Still more lazy thoughts from this one…

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    Superman: The Movie Intro & Opening Titles

    My generous colleague, Ruth of Flixchatter, kicks off her countdown this week for likely the most anticipated film of the year, Man of Steel. She offered moi a chance to…

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    Friday Forgotten Film: The Master Gunfighter

    “All history is part fact, part fiction, and mostly interpretation.” Many are well aware of the interconnection the American Western and Japanese Jidaigeki films…

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    Reprise: The One Day Read

    The following is a reprise/reprint of a post I did awhile back that was hosted over at the very kind and generous Kaye Wilkinson Barley of the Meandering and Muses site. Kaye, by…

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    Los Angeles: Recommended Reading

    I consider myself pretty damn lucky for a number of reasons. I have a wonderful family and live in a place where I’d want to move, if I wasn’t already here. Plus,…

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    The Hunt for Red October Film Review

    I once wrote the following, and it still applies: “Here we go, again. It is another September 30th. It seems that ever since I became a parent, approaching 14 16 years,…

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    A Week of Muir

    Reblogged from In The Comfy Chair: Earlier this week I posted about John Kenneth Muir’s week-long look at all things Star Trek on his blog, Reflections…

    tmt TMT: “It was nothing like that, penis-breath!”
    James Garner The Garner Files: A Memoir Audiobook Review
    music_notes_png_5765 Friday Song: Goodnight Moon
    dilse-chaiyya Friday Song (& Dance Sequence): Chaiyya Chaiyya
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    Goyokin

    Reblogged from Paragraph Film Reviews: As part of JAPANORAMA I am inviting fellow movie sites to join in. This one is a double-whammy from Michael over…

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    My 13 Favorite Howard Hawks Films

    Name someone who defined the gangster on film — and way, way before Coppola or Scorsese. Who would also go on to shape the screwball comedy, too. Might as well throw in the dark of film noir into the mix. Plus, take on that other Hollywood staple, the Western, challenging John Ford’s domain. And use John Wayne perhaps even more effectively. The answer would be one Howard Winchester Hawks (by the way, John Carpenter’s favorite director).

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    Reprise – Friday Forgotten Song: Stoned Love by The Supremes

    Way back when, I had friends who’d argue endlessly about the quality and achievements of their favorite music groups in comparison with others. None more so than with those groups that transitioned with new members over the years. The music labels were not about to let go of a popular (read money-making) group name just because the lead singer would head out on a solo career (which they also managed).

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    Best Album Covers: Santana

    This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…

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    Just for Reference

    Arguably the best statistical graphic ever, this chart was created by the French engineer Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870). It shows the terrible fate that befell the French army in the Patriotic War of 1812 in a combination of data map and time series (originally drawn in 1861).

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