Comments & Anniversary Expectation & A Girl

Hello - Many of you have texted, e-mailed, or messaged me on Facebook to express your thoughts regarding this year's reviews. Thank you for doing so! Your reflections encourage and inspire me. I am pleased, above all, that the Spirit of God is touching hearts through these reflections. God be praised! And yet, I think we can take a step forward in developing a stronger level of involvement between the reader and the posts. I'd like to encourage you, if you're comfortable, to share your thoughts by commenting on the posts on the blog itself. You can find the comment section right below every post. You have to sign up for a Blogger (Gmail, really) account, but it's very easy and you never have to check it again if you don't want to. Once you're logged in you can post as you please! Hope to see some of your thoughts on the blog, that we might encourage and challenge one another.

On Friday i'll be posting the 100th film review to go up on E.T.'s Film Review. I won't tell you what film it is, but i'm pleased that, by total coincidence, it's an epic that will decorate this special anniversary quite well. Enjoy!

It's clear by now that Natalie Portman (the "Girl" from the subject line) has won this week's poll by a landslide. Unless votes flow in for Russel or Colin, I think we can safely declare her the winner. And who wouldn't want to hang with her?! Aside from her devastating beauty and talent, she's highly intelligent (graduated from Harvard, after all) and compassionate. With a Best Actress Oscar win under her belt, it is quite likely she'll climb into the higher echelons of stardom, even approaching cinematic greatness. They don't give that away in the form of a statue or block of cement on Hollywood Blvd. You have to earn it.

Will have a new poll up soon.

See you tomorrow - E.T.