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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Stranger Than Fiction: The Risk of Eating a Cookie
In this movie, which I saw last night, Will Ferrell successfully creates a character to whom eating a cookie is an enormous risk. Eating a cookie. He stares at the cookie. It’s not so much the COOKIE that is the … Continue reading
The Books: “Along the Shore – ‘A Soul That Was Not at Home’” (L.M. Montgomery)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: Along the Shore – “A Soul That Was Not at Home” – by L.M. Montgomery So this is the story of Paul and his Rock People in embryo. This story came out in 1909 (as … Continue reading
Meeting Petula
It is Petula Clark’s 74th birthday. And Annika is all over it. Keep scrolling. Annika also asked me to write something for the Petula Fest. Which I happily did. It was my honor to participate. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Petula!
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The Hitchcock Blog-a-Thon!
Today is the long-awaited Hitchcock Blog-a-Thon Here are a bunch of posts by other stellar bloggers – but just click around, you’ll find more! A marathon reviewing of the works of Hitchcock. Just keep scrolling. You’ll see all of his … Continue reading
The Hitchcock Blog-a-Thon: Notorious
Top 5 moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious 1. The kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. At the time this was the longest movie kiss in cinematic history. They had to keep breaking the kiss up to get around the … Continue reading
Chekhov and Bulgakov: A Russian Kind of Night
Last night I went to see an evening of Chekhov one-acts (and also adaptations of his stories into plays). Adaptations done by the wonderful Michael Frayn. I knew one of the actors – the other two in it were previously … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Books: “Along the Shore – ‘The Light on the Big Dipper’” (L.M. Montgomery)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books: Along the Shore – “The Light on the Big Dipper” – by L.M. Montgomery This story is told from the point of view of a very resourceful 12 year old, and in typical and beautiful … Continue reading
Early John Wayne
A marvelous post in every way about John Wayne – and Ken Maynard, a stunt rider – It’s a marvelous post because of the information, the photos, the enthusiastic tone, and paragraphs like: “Kens stunt riding was like something out … Continue reading
Oh man
This is a riot. It’s so stupid. And so funny. “The Maldives were positively splendid this year, save for a certain insolence taking hold among the servants.” … having a hard time getting past that one … “Infant’s eerily steady, … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, P.J. O’Rourke!
“Wherever there’s injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it’s happening.” — PJ O’Rourke some of my favorite quotes from his books: — A hat should be taken off … Continue reading