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 →
Category Archives: Movies
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 →
About that Keynes/Hayek rap video
Remember this clever video on Keynes and Hayek’s theories? Look at the actors in it: And look at the actual men, when they were young. Here’s Keynes: And here’s Hayek: Pretty good likenesses, no?
Continue reading →Mr. Brown Goes To Washington
I’ve been saving that title for quite some time. And now there it is, big as life—because Scott Brown, the Republican Senator-elect from Massachusetts, has gone to Washington today. Flying coach. As John McCain said, “Sen. Brown represents the dreams … Continue reading →
How to defy the aging process
How? Be Sophia Loren. The lady is 75 years old, and she’d be looking good even for fifty. Actually, she’d be looking good even for forty. There’s no super-taut, fake, worked-on look, either. Here Loren was at last night’s Golden … Continue reading →
Earth’s a distant second to the world of “Avatar”
In my “Avatar” post, I wrote: [The movie] fits in so nicely with the current notions of many of the AGW and PETA folks””that humans (especially of the first-world variety) are the scourge of an otherwise wonderful earth””that it makes … Continue reading →
Avatar: the war against humans
I decided to go see the movie “Avatar” even though I knew that, as a futuristic action film loaded with special effects, it probably wasn’t going to make my top-ten list. The idea of a 3-D movie intrigued me, though, … Continue reading →