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  1. Benzadmiral

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    I decided to go with the new hat from Panama Jack. There's always the chance that an eBay find might not fit or not be in as good condition as described. Thanks, guys. (Phil, my barber, has been cutting my hair -- except for my time in Colorado -- since 1979, not long after he opened his...
  2. Benzadmiral

    Show us their hats!

    The Godwulf Manuscript was first, then God Save the Child, in which Susan debuts. There's the third, Mortal Stakes, in which Susan and Spenser are not quite the unquestioned couple they are to become; and then came the novel in which Hawk first appears, Promised Land. At that point Parker had...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    My favorite portions of John Ford's The Searchers. There are at least 2 moments in the film where John Wayne, as Ethan Edwards, truly projects something that is NOT the standard John Wayne persona as exemplified in so many of his films; the image that nearly everybody thinks of when you say...
  4. Benzadmiral

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    I have read the novel more than once, and knew a film had been made with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson. But I didn't know Renee was in it! If you liked the main characters, there are a couple more novels in the series, at least one or two written by Robert Parker himself, and one or more by...
  5. Benzadmiral

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    Delmonico didn't seem to have anything like the model I was looking for. I tried the actual Panama Jack website, and they say they have a small: https://www.panamajack.com/men-s-cloth-canvas-hats/original-canvas-safari-hat-hpj39nc-na-2x#tab-reviews This looks exactly like the one he has...
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    Hey, hat folk, My long-time barber is in need of a new lid. He mentioned it Saturday, and I inspected his current hat: a Dorfman Pacific cotton canvas model, short-brimmed, size S, stained by years of rain. He said the model line was "Panama Jack," which I thought sold only straws these days...
  8. Benzadmiral

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Isn't the young guy Joe Mankiewicz's son, Ben?
  9. Benzadmiral

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    If only someone had done, or would do now as period pieces, Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm stories as true to the novels. They are definitely hardboiled spy stuff -- Hammett and Chandler would have been at home with them. Hamilton had a number of novels, generally Westerns, turned into good...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Last week's episode of Riverdale, in which they pulled off a stunt: Each of the main actors plays both his regular role, and in several long flashbacks, his or her parent! Cole "Jughead" Sprouse impressed me as he suggested Skeet Ulrich (who plays his father), K.J. "Archie" Apa with brown hair...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A big chunk of The Philadelphia Story (1940). What impressed me, along with the oceans of sprightly dialog delivered with style, was the two sides to Cary Grant's character, C.K. Dexter Haven. He's smart and witty and gives as good as he gets with his former wife, Tracy (Katharine Hepburn)...
  13. Benzadmiral

    Star Trek

    The impression I always got was that Kruge was insane even for a Klingon -- a sort of Captain Queeg without the pitiful aspect.
  14. Benzadmiral

    Barber shops

    The fellow I've been going to since 1979 graduated with his current business partner from barber college on a day nobody will forget: Nov. 22, 1963. Phil and Frank each have a space in their shop, and there are 4 other spaces, mostly used by women stylists. But you can still get a regular old...
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    Vintage Cars

    The oldest car I ever owned and drove was a '65 Mercury Park Lane, the enormous full-size 4-door with the power rear window that slanted inward. If you rolled down all the windows, including the triangular vent windows, and the rear one, and drove at 40+ mph on a drizzly day, you didn't even...
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    What Are You Reading

    Re-reading Stephen King's 11/22/63, which has been discussed here, as I recall. It's still a wonderfully entertaining story. I have some Dick Francis novels and a more recent King on my reading shelf at home.
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    What Are You Reading

    Cuckoo does take some stylistic twirls, but they are Kesey's view of the narrator, the Chief, who is borderline schizophrenic and writes from his own peculiar space within that -- at first. The Chief improves (because of the central character Nicholson played, McMurphy), and so does the reading...
  19. Benzadmiral

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Another Season Two episode of The Fugitive: "May God Have Mercy." While working as a hospital orderly, Kimble is recognized and when he tries to run, is shot and then hospitalized. Lt. Gerard arrives to claim him but a surprise awaits: Someone else now claims to be the murderer of Kimble's...
  20. Benzadmiral

    My Shaving SAGA

    I too have a beard, the trimmed "Commander Riker" type, but I shave nearly every day with one of 5 (for now) safety razors. All Gillettes. The oldest is the latest acquisition, a 1930s "New" model, a 3-piece open comb with short teeth. As I understand it, it holds the blade more rigidly than...
  21. Benzadmiral

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Another Season Two Fugitive, "Corner of Hell" -- a Lt. Gerard episode. This one featured a set of backwoods moonshiners, white trash to give all white trash a bad name: with veteran character actor R.G. Armstrong as the patriarch, Bruce Dern as one of the community, and Sharon Farrell as Elvie...
  22. Benzadmiral

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I seem to recall that in the original Bewitched, in 1964 and onward, Darrin and Samantha had a double bed. Laura and Rob Petrie didn't, but by '64 I guess it was okay.
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    Star Trek

    "Con permiso, Capitan. The hall is rented; the orchestra engaged. Now it's time to see if you can dance." ( -- Q's exit line after he has flipped the Enterprise out into completely unknown space as a test)

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