In the continuing soap opera Hurricane Billy Howls Again, a new development. Despite William Friedkin's insistence that, as was the case with his controversial Blu-ray re-imagining of The French Connection,…
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The punch line to one of the worst punning jokes in the history of Western Civ frequently comes to mind when I'm compelled to contemplate the work of former gamine…
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Antonia Ellis (later to play Alma Mahler Cosima Wagner—really!) is a stripper and a health-care professional, or something, in Percy, a rather misbegotten 1971 British sex farce which is, for reasons…
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Early yesterday afternoon I and my fellow Carroll Gardeners were indulging in a bit of wishful thinking, letting the warmth of the direct sunlight delude us into believing that Spring…
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I know, I know, I'm supposed to lay off this kind of thing, but I can't help it. I've been chortling like a hyena in an old Looney Tunes short…
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I've been looking at the Criterion Collection's magnificent Blu-ray disc of Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro recently, and it's been a little difficult for me to follow the film itself,…
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