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  1. Doctor Strange

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think Bing Crosby was even more the template for Elvis than Jolson in the white-guy-sings-black-style-and-becomes-a-smash deal. Or more precisely, it's easier to see from a modern POV. I don't disagree that Jolson did pretty much the same thing, but there's so much now-questionable baggage...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I run hot and cold on Baz Luhrmann's films, but - while the 1968 Zeffirelli film will always be my favorite - Romeo+Juliet has much to recommend it, including good chemistry between Claire and Leo. And many of those modernizing touches a la the pistols with the brand name "Sword" are very...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, I agree that "dumber" isn't quite the correct word. Hey, they can't all be gems! As I get older, I find myself more and more impressed with what my parents accomplished in all kinds of ways, considering that they started off after the war with absolutely nothing. And that includes...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I count myself extremely lucky that my parents were aspiring pseudo-intellectuals with bohemian/beatnik friends who exposed my sister and I to the arts from an early age. Neither of them had gone to college (my mom did a couple of years at NYU on the GI Bill, but quit to become a full-time...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Perhaps. I'm no major expert on Pyle - or Wyeth - but I do have a first edition of Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY ADORE NC Wyeth... but Howard Pyle (who was more or less his contemporary) also had a hand in creating the public image of pirates.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Re The Alienist... I enjoyed it for its opulent production and mostly good acting. But the writing/storytelling was poor throughout, with pacing issues, underwhelming "reveals", and stock characters (plucky girl, crusading politician, troubled genius, old money puppetmaster, dastardly villains)...
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    Wested Horsehide details? Weight/tanning/etc.

    Honestly, after watching this market here and on other forums daily since 2001, I have seen a lot less instances of failing stitching and linings reported for Wested jackets than seems to be the common perception. My own 15-year-old lambskin Raiders jacket (while yes, I did once tear the back...
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    NYC - Best leather jacket shops?

    I dropped in on the Schott store last summer and was underwhelmed. Yeah, there's a bunch of their jacket models - by no means all! - to try on, but the young people manning the store didn't have a fraction of the knowledge of the folks here.
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    Wested Horsehide details? Weight/tanning/etc.

    I've never put any dressing of any kind on any leather jacket in forty-plus years of wearing them. While I don't doubt that there are dried-out old jackets than benefit from it, and changing the shade or surface texture of the hide is desirable in some cases... the extent to which I've seen it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Sure. Besides, they're masterpieces! The greatest short dramatic theatrical cartoons ever made. (Admittedly, it's a small category.)
  14. Doctor Strange

    You know you are getting old when:

    Regarding rare coins that turn up in circulation: My brother-in-law is a top-flight collector/dealer of valuable coins, though his real specialty is obsolete paper currency - the banknotes issued by thousands of local banks and businesses across the US before Lincoln established a single...
  15. Doctor Strange

    Stetson Stratoliner Premier Open Crown

    Poke around here and you'll find lots of info on present day hatters making custom hats. I had a wonderful experience with Mike at Northwest Hats, who made my "thirties gangster fedora" in beaver felt to my exact specs for only around $50 more than a factory Stetson...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I totally agree on Picnic, like a lot of fifties films based on plays THAT STRIP BARE THE FEELINGS BENEATH THE SURFACE it seems overwrought and histrionic now. Kim Novak was a beautiful woman, but a very limited actress who worked best when there's something "off" about her, as in Vertigo and...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tulip Fever, the recent set-in-seventeenth-century-Holland flick with Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, and Christoph Waltz on Netflix. It started off promisingly, like another Girl With A Pearl Earring... then went way, WAY off the rails. Not recommended!
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    Ladies Wool Peacoats

    Could be, it was long before my time!
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    Ladies Wool Peacoats

    Yeah, my mom was a very vibrant character. Check this one out: She was a "liberated woman" ahead of her time: these war pics were after she'd played lead trumpet in a high school swing combo and had her own motorcycle! And she was still a real firecracker when I was a kid in the sixties...
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    The Man From UNCLE movie

    The irony of this discussion to me is that I strongly disliked the UNCLE film... precisely because I didn't think it worked as an homage to the original show - or "the sixties" - AT ALL. I seem immune to all the things you guys liked about it. I'm not sure why I didn't take to it... though the...
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    Ladies Wool Peacoats

    Ah, I didn't realize that Marines never wore 'em. Sorry 'bout that. And I still have her more familiar WWII Marine service coat and herringbone utility jacket. That photo is marked "fatigues" in her war years album, and alongside it is this one marked "summer whites": It would appear there...
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    Name Something That Your Mother or Grandmother Cooked That Was Your Favorite!

    My grandmother made awesome chicken soup... pretty much as you'd expect from an old-school (*) Jewish grandmother! (* Came as an immigrant circa 1905, illiterate, but ran a Manhattan candy store for thirty years!)

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