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It's the words that we don't say
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Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
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Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
An infinite number of monkeys typing at an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will eventually produce Shakespeare's Hamlet.
This is the blog of one such monkey.
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What are the Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards?
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
1888-1927
1927-1939
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing at an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will eventually produce Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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3 comments:
My brother, who doesn't much care for Elvis, saw him & the Attractions for $3 or $5 or something like that at Kent State in the winter of 1978. I resented the massive unfairness of this until the mid-80s when I finally saw him in Chicago where he opened the show by letting the stage go dark, then letting loose with a plaintive "Oh I" -- and then stage is instantly bathed in deep red light -- JUST don't know where to begin ... a perfect concert memory and what a way to start a show.
Very nice, thanks for the information.
Who -- I had the pleasure of seeing "yer brother's concert" and "yours," so you may focus on injustice if you will.
But the moment you describe was duplicated in Washington, DC at Georgetown's McDonough Arena, a shithole basketball arena with horrible "infrastructure" -- I'm surprised they had any electricity.
The stage had almost no lighting from above, and there was no proscenium. From the fifth row, looking up at nothing (well, maybe a red dot signalling that an amp had power), I and my pals heard those two words, followed by a bath of red from eblow, casting the evilest damned look on his Elvitude.
A memory I'll never lose. "Never" meaning right up until dementia.
By the way, if you ever hear a bootleg of Elvis's Warner Theater show on his first U.S. Tour: yes, I am the asswipe that screamed "Elvis is King" during a dramatic pause in a song, only to eanr a withering look all the way up into the balcony. I know no that he couldn't see me, but he knew that I knew that he could. . . .
Bteween Elvis and Cheap Trick shows, I've "bought" a very, very nice mid-tier cooperative unit in Manhattan.
DIDN't buy
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