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Screenings: Decoy (1946)

June 3rd, 2014 · No Comments

Everything about this L.A. noir is so over the top, it nearly exists in its own genre universe. Let’s call it “camp noir.” A femme fatale with a stately British accent; a character named Jojo; a mystery drug that revives gassed convicts to life. Nurse: Why don’t you talk to me anymore? Aren’t you listening? […]

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Harvey Keitel’s Lines

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

“I love you. Ever since that first day at the convent, when I saw you playing volleyball with the nuns, I couldn’t help myself.” – Spoken dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.

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Session

July 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

Client: Hi.

Therapist: Yep. (fast, almost sounds like the same voice saying, “Hiyep”)

Client: How’re ya doin’?

Therapist: Fine, what’s up. (curt and quick, almost telegraphic)

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Once a week is best for me, I think.

May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So, my Dad still won’t let me have any money. He said he didn’t have any, but now he’s saying that I can’t have it, so that sounds like he actually has some, which means he was lying about not having any money because if I can’t have it that means there’s some money there, right?

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It ain’t a fit night out for man or beast! (Screenings: The Fatal Glass of Beer)

January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Once the city gets into a bohoy’s syhystem, he loses his ahankering for the cohuntry.

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Louise, from the North End

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Mother, that man there wants to take your picture. Let’s dance!!

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Of course, once you told me I was no good, I could probably get a job at a bargain basement and like it!* (Screenings: Holiday Inn)

December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

  • Hatching a plot to get Bing’s girl under contract as Fred’s dancing partner.
    Danny, Fred’s manager: “This is no time to be honest!”
    Fred: “Well, what should I do?”
    Danny: “All we have to do is to convince Jim that he’d be a heel if he stood in the way of a chance like this.”
    Fred: “Oh, that’ll be easy. Like peeling a turtle.”
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