There are several old and new movies dealing with Nazi Hunters, but for me the  gold standard has always been The Odessa File: great acting, great script and you are both learning and at the edge of your seat. Maybe it has to do with being based in the great book by Frederick Forsyth who also was involved in the script.

And last night the Love of My life and yours truly sat to watch Amazon’s Hunters. The movie started and I was bit disappointed that by the looks and overacting and really weird clothing and photography, this was not a serious thing but a parody, sort of Inglorious Bastards. Imagine my surprise when I found out it is a drama and not a comedy and with a demand for a overly elevated suspension of disbelief.

I tried very hard to watch it because it has Pacino in it and he acts, but his shoulders cannot carry such a bad project.  Even the kitschy 1978’s movie The Boy from Brazil runs laps around this grotesque production.

Hard pass on this one.

Former Iranian ambassador to Syria and a hostage-taker of U.S. diplomats, Hossein Sheikholeslam, died Thursday from a Covid19 infection, local news outlets report.

An advisor to the Islamic Republic Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, 68-year-old Sheikholeslam was one of the leaders of the so-called “Muslim Student Followers of Imam’s Line,” who took 52 U.S. diplomats hostage, on November 4, 1979, and released them after 444 days.

Former Hostage Taker Of US Diplomats Dies Of Coronavirus In Iran

And now back to your regular programming.

It seems that Orthodox Jews are not the only ones to beset by savages in the New York City neighborhood of Crown Heights.

Teenage girls wearing nice sneakers are also targeted for random and devastating violence.

Teens beat up 15-year-old girl and steal her Air Jordans in Brooklyn

A group of teenagers beat up a 15-year-old girl and stole her Air Jordan sneakers during a robbery in Brooklyn, surveillance footage released by cops on Friday shows.

The teenager was walking on Utica Avenue near Sterling Place in Crown Heights at 4:10 p.m. Thursday when she was spotted by the dozen youths, cops said.

When she reached the corner, the gang lunged at her and punched and kicked her repeatedly, the video shows.

Here is the video:

OUTRAGE:this is sickening video of a 15 year old girl viciously attacked by a group of school children. One young man takes the sneakers right off the unconscious victim’s feet. The teenager is in the hospital recovering. We CAN NOT allow this behavior in our community. #Speakup pic.twitter.com/VLLb91fDOM

— NYPDBrooklynNorth (@NYPDBklynNorth) March 6, 2020

She was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Kings County to be treated for bruising and head trauma, cops said. It was unclear what provoked the attack.

Let’s take a guess, shall we…

They stole her shoes, debit card, and cell phone.

She is a girl and she’s 15 years old.

I’d say that the boys who attacked her assumed that she was weak and would be easy to rob.

Watching this, I’m reminded of wildlife videos where a bunch of jackals or hyena spot a gazelle with a bad leg and tear it to shreds.

These boys are pure predators.  The police can say “We CAN NOT allow this behavior in our community” but with bail reform and the fact that they all looked like teens themselves, absolutely nothing of consequence will happen to them.

Every day, it seems, that New York City inches closer and closer to being a place that only Snake Plissken can survive.

Some are not happy.

Guess what? I AM STILL FUCKING WAITING! I think it has been 10-11 months since it all started.

In fact I am on the phone right now with Rossi on hold and  listening for the past 19 25 33 38 minutes some new age version of a Spanish melody.

This is beyond Bullshit.

I’ll update if I get a human on the phone and he/she has some sort of new excuse why I shouldn’t call the ATF and declare my gun stolen.

I just sent them these lines via their website’s Contact Page.

Got tired of being on hold for 35 minutes to ask what the heck has happened to the replacement revolver I was going to get for my recalled Rossi. I believe it has been 10 months, maybe more.
The lack of an occasional notification on the status has been a tad insulting. It is as the company wished we give up and forget about the gun.
What is the time limit before I must notify that my gun is lost or stolen to the authorities?
Thank you

And I got an automated reply:

Your request (94821) has been received and is being reviewed by our Taurus support staff.

Let’s see what happens.

A pity he did not put a round though his hand. Nothing like a ballistic stigmata to see the Holy Light of Gun Safety.

The missus and I finished the second (and last) season last night and it was great. I guess I am a fan of alternative Universes, but I have to say this one was well done and specially very well acted.  Seriously, J. K. Simmons does such a fantastic job, I bought the premise about a minute into the reveal.  It is Cold War writ if not large at least bi-universal.

If you are bored and need to watch 20 episodes of good script and great acting, this is available in Amazon Prime Video and I guess in Starz on demand.