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I am loath to watch anything twice; I’m a compiler, so anything that I willingly watch over and over again is an exception to my rule. Therefore, my habit of choosing to view the same movies and programs each Christmas holiday season is unusual. While not all of the following are movies (in the strictest [...] READ MOREFWIW, I didn’t get the memo about the nature of the blogathon this week; so my topic, while it’s related to Disney’s live action features (TCM Presents The Family Classics on Sundays this month) it’s not in the same spirit as “movies from the magic kingdom that disturbed, scared or made an indelible impression [...] READ MOREThis week, the MovieMorlocks.com bloggers will be writing about their favorite recently discovered movies. So it is my honor and privilege to begin the event by sharing my thoughts about screenwriter-producer Edward Chodorov’s Road House (1948) – starring Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Widmark (in his third film) – which was directed [...] READ MOREGiven last week’s stock market occurrences and this year’s quadrennial exercise in divisiveness – this November’s presidential election – I thought it might be a good idea to contribute something positive, even hopeful to this blog. With very few exceptions, it’s nearly impossible to find an uplifting story in the media or out of Hollywood [...] READ MOREI caught the end of Journey Into Fear (1943) the other day on TCM – there’s a sequence in which Joseph Cotten is navigating a ledge on the outside of a high-rise while chasing a ‘bad guy’, who subsequently falls to his death – and it made me think of Harold Lloyd (naturally) and his [...] READ MOREEarlier this year I decided to update my skills and make some new contacts by applying to an executive MBA program at my alma mater; it’s an entrepreneurial program which I hope will yield an opportunity to start another company. I was accepted into the program; classes started in May and our second term began [...] READ MORETomorrow begins a great month of viewing for classic film novices and aficionados alike, despite the fact that for the first time in memory the channel is not honoring Greta Garbo’s birthday on September 18th. Instead, we get “the wavishing Kay Fwancis”, who is Star of the Month. However, other than the fact that they’re [...] READ MOREIt was a different era when Hollywood’s studios also owned theaters and had to crank out new features weekly to fill them. Star power wasn’t really any different than it is today – the biggest ones would all but guarantee a decent box office – except that the studios (vs. the actors themselves) controlled their [...] READ MOREI recently joined a group of 34 other similarly committed individuals on a 19 month ‘quest’ (more on this in a future post). While getting to know one another we shared our backgrounds, interests and hobbies etc., and when I told one of them that I wrote for TCM’s blog he asked “what classic movies [...] READ MOREWe recently moved out of our home of seventeen years to trim our various commutes by getting closer to where we spend most of our time – school(s) and work. Since we made this decision independent of the most recent upward spike in gasoline prices, any monthly fuel cost savings are gravy. In any case, [...] READ MORE |
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