Lewis Beale on Facebook: “I’ve been asking people who have lived through both 1968 and 2020: Which was worse? Your thoughts, please.
HE response: “2020 is far, FAR worse. 1968 was tragic (MLK, RFK) and turbulent, but highly passionate and even exuberant and thrilling in patches. 2020 has mostly been a concentration camp. Where is the exuberance apart for the esprit de corps in the BLM marches? I take it all back if Biden wins .
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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