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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Thank you, I now got it: It was closer to the friends and family game on the continuum. By the time I was 8, I was keeping track of my father's bets for him be it on ballgames or at the racetrack. It was a different time. I can still see the small spiral notebook I used like it was yesterday...
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    Thank you for responding, but I'm still a bit confused Re the gambling games - are you saying they are just genuine friends and family games run by someone like your mom, or mini gambling parlors that took in strangers and was an full-on for-profit enterprise? I had a great uncle with ulcers...
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    "A bleedin' ulcer ain't noothin' t'jook aboot. He was starrt'n t'hemorrhrage, an' if Oi hadn' got'n'im t'th' doctarr, he cooulda died." Curing ulcers is another one of those great medical advancements that we all take for granted since the cure has been around so long few of us know/remember...
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    What Are You Reading

    Mariana by Monica Dickens, originally published in 1940 Fiction can often seem trivial. After all, how important does the story of a middle-class girl growing up in 1930s England sound? Surely we have better things to do than to learn about a fictional character's minor trials, tribulations...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Skippy from 1931 with Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Willard Robertson and Enid Bennett Skippy is a family drama or really a kids' movie, 1931 style, where the Depression isn't tucked away from the public. It's entertaining enough if you want to get an idea of what being a kid in 1931 was like...
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    Maybe I haven't been paying close attention, but these seem to be getting more risqué than in the past.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Steel Trap from 1952 with Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright If you've ever wondered what a TV episode of The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents would look like done as a B-movie, then The Steel Trap is the picture for you. Its plot of a regular, middle-class family guy letting his...
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    "Aren't all bookmakers nude?" - Valley Stream City Council.
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    Which reminds me, I wonder what Pat Ryan's up to. Pat has been out of the picture a long time. I hope he wrote a good contract and is still getting paid. Kidding aside, I miss him - he's a good character.
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    "I bet t'em Namm's labels impressed Rudy," snickers Alice LOL. Alice keeps that one in her hip pocket always ready to go.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands form 1948 with Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster and Robert Newton Kiss the Blood Off My Hands could fit into a 1950s one-hour TV drama like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but the outstanding performances, directing, and noir atmosphere make it an excellent film, especially...
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    The Saportas' marriage tangle needs a Daily News chart.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Spitfire from 1934 with Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young There are two things to talk about regarding Spitfire, the movie itself and the decision to cast Katherine Hepburn in the lead role. Let's start with the movie. Hepburn plays a young Ozark mountain hillbilly woman who...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I can't say enough good things about "The Asphalt Jungle." It is a top-five noir for me. It even has Marilyn in a minor role before she became a break-out star. I've read at least one of the "Mr. Moto" books, which surprisingly, was written by John P. Marquand who also wrote some very well...
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    While there are definitely some meaningful distinctions, Sally's on shaking ground here. *********************************************************** "ex-husband of Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan" "Seriously! Enough already with the gratuitous 'Oomph Girl 'comments." - AS...
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    "Opening scene of a college movie starring Carole Landis, Rosemary Lane, and Jinx Falkenburg." :)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Tattered Dress from 1957 with Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson, Jeanne Crain, Elaine Stewart, George Tobias, Edward Platt, and Edward Arnold Some B movies are so good, so professionally done, they rise to A-picture status; other Bs, however, are very good movies that stay in their B sandbox...
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    "Watcha doin', buddy?" "I'm just waiting for the Daily New to be delivered today. It usually comes shortly after the Eagle arrives."
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    I feel bad for Dr. Levine. ******************************************************** Ah, one feels almost nostalgic for the good old days of society jewel thieves. ******************************************************** Sadly, I doubt Cuba could manufacture of pair of sneaker like that...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Seven Days... Seven Nights from 1960, a French film It is not hard to understand why a pretty, young mother would be deeply bored with her opulent life married to a cold, middle-aged industrialist and stuck in a dreary factory town with no similar women to befriend and nothing, not one thing...

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