Just wanted to get that out there. For those of you following from home, the news is that the manufacturer of my on-the-fritz-since-July plasma display has managed, according to them,…
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"...carried away by his re-creation of the past..." From von Sternberg's The Last Command Surrender (1927) represents the only American appearance of the famous Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine (né Mozzhukin,…
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That thirty days had taught the punk a lesson. It had made him feel badly, costing Violet all that money. Every time she'd had enough saved to divorce the Old…
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It's taken me a while to get to it, but right now I'm enjoying the hell out of Jimmy Breslin's brisk, droll The Good Rat, which is, among other things,…
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It would seem that one John Derbyshire finds you physically attractive. UPDATE: By popular, or maybe I should say semi-popular demand, my Ellen Page Cannes anecdote. Not that the above bit…
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Since the arrival of the Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 Red Desert, I've been watching that picture a lot. And no, it sure doesn't get old. But…
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