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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Grace of Monaco on Netflix. I'll watch Nicole Kidman in anything... but it was just as terrible as all the reviews said.
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Of course Gentleman's Agreement is more effective: here anti-Semitism is the central theme of an A-production "social problem" film based on an important book, not the surprise motive in a crime investigation in a film noir. And we're talking Elia Kazan, a brilliant director of actors whose...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Crossfire is notable for being pretty much the first significant mention of anti-Semitism in a Hollywood film - tied with Gentleman's Agreement, made the same year. The men who ran the Hollywood studios were nearly all immigrant Jews, but they'd spent decades avoiding broadcasting that, working...
  4. Doctor Strange

    Who Did You Just See Live?

    One of my favorite contemporary singer-songwriters, Richard Shindell, at a club in Beacon, NY. He played a typically great show.
  5. Doctor Strange

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    You're probably right. My point was just that they're prop cigs that aren't as toxic as real ones, nor do they lead to addiction.
  7. Doctor Strange

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    No. There are all kinds of smoke: it depends on what's being burnt. Some smoke is more dangerous than others. Nicotine is the most addictive substance known to man. If there's no tobacco/nicotine, there's no chance of habit or addiction. And normal cigarettes are loaded with tars and...
  8. Doctor Strange

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    By environmental/industry law, the "cigarettes" used in TV show production (and I think movies too) these days aren't real. They are harmless herbal cigs that look and smoke like real thing, but they contain no tobacco. So despite all the smoking you saw on Mad Men, none of the cast got...
  9. Doctor Strange

    Leather Blazer Recommendation?

    http://www.wested.com/mission-impossible-leather-blazer-in-black-nappa-lambskin-17-p.asp Wested's really good about customizations, probably they'd be happy to make you one in brown.
  10. Doctor Strange

    What Are You Reading

    I'll join the club too, though as great as the storytelling and the performances are - and they're great - it's Roger Deakins' astounding cinematography that really distinguishes the film. (Deakins went on to very effectively use the same limited-focus lenses he created for this film for the...
  11. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Crimson Peak, the recent period ghost flick directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starts promisingly, with great gothic production design and a solid cast - Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska - and suitably creepy stuff and ghostly visitations. But it eventually goes off the rails and...
  13. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Nice piece on the late David Shepard by Leonard Maltin: http://leonardmaltin.com/adieu-to-david-shepard/
  14. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh, I gave up on lists and ranks ages ago. You're may have noticed I don't participate in those kinds of threads. When you've been watching voraciously for over 50 years, there are just too many great ANYTHINGS to make best-of or favorite lists. But certainly, the first three are wonderful...
  15. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    As we've discussed here endlessly, hairstyles are nearly always contemporary to when they were shot, and costumes often are too, in nearly all period stuff. From Russia With Love is probably the best Connery Bond film, objectively speaking, but I find I like Dr. No more and more as I get older...
  16. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I never watched Hogan's Heroes. When it first aired, it was the height of never-again-Holocaust thinking in the Jewish community in which I was raised, and the overwhelming feeling was that there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING funny about a German POW camp, so my folks wouldn't watch it. (*) When I...
  17. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Rufus Sewell is often the best thing in whatever he appears in! He's been high on the actors-I-will-always-watch list since Cold Comfort Farm, The Illusionist, Dark City, etc. How does the show compare to the Emily Blunt film The Young Victoria? I thought it was quite good for just a two-hour...
  19. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    My family didn't get a color set until just when Trek started running in syndication in 1970 (when I was 15), so I also originally saw most of it in b/w, and am tempted to agree with you. But this means I also watched every other TV series of the sixties in b/w, including popular fantasy...
  20. Doctor Strange

    Warm weather jackets

    My summer leather jacket is a Wested Raiders in lightweight lambskin with an all-cotton lining. My other warm weather jackets include repros of the WWII M-41 field jacket and the British belted bush jacket. Cotton is king! My slightly heavier leather jackets - the A-2s and G&B M-422A, Schott...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Arrival - a surprisingly intelligent SF film about first contact with non-humanoid aliens, with Amy Adams as the linguist tasked with communicating with them. Very well done, and its big plot twist totally threw me.
  22. Doctor Strange

    Bencraft Hats

    Same as it ever was: http://www.bencrafthats.com/index.php
  23. Doctor Strange

    please help find this hat ... or at least what it is

    Guys, I have and love a Campdraft myself... but there's nothing "smaller brimmed" about it. Maybe in some parts of the country 2-7/8" is considered small, but not in NY. And probably not in Detroit either. I mean, the OP is looking for something smaller than his Akubra Fedora, which is...

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