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Most of my life is wondering what the hell I’m doing. These are the times when I play R.E.M. and figure out nothing except that the stars are shining and jangly guitars are the balm that soothes every suburban disturbance. But it’s enough. I’m amazed at my own ineptitude at adulthood, but spin a few R.E.M. records and I’m right back in middle school and it’s all fine, just the night sky and

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that tumblr is basically the new frontier of old movie fandom? Good.

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Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (C+) X-Men: First Class (A-, I have a thing for Fassbender and McAvoy, okay?) Words and Music (B+) Uncle Silas (B) The Leech Woman (B+) Death of a Scoundrel (B) Adam and Evelyne (B+) The Gay Sisters (B+/D+ ... basically, I can't make up my mind about this movie) Trio (A-) Winter's Bone (B+) So Long at the Fair (A) Requiem for a Heavyweight (A-) Lizzie (C-) The

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Latest Classic Cinema Obsession is HERE.

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... because I'm not ready to say goodbye to Jean Simmons! Jean was TCM's Star of the Month in June and I'm already beyond sad that June is now officially over. Farewell, SOTM Jean! I offer my admiring thoughts about Ms. Simmons HERE at Libertas in my latest Classic Movie Journal. I also wax poetic about one of her best movies, ANGEL FACE (Preminger, 1952). It's as disturbing and genuinely

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Basically, the TCM Classic Film Festival was everything I hoped it would be and more. To read my rambling musings on the whole shebang, go to Libertas Film Magazine HERE. I stuck to my schedule for the most part, but I did make some interesting changes and ended up seeing movies I wasn't planning to see, both out of choice and necessity. Final verdict on the festival: I will definitely be

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This is always subject to change, because I'm just one of those wild and crazy spontaneous kinda gals and who the heck knows what I'll feel like doing once I get there, but here's what I'm hoping to see at the Festival as of today, Wednesday, April 27th:Thursday6:30 PM -- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (red carpet walkin', yo!)10:15 PM -- THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (As a newly-made disciple of Sternberg, how

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Made in 1994 and still going strong.

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The Greatest Four Days of My Life are almost here. On Thursday, I'm off to Hollywood for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival.If you want to know just how much TCM and this festival means to me, go read my tribute to TCM at Libertas and then (God help me) follow me on Twitter if you want to get up-to-the-minute updates on what I'm doing at the festival.I'll also be covering the festival for

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There are some thoughts you’re not supposed to admit in the vast cyber-reaches of Internet foo-foo movie-critics-land – stuff like, “Hey, I’m kinda jazzed about seeing SCREAM 4!” maybe because the first SCREAM movie was my first real horror movie theater experience when I was a high school freshman and I freaked out, almost vaporizing into a puff of utter frozen terror when Drew Barrymore was

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I've decided to stick around in Dark Alley for my latest article on Libertas. It's a visual essay on the underrated Fritz Lang noir, HUMAN DESIRE (1954), starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Broderick Crawford.Check it out HERE.

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This post is part of the For the Love of Film (Noir) Fundraiser Blogathon. Go HERE to donate.She was the quintessential "good girl" of Film Noir. While the scheming, murderous bad girls of noir got all the attention, Gray was quietly lending her talents to some of the key films of the genre, including KISS OF DEATH, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, and THE KILLING. In fact, her performance in NIGHTMARE ALLEY

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It's been almost five days since the For the Love of Film (Noir) blogathon fundraiser started, and even though I contributed a post over at LFM, I just realized I haven't actually donated any MONEY to the cause.Yeah, so I'm picking my jaw up off the floor and heading on over to donate.And if you're reading this blog, then I'd suggest you go donate too. Click the neat-o image below to go to the

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And to celebrate, I've written a piece on two silent shorts from 1928, both based on Poe short stories: Charles Klein's THE TELL TALE HEART, and James Sibley Watson's and Melville Webber's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.My post can be read on the Fandor blog, Keyframe, HERE.And sign up for a free one-month trial of Fandor to watch both films. If you're only familiar with the Roger Corman Poe

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My latest piece is up at Keyframe, the Fandor blog. It's about the top four moments from an Australian indie movie called SIAM SUNSET (John Polson, 1999). The movie stars Linus Roache as a man that designs paint colors for a living who goes off to Australia to find inspiration for a new color he calls "Siam Sunset." It's part romantic comedy, part black comedy and I found it darkly funny and

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I've signed up to be part of Fandor's syndication program, which means I can embed Fandor movies right here on my blog. You can rent the film and watch it on my blog or sign up for a Fandor membership and have access to not only the films I embed on my blog but any film on the Fandor website!THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) is a silent horror film from director Paul Leni -- one of the many German

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Did you know that a few months ago the Internet got a heckuva whole lot more amazing? It's all thanks to FANDOR: The place for international and independent films on demand, on your computer. Subscribe to Fandor and you get unlimited access to their fabulous (and growing) film library, an online movie channel that's always on, and lots of cool and interesting film essays that'll blow your mind

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Eight years before Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis starred in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, they shared the screen briefly in another movie:Even in a bit part with no lines and only a few seconds of screen time, Tony Curtis jumped off the screen.

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I don't really do obituaries, but I can point you in the direction of a very beautiful and heartfelt one, HERE. Tonight I'll be watching SOME LIKE IT HOT.

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HBO's BOARDWALK EMPIRE is my new favorite show simply by virtue of its soundtrack. Is it possible that the show could bring a renewed interest in 1920s pop music and vaudeville? Imagine, a weekly dose of Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson and more. YES.

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I'm a little behind on updating things here, but my recap of episodes 8 and 9 of MAD MEN was posted at LFM last week.Go read it! HERE

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This bobcat needs to come to Ann Arbor so I can buy him a drink. All hail the Ohio University Bobcat!

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My musings on this week's episode of MAD MEN are now up at Libertas!I went a little beatnik poetical/personal reflection this time in my recap. This episode -- as everyone's been saying -- was beyond superb in every way (acting, script, direction, etc.), but for me it was more than a brilliantly produced hour of television. Something about this episode really hit me, touching me on a deep

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This week's Classic Cinema Obsession: LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (John M. Stahl, 1945)Check it out at Libertas! (Be warned though: Lotsa spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie yet, get thee to Netflix!)Also, I my thoughts on last week's MAD MEN are up at LFM.

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from Otto Preminger's LAURA

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MOON MISTVaguely Mountain Dew-like, Moon Mist is what you buy at the convenience store when you only have a buck and it's Thursday night in summer and you're out with your friends (and they're over in the other aisle buying sunflower seeds and Slim Jims) and you want something to drink that has caffeine and might mix well with vodka, so you grab a 20 oz of Moon Mist and then everybody pays and

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What's the best movie news I've heard in awhile? Martin Scorsese is adapting Brian Selznick's THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET!I'm half-way through this gorgeous book and it's simply wonderful. Part novel, part black and white picture book, it's like a silent film in literary form. And of course, the storyline involves a certain French filmmaker and master of the fantastic...Marty is making a

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I posted something earlier today, but I decided to take it down. Not for any scandalous reason, just I'm a perfectionist and wasn't satisfied.In other words, it was crap.So, instead of my lame writing, I give you:GOLD DIGGERS!

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My thoughts on episode four can be found HERE.I am liking Dr. Miller a lot more this episode, by the way.Also: PETE! And: TRUDY!And: KEN COSGROVE!The gangs all here!!!

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It's not a great movie, but EDGE OF DARKNESS (Lewis Milestone, 1943) really stirred up my emotions the other day, so I decided to write about it in my latest "Classic Cinema Obsession" column for LFM.It's your typical Warner Brothers WWII propaganda-type film, but its message about freedom and the sacrifices necessary for liberty had me fist-pumping the climactic battle scenes. It just felt like

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My weekly musings can be found at Libertas Film Magazine, as usual.I'm already liking this season a lot more than season 3, though it's early yet. This article from Reuters tries to make it seem like MAD MEN is slipping in the ratings, saying that this week's episode is down 24% in ratings from the season four premiere -- but both the 2.2 million viewers for this past Sunday's ep and the 2.9

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My latest article for LFM is about TCM's annual Summer Under the Stars festival. It's also a defense of movie stars in general, in which I argue that the movies still need movie stars and we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss them. I also wax a little nostalgic about Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Stars of All Time" -- a magazine special edition I bought when I was sixteen and which I

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I was a little late in writing it, but my recap of this week's episode of MAD MEN has been posted at LFM.Check it out -- before you get sucked into the multi-dimensional warp on Roger's office wall!

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If you're anything like Greta Garbo and you want your beast back, head on over to Libertas Film Magazine where my newest Classic Cinema Obsession has just gone live. This week it's Jean Cocteau's LA BELLE ET LA BETE and the meaning and function of fairy tales (with assists from G.K. Chesterton and J.R.R. Tolkien)."Go where I am going, go go go!"

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The RocketeerDave StevensIt's a Shame About RayAre You Afraid of the Dark?Episode: The Tale of the Midnight MadnessThe Magnum roller coaster at nightDuckmanMatthew SweetAdventures of Pete and PeteEpisode: The NightcrawlersJack the BearBeetlejuiceSweetness Followsfirefliesheat lightningJust another 166 hours and counting:

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My latest at LFM is a MAD MEN article in which I share my thoughts on the premiere episode of season four. I hope to make this a weekly feature at LFM, kind of like my ol' "Mad Men Mondays" here on dereliction row, only now I'll be posting them at LFM.Don Draper is back! Though to be honest, I'm most excited about seeing Pete Campbell and the Silver Fox again.

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I didn't grow up on a farm, though.Still, I was born in Michigan.

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I know nothing about this movie, but that is one incredible poster.

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I don't mean cynicism about our government or politics in general. I'm cynical as hell about that stuff too.I mean cynicism about the arts and culture. Or maybe a better way to put it is that there's a certain aloofness, a dismissive attitude on conservative blogs (especially in the comments sections) towards arts and entertainment. Conservatives seem to have abandoned the arts and popular

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The Great Barbara Stanwyck. In my opinion, the best actress of Hollywood's Golden Age. My favorite actress. I'm always inspired by her life story. Starting off as just a poor orphan nobody from Flatbush, she went on to become one of Hollywood's greatest legends, one of its greatest actresses. (As the Siren has asked: Did she ever give a bad performance?) I love that she was hardworking and

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In my opinion, GONE WITH THE WIND needs to be near the top -- if not at the top -- of any list of the best movie endings of all time. It is a classic. Everyone knows "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."Or at least I thought everyone did.What happens when GWTW gets left off such a list altogether?My latest piece at LFM attempts to answer that very question.Check it out HERE. Or face

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Freedom, my friends. That's what it's all about. Respect my inalienable right to a perfect lawn!

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In honor of the amazing Ivan!This week's Faygo flavor is...ORANGE!!!Orange pop was my childhood. Orange pop, Seven-Up and/or Sprite, Redpop, Root Beer, Cream Soda -- these were the only flavors of pop I could have as a kid because they didn't have caffeine in them and were therefore deemed "safe" by the parents. Seven-Up was pretty bland; Sprite was slightly better but a little too sour; Root

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My latest piece is up at Libertas Film Magazine!I recently saw the new restoration of METROPOLIS at the Detroit Film Theater. I review the experience at LFM.

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My latest piece is up at LFM. It's about the Czech New Wave, an exhilarating and little-known (well, little-known to the general populace) anti-Communist cinema movement of the 1960s.Check it out!

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Smurf off, Hollywood!This looks horrendous. Could the plot be any more tired and cliche? It's ENCHANTED with tiny blue creatures. I blame the SHREK franchise for making everything that's "fairy tale" into one big ironic, tongue-in-cheek, pop-culture referencing joke. Also, the CGI Smurfs have soulless CGI eyes.I swear, if they try this crap on GUMMI BEARS, I will have to smurf a bitch!

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I LOVE this!!!! Please bring back the Dandy!!!from the comments: "Looks like something George Costanza came up with"That is a feature, my good sir, not a bug.

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My latest is up at Libertas Film Magazine!This week's Classic Cinema Obsession is VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962), now available from the Criterion Collection on DVD and Blu-Ray.This one was hard to write, but I hope readers can find some meaning in my ramblings.

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Well, Memorial Day has come and gone and that means it is now officially Summer.So it's time for a truly Summer Pop as the Faygo Pop of the Week. And what could possibly be more summertime than...Root Beer!!!!A Faygo flavor since 1910, Faygo Root Beer is the classic summer drink. In fact, Bon Appetit Magazine ranked Faygo's Old Fashioned Root Beer their number one best-tasting root beer.I

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I don't do obits. As far as honoring the dead, I say we all go watch a Dennis Hopper movie this weekend. My suggestion is RED ROCK WEST. Great effin' movie. Or you could always queue up BLUE VELVET.(needless to say, this clip is NSFW)RIP, man.

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My latest piece is up at Libertas Film Magazine!This week's Classic Cinema Obsession? SERGEANT YORK.

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Last Saturday night I experienced Midnight Madness.By 11:30 PM on a Saturday night, downtown Royal Oak is usually filled with hundreds of drunks stumbling down the sidewalks in packs, a bunch of Sex & the City wannabe chicks and their AXE body spray-soaked boyfriends. Also, at this point on a Saturday night in Royal Oak, a few fat, lonely middle aged cat ladies wander the streets looking to

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RED POP! A classic.One of the original Faygo flavors, Red Pop started life in 1907 as a strawberry soda called, appropriately enough, Strawberry Soda. In the '60s the name was officially changed to "Red Pop" and sold in cans. Red Pop is available in regular or sugar free (if, like Alex Karras, you're trying to slim down).Faygo also offers Original Red Pop made with real cane sugar (in bottles)

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Free yourself from mental slavery! My biggest reason for writing this retro-minded blog (besides my obvious passion for Things That Are Old) is to expose others to the vast, seemingly endless surprises and joys of Old Culture and to help them break out of the chains of their current media imprisonment by going back in time to explore the pleasures of Retro.You see, media today is so pervasive,

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I've posted pictures of some MGM movie posters at my tumblr blog. All of the movies featured Lena.Check them out! (scroll down to May 17)

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A classy, beautiful lady. We're glad there was you, Lena.

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Watch this montage of old Nickelodeon bumpers and promos from the late '80s and early '90s. These little clips are funny, strange, inventive, colorful, sometimes messy, sometimes just plain weird. But they are always fun and creative. They are always offbeat and interesting. They always manage to capture what it means to be a kid. And they were pretty much unlike anything else on television

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NHL Playoffs edition!I am no longer barfing pink vomit.GO WINGS.

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Because today is the start of the first annual TCM Film Festival and I'm not there.Just knowing all the cool stuff that's going to be happening in Hollywood for the next few days and knowing that I'm not there (and that I couldn't afford to be there) is very sad making.DARN YOU, MONEY!!!!

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Please, Red Wings, for the sake of the battle stags, do not lose to the Coyotes tonight!

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SALUTE YOUR SHORTS, one of the great Nickelodeon shows from the early '90s, is now available for download on Amazon's video on demand and on itunes!!!This is amazing news for Old School Nickelodeon fans. With Nickelodeon pulling the plug on their "Rewind Collection" on DVD sometime around 2006 (leaving fans in the lurch who were expecting season 3 of THE ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE and season 2

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I decided to delete my old tumblr blog, "the stuff that dreams are made of," (but not my old blogger blog of that name which can be found here).I will be starting a NEW tumblr blog instead as a kind of sidekick to the main Dereliction Row blog. It will be filled with pictures and some videos and mostly all the "Video Madness" and "Retro Vision" stuff that I've been posting to this blog will be

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I've been in a children's television state of mind lately.More to come...

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Because I'm lazy and also Miracle Legion and Mark Mulcahy are gods.

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This week's "Dark Street" feature is GUN CRAZY!Meet Bart. Bart likes guns.Meet Laurie. Laurie likes guns too.Bart likes Laurie.He really likes Laurie.And Laurie really likes Bart.BAM!That, my friends, in a nutshell, is GUN CRAZY. The story of two crazy kids in love.Laurie and Bart are crazy about guns and they're crazy about each other. They're gun crazy, but they're love crazy too. Or to

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SCARLET STREET

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I can't quite explain my love for LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. Yeah, I'm one of those ironic hipster Gen-Y/Gen-X types who "loves" the show in a snickering ironic way, watching mostly to make fun of and laugh at it (Classic LITTLE HOUSE snark includes: "Mline? I'm going... mline?"; the mime who rapes Sylvia episode; the classic Laura "Turn and run away" maneuver; Albert's death by nosebleed;

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Ava Gardner.Via the fucking awesomely named Fuck Yeah Ava Gardner

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In honor of John Garfield's birthday, TCM is running his movies all day Thursday, March 4th.As far as I'm concerned, any movie with John Garfield is worth watching. But the one I'm most looking forward to is an underrated gem of a movie that really affected me the first time I saw it and it continues to move me each time I've seen it since.It's BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, playing on Thursday, March 4,

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Japanese poster art for GUN CRAZY (Joseph H Lewis, 1950) Starring John Dall and Peggy Cummins as the perverse love birds, Bart and Laurie. Are they gun crazy or love crazy? Or is there any difference with these two? She makes him turn Clyde to her Bonnie 'cause she can't get enough of money and thrills. Forget the stardust. These two have gun powder in their eyes.

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I don't normally like remakes, but in the case of George Romero's 1973 cult movie, THE CRAZIES, I'm all for it.Why? Because the '73 version of THE CRAZIES is not a good movie. I wouldn't call it a bad movie, exactly, but it's one of those movies with a great premise done in by a bad script and bad acting (and, it must be said, the most annoying soundtrack ever -- 90 minutes of military snare

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More crime comics! This one is from "Murder Incorporated," a Fox Feature Syndicate publication from the late 1940s.I especially enjoy the "For Adults Only" warning on the right-hand side. I'm sure that was effective.The awesome CRIMEBOSS website is my resource for all these comic book covers, by the way.

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Ethel Merman! From the early 30s.

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Jim Emerson speaks with great wisdom:As for the "before I was born" argument, I feel just the opposite. I find very little in run-of-the-mill contemporary commercial movies that interests me, mainly because they're not trying anything new -- they're just making pale copies of sturdier pictures from the past, even if it's not my past. I'm fascinated by popular culture from the first half of the

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