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What Are You Reading
It kinda sounds like you're married in all but name as you're going to the "chick" movies anyway. :) Kidding aside, and as I noted in my previous post, most of this "girl" or "guy" movie/book designation doesn't mean a lot, at least from my perspective. My girlfriend watches more action...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Regarding wedding rings as necessities...." I sympathize a bit with the legitimate jewelers' dilemma, but still, it's a bit of a stretch to call it a necessity. It's an odd decision by RKO to use a "Pride of the Yankees" book as a promotion in its Brooklyn theaters. Love to see a copy of that...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,546
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
I'm not familiar with those books, but have always been down on the idea that certain books are "for women or for men only." Jane Austen is a great example. She's considered "chick lit" by some, but good writing is good writing and can been enjoyed by anyone. "Clive Cussler" and "Tom Clancy" are...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,011
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
The Eagle's Front Page took on a decidedly Page Four vibe today with a blonde knifing a band leader (like candy stores, band leaders were a big part of the 1940s zeitgeist) and another blonde coaching football, while a former Follies girl reconciles with her mob attorney husband. You can't make...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,539
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Re the bombers, they told them "We are coming by day, and by night." Re Dodge, wife, jewelry and reconciliation gone awry, I expect Page Four will have more details and a pic. This is an evergreen scam. A friend of ours fell for it a few years ago. It's 1943 and a woman is a securities...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,533
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Parole Girl from 1933 with Mae Clarke, Ralph Bellamy, Hale Hamilton and Marie Prevost In Parole Girl, Mae Clarke's character goes from being a reluctant grifter, to a prison inmate, to a parolee bent on revenge, to, finally, a woman facing a come-to-Jesus moment in a sham marriage in this...- Fading Fast
- Post #30,866
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Great comments, you captured it. I liked this movie, but thought, had it been made ten or so years later, it would have been made as an hour-long TV cop show episode. While the acting was very good, the production quality felt like 1960s TV. Gale Storm has to be a top-ten all-time-great name...- Fading Fast
- Post #30,865
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The thing that's often misunderstood or under appreciated is that running an, umm, "off the books" business can be harder than running a legal one. I've noted this before, but years ago my girlfriend served on a jury of a large drug trial in NYC and she said that most of the senior guys (all...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,525
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Getting Robbed on Roku
I'm very sorry that happened to you. I had my bank account hacked two years ago and it was six months of hell to get my payment life straightened out. All your advice is sound. I log on and check every single bank, brokerage, PayPal, and credit card account my girlfriend and I have once a week...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
This new strip works with almost no lead time, kudos to its writer. And so explains the struggle to maintain a daily routine of flossing. "A gain of eight inches! Fantastic, Dear, that's what you, uh, we've always needed....What?...Oh, a new player. [lets out a heavy sigh] That nice too, I...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,519
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Swimmer from 1968 with Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule and a large cast of many tier-two 1960s stars This experimental movie, based on a John Cheever's short story, is a spiritual cognate to that same era's The Graduate. But instead of a disillusioned young man looking forward with...- Fading Fast
- Post #30,861
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
That's a cute turn of phrase. The entire scene felt awkward and forced - not up to Caniff's standards. There would have been a lot more genuine emotion pouring out on both sides. Yes, war; yes, battle, but still, her matter-of-fact shrug and their controlled surprise didn't fit the moment.- Fading Fast
- Post #8,515
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Why is there so much cheating in a Sanitation Department baseball league? What is at stake? I played in a Wall St. league for a few years and we never cheated. Other than who bought beers after the game and bragging rights, there wasn't much on the line. I would think if Alice had tickets...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,513
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Thank you for all this ⇧. I think I'll pick up a copy of "Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat" as, as you know, I read a baseball book or two each spring training. Thought you might enjoy the following, which was my rare Tweet on baseball from this morning: "Baseball is so much better with the pitch...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,509
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I think the Eagle is saying something devoting this much prominent war-time front-page space to the Dodgers losing again. Krackel bars are one of my favorites. Whenever you get that assorted bag of minis, the key is to look for the Krackel bars right away. Twitter would not be so...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,506
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Daisy Kenyon by Elizabeth Janeway, originally published in 1945 Published in 1945, Daisy Kenyon is engaging time travel to the 1940s free of modern biases. It also belies the squeaky clean "traditional" world of movies from that period as, in print, Daisy is an independent, single, sexually...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,006
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Supply chain management 1943 style. So little is new, even in financial corruption. Our safe-word will be "eyepatch." "Don't ruin this for us, Annie, with your infernal questions. Who cares what happened to their car. Did I mention to you that we are out of range of both the Japanese and...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,501
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Voltaire from 1933 with George Arliss, Reginald Owen, Doris Kenyon, Alan Mowbray and Margaret Lindsay You do not look to Golden Era historical films for accuracy, but entertainment. On that measure, Voltaire is a bit bumpy, but overall, comes close to fitting the bill. Voltaire's tangential...- Fading Fast
- Post #30,855
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Lizzie, as always, can speak more intelligently to this than I, but the implication from a separate storyline months ago was that Patrick and Normandie Drake had an affair, but she never told Patrick she was carrying his baby. She, then, married Tony Sandhurst and has presented the child to the...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,495
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
If they bought a house, and the family held on to it through the awful years of the '70s and '80s - when much of Williamsburg was a drug and crime infested hell hole - then Leonora's kids would be able to sell it for a lot of money in the '00s when the hipsters drove prices way up. Today, the...- Fading Fast
- Post #8,493
- Forum: The Golden Era
