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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Danish Girl. Well acted and beautifully produced, but everything about its POV and dialog was much too contemporary for 1926. And I see it was criticized for being a very fictionalized treatment of the actual historical couple. I was very impressed with Alicia Vikander (again), but Eddie...
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    looking for a specific style hat...not sure of the name

    There's LOTS of good info and opinion here on newsboy caps and flat caps. Look for threads on caps in general, and makers like B!Wear, Hat People, Simonds, etc., in the Hat and Merchants forums.
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    How many jackets have you owned?

    I'm only listing items since the obsession hit me in 2001 - though I did have some leathers and military jackets earlier - and I'm not going to list stuff like blazers or hoodies: Current leather: G&B Civil A-2 (black goat) G&B Historical M-422A (seal goat) Wested Raiders (dark brown lamb) Good...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    An early Frank Capra film via TCM, American Madness from 1932 - no masterpiece, but a fascinating depths-of-the-Depression artifact. Walter Huston plays a bank president who - anticipating George Bailey's Bedford Falls Building & Loan - gives out "questionable" loans to people he trusts vs...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Classic character actor Marvin Kaplan: http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/08/25/marvin-kaplan-r-p/
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Genius recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who recorded some of the greatest jazz albums of the fifties/sixties: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/music/rudy-van-gelder-audio-engineer-who-helped-define-sound-of-jazz-on-record-dies-at-91.html...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I suspect that you'll find season three of PD much weaker than season two. The show was really firing on all cylinders in season two... and then it made questionable, increasingly serious plotting/character mistakes throughout the third season. At least the unexpected series (vs. season)...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/us/doris-bohrer-world-war-ii-spy-for-allies-dies-at-93.html
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man on the Moon are also on that Jim Carrey-actually-CAN-act list. Also his early TV movie Doing Time On Maple Drive, where he memorably played a closeted gay man.
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    Rogue One

    As you'd expect, I'm VERY psyched for it. Doctor Strange has always been my favorite Marvel character, and Benedict Cumberbatch is The. Best. Casting. Ever. "In the Name of the Eternal Vishanti, I bid you... Reveal yourself!"
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Trek supporting cast did NOT appear in every episode: this is true of Sulu (51 of 79), Uhura (69), Scotty (63), and Chekov (36). http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/George_Takei http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/James_Doohan...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Speaking as a Mad Men uber-fan... One of the unfortunate side effects of Mad Men is that people now think that Don Draper INVENTED "It's toasted.", since he's seen as the savior of the Lucky Strike account when he suggests it in the first season. As Lizzie pointed out, it's actually a VERY old...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Ian McShane is always tremendous - his casting as Mr. Wednesday has me excited for the upcoming American Gods series on Starz. (Actuallyl, Neil Gaiman's original novel had me excited first.) I recently chanced upon this silly 1969 film (which I'd seen as a kid, but not since) that stars an...
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    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    Yes, but you at least live in the city and can still listen! I was living in northern Westchester when WQXR became a public station and went from - what was it? - 10,000 watts to 600 watts. From a listening-everyday-in-the-car staple, it suddenly only came in halfway decently when I was well...
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    Rogue One

    Zero interest here. The Force Awakens was okay, but I forgot it ten minutes after I saw it.
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    Akubra Overload

    My sand Cattleman - with vent holes and no lining - has been my standard hot weather hiking and yard work hat for nine years. It is no hotter than my Stetson panama. Face it, you're going to sweat big-time in any hat when it's hot. I wore it for a ten-minute walk to the mailbox at the end of...
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    Northwest Hats, Eugene, Ore.

    Mike is building me a hat in the Silver Mist beaver felt. A late-20s/early-30s style fedora: tall, straight crown with just a center dent; moderate bound-edge brim; very wide black ribbon. Should be ready in a couple of months - my first custom hat, after 50 years of hat fascination...
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    Akubra Overload

    It's the lighting. I've got a Cattleman in Sand/Silverbelly: it's more like a very pale beige than the off-white or very pale gray of some other hat brands' interpretation of "silverbelly". A good color for hot, blazing-sun conditions vs. heat-absorbing black. I'm not getting why you think it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Brookyn - a lovely film. Great acting, on-target fifties look, simply gorgeous photography. A very relatable tale of going to a new world and finding your place, and all the fear and growth it entails.
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    Akubra Overload

    I believe folks here have said in the past that the CEO brim does NOT flip up - it's not a snap brim, it's permanently down all around. "Less" with Akbrua fedoras usually means the Stylemaster or Bogart, with their lower crowns and 2-1/2 inch brims. (Or the Fedora, Hampton, etc.) They're more...

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