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  1. Doctor Strange

    For those into the amish style hats...a link!!

    Wool felt? That's cheap dreck. Surely the actual Amish wear fur felt hats, no? I see Stetson makes a couple of models: https://www.stetson.com/store/amish-4x-fur-blend-hat-1.html https://www.amazon.com/Stetson-Amish-Hat-Inch-Brim/dp/B018YG8D3W This was on a quick Google, no doubt there...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Re A Carol for Another Christmas, I saw it on TCM a couple of years ago. I thought it was a very interesting Cold War era artifact... but not an especially successful variant of the story. I agree that it's worth watching once just for its historic value and bizarre approach, but it's far from...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The series finale of Timeless on NBC. I know a lot of folks here were initially disappointed by this series and gave up on it, and I'll grant you that it was never quite as smart as it should have been in many ways. But it evolved. It was ambitious and well produced, and the charismatic...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Yes, it has definitely reminded me of Escape From Alcatraz at points too. And the direction isn't a surprise, Stiller has been an accomplished director for years, going back to his early 90s sketch series and Reality Bites.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A couple of recent items for an upcoming discussion with my film group: Hold The Dark and You Were Never Really Here. Both are dark, violent, depressing, and totally unbelievable - not my taste at all. I'm sick of stories with murdering psychos as the protagonists. And now for something...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I understand: there are many films/minis nowadays based on real-life events I recall well and have no desire to relive. But thus far - five eps out of seven - there's really been nothing at all outside the prison, the story is intensely focused on the three principals. So far, it's entirely...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Episode 5 of Escape to Dannemora. Nearly unbearably tense! I still think this series is dragging its story out for too long, but it is VERY well done in all other regards. And is a recorded Broadway show appearing on Netflix a legit "TV show"? Either way, I watched the just-dropped...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Hey, White Christmas is what it is. A borderline terrible movie, hopelessly old-fashioned even when it opened, loaded with overwrought schmaltz (a term it actually name-checks in attempted lampshading), with some okay performances and songs. But I saw it a bunch of times as a kid - one of the...
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    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Hence this classic trope throughout film/TV/other media! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassLongcoat
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    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    We all know our smartphone GPS data is tracked to some extent... but this NYT piece from a few days ago scared the heck out of me! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
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    Akubra Banjo v Leisure Time

    Also: the Banjo Patterson is made of the more expensive Heritage felt, the Leisure Time the standard Imperial felt. Because of that, I've always felt that the Leisure Time is essentially the same hat for less money. I just got a Leisure Time earlier this year, and it's awesome!
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    Thin, lightweight cafe racer jacket?

    A couple of years down the road, I'm very happy with my Schott 654, it's a sweet spring and fall jacket. It's too cold here to wear it now, but it got plenty of use a couple of months ago - selfie from October: (The hat's a Glen Grey Akubra Stockman I've had for 11 years.)
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    Looking for hat information?

    Yes. Some other Akubra dealers offer the Adventurer as their old-school, Indy-ish fedora, but it has different dimensions.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The first four episodes of Escape at Dannemora, the new Showtime miniseries with Paul Dano, Benicio del Toro, and Patricia Arquette (and, surprisingly, directed by Ben Stiller). It's very well done, and it's a helluva story... but it's annoyingly dragged out at seven episodes. I think it would...
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    Show Us Your Vintage Hat Store

    I've been a hat guy for a long time, since my teens in the late sixties. Back around 1967 or 1968, I bought this Stetson boater: And a few years later, a second one when we destroyed the first when I starred in a Super 8 silent comedy (note punched-through crown in cast pic!): Both of...
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    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    This kind of forum is as close to social media as I'll go. I resisted joining Facebook for years, and all my fears about privacy violations were dismissed by my friends as luddite paranoia... but it turns out I was right. Sorry, I don't exist to be data-mined and dossier-ed under cover of...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Pandora's Box, a silent classic that's been on my mental to-see list for about fifty years now, via DVR and (of course!) TCM. While there's a lot of silent melodrama in this flick that doesn't play that well these days, there's no question that Louise Brooks had stunning beauty and charisma...
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    What is the best way to store leather jackets?

    If I was putting them in a storage unit, I'd just hang them on a broom/pipe or garment rack and leave some space between them so the air can circulate around them freely. There won't be much dust to settle on them in an enclosed unit, and if it's going to be (very) hot, you don't want them...
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    FS Schott 674MS, rare, nearly new

    Good to know, thanks.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Ace character actor Philip Bosco: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/obituaries/philip-bosco-dead.html While he did appear in movies, he was primarily a legitimate theater actor. I was lucky to see a couple of his performances in NYC productions of Shaw plays in the 70s/80s... he was awesome.

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