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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with Keith Phipps and Genevieve Koski.

Our absent co-host, Tasha Robinson, is out printing her mission statement at Kinko's,

but she'll join us again next time.

So if you were into playing sports as a young person, as I certainly was,

then surely you dreamed of the possibility that one day you'd be out there winning the big

game in front of cheering fans and carried off the field by your teammates.

And there are tons of inspirational sports movies that feed into that fantasy.

But as you get older and realize that you suck at sports,

perhaps you dream of using your brain to capitalize on the talent of athletes who don't suck at sports.

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