Want a Chevy Volt?
If you do, be prepared to pay a $41,000 sticker price (you’ll get a $7,500 tax credit) for a blah sedan that can go about 50 miles on batteries if you charge it overnight, or can use conventional fuel. How … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Movies
Carrying a torch for Ava
Another relaxing but time-wasting YouTube session led me to these clips from the Fifties movie “Show Boat,” not a favorite of mine at all. Ava Gardner, who played Julie, has quite a few songs to sing, and they were all … Continue reading →
Hollywood actors morph
I love those YouTube morph things. Here’s one that features Hollywood actors. When I first watched it, I noticed that—even though I’m not a huge moviegoer—I still recognized the majority (although not all) of the actors. During the video, my … Continue reading →
Marilyn Monroe’s stuffing
I kid you not.
Continue reading →Tap dancing, then and now
Let’s take our minds off politics for a while, shall we? Here’s a video of the fleet-footed, technically adept, incredibly klutzy and profoundly uninteresting (to me) Savion Glover, giant of tap dancing for the last couple of decades: And here … Continue reading →
RIP Tony Curtis
He wasn’t considered the greatest of actors, although his role in “The Defiant Ones” was highly praised in its time. He had a lot of tragedy in his life. Hungarian was his only language until the age of six. He … Continue reading →
To Nancy Pelosi: I do not think that word means…
…what you think it means: Pelosi’s word, by the way, is “momentum.” I think she’s using it to mean, “nowhere to go but up.” The phrase occurs around 8:10 here:I listened to the whole thing, quite fascinated with Pelosi’s arguments … Continue reading →
Impersonation fun with Kevin Spacey
Here’s one of my favorite actors, Kevin Spacey, doing some nifty impersonations. I cannot stand unctuous interviewer James Lipton, but I’ll grit my teeth and bear with him in order to watch Spacey quick-change into each persona. He sets the … Continue reading →
Call it pixie, call it gamine, call it…
…difficult to wear. It takes a very special woman with a very special face to make the pixie haircut work (confession: I am not now, nor have I ever been, that woman). But Emma Watson of “Harry Potter” fame has … Continue reading →
How are Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice doing these days?
Remember this movie, all you older folk like me? Bet you do, if only vaguely; this was the suggestive photo that appeared in the promos: Something made me think of the movie the other day, and I became curious enough … Continue reading →
Nicholas Cage: an acquired taste that very few people have acquired
Gabriel Malor at Ace informs us that the movie “The Sorceror’s Apprentice” is “the lastest Disney and Nic Cage bomb,” which prompts me to observe that Nicholas Cage is the most talentless major film actor I’ve ever seen, a man … Continue reading →
Favorite movies about courts and lawyers
Glenn Reynolds gives out a call: I’m interested in movies and TV about law and lawyers ”” not just stuff with a legal setting, but stuff that revolves around lawyers and what people think of them. Any suggestions? Movies about … Continue reading →