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I’ve Got Plenty to Be Thankful For

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Bing doesn’t realize all the good fortune right under his nose. He’s finding it easier to mope around the inn, crooning and feeling sorry for himself. “You could melt her heart like butter…if you’d only turn on the heat,” says Mamie. You tell him, sister! At the very least, we – as viewers – get a great song out of the predicament.

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Tags: film · music

David Lynch, Weatherman

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Bet you didn’t know that you can have the daily Los Angeles weather announced to you by David Lynch, on camera and straight onto your computer screen, from his California home.

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Tags: film

Squigilum – almost as dangerous as a game of bean bag

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s a great and hilarious scene from WC Field’s 1941 film, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.  There are at least ten great quotable moments here, plus the appearance of Margaret Dumont, foil for many a Marx Brothers antic.

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Tags: film

The New Punisher

November 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I cringed when I read in the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly that the upcoming sequel to The Punisher would be released in December without Thomas Jane in the title role.

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Tags: film

Reunion Journal: 31 July 2008, part 1 (Getting There)

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Diane and Walter, my new travelling companions, are married and live just south of Birmingham. It takes me fifteen to twenty minutes to extract this information from them. Good thing I’ve brought a book with me.

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Tags: books · film · food · self

Not scary at all…

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“Skeleton Dance” (1929), a Disney Silly Symphony

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Tags: film

Also scary…

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“Don’t forget to turn the lights out when you’re through, will ya.”

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Tags: film

Scary…

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“That’s what makes me dangerous…I’m the new kind of other woman.”

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I’m Spartacus Joe the Plumber Man!

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Stand up! Stand up with me! Stand up and fight! Fight for your individuality! Be a maverick! Bring reform to Warshington! Fight for oysters and snails!

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Tags: film · politics

Throwing a Gookie

October 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

And when he got going good he was completely lost in his work, so absorbed that he had no idea what a comic face he was making. His tongue lolled out in a fat roll, his cheeks puffed out, and his eyes popped out and crossed themselves.

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Tags: film