Handbook of Robust Low Rank and Sparse Matrix Decomposition: Applications in Image and Video Processing
Thierry Bouwmans, Necdet Serhat Aybat and El-hadi Zahzah
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Handbook of Robust Low-Rank and Sparse Matrix Decomposition: Applications in Image and Video...
Parks and Recreation - Season 1
TV Season
From Emmy Award-winning executive producers/writers Greg Daniels (The Office, King of the Hill) and...
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper in Books
Feb 13, 2018
This was a fun book. Written by Hilary Liftin, a celebrity ghostwriter, Lizzie is a really enjoyable and insightful character. The book is clearly supposed to be based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I kept imagining Rob Mars as a creepy twist between Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe, which was a little frightening. The One Cell piece is oddly disconcerting, as it's supposed to be, and made me want to delve more into the weirdness that is Scientology. Lizzie's evolution was fun to read about (I enjoyed, on a personal level, that she had twins) and she remained a realistic and relatable character, despite being elevated to movie star status. It truly makes you think about some of the insanity that movie stars have to go through, especially those that have children. It also gets you thinking about various religious cults and the power they have over people. In the end, probably a 3.5 star book, as it's a quick, fun read, but with a surprising depth behind it in places. After all, in the end, a marriage crumbling is a marriage crumbling, even in Hollywood.
Parks and Recreation - Season 3
TV Season
Dedicated government employee Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live) and her fellow...
The West Wing - Season 1
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that...
Drama
Kevin Wilson (179 KP) rated Wayne's World (1992) in Movies
Jul 13, 2018
Contains the famous bohemium rhapsody scene in the car at the beginning of the movie and just shows how fun the movie is going to be.
The duo of Wayne and Garth works well, you can't have 1 without the other. It has a great cast overall. Tia Carrere (Cassandra) is a fantastic singer and personally does the best cover of the ballroom blitz at the end. Quite gorgeous too.
You have a young Rob Lowe who never seems to age, Lara Flynn Boyle cast perfectly as the phsycho ex girlfriend and Kurt Fuller as the producer.
The pacing is fantastic, there is not 1 boring scene in the movie and I have to give it a 10 because I cannot find a fault in my opinion. Characters talking to the camera is fun (I love breaking the 4th wall), the pop culture references like a suprise terminator reference, the 1 liners and even Garth's dancing is fun.
Parks and Recreation - Season 2
TV Season
Amy Poehler (Baby Mama, Saturday Night Live) leads an ensemble cast who are joined by guest stars...
The West Wing - Season 2
TV Season
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that...
Mike Wilder (20 KP) rated The Outsiders (1983) in Movies
May 30, 2018
With a cast to die for, The Outsiders is an incredible, hard hitting film. Portrayed in a believable and moving way, the cast includes Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell and Rob Lowe. But Ralph Macchio stands out in this film as Johnny Cade.
The direction of Francis Ford Coppola along with stunning performances from the cast bring this film to life. You feel for the characters as they take you on an emotional roller-coaster. You laugh along with them and share in the anguish and feel the pain they all go through just to survive. It is hard not to watch the film now without comparing other films the cast have made since this film. But for many of the cast, it is up there with the finest performances of their career.
The film is an adaption of a classic novel by S.E. Hinton who was just 16 when the novel was first published in 1967. It was also her first novel. The book has become part of school English curriculum