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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Harp, I don't think you're right about "Hubba hubba" coming from Yiddish. I've looked in the resources below and can't find it. What's the connection to the 101st? A Historical Dictionary of American Slang - alphaDictionary.com Yiddish Glossary - The Gantseh Megillah (pass.to) Home- Jewish...- Doctor Strange
- Post #6,412
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Being the Ricardos on Amazon Prime. Lizzie did a good job eviscerating it a couple of pages back. It has its moments, but it's a mess. Just like Aaron Sorkin's infamously failed TV series, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (which you'll recall was set backstage at an SNL-type show), one of its...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,594
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Power of the Dog. It was good, but after being on so many year's-best lists, I'd say it's overrated. It's beautifully shot and very well acted, but I felt at a remove from all the characters and wasn't really engaged. BTW, Julian... My parents took me to see America, America in the movies...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,589
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Taylor's police jacket sale
Reviving this thread because I got an email that Taylor's is having a 30% off everything sale until Xmas. I just ordered a casual, letterman-style wool/leather jacket that was already on closeout - with the sale, just $55!- Doctor Strange
- Post #19
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Count me also as somebody who has never seen Home Alone (keeping in mind I was already in my 30s when it came out). And I haven't seen Die Hard in decades. Being Jewish, "Christmas movies" aren't a thing for me, though I love the vintage classics - A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, It's A...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,547
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
New documentary, The Real Charlie Chaplin, on Showtime: This is a good doc if - unlike me! - you haven't already read and seen nearly everything about Chaplin's life and career. There are no new revelations to reveal at this point, but it does a good job of telling Charlie's fascinating story...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,522
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Of Human Hearts (1938) a period piece directed by MGM house director Clarence Brown... Strange film about a preacher (Walter Huston) and his family (Beulah Bondi and a kid who will grow up to be Jimmy Stewart) who move to the Ohio frontier in the 1850s to take over the congregation of a poor...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,520
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Author of supernatural sagas Anne Rice: Anne Rice, Who Spun Gothic Tales of Vampires, Dies at 80 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) I read A LOT of her books. A few of the earlier ones were great, but she eventually went back to the well too often. And her later books could benefit from...- Doctor Strange
- Post #5,511
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
My Salinger Year, with Margaret Qualley (Andie McDowell's daughter) as a young woman working for Salinger's publisher (Sigourney Weaver) in the 1990s, dealing with the reclusive author and his nutty fans, and trying to become a writer herself. It was pretty good, I'm a sucker for any...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,511
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
I'm surprised I'm reporting this one before you, Worf! Robbie Shakespeare, Prolific Reggae Bassist, Is Dead at 68 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)- Doctor Strange
- Post #5,501
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I saw Cat Ballou in theaters when I was 10 years old and loved it... but boy, it hasn't aged well. I watched a couple of 1930s foreign language films recently recorded from TCM in the wee hours: Walpurgis Night (Swedish, 1935) - Swedish-language melodrama about a newspaper's editor and...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,507
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941
My dad was in the Army Air Corps. Already 21 years old, raised Jewish in NYC and aware of what was happening to Jews in Europe, and knowing that the US would ultimately join the war, he'd already enlisted and finished boot camp before Pearl Harbor. He was in the first wave sent to Hawaii to...- Doctor Strange
- Post #110
- Forum: WWII
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F/S Akubra Stockman 7 3/8 (59) Excellent!
I'm sure someone will jump on this, particularly because Akubra recently dropped the Stockman from their product line and it's a unique hat. I've worn my Glen Grey Stockman plenty since 2007. Its smaller-than-most-country-hats brim and vaguely fedora-ish look makes it a good choice for wearing...- Doctor Strange
- Post #2
- Forum: Classifieds
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's a fun late-era swashbuckler, along with the likes of The Crimson Pirate, The Master of Ballantrae, Prince Valiant, Scaramouche, and those three 1950s Robert Taylor flicks (the best is Ivanhoe). Influence note: Captain Horatio Hornblower, of this film and the series of C.S. Forester novels...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,488
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Ocean's Eleven - and the whole Rat Pack thing in general - has always left me totally cold. I tried watching this again the other day, for like the fourth time, and only made it 15 minutes before I got disgusted and gave up. Lazy, sloppy, incredibly impressed with itself, and wallowing in and...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,486
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Indiana Jones V
Zombie, you should definitely check out Fleabag on Amazon Prime: I've watched it twice and am nearly ready for another go-round. It's a hoot, and writer/star Waller-Bridge is indeed prodigiously talented. Quickies: Star Wars - Though I've seen them all, I haven't really liked ANY film...- Doctor Strange
- Post #527
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I've been very underwhelmed by Stranger Things. I was already an adult when it takes place, so I'm completely immune to most of its nostalgia-for-80s-kids aspect. What's left is mostly a mess - not even fake Spielberg, it's fake J.J. Abrams imitating Spielberg - with an occasionally...- Doctor Strange
- Post #18,134
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The new film Passing on Netflix. The story of two old friends reconnecting in 1920s Harlem: one (Tessa Thompson) is living comfortably, married to a doctor; the other (Ruth Negga) is living even more comfortably: she's been passing for white for years and is married to a wealthy Chicago...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,470
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Cagney had grown up in Lower Manhattan when the Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods were jammed together, and he allegedly could really speak nearly fluent Yiddish. Last night: Six Minutes To Midnight, a recent thriller starring Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, and (in a cameo) Jim Broadbent...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,465
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Famous story re Across the Pacific: John Huston had to report for his war service in the midst of the production. He purposely put Bogie into a cliffhanger situation with no scripted resolution in the shipboard scenes, leaving it a problem for the director assigned to complete the film...- Doctor Strange
- Post #29,441
- Forum: The Moving Picture
