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  1. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    It's interesting to try and figure out what entire eras of publishing or film were either unconsciously or just through fadish mimicry trying to sell. I don't mean products but ideas or ways of life or justifications. Every once in a while I think I'm beginning to clue in on something, some...
  2. MikeKardec

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Sadly, cities these days have a sort of winner take all dominance over more mid and small sized towns, that didn't used to be the case. The local town often had just as important businesses and economy as the "big city" did. Places in the West (or institutions) that had money often went for...
  3. MikeKardec

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    This is interesting and I'm trying to catch up ... if anyone has a problem with my blathering on just skip right by my entries! We have to be careful assuming stuff like that, they were a lot closer to those times than we are. I've been revising a book my father started in the 1930s and ran...
  4. MikeKardec

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Reality in entertainment is greatly overrated but that "willing suspension of disbelief" concept is important! WAY too many Westerns in both prose and film exist in that nebulous "late frontier period" and behave like it somehow lasted for longer than the 30 short years that it did. Really...
  5. MikeKardec

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I probably went on too long about the details of movie smoking in my page-one post but I'll pop back in and say that with all the "effect" smoke used in movies, just to make the lighting look good and not having anything to do with cigarettes, the actual cigarette smoke just gets lost in the...
  7. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    In a group that insulated from the world and desperately celebrating their tottering on top of a giant crumbling pedestal of power and power relationships, it seems to me that "boyfriend" behavior doesn't have to be conventionally sexual. There were LOTS of needs to be met in that group that...
  8. MikeKardec

    What Are You Reading

    So how is it? I have it but haven't tried reading it yet.
  9. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Having some difficulty wrapping up the Independent Film essay, I just have to get serious and wrap up the description of the final premiere and ultimate outcome of the film. I think some of it is that it wasn't a particularly good movie but I don't want to get critical. The "prefect" story is...
  10. MikeKardec

    Disappearing vintage archetecture and decorating

    A year is nothing, I hate to say it but if your going to sell why do anything?
  11. MikeKardec

    Fishtail Trousers/Button Fly Trousers

    http://www.bookster.co.uk/ They have a lot of cloth but if you find something in stock at most major British fabric houses they can get it. They are very nice to deal with though not especially quick. Their prices are reasonable though maybe not a bargain.
  13. MikeKardec

    Disappearing vintage archetecture and decorating

    I always try to put something back when I take something away. If I do proceed with the planned remodel a number of the none too wonderful but still original windows will have to be updated per code (I was hoping to just reconfigure the old ones), on the other hand I will put in the old push...
  14. MikeKardec

    Disappearing vintage archetecture and decorating

    I've been very lucky. I've rented a post war tract house that was unchanged since 1947, a basement apartment in Beverly Hills in a building built in 1930 that was about as big as a volleyball court but was only one room, a townhouse at Park LaBrea ca 1941, then back to BH for a HUGE upstairs...
  15. MikeKardec

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    There is no business like show business! At it's best it's amazing and you get to work with some amazingly talented people. In the crafts (sets, makeup, sound, camera) it's nearly a pure meritocracy with significant competition, the cream rises to the top. At it's worst, dealing with the...
  16. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I've moved on to an essay about the making of one of the first truly modern "Independent" feature films. An insane juggling act of theater commitments, casting, weather, banks, scripts and such. It's no wonder you usually hear of film makers only doing this sort of thing once in their lives...
  17. MikeKardec

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Actually, your blocking; your actions on set, moving from the window to a chair, lighting a cigarette, whatever, not only can help with the performance but each action serves to remind the actor what their next lines are. As an actor the first thing you do is recognize what it is that you...
  19. MikeKardec

    Disappearing vintage archetecture and decorating

    My old house needs work and so, before I commit to the significant expense of upgrading, I've been casually stopping in at open houses in my general neighborhood. When I moved in 20 years ago there were homes built between the '20s and the '50s sporting their original fixtures and architectural...
  20. MikeKardec

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Product placement is an old technique for helping to finance films. It became noticeable in the 1980s because it was suddenly in your face as advertisers wanted to see what they were paying serious $$$ for on the screen. Prior to that I'm guessing (and given what others have said here) that it...
  21. MikeKardec

    Frank Sinatra's vacation retreat is for sale

    I think you are right. You also have to take into consideration that real estate is just different. It's not portable and you can't buy a $3 mil plus on a whim, unless you are one of a very the few people on earth who have that much money, and they tend to be the people who ARE the "Frank...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Just a few days ago I discovered a scene taking a very interesting, lifelike, turn because it had been sort of an odd stub that wasn't going anywhere and I decided to 1) keep it and, 2) make it work and thus go somewhere. Now it has that chemical verisimilitude that fiction sometimes lacks but...
  23. MikeKardec

    My Book - America in the Thirties

    Fantastic! Congratulations and other adulations!

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