The Daily Dose/November 29, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
CAPSULE MOVIE REVIEW: Nuremberg, written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt: Proof we need to get out more can be found in the fact this is our first first-run movie review since 2017. If movies as good as Nuremberg are regularly released, this is our loss. Based on the previews we were obliged to watch, we strongly suspect this isn’t the case, though.
Dry, Technical Matter: Nuremberg follows a US Army psychiatrist who is assigned to analyze the 22 Nazis who are the first to be tried by the International Military Tribunal following World War II. Most of the film concerns his doings with Herman Goering, who was second in command behind Hitler and was brilliantly played by Russell Crowe.
Russell Crowe Yay/Boo: Yay for Crowe bringing his immense talents to this role. Boo because, like when he played Noah, you never got the impression you were watching Goering: Crowe so completely dominated the role, you are watching Crowe play a role. This is not an indictment,
Casting Call: Throughout the movie, we could not stop thinking that Crowe was just a pair of bad eyebrows away from making a really good Leonid Brezhnev.
Dry, Technical Matter II: Movie theaters have reclining seats now. Good gravy, if your theater doesn’t have these, don’t go to it; find one that does.
The Daily Dose Rating Scale: 1 – The very best; 2 – Very good; 3 – Good; 4 – OK; 5 – A steaming pile.
Final Rating: 2: We found ourselves contrasting this with Lincoln, with Danial Day-Lewis, where you got the impression the History Channel had been following President Lincoln around while the 13th Amendment was being discussed. You do not get this impression with Nuremberg, but you’re not supposed to anyway; it is a completely different artistic effort, one deserving of your time if the subject interests you at all.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the details on Thanksgiving. Today’s Diary.
The only fly in the ointment was there weren’t any mixed nuts for ol’ Sparrow to continue his generations-long family tradition of removing all the cashews from…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1963 – President Lyndon Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F Kennedy a week earlier. The commission consisted of seven men, including Chief Justice Earl Warren and future president Congressman Gerald Ford. The commission presented its report to President Johnson the following September, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald.
In 1987 – Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers begins a streak of an NFL-record 22 consecutive complete passes in a 38-24 victory over the Cleveland Browns. Montana completed his final five passes and the following week completed his first 17 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Research into whose record Montana broke was inconclusive, and the record is now 25 consecutive completions, done four times.
In 1975 – Silver Convention is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Fly, Robin, Fly. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #3 in their native Germany, at #28 in Great Britain, at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. It was the first of three chart singles for the group, their first of two Top 40 and Top 10 hits, and remains their only #1 song.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
All they ask of God is a kind of spiritual minimum wage and in return they are ready to give up the sweets of life – which God also made, let me remind you.
Robertson Davies
The Lyre of Orpheus
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The current private-sector union membership rate in the US is 5.9%, the lowest ever.
Today’s Stumper
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What was Billboard’s #1 song for 1975? – Answer next time!
