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  1. Julian Shellhammer

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Duncan Taylor scotch, neat.
  2. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ooops. Busted.
  3. Julian Shellhammer

    The Fragmentation Of History

    The quality of the comments on this thread are intimidating; to add my comment would be like bringing a pb&j to a feast. Nonetheless, I agree with LizzieMaine in the original post: too much thinking about an issue is filtered through "presentism," which is saying that the way it is now is the...
  4. Julian Shellhammer

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Last night the Missus finished off the Riesling left over from Easter dinner which we hosted, and I went with the dependable standby of a whiskey sour.
  5. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The other night it was It's a Great Feeling (1949) with Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, and Jack Carson. Tons of cameos, from Joan Crawford to Edgar G. Robinson and all points in-between. The basic plot is Doris Day is small-town singer who waitresses in Hollywood while waiting for her big break...
  7. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Uh-oh, I miswrote myself: the title of the Jack Benny podcast referenced above is This Day in Jack Benny. mea culpa... To continue the observation by LizzieMaine, radio budgets (by the mid-50s -ish) were shrinking and the tv money was top dog. Noticeable was Benny's plugs for his tv show worked...
  8. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On Saturday night, Gilda. Another classic movie with which the Missus was unfamiliar. She reeeelly liked it.
  9. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    A couple of Jack Benny broadcasts, from early- to mid-fifties era, from a podcast called Today in Jack Benny. The host gives a frame of reference to the story-line and jokes, often with clips from other radio programs and movie dialogue. These two shows feel like they were using canned...
  10. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The three-part BBC series Mrs. Wilson, wrapping it up in two nights. We really wanted to see how and why Alexander Wilson lived the lives he did. We just started the BBC version of Les Miserables, first episode. We will wait and see if we commit to the whole shebang. ...and sprinkled in there...
  11. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Last week some time, The Big Heat off the Criterion Channel. Lee Marvin is sub-feral. With Youngest Shellhammer, The Day the Earth Froze, the Finnish-Russian production of a folktale, edited, dubbed, and marketed by American-International. As MST3K'ed by Joel and the 'bots.
  13. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    So Dark the Night (1946) with Steven Geray as Monsieur Cassin, a Paris superstar detective who takes a vacation in a small village. Romance, drama, and murder ensue. Stay until the end for the denouement. Filmed right here in California. Part of the Columbia Noir set on the new Criterion Channel.
  14. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Fantastic Beasts: the Grindelwald one. The Missus and I didn't follow exactly who was who and what was what, which diminished our overall enjoyment. Dazzling, state-of-the-art CGI effects do not compensate for Eddie Redmayne's affectation of staring away from whomever is engaged in dialogue with...
  15. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    ...and I did check out an episode of Twenty-first Precinct, on a podcast called Case Closed. Tight constructed, well-written, solidly acted, with Everett Sloan as the Captain. The Dragnet influence is hard to avoid, with the police trying to get the facts and the witnesses and by-standers going...
  16. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The last episode of Foyle's War, off Acorn. The general feel of the series was deceptively slow, time and again a good mystery with a surprise ending. We were sad to see it end.
  17. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    I will check out Twenty-first Precinct. Read about it in Tune In Yesterday but never listened--
  19. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Two episodes of The Lineup from about 1952. Clearly a riff on Dragnet, with deadpan-voiced cops semi-mumbling as they work their way through solving crime. Some overlapping dialogue, especially at the opening line up in the police station, with two officers discussing their next assignment while...
  20. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On Saturday night, the Missus and I watched A Slight Case of Murder, with Edward G. Robinson, off of the TCM streaming app. Hilarious in parts, with Damon Runyon's stage-to-screen dialogue rattled off at blinding speed. Definitely worth a watch. Keep the subtitles on so that you catch the...
  21. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Let There Be Light, the John Huston documentary about the treatment of returning WW2 vets who were suffering from what we would now call PTSD. In the film they occasionally use the term battle neurosis.
  22. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    This was once a BBC tv show, Hollywood by Kevin Brownlow, off of youtube. Episode 5, about the silent era stunt men.
  23. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Part of a show called Blandings, based on the P. G. Wodehouse books about the Emsworth family at Blandings Castle. English humor doesn't travel well into my American sense of funny, but what little I saw was enjoyable. Jack Farthing, who plays scoundrel George Warleggen on Poldark, plays a...

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