The accomplishments
somewhat make up for what is
missing in this life.

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Picking up where Schoolhouse Rock left off, a new documentary tells the long and sordid history of Alabama’s constitution. How long? How sordid? A gentleman never asks, and a lady never tells.

However, Lewis Lehe, a 20-year-old Homewood High grad and University of Pittsburgh sophomore, dares expose all in his 49-minute documentary, “It’s a Thick Book.” The film, funded by Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, uses insight and humor in explaining how the massive document is crippling the very state it defines. The Legislature has come closer to calling for a constitutional convention in recent years, even as the document continues to grow, currently at 743 amendments.

The film could be screened in theaters in March, followed by possible online availability.

Trailer after the jump.
• Birmingham News: A clever look at constitution’s many problems
• Votelaw: Alabama: “It’s a thick book”
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2/14 horror
movie? Easy. Regular
day plus expectation.

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Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival named its new staff at Monday night’s monthly Salon. Catherine Pfitzer, right, has become the new executive director after having served as program manager.

Erik Jambor, left, will become executive director of BendFilm Festival in Bend, Ore., on Feb. 15. A Sidewalk co-founder, he resigned in November after having served as director for eight years.

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Eat, talk on phone, change
CD, adjust heat, yell at
other car, primp, nap.

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If nobody takes
responsibility, then
no one is to blame.

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The bitch is back. Coach Propst is in full-tirade mode this week, as he and the Hoover Bucs face longtime rival, the Vestavia Hills Rebels. It’s a hatefest on “Two-a-Days,” and everybody’s coming.

The parents are fired up. The players are fired up. The cheerleading coach is fired up. Their fury is so, so delicious. This episode is so … dare we say … blogtastic?! We shall.
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If you have time to
talk later, feel free to do
talking for me, too.

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Continuing our theme of fashionable finds, our pal Amy is up and blogging at New York Fashion Week. She may be digging the Fashionista Scoop, but you may know her as the driving force behind Young Professionals of Birmingham or her other(!) new blog, My Scoop.

Amy covers the runways and the raves while keeping an eye on what’s hot (and the diametric opposite, what’s not) for fall. She’s a veteran of the NYC style scene, so check out her latest dispatches from the fashion front.
• AL.com: The Fashionista Scoop

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Why put off things now
when you can stop completely
and relax awhile?

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A gray-haired dude from Hoover sings his way to “Idol” stardom. Two single moms from Birmingham race around the world to place third.

That was 2006.

Reality TV for 2007 has more fierce faces on the way. Not one but two state residents will compete on the eighth edition of “America’s Next Top Model.” The two women are the first in show history to hail from Alabama.

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Hard to say if bear
would beat colt, unless colt is
really a pistol.

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Trust takes time for me,
but only because others
give it so freely.

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Then and now

The Nick rocks: (Warning: Every item will be about football or television, just like real life.) Nick Saban, the former LSU coach and recently departed Miami Dolphins coach, graciously accepted the head coaching position at Alabama for a paltry $30 million. Talk about sacrifice.

Since then, a reporter released off-the-record comments in which Saban uses an ethnic slur regarding Cajuns. (It’s as though our prediction No. 85 came true!) And he’s been the subject of a “salary” vs. “feed the poor” or “educate kids” or some such crap debate. Plus, the classic welcome video, after the jump …
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If I told all my
secrets, and all their secrets,
who would believe me?

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