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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Glenda Farrell — 400 Words In 40 Seconds

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"When she talked fast, as she almost always did, it was like the strident clackety-clack of a typewriter; you half expected her to ri...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Alternate Oscars 1931-32

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As the Depression, now its third year, ground on with no end in sight, movie goers and Oscar voters alike flocked to a big budget spectacl...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Howard Hawks: A Baker's Dozen

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British film historian David Thomson once opined that if he could only save ten movies from a sinking ship, he'd take ten by Howard Ha...
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Saturday, January 3, 2026

Norma Shearer: Three To See

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Much celebrated in her day, Norma Shearer's name is now met by many with derision — including, once upon a time, by the sock monkey w...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards Updated At Long Last

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Our long national nightmare is over! The sock monkey who types this blog finally got around to bringing the Katie-Bar-the-Door Awards up...
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Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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