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What was the last TV show you watched?
Both of my (Jewish) parents served in WWII... So I DVR'd it and am really looking forward to it... But I just had to watch The Americans live on its initial broadcast last night! And it was another fantastic episode. The Americans remains an outstanding drama in its final season.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
I stand corrected. I have no idea who she is. (Okay, I Wiki'ed the film - she's an actor whose name I don't ever recall hearing. She only appeared in seven films! Congrats on coming up with a tougher question than it appeared.)- Doctor Strange
- Post #245
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
I'm not a big western guy myself, but Stagecoach is one of the uber-classics of the genre, right up there with Shane, High Noon, The Gunfighter, The Searchers, etc. And its disparate-group-representing-different-POVs-traveling-together-through-danger plot remains a very frequently used template...- Doctor Strange
- Post #242
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
Come on, I'm surprised at you people - this is a VERY well known film! Stagecoach, 1939, directed by John Ford, with John Wayne's starmaking role as Johnny Ringo. John Carradine, Donald Meek, Claire Trevor- Doctor Strange
- Post #239
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
My oldest film collector friend - we made Super 8 films together in the seventies - is a major guy in the NYC Tent of the Sons of the Desert, he joined around 1971. He held the title Keeper of the Celluloid - the person who put together their meeting's film programs - for many years. I went to...- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,160
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Comic great Chuck McCann. If you were a kid watching NYC-based TV in the sixties - like me - this guy was significant. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,158
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Fading, I agree on The Zookeeper's Wife. Normally I'll watch Jessica Chastain in anything, but I gave up on this flick after about twenty minutes. I just didn't believe it, and the film's tone immediately rubbed me the wrong way.- Doctor Strange
- Post #24,981
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Who Did You Just See Live?
The always astounding Richard Thompson, playing solo acoustic at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY. A two-hour show with no break, standing up banging the hell out of his guitar, displaying remarkable stamina for a guy pushing 70. And what a wide range of songs/styles and virtuoso playing...- Doctor Strange
- Post #376
- Forum: Radio
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Masterful Japanese animation director Isao Takahata. Not as famous as his Studio Ghibli partner Miyazaki, but nearly as talented. I am particularly fond of his charming look-back-at-youth film Only Yesterday. Most recently, he was a co-producer of the beautiful fable The Red Turtle...- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,157
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Last night's film - Maudie (2016). Interesting biopic about Canadian folk artist Maude Lewis with a(nother) tremendous lead performance by Sally Hawkins. A strong performance by Ethan Hawke too, as her (initially) brutish, inarticulate husband. I was impressed that he was willing to be so...- Doctor Strange
- Post #24,953
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
We had those Charles Chips cans delivered to my parents' (Yonkers, NY) photo studio too!- Doctor Strange
- Post #7,587
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Another surprising Jack Black performance I strongly recommend is in Richard Linklater's Bernie. Like a lot of comic actors, he can be very impressive when he tamps down his usual shtick and actually plays a part. They say comedy is harder than drama, yet in every era, when a comedian plays a...- Doctor Strange
- Post #24,951
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Sorry, I hadn't seen it in a while, I forgot it took place in PA. But Wanamker's was a major NY chain too. We had a huge Wanamaker's (what would be called an anchor store... in the mall terminology that would come later) at the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers, NY when I was a kid in...- Doctor Strange
- Post #24,944
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
No, it takes place in NYC. I personally doubt this is an early example of product placement. More likely it was just an actual newspaper.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
You know, pretty much the only one of my friends who understands my fascination with jackets IS a gay man with a moto jacket fetish! Though we come at it from different directions, we agree on the value of style, construction quality, and personal presentation... And the sheer coolness of...- Doctor Strange
- Post #9,056
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Like most early comic book characters, Superman was created by urbanites, the sons of Jewish immigrants. They didn't know from the heartland. It's the same with the Fleischer "New York school" animators vs. Disney/Warners/etc. - they were mostly Jewish and Italian kids from the Lower East Side...- Doctor Strange
- Post #15,827
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
There's no question that the Fleischer Superman cartoons are masterpieces - I've owned some in every collecting medium since 1972: Super 8 film, 16mm film, VHS, DVD. But I'm sorry, I have to take issue with their being the "best translation". They represent a very embryonic version of the...- Doctor Strange
- Post #15,825
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
As a classic eighties Rolling Stone cover said of Jim Morrison: He's hot. He's hip. He's dead. Which is to say, he couldn't turn into Old Elvis. All those musicians that died at 27 - Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Jones, Pigpen, etc. - couldn't ever "sell out" and play Vegas... and lose their...- Doctor Strange
- Post #7,529
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
I'm surprised nobody's posted about Steven Bochco yet. This is the best appreciation piece I've seen about his hugely influential career: http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/steven-bochco-obit.html- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,154
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I agree, which is why I got the first two seasons - the b/w half of the series - on DVD and didn't bother with the rest. I'll go further and say I really prefer the first season, with its more adult noirish plots and delightfully abrasive Phyllis Coates take on Lois. And Reeves doesn't yet...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
