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Previously on Work Stories I wrote about something.   What was that something?   I don’t remember.   Ah yes.   I wrote about the time that I got stuck in the parking lot when I was trying to go home.   That wasn’t an exciting story, was it?   It was basically 600 words that can be summed up in seven.   I got stuck in a parking lot.   That was it.   But I told that story.   I told it hard. This week is a different story from a different time.   This is from back when I worked at the hotel that I worked at for a few years.   This is before I went to university and then left university.   This is from when I still had hope in my eyes and all the dreams in the world.   I was a happier person then.   I would be happy to do anything.   I would even spend my three hours at work cleaning the storage room.   That’s right.   This is a story about cleaning. I think the laws around here state that...

In the late 90s, studios were still worried about movies starring unestablished actors.   This was the case when it came to the next second annual Overlooked Movie Marathon film, LA Confidential .   Recency was worried that Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce weren’t known enough to make the movie a success.   That wasn’t an issue, as the film far exceeded the budget in terms of box office.   The two actors also gave great performances in their respective roles.   I couldn’t imagine the movie any other way. LA Confidential is a 1997 film directed by Curtis Hanson and based on the book by James Ellroy.   It starred Guy Pearce as Ed Exley, a police officer rising through the ranks of the Los Angeles police force in the early 1950s.   He is aided by Bud White (Russell Crowe), an officer who is skilled in being a brute, and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), a narcotics detective who works with a magazine publisher to arrest celebrities.   As well, t...

Robocop is a movie that I remember from my childhood.   It’s not because I had watched it before.   I hadn’t watched it until this second annual Overlooked Movie Marathon.   If I had seen it before, I never would have included it.   No.   I remember in my childhood that I had a cousin who was obsessed with the movie and its sequels.   He’s only a year or two older than me, so when I was six and hearing about this, he probably shouldn’t have been eight and watching the movies over and over again.   They are R rated movies, I believe.   It seems to me that he was a little young to be watching them repeatedly.   But he did, and I always heard about how great the Robocop movies were.   I never saw them though.   Robocop has always been a blind spot for me.   I’ve changed that now. The first Robocop movie was released in 1987.   It stars Peter Weller as Officer Murphy, the man who becomes a robotic police officer...