). No, they weren't on to me, thankfully. Cleared by the dog, I proceeded to the lobby, where a small army of security was camped out.
   "Something going on I should know about?" I asked the woman at the front desk.
       "Oh, no, sir," she said. "But congratulations, with tonight's stay you're about to make Platinum."

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