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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Me, too.
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    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    That we're all 8 years older. Damn.
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    The Role of Education In Assigning Value to Societal Labor Sectors

    Who do I value more? The guy who hauls away my garbage, or some stockbroker in a faraway city who makes money for other people? I'll pick the garbage guy every time. He is essential to my well-being and the health of my community. But I don't write his paycheck. As somebody once wrote: The...
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    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Shortly before his death in 2012, Ray Bradbury wrote: "People only call what's going on now a depression because they've never seen a real one." He lived through the real one and personally knew neighbors who committed suicide because for year after year they could not get work and provide for...
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    Your favourite commercials

    I don't know how to do the link thing, but back in the '60s Barbara Feldon (Agent 99 from "Get Smart") did a commercial for Top Brass, writhing around on a tiger skin, that was so sexy I'm amazed that it got past the network censors of those days.
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    Blade Runner - The Final Cut

    Everybody talks about Ridley Scott, and he deserves much credit, but it was Syd Mead's production design that made "Blade Runner" one of the greatest films of all time. And Vangelis's score. There was never a better example of film as a collaborative art.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I remember when Nikita Kruschev visited the U.S. and Mrs. Kruschev was offered a screwdriver at a White House gala. She was shocked that anyone would do such a thing to good vodka.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That bottom picture reminds me of a recurring dream that I have.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A short time ago I found English Leather cologne in a dollar store. I had no idea the stuff was even still made. It was all the rage when I was in high school in the early '60s. I bought a bottle just to sniff that scent again. It's one of those smells that takes you right back to an earlier time.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That leads to another of those disturbing thoughts. Nearly 1/3 of United States history has occurred since I was born.
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    Dawn of a New Epoch

    Humans are problem-solving creatures. It's how we've survived until now. The problem is, we evolved to survive immediate, pressing, desperate problems, not long-term ones. For most of our history it was escaping that sabretooth tiger, scraping together enough calories to live for another day...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I took driver's ed. in the early 60s they still taught hand signals. In some states, they were legally required even if your turn signal lights were working. Would many people even recognize them now? I think they died out with the rise of car air conditioning. Now the windows stay shut at...
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    Okay, that's fairly noirish.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Back to the original theme: Merthiolate and mercurochrome. That horrible red stuff that our moms used to dab on our cuts and scrapes. God, I hated them. I can still conjure up the smell of them.
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    The perfect role has ruined many a fine actor. Case in point: Anthony Quinn played many and varied roles in his early career. Then along came ZORBA THE GREEK (1964), which won him an Oscar and which he inhabited as few actors have ever inhabited a role. Problem is, for the next 30 years, he just...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Speaking of taking tickets. Back in the '70s I used to go to the old Kokusai Theater in L.A. to get my samurai movie fix . After getting my ticket at the box office, I handed it to the ticket taker a the door. She was a middle-aged Japanese lady and she tore the ticket in two lengthwise instead...
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    Face it, for women in Hollywood, leading roles are apportioned according to looks and little else. The best actresses get supporting or character roles. Kathy Bates may be the best actress of her generation, but she never gets the romantic lead roles because she isn't beautiful. In the stage...
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    He Married The Wrong Woman

    And then there was the Code. Rick and Ilsa's fling in Paris could be tolerated because she thought her husband was dead, but continuing the affair after she knew he was alive never could have flown in Middle America of the Code years.
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    He Married The Wrong Woman

    Ïvanhoe,"(1952). I'm not knocking Joan Fontaine, but how Ivanhoe could pick her over 20-year-old Liz Taylor escapes me. Sure, Lady Rowena was an heiress and Rebecca was a Jewish moneylender'daughter and a Jewish wife and in-laws was a bit of a social no-no in 12th century England, but come on...
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    I think that sometimes here we're talking about two different things: acting ability ans star quality. Some actors have one, some have the other and a very few have both. To use some male examples, two very fine actors; Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, have fabulous acting chops, but they can't...

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