Actor Charles Grodin died yesterday at the age of 86. He was fabulous in one of my favorite movies of all time, “Midnight Run.” In the movie, Grodin played an accountant who had embezzled money from a Chicago mobster, and … Continue reading →
I love these: This one is great but the added sounds are awful: From a comment there: The children names and what they became: 0:03 : this is Madeleine Koehler, born in 1895, second child of Jeanne Lumière (sister of … Continue reading →
VDH has long been one of my favorite political commentators. I don’t agree with everything he says in this entire video, but I’ve cued it up to show a part where he makes an interesting analogy (although he starts by … Continue reading →
Escapism. Watch about the first 13 minutes. Ann Miller lied about her age big time when she began her career, but she got away with it because she looked like a woman. She had a very protective mother to keep … Continue reading →
Here’s the trailer for the documentary “The Plot Against the President” about Russiagate: And here’s the movie’s Amazon page. It seems that you can get it free if you’re a Prime member, if I read that right. I watched the … Continue reading →
It’s almost as complicated as the Nuremberg Laws. Please take a look: To be eligible for best picture, a film must meet at least two standards across four categories: “Onscreen Representation, Themes and Narratives,” “Creative Leadership and Project Team,” “Industry … Continue reading →
Suprisingly interesting – at least to me, and to the person speaking as well. This young woman wore 18th Century clothing for five years, and she talks about the experience. The talking part starts at 2:08. The small tattoo on … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: scroll down for new posts.] Commenter “Snow on Pine” asks, of the left and the rioters: Having created the monster, do those on the Left believe that they can call it back, that those who have tasted excitement … Continue reading →
If you didn’t know the history of this clip, you probably wouldn’t think it at all extraordinary. But it’s Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer,” uttering the first line ever spoken in the movies. The audience was stunned. And I … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of a previous post.] I saw that film on TV maybe 30 times when I was a child. Loved it, and in particular loved the idea that James Cagney—whom I already knew as a … Continue reading →
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
It’s about one of my pet peeves, the obligatory sinewy cinema heroine who can beat up any guy in the house.
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