By Steve Huff 10/28/12 11:55pm

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The First Hurricane Sandy

The Hurricane was named Sandy. It struck in October and took a path that brought it through northern New Jersey and New York State before the storm petered out over Canada.

This Hurricane Sandy happened in the minds of members of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Westchester County, New York, 15 years ago this month.

The webpages created at the time to war game this imaginary Hurricane Sandy are still online. The main page reads in part: Read More

By Rex Reed 7/11/12 10:07am

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Murphy in Red Lights. (Millennium Entertainment)

Power Outage: Red Lights Short Circuits

Robert De Niro, whose acting career has been on hiatus for years, appears once more in mufti in the incomprehensible sci-fi bore Red Lights, playing the kind of role he could exchange with Al Pacino without the audience ever knowing the difference. With the same kind of sullen, bug-eyed somnambulism both actors have become famous for, he appears as a leaden psychic named Simon Silver, who retired from the hugga-mugga business in 1975. Read More