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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I've had this one on my to-be-seen list since it came out. You are motivating me to see if I can find it. I think it is hard to understand the world today if you don't having a working understanding of WWI and WWII, but as you note, few today care about WWI at all.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig first published posthumously in 1982, but written sometime in the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s In The Post-Office Girl, Austrian writer Stefan Zweig spins an engaging and, ultimately, noirish tale about a young woman, Christine, whose family was...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"What, no gifts for me!?" "If we are making a list of discarded Caniff women, what about me?" "I can't believe it, another Christmas and still no new bag." "Merry Christmas to all."- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
1. I believe in Krause. I'd gladly put up the bail, that man is innocent. 2. "Thank you for the music box, Terry. I wish I had a box to give you for Christmas." 3. I hope Penny reads that classified.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your favorite movie quotes
From Roadblock from 1951 with Charles McGraw and Joan Dixon where McGraw plays a detective, with a detective's salary, and Dixon plays a pretty woman with expensive tastes. Diane (Joan Dixon): Someday you're going to want something nice and expensive that you can't afford on a detective's...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
You could feel Sally's embarrassment so strongly that I think I was blushing with her. God love Alice, but she is not the most-aware person on earth. That is a wonderfully written scene. "whassat 'ob ske ne?' "Obscene," LOL- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
You have to like Mr. Ginsburg. He's just a solid guy.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...but t'ey wouldn' let me drive no nails inna concrete." :) It is so perfect that Sally has a "Dorot'y Kilgallen" as a life foil. Annie needs to read up on "The Broken Window Fallacy" by Frederic Bastiat (shockingly, a French economist worth reading).- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
My ever shifting favorite Christmas movie list now includes "Miracle on 34th Street" in the top five.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Shield for Murder from 1954 with Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English and Caroline Jones (in a fun, small role as a prostitute) The thing about noir, for all its darkness, the good guys almost always win and the bad guys almost always lose - in the end. Until the late 1950s, that's what...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
LIttle does Alice know that she just auditioned to be a parent and Ma, who plays a great game of long ball, liked what she saw. Awesome writing Lizzie, kudos. The Krause and Frank scene was darn good too.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Man I Love from 1946 with Ida Lupino, Bruce Bennett and Robert Alda The Man I Love tries to tell too many stories, but solid acting and directing keep it from becoming a multi-car pile-up even when a few storylines get dropped or are too-easily resolved. It also helps having petite, pretty...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Ladies of Leisure from 1930 with Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Marie Prevost, Nance O'Neil, Lowell Sherman and George Fawcett Many women turned to prostitution in the Depression to get by. The pretty and personable ones, like the characters played by Barbara Stanwyck and Marie Prevost in...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison from 1957 with Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum A nun and a marine have to survive alone on an, alternatingly, abandoned and occupied-by-the-Japanese island in the South Pacific in WWII. It's a "two fish out of water forced together" tale that is funny, dramatic and...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I understand Alice's aversion to bars on windows, but she'll want those bars on a basement window in Brooklyn, even in the "safe" post war years, especially if she is , oh I don't know, raising a kid, anyone's kid.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Krause and Alice met at the right time in their lives. Five or ten years earlier, they wouldn't have been ready for each other. (Well, Alice might not have been "available" for part of that time, too.) Sometimes Caniff's storytelling is so good, I don't give the illustrations enough credit, but...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott The introduction to The Quiet Little Woman (no spoilers) explains that, in Alcott's time, five young sisters, inspired by Ms. Alcott’s books, started a small magazine out of their home in Massachusetts. With the help of a printer, they achieved a...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
I did not think Caniff would kill off another character, especially a woman, after Raven Sherman, but I'm not feeling so sure about that anymore. And yes, the coffee coming out of the dolphin's mouth is fanfreakintastic.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Yes, that was quite mean of him.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
