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Paleo Retiree writes: Should all Americans be given a basic monthly income? Con artist of the year. “I’m 40 years old going on 65,” says an ex-lineman. “God knows what I’ll feel like when I’m actually 65 years old.” Why … Continue reading
“Margot at the Wedding”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Let’s tick the boxes: absent mothers, actors blubbering, adult ADHD, adultery, anxiety, Asperger’s, Barely Legal, “Before you gave me your sweater I didn’t realize I was cold,” betrayal, borderline personality disorder, child abuse, college professors, croquet, divorce, … Continue reading
Vocabulary Building Word of the Day
Fenster writes: Here’s something I did not know. The word “gunsel” has two meanings. In its most common slang usage, it refers to a criminal carrying a gun. But in earlier convict slang, the word had a quite different meaning: … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies
Tagged gunsel, Ryan Gosling, vocabulary
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Arthouse Movie Posters
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Movie culture is pretty much dead now, isn’t it? Sure, it’s possible to whip up some decent arguments to the contrary. But for all intents and purposes movies are no longer significant drivers of culture. Frankly, when a … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged arthouse, Criterion Collection, Federico Fellini, Film, Hulu+, Ingmar Bergman, Movie Posters, movies, Pauline Kael, San Diego
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“Witch Hunt”
Paleo Retiree writes: I loved this well-done, labor-of-love, low-budget 2008 doc about child-abuse accusations in Bakersfield, California in the 1980s. The accusations all — let me repeat that: ALL — turned out to be false. Nonetheless, many of them resulted … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics
Tagged documentary, movies, psychology, recovered memories, Satanic abuse, scandals
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Blowhard, Esq. writes: Do you know more about science and technology than the average American? Take this 13-question quiz to find out. (I got 12/13. I couldn’t remember if it was hydrogen or nitrogen.) The Human Genome Project just celebrated … Continue reading
The Inevitable Outcome . . .
Glynn Marshes writes: . . . Hollywood will keep producing the same movie. Over and over and over and over . . . A chain-smoking former statistics professor named Vinny Bruzzese — “the reigning mad scientist of Hollywood,” in the … Continue reading
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