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  1. Doctor Strange

    The Black Hat Brigade

    As I think I said years ago near the start of this thread, I can't wear black hats. With a black hat, I look too much like a Chasidic Jew... and I'm merely a lapsed Reform Jew! I don't "hate" black hats. But dark gray - like Akubra's Carbon/Steel/Mid-Grey - is as close to black as I...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Caught up on a couple of last year's big films: Crazy Rich Asians... Apart from the all-Asian cast - and not to undervalue its significance in that regard - there's nothing to see here. Your standard Cinderella-derived rom-com, nearly entirely unbelievable from start to end. A fantasy of...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I think Interview is a very good adaptation of the book (yeah, I read nearly all of them), with a surprisingly good performance by Cruise. He was not afraid to go big and strange in the role - which he wouldn't have done at a later stage of his career. I was (and remain) much more annoyed by...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched the second episode last night... and it's still holding me, but just barely. I don't like the jumbled timeframe storytelling - this ep is flashbacks within flashbacks, all in the split-second of the last thing that happened in episode one. But Michelle Williams is tremendous as...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes, people generally associate David Lean with those huge mega-productions from The Bridge On The River Kwai onwards, but his earlier intimate dramas - and Dickens adaptations - are all very worthwhile films. I saw The Passionate Friends a long time ago and liked it. I considered DVRing it...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I don't think its weaker acting so much as overall tone. There's always been an aspect of cringe comedy to Better Things, with Sam being so put-upon and overwhelmed from all quarters, and her discomfort becomes our discomfort. And some significant plot and character exaggeration was always built...
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    The David Bromberg Quintet, last night at the intimate, vintage-1902 Irvington Town Hall Theater. (This was essentially a hometown show, he grew up next door in adjacent Tarrytown, NY.) He was great... just as he's been every time I've seen him play since 1974. They blew the roof off the place...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I enjoyed its earlier seasons, but I gave up on High Maintenance a few episodes into this season. I just wasn't connecting with the characters, and after a couple of especially meh episodes it really wasn't working for me any more. I didn't even try Camping: it looked like a loser. Jennifer...
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    I recently got around to doing to a long-procrastinated project: scanning stereo slides that my parents shot circa 1955-1963. As hoped, it turned out to be a bonanza of forgotten images from my early childhood. But first, a bit about stereo slides, since this once popular format is pretty much...
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    Today in History

    March 30, 1939 - Batman debuts in Detective Comics #27, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.
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    Retail Margins on High-End Hats? Need an Expert Hatter's Input

    Sorry, I have no idea about markups. I'm just a hat fan, not in the hat biz. Personally, I'd recommend an around-$110 (depending on dealer and exchange rate) Akubra fur felt hat over any wool felt hat at any price point. I've owned some wool felt hats: they lost shape and eventually started...
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    Retail Margins on High-End Hats? Need an Expert Hatter's Input

    For starters, there are no wool fedoras in that price range... or shouldn't be. "Higher end" generally means fur felt. Rabbit, beaver, or some kind of blend.
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    Leather jacket advice: Please help

    Buying used jackets on eBay can be a crapshoot. Sellers often don't know what they have, don't know how to measure correctly, describe things wrong, etc. There's no question that you can do great, folks here do it daily... but it can require patience and attention. Also luck. If you decide...
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    Show us your photography

    Thanks, Dm101. But I think these kinds of pics are even better in b/w. Here's a shot I did around five years ago, also at Dennings Point, but of a different abandoned building... photographed with good old Tri-X in a 1971 Nikon F2: There's no question that today's phone cameras are great...
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    Photos of cool jackets owned by others (non-brand specific)

    To anyone who's seen the new Captain Marvel flick... While Brie Larson's USAF flight jacket is clearly an A-2, I believe the jacket worn by Annette Bening is the current Cockpit Amelia Earhart model. That seems a weird choice for a military-adjacent scientist in 1995, but it does look good...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine, featured on thousands of 60s/70s recordings: https://www.thedailybeast.com/hal-blaine-the-drummer-who-kicked-off-be-my-baby-dies-at-age-90 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-blaine-dead-wrecking-crew-drummer-was-90-1193961...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Captain Marvel. Though a typically well done Marvel Cinematic Universe film, it's kind of meh. I can't quite put my finger on why it's unsatisfying, because the actors are good, the action is good, it's got the spectacle, it's got the humor, it's got the links to other MCU projects... but I...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Isle of Dogs. Ugh. What the hell happened to Wes Anderson? I was really impressed with his first few films (Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums), but he's retreated so far into his own universe of preciousness in the last decade that his movies are hermetically sealed dispatches from a dreamland...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Ernest, I also watched the first episode of Better Things... and was also underwhelmed. Much of the episode was under-explained and scattered, and it seemed like it was just several disparate sequences that were thrown together and didn't add up. Now the show has always been about how messy...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Edward, I think it's the familiar case that people who are brilliantly creative in one area are often terribly deficient in others. How many genius artists, musicians, writers, etc. have left behind a series of abused/abandoned/ignored partners and spouses, or have otherwise left a trail of...

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