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Thursday, November 22, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1985)

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In 1985, the Academy had a chance to give Akira Kurosawa a long-overdue Oscar for directing one of the best films of his career, Ran , so...
Monday, November 19, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1984)

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Having lived through 1984 in real time, I remember there being three obvious choices for the best picture award come Oscar time— Amadeus , A...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1983)

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Does anybody else remember Jean Shepherd, the writer and radio raconteur whose short story collection In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cas...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Happy Birthday, Louise Brooks (2012)

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I think I reprint this post every year ... "There is no Garbo, there is no Dietrich, there is only Louise Brooks!" Or so curator H...
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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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