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May 2016 Viewing Diary

Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 5, “Bedtime Stories” (2007; d. Mike Rohl) So silly. Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 6, “Red Sky at Morning” (2007; d. Cliff Bole) I like this episode a lot. I don’t care that the SPN writers threw … Continue reading

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Thelma and Louise Turns 25: We Discuss

Christy Lemire, Susan Wloszczyna and I are reunited a couple of years after our discussion of Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, to discuss Thelma and Louise, which turns 25 this year. My take is a bit different from Christy’s and Susan’s, … Continue reading

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Snowy March iPod Shuffle

The last month has represented a Revolt of the Machines. My printer bit the dust. My computer did as well and I am currently working on a laptop with a completely wiped hard drive and I need to have it … Continue reading

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The Key to Streetcar Named Desire is Stella, and Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Different: A Review of Who Am I This Time? (1982)

A re-post, because I’ve got love and theatre on the brain. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her … Continue reading

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Who Am I This Time? (1982); Dir. Jonathan Demme

Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s … Continue reading

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The Essence of Old-School Female Stars

Pretty faces. Kay Francis as a platinum blonde! Some of my faves there. Sylvia Sidney, too. They’re all so individual, aren’t they? You would never mistake Clara Bow for Barbara Stanwyck. It would be impossible. There can be a sameness … Continue reading

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A day of iPod shuffle

I’ve done this before on days when, for whatever reason, I’ve been listening to the iPod all day. Waiting in line, at the gym, on the bus, etc. Kept note of the songs that came up on Shuffle. I know. … Continue reading

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Faces I Love

I’m copying. But go look here. WONDERFUL, right? And I’m not just saying that because Archie is on the list. So here are my choices. I think it’s fun to show the faces without listing the name that goes with … Continue reading

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Wearing White

Exchange from the film “Bull Durham”: Weepy bride: “Do you think I deserve to wear white?” Annie: “Honey, we all deserve to wear white.”

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