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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I , too, enjoy "A Slight Case of Murder -" it's silly but fun. I love "In Which We Serve -" pure WWII propaganda, but oh so well done.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "A radio tube!" he announces. "Somebody musta BURIED it 'eeh! Maybe SPIES!" "Yeh," eyerolls Alice, looking up at the second-floor window of the Petrauskas kitchen. "T'at mus' be it..." :) **************************************************************** I'm sensing a Venn diagram overlap...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Rome, Open City an Italian film from 1945 "It's not hard to die well; the hard thing is to live well" Director and co-writer Roberto Rossellini made his neorealist war drama about the Italian resistance to the German occupation of Rome in 1944 just after the war, giving the movie an...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Mary Worth -- Confidential Investigator!" Lyric Layne is such a good comicstrip name. ******************************************************************* "Impersonating a major," sighs Inky. "How reprehensible." The moral code of our criminals in this story is fascinating, mainly because...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    They're made for each other. Look, they even have the same hairline. Ella Raines is hoping she doesn't have to turn to the comicstrips for employment, but reading the paper this morning, she makes a mental note of a potential role if necessary...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Silver Dollar from 1932 with Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon and Bebe Daniels Nobody becomes massively successful without at least some luck and some ability; to fairly assess a massively successful man or woman, the interesting question is how much of each did it take? In Silver Dollar...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Ain'nat Flynn guy," queries Alice, gesturing at the paper in her lap, "t'one haddat, wha'wassit, French cobblestone sidewawk a'sump'n?" "Belgian brick driveway," replies Sally 8000 stone blocks used to pave an antique Belgian Courtyard...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Grand Illusion, a French film from 1937 Class distinctions are eternal, or they are a grand illusion. War will lead to lasting peace, which itself is a grand illusion. Choose your metaphor – or choose both – or maybe even another one for The Grand Illusion – a classic 1937 French film...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Radio advice-giver John J. Anthony was actually Lester Kroll, a Bronx con man, who came up with the idea for his program while cooling his heels in alimony jail... Nice. ********************************************************************* "Ah," ahs Mr. Rickey. "Ah," nods Mr. Parrott... "Oy"...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips from 1939 with Robert Donat and Greer Garson Some of the best movies transport you to another time and place and, then, make you feel welcome there. Goodbye, Mr. Chips transports you to an English “public” school in the early 1900s, letting you experience what it was like to...
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    What Are You Reading

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton, first published in 1934 Given the sweep of the 1939 film adaptation, readers might be surprised to learn that Goodbye, Mr. Chips is actually a novella – short but richly felt, much like a poignant character study in prose form. Don't be fooled by its size...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Powdaaaared eggs. :) ***************************************************************** "You dissemble poorly." :) ***************************************************************** This is just mean. Agreed. Not funny at all...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "...Plenty'a room farr two hoondred poonds'a eggs. We'll carrrner th' market." If they can just hold on to them until 2025, Leonora's grandkids will make a killing. *********************************************************************** "That Philip Morris boy. How that image vexed me." "Oh...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Cushy job, huh Harry? Enjoy! If Ma will take the action, I'll put as much as she's willing to cover on the under of 5'10" for Truman's height. ********************************************************************* "Mail order Hollywood nifties." Almost has a Page Four vibe. And this: I...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

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