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  1. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Watcha doin', buddy?" "I'm just waiting for the Daily New to be delivered today. It usually comes shortly after the Eagle arrives."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I feel bad for Dr. Levine. ******************************************************** Ah, one feels almost nostalgic for the good old days of society jewel thieves. ******************************************************** Sadly, I doubt Cuba could manufacture of pair of sneaker like that...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Seven Days... Seven Nights from 1960, a French film It is not hard to understand why a pretty, young mother would be deeply bored with her opulent life married to a cold, middle-aged industrialist and stuck in a dreary factory town with no similar women to befriend and nothing, not one thing...
  4. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "How come Vail gets his lost money back with no hassles?" - F. Costello
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    One Hour with You from 1932 with Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young and Charles Ruggle "In Switzerland we have a very peculiar law. If a husband shoots his wife, we put him in jail." - Roland Young lamenting the law as he contemplates his philandering wife...
  6. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Sorry Burms -- game's up!" Oh yeah, but Burma the cat has nine lives, and at least four or five left.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Kudos to Ms. Corby for calling a classic a classic before it became one. That's harder to do than it seems. To this day, it's a top-five, maybe a top-three film noir and film noir, in 1944, was only just starting to ramp up.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Infantry needs t'eat too," points out Ma. Sally frowns. Ma's no fool and poor Sally, the perfect example of the maxim that there are no greater lies than the ones we tell ourselves. *********************************************************************** "nawte'zackly" Just wonderful...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Platinum Blonde from 1931 with Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Loretta Young and Louise Closser Hale Platinum Blonde's story of a middle-class "nobody" marrying a socialite is an early version of a tale Hollywood told repeatedly in the 1930s because it contains one of Tinseltown's favorite...
  10. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I know the woman who wants to adopt Annie means well, but even in 1944, adoption was no slapdash, red-tape free affair. Dollars to donuts that annoying woman is on the board that approves adoptions – her type always is.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Cottage to Let (also known as Bombsight Stolen) from 1942 with Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, George Cole, Carla Lehman, Michael Wilding and Catherine Lacey Despite being back on their heels in 1941, the British still produced a number of high-quality wartime propaganda movies like...
  12. Fading Fast

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I don't think so, unless I did decades ago and forgot it. I didn't love du Maurier's "Jamaica Inn," so I've shied away from her novels ever since. Maybe I should give her another shot as I've enjoyed several of the movies that have been based on her books.
  13. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Well done Frank, even if Ma won't give you much credit. Sure, it's not perfect - but you moved a lot of pieces to better places on the chess board. They should have kept the original birth certificate, though, to show Michael as, from what's been implied of his character, I bet he'd be glad to...
  14. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I thought Frank was going to dig up dirt of Belasco (he has to already have plenty of it on Hops), but he decided to Captain Kirk it with a Kobayashi Maru-style reprograming of the computer, the old-fashioned state-operated paper-record computer. Good for Frank.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Rebecca from 1940 with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson and George Sanders Rebecca is Hitchcock's first American movie, and he hit it right out of the park translating Daphne Du Maurier's haunting novel to the screen as a suspenseful and foreboding mystery with a cast that...
  16. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Marion Estabrook Headrick?" "H. Hubbard Middlecroft?" Is John P. Marquand writing this?" Good one, Lizzie. Marquand mined the East Coast Wasp in the first half the 20th century for novels about as well as anyone. ************************************************************** WHAAAT AAAHRE...
  17. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    4-8-8, 5-9-0, aand 5-7-0 One could hit; life/chance/gambling is funny that way. Ma might need to hedge her book by the end of the day. ************************************************************ "Y'eveh t'row ya skivvies at 'im?" ...wit' red devils an' fieh, inna bat'in suit wit' feat'ehs...
  18. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "It means my jawb if I get caught," trembles Mr. Moran. "Then," frowns Uncle Frank, "doon't get caught." A tear nearly came to my eye as Frank sounded just like he was channeling my long-dead father's style of advice giving.
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    What Are You Reading

    Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns originally published in 1950 There is a genre, maybe it's a style, of novels where a person writes a very passionate story about their own early adulthood as a roman à clef. Every generation has its share of these books. In the 1980s, Jay...
  20. Fading Fast

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Frank seems confident and I doubt he would be if he didn't have a good plan as Ma or Alice (or both) will kill him if he messes up. My guess remains he gets something on them - dirt from their past - that shuts them down completely. Again I'm just guessing, but she didn't hightail it across the...

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