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Wheelchair-bound Robert T. Ironside (Primetime Emmy®-winner Raymond Burr) and his crack team of investigators including Detective Sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson, who won a Primetime Emmy® for this role) and ex-con turned assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) return to their uniquely designed SFPD office to help fight crime others [...]
Not sure yet who won the competitive reading club competition for 2008; the results won't be posted for a couple of days. And this will be the last year for competition; my nephews--who coordinate, compile, and post--are getting too busy, and as the club's enrollment has grown and the number of books we each read has swelled, their work has swelled, too. So we're all being politely pushed toward Shelfari, and the competitive site will go away.It's just as well; reading shouldn't be about quantit
By Vadim Rizov [Author's Note: Almost a meaningless exercise: the more time I'm lucky enough to spend at film festivals, the further apart the divergence between festival release dates and actual theatrical engagements (no matter how token) and the even longer wait for DVD renders pretty much any kind of unified universal viewing calendar. And then there's the movies that don't get picked up at all. For sanity's sake I've arranged my list by stuff that actually played for the first time, in som
December 31, 2008 The fantabulous Little Willow, readergirlz postergirl extraordinaire, put together an awesome roundtable discussion on January’s upcoming featured title at readergirlz: A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly. Postergirlz Little Willow, HipWriterMama, Miss Erin and I were joined by readergirlz divas Lorie Ann Grover, Holly Cupala and Melissa Walker to discuss this wonderful novel. A little background: Interwoven with the experiences of the heroine, Mattie Gokey, is the true st
Margery Jean Gill, the children's book illustrator who worked widely for Oxford University Press, Puffin Books, Bodley Head, Hamish Hamilton, Gollancz and others, died on 31 October 2008, aged 83, it has recently been reported.Born in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, on 25 April 1925, Gill's family moved to Hatch End when Oscar, her father, found work at the Post Office's Dollis Hill research station. Gill attended grammar school and, at 14, began studying at Harrow School of Art. In 1943 she met Patric
On Monday, I sat down with the other members of the San Diego Film Critics Society to vote on our favorite films of 2008. It’s always an interesting experience, because the SDFCS members have a variety of backgrounds and aesthetics. There’s not a lot of yelling, but people have their favorites they pull for. I’ll give you the big one first–we picked Slumdog Millionaire as our Best Picture. There were some films that struck out, like Milk, Doubt, and both of Clint Eastwood’s movies, and some t
On Monday, I sat down with the other members of the San Diego Film Critics Society to vote on our favorite films of 2008. It’s always an interesting experience, because the SDFCS members have a variety of backgrounds and aesthetics. There’s not a lot of yelling, but people have their favorites they pull for. I’ll give you the big one first–we picked Slumdog Millionaire as our Best Picture. There were some films that struck out, like Milk, Doubt, and both of Clint Eastwood’s movies, and some t
If you’re into noir movies, or architectural icons, this could be one for you. The Empire State Building Murders promises to blur the lines between fictional drama and documentary. Filmmaker William Karel uses footage from old Hollywood movies to string together a ‘Mafia drama.’ Footage from The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, The Big Heat, Young Man With a Horn, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Naked City, Casablanca and Gun Crazy, will combine with such glorious period lines as “A gorgeous blo
Some of the material in this post was cribbed from an earlier entry at the old TDOY during its stint at Salon Blogs. I am nothing if not committed to recycling whenever I can. TCM kicked off a four-week Saturday morning mini-marathon of Crime Doctor films the other day, beginning with Crime Doctor (1943) and Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case (1943), the first two programmers in a series that lasted until 1949 with a total of ten features. In turn, the films themselves were inspired by a hit show br
#fullpost{display:inline;}65 BC - Horace was born (d. BC). Roman poet. 0899 - Arnulf of Carinthia dies (b. 0850) 1541 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots was born (d. 1587). Six days later would become queen of Scotland.1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria was born (d. 1616). Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire.1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second p
Caomhnú Literary Festival Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th Feb 2009, CavanCaomhnú Literary Festival brings together the very best literary talent in the country for an interesting mixture of readings, workshops, performances and surprises. The event opens with the intriguing ‘Darkness Visible’ exhibition at the multi award winning Johnston Central Library, Farnham St, Cavan. This exhibition features artists: Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, George Bolster, Andy Harper, Angela Huntbach, Breda Lynch, Alice Maher,
Lets take a break for a moment and look a some useful resources. Your horror writer probably already has the basic resources such as a dictionary, thesaurus and Elements of Style. However, lets look at a pair of useful books that are often over looked: Horror: The 100 Best Books Horror: The 100 Best Books Author: Jones, Stephen and Newman, Kim Format: Trade Paperback Type: Nonfiction Page Count: 256pp. Pub. Date: May 1, 1998 Publisher: Carroll and Graf Original Pub: December 1988 (H
These lines from the track “Slapped Actress” from the latest album (“Stay Positive” VAGRANT 2008) by New York rawkers The Hold Steady call upon the neo-realism of the films of the independent film innovator John Cassevettes. Written and sung by feisty front-man Craig Finn, who was influenced by watching a friend’s Cassevettes DVD box set, the song shines a theater spot-light on the hazy line between art and real life. For those of you unfamiliar with the song here is a live clip from YouTube (
In December, Pushcart Press will be releasing its 33nd edition of small press literary selections, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Since 1976, editor Bill Henderson has brought added recognition to the many fine small presses and literary journals publishing quality material with his annual anthology distributed by W.W. Norton. Writers whose early works were first highlighted in the pages of the series’ volumes include Charles Baxter, Raymond Carver, Joshua Clover, Andres Dubus, J
Hey IFC, could you do me a fucking favor and stop running Picnic at Hanging Rock?Because every time I see it on, I fall into watching it and can't get away.I must have seen this movie a dozen times now. I first saw it about a dozen years ago, but it's one of those movies that holds up spectacularly on repeat viewings.I never researched it, but did this week. Check out some of the oddities about the whole thing. A fourteen year old was initially filming this?? The author wrote the book in four we
#fullpost{display:inline;}That title is adapted from a line in Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Yul Brenner as, Ramses II, says to Nefretiri (Anne Baxter) "His God is God" when explaining why Moses is not dead. Why this reference on a food blog?Well today is Thanksgiving Day here in America. A day set aside for family and friends and a usually huge feast with Turkey as the centerpiece. There are other machinations of the feast by all kinds of people, even some who have a taco feast instea
Today, let's be thankful for good pop music with these lil' treasures... Aluminum Group -- Sugar & Promises -- Aluminum Group's MySpace Ivy -- I Hate_December -- Ivy's MySpace Air Miami -- Airplane_Rider -- Air Miami via Wikipedia Aislers set -- Friends_of_the_Heroes -- Aisler's Set's MySpace Ben Gibbard & Andrew Kenny -- Carolina -- Ben Gibbard & Andrew Kenny's PopMatters review Blossom Dearie -- Peel_Me_a_Grape -- Blossom Dearie's Wikipedia entry Le Mans -- Un_Ray
Here’s a suggestion: don’t read the news. It’ll only make you miserable, and there’s no point wasting emotional energy worrying about stuff that’s way beyond your control. So why not read some free science fiction instead, eh? That’ll keep you distracted at no cost whatsoever! Get clicking… *** Manybooks has an old-school bit of satire in the form of “The Last American: A Fragment from The Journal of KHAN-LI, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy” by J A Mitchell *** At
A Thursday Thirteen Twofer:26 Movie Moments that Make Me Smile Hugely (mild spoilers may follow) 1. "Who wants pie?" It Could Happen to You 2. "I Will Survive." The Replacements 3. "Write that down." Blast from the Past 4. "Baptism!" O Brother Where Art Thou 5. "He dies?" Shakespeare in Love 6. "This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him." Ruthless People 7. "All You Need Is Love." Love Actually 8. "How do you think I feel? Betray
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 motion picture that dramatized the Biblical story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. It was released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956. It was directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Charlton Heston in the lead role. Co-stars included Yul Brynner as his adoptive brother, Pharaoh Ramesses II, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, John Derek as Joshua, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as
I couldn't avoid making a certain comparisson after seeing the photo on the left, almost a movie still extracted from the film Charlie Wilson's War, directed by Mike Nichols. Oscar winner actors Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts play powerful political figures, and powerful they are in Hollywood as well. On the right, there's Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in the classic All About Eve, both nominated for an academy award for playing the diva and the actress wanna-be, respectively. Only in one film the ch
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