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  1. Doctor Strange

    Has anyone had experience with Wested Horsehide

    I agree with everyone else: leather isn't warm, it doesn't matter how thick it is or which hide. The type of lining and whether there are knits at the bottom/sleeves and a good closure at the throat are more important. (Not to mention what you're wearing underneath!) The Indy jacket in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    So it was the Richard Kiley character? Bit of a wimp move for the Man of La Mancha! (I had seen him in the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha a year earlier, my first Broadway show.)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yup, I was thinking that too. Poor Glenn Ford and his jazz records! But that film's fifties "juvenile delinquent" kids are actually considerably rougher than the adorable sixties kids in To Sir, With Love and Up the Down Staircase. (See also: West Side Story. Did these kids play like scary...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Great film. I'm old enough to have seen it in a theater in its original release with my family (I was 12). I just watched it again earlier this year. Still holds up, though it's a bit of a period piece now. At right about the same time, Up the Down Staircase with Sandy Dennis was also...
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    Man from U.N.C.L.E turns 60

    I just noticed this month-old comment and I absolutely agree, Worf! I loved U.N.C.L.E. during its run, but the times I've seen bits of episodes since then, I have found them to be pretty poor. I mean, Star Trek it's not. Back then, I recall once watching an episode of U.N.C.L.E. after having...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Addendum: Having now watched the entire miniseries, I have to admit that The Penguin really won me over. It's consistently surprising and very well done. Great acting all around starting with Colin Farrell... But Cristin Milioti is the top scenery-chewer with her stylized and...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw it a year or two ago and really liked it. As a Jean Simmons completist, it's always a treat to see her stretch in a somewhat different role. Note that this film was directed by Robert Wise, who'd also include Simmons in the cast of his next film, Until They Sail. I seem to recall that...
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    What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

    Sorry to take this thead off topic just a little longer... Joe... A year or two after that picture, my folks got a huge Goodkin vertical stat camera for litho work, which was a significant aspect of our business for decades. We made color separation negs and halftones for the local print...
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    What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

    Thanks Joe, that shirt is a favorite. As a lifelong film shooter (going back to my pro-photog parents - see pic of me from the late 1950s), Kodak has always loomed large in my consciousness! I've got two 1960s-vintage cameras loaded with Kodak b/w film right now...
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    What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

    Gray cotton Sterkowski "Elvis" model:
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Speaking as a vintage-1975 Deadhead, I always thought of Phil Lesh as the Grateful Dead's unsecret weapon. His unique contrapuntal and melodic bass was an essential component of the Dead's sound and gonzo creative approach. His classical and experimentalist background (he never touched a bass...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I didn't expect to, but I'm enjoying it... But it's just your basic organized crime story. Why set it in Gotham if we're never even gonna see Commissioner Gordon, much less Batman? Yeah, okay, The Batman introduced this mid-level hood version of the Penguin, so it's in that continuity. I...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Yeah, I've watched Batman: Caped Crusader. It's a gift from Bruce Timm, et.al. to us hardcore B:TAS fans! It's really well done in nearly every way, though with some odd choices on the reconceptions of some characters. I like the circa-1950 setting (fedoras and tommy guns... and little b/w...
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    Mandolin maniac Sierra Hull and her quartet, at the Ridgefield Playhouse in CT last week. My first time seeing her, and wow, they blew the roof off the place! She's a tremendous talent in a tiny package, an inspired instrumentalist and fine vocalist, and her band is great. They played awesome...
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    Batman the Animated Series

    Okay, B:TAS lovers, this new series should be on your radar. Starts next week! This is a totally new animated series from Bruce Timm, who should need no introduction to fans of B:TAS and many worthy animated superhero projects since. Like the 90s series, the visual style is pseudo-retro and...
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    sterkowski caps

    So, getting this thread back on track... I just received a Sterkowski "Elvis" cap in graphite gray. This is my first exposure to Sterkowski, and I'm quite impressed with the materials and build quality. I paid $62 plus $8 shipping, and it arrived in 10 days. I ordered my usual size (57) and...
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    What hat are you waiting for today?

    I've got a new Sterlowski cap on the way, tracking says it's currently with Customs in New York. I wanted a warm-weather, cotton, ventilated cap for those brutally hot days (like TODAY!) when my Akubra Cattleman is too much, or there's a good chance of it raining on my Stetson Panama. It's...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Donald Sutherland was a fine actor, but for all his flashier performances, it's his more quiet, introverted roles that I find even more interesting: Ordinary People, Pride & Prejudice... I'm not sure if it's available to view anywhere now, but I recall him being excellent in a 1980s TV movie...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Great review, FF. I just love this movie. A few additional notes... Let's recall this isn't an original story, it's from a Rafael Sabatini novel. Sabatini also wrote "The Sea Hawk", which Flynn would star in later, but there'd been an earlier silent adaptation of The Sea Hawk... and some of...
  23. Doctor Strange

    What was your first leather jacket?

    In 1981, inspired by Raiders, I got my first leather jacket at age 26. I don't have a picture, but it was an undistinguished, imported-from-Argentina black cowhide from a department store. Thin, smelly cowhide, A-2 style collar, basic brass zip with no windflap, slash pockets, side-waist...

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