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Rumors is the masterpiece. Tusk is the album they’re proudest of. Warner Bros. thought they were going to get “Rumours II;” instead they got this double album of Lindsey obsessively punching holes to shatter the vibe that Stevie and Christine try to establish. It’s a hard album to hear at first.
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Great acting by Keaton and Allen. The kids are terrific. And Finney’s best performance, IMHO. The writing! “I’m not his friend, I’m his wife.”
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I figure I’ll just wallpaper my room with all of them.
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2:49 means fewer showings. 10 fewer showings? Exhibitors are hedging their bets.
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BTW, the Arkansas Times is a monthly magazine. The leading newspaper in Arkansas is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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The Arkansas Times is not pleased with the shout out: arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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Well, if you were a filmgoer in 1963 America, it seemed awfully daring---and that eating scene!
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The line opened 7 minutes ago!
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Amtrak CA has the original note on a delay from 3 hours ago….and that’s it!
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As the grandson of a man who was shot at while helping to bring the UMW to western Arkansas, and the son of a BLE local president, I can’t imagine writing such words.
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Nobody watched the Golden Globes until Weinstein. It was your drunk friend who was being paid to take the girl down the street on a date.
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You're right. When it won, it put Allen in a whole new bracket. Allen was suddenly one of the hot filmmakers.
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But her emails!
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Pay up! I can even tell you where the speakers are from who will address the 3000+ lucky attendees.
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I am watching the ABC News special on Gene and Betsy Hackman's deaths. There is a person who is tossing out brilliant insights about Hackman's craft as an actor. I missed their introduction; who is this person? Then I see the name; it's Dana Stevens! Congratulations your work here; you're terrific!
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Bossier City? Bwahahahaha!
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The nanny state has arrived. No sweets for you!
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My God, this is awful.
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Interviewer Maureen Cleaves was an old friend of the Beatles, and she caught John during their three-month vacation in early 1966, which he spent mostly lounging about high on acid. Here is a link to the full interview: www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1966.0304-...
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Oh, and there was that kid he nicknamed “El Monstro.”
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And it seems no one has brought up Elon's support of AfD in Germany, and the extreme right-wing in England and Italy, either. There's background information and context here that's not being acknowledged.
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Yes. I was expecting "House of Twin Peaks" or something like that; a two-hour long episode of the series featuring damn fine coffee. The second time I watched it I was ready to see what was there instead: a record of pain.
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First time I saw "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," I too thought it was a misfire; it didn't help that the film broke during the final scene at the Dallas movie theater in which I was watching it. Second time I saw it (this time complete) I realized what a horrifying vision of abuse it really is.
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Dear God, what have you done? First I enjoy the essay, and then I begin clicking links and this leads me down the rabbit hole. I am now Hoovering the Flicker Flicks catalog. I love film crevices and corners and niches, and here you have opened a treasure chest of them up for me! Thank you!
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Love "Tush." My introduction to the amazing Jan Hooks!
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Ted Turner didn't start it, but he did buy it. Do you remember the original WTCG with the Brady Bunch and the overnight news with Bill Tush and Tina Seldin and the spots for the disco across the street? I do. The first time I saw it with some friends, one of them thought he was hallucinating.
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My dad, a railroad engineer, felt this: one hot day on a freight train at a Port Arthur refinery, 100°, 100% humidity, and he looked over at the brakeman and the conductor and said, "Right now my dog is lying in a bed under the air conditioner in my dark cold bedroom. And we think we're smart?"
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By the way, if you haven't, read James Agee's "Agee on Film." A little soft, a little sentimental, but so right on what this country did to Charlie Chaplin.
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If you want to know the Establishment opinion on what were the "great movies," Crowther is invaluable. But it's obvious that he and popular culture had taken different paths by 1960. Here is his take on "Breathless": bobmschwartz.com/2022/09/16/j...
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Discovered this book in the Bossier Parish Library in 1979. It was the second book I read about "Great Films"; the first was Bosley Crowther's. A good second step into film criticism. Within the next six months I had discovered Pauline Kael and Paul Seydor and it was Katy bar the door after that.
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Old enough to remember Burger King workers in 1976 with apartments in decent neighborhoods, capable used cars, and a carefully selected wardrobe on $2.40 an hour.
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Ignore both the first paragraph in Donald Trump's tribute, which discusses the exclusive club he is in, and the third paragraph, where he and Melania are chillin' at Mar-a-Lago, and only read the second paragraph, because it's actually not bad, even though he obviously didn't write it.
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Five words: Return of the Secaucus Seven
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Part of the Republican Party's restoration of the Comstock Act.
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Tell these people the student dress code applies to them and they have to either put on a different shirt, turn that one inside out to wear it, or leave.
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I have. The studio ending is actually closer to Tarkington, but the Welles ending is far more devastating and was probably much better.
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It’s awful; especially if you know how Welles shot the ending.
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As Pauline Kael noted, if Robert Wise DID direct this scene, it was the best scene he ever directed in his life.
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When Harold Hamm has his own seat overlooking the lege, what did you expect?
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Not a big KISS fan but everybody needs "ALIVE" and "Destroyer."
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Bloch's short story was in an anthology I read in the 6th grade back in 1970-71. Loved it. Have never seen the Amicus movie, but I am looking forward to seeing it now.
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Slow and kludgy. When you want to see what someone directed and click on directed IMDB cuts that information out of what you can see! Why?!? IMDB had better remember what happened to MySpace.
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Mine was:
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Thank you for telling me about the American film. It was a "hangout summer" for those five.
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The story has been updated, with officials condemning the march of "Neo-Nazis."
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My favorite Hitchcocks:
1. Rear Window
2. To Catch a Thief
3. North by Northwest
4. Shadow of a Doubt
(Yes, I love Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Hitchcock.)
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A film about the most famous night in English Literature! Where's the absinthe?
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Putting gas in the car at a Nashville convenience store during a Country Radio Seminar and recognized Lee Ann Womack across from me doing the same. Had seen her perform at the showcase just a couple of hours earlier. Smiled, nodded my head, and told her "Great show." She smiled and said "Thanks."