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  1. Doctor Strange

    Golden Era Anathema

    However you may feel about her as a comedic talent, Lucy deserves some respect for having greenlit production of Star Trek when she ran Desilu.
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    FS: Schott 674 A-2/Flight/Bomber Styled Leather Jacket, size 50

    It's true: they went to the G-1 back on the 674 sometime after my mid-80s sample, but it was still before they introduced the current four-way model. But for the most part, these jackets had nearly the same specs and construction details for a long time. (As I said, back when I got mine, there...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Outstanding actor Chadwick Boseman at just 43 (of colon cancer). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/chadwick-boseman-became-a-superhero-while-battling-cancer This is just brutal, he had so many great performances ahead of him.
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    FS: Schott 674 A-2/Flight/Bomber Styled Leather Jacket, size 50

    As I've said here before, I had the other common variation of this model - brown with a faux-fur G-1 style collar and white pile lining - bought new circa 1984 on sale for $99. It was a GREAT jacket, it carried me through a bunch of NYC winters. I pretty much wore it out and donated it circa...
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    Akubra questions

    I've got a Stylemaster and a Leisure Time... which is the same shape/size as the Banjo Patterson, but less expensive. The Stylemaster is the only Akubra I've handled that I would call "soft". All the others I've had (Federation III, Stockman, Cattleman, Campdraft, Leisure Time) are plenty...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I just recently showed my daughter The Night of the Iguana, which I first saw as a kid and have always liked. Yeah, these are typically broken Tennessee Williams people, but I've always found them a more interesting group than in many of his other plays/films. And you're right, it has an...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Another excellent Juano Hernandez performance: Intruder in the Dust (1949).
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    The 100 Best Silent Films

    I visit Paste every few days but I hadn't seen this listicle. It seems a pretty good list. I am a world-class Buster Keaton fan, but I think too many of his lesser films are included. There are so many great Chaplin, Lloyd, Langdon, Laurel & Hardy, Chase, etc. films that I'd include before...
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    V-J Day 75th Anniversary (14 Aug)

    My father joined the Army Air Corps months before Pearl Harbor and ended up as a photography specialist, a sergeant running a darkroom (staffed by civilian women!) in Gulfport, MS. So of course, I have lots of pictures from his service, but this one seems appropriate: all the guys in his...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I didn't watch the last two eps of The Alienist yet... and I'm keeping my expectations VERY low. But I did binge the first half of the new HBO Perry Mason series on demand. Okay, so it's not your father's Perry Mason, this is an origin story set in the 1932 when he's working as a scuzzy...
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    Some recent shots from around Beacon, NY taken with my vintage-1963 Olympus Pen F half-frame 35mm SLR. (On Tri-X 400, souped in D-76 1:1, scanned at 2400dpi.) Using this camera is such a pleasure: it's an outstanding example of midcentury design and engineering... and it takes 50+ shots on a...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Golden age Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-dead-gone-wind-adventures-robin-hood-star-was-104-720040 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/movies/olivia-de-havilland-dead.html
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's a classic example of the British "kitchen sink" dramas that were in vogue then. Also see Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Entertainer, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, and a bunch more. The cycle burned itself out a few years later with Alfie and Georgy...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The new version of Little Women written and directed by Greta Gerwig. (Oddly, it's already available at Starz On Demand... though it hasn't yet had a prime time premiere on any of the Starz cable channels.) Very well done, with a fantastic cast. There's just one thing I didn't like: the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I think it's the writing that's the main problem, plus the direction of the actors. (I mean, could Ted Levine be twirling his moustache any harder?!?) I've seen all of these actors give better performances in other things. And as I said about the first season when it ran: I'd enjoyed the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Ernest: The Alienist's outstanding production values are the main reason I am watching. Not for the story or acting, which mostly continue to underwhelm. Who knew that Budapest could make such a great 1890s NYC?!?
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    The great "vocalese" singer Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross fame: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/arts/music/annie-ross-dies.html
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Laggies - a recent pseudo-romantic comedy from the late director Lynn Shelton (whose work I admire) starring Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, and Chloe Grace Moretz. Despite having a great grad degree and planned career, Knightley is ten years out of high school, and at a loss as her friends...
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    Panama Hat Thread

    Excellently detailed NYT article about the remarkable artisans who craft fine panama hats: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/travel/panama-hats-ecuador.html
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    Stetson Dune Model

    I've looked at the Dune with interest many times over the years... Please don't take this the wrong way, but the Dune has always struck me as Stetson's version of an Australian outback hat. If you want that style, why wouldn't you just get an Akubra? Less expensive, outstanding quality, lots...

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