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Thursday, 19 September 2013

International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Posted on 10:05 by Unknown
Artwork for CAPTAIN BLOOD by N.C. WyethBest. Pirate. Book. EverSecond. Best. Pirate Book. Ever.Best. Pirate. Movie. Ever. (This is the French poster, I think.)Best. Pirate. Hero. Ever. Errol Flynn. Swoon.Favorite. Pirate. Villain. Ever.Second. Favorite. Pirate. Villain. Ever. Captain Hook, of course.Funniest. Pirate. Book. Ever. Well, one of them anyway.And a pix of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow - just because.As I always like to say: what's...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Overlooked (or Forgotten) Film Tuesday: MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) starring Frederic March and Kim Novak

Posted on 07:00 by Unknown
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) is a film directed by Delbert Mann with a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky based on his own play. It stars Frederic March and Kim Novak with a stellar cast of secondary character actors including Albert Dekker, Glenda Farrell, Martin Balsam and Lee Grant. (Edward G. Robinson starred in the Broadway production.)It was Jacqueline's splendid review of MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT a while ago (at Another Old Movie Blog), that  brought...
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Sunday, 15 September 2013

Saturday Salon: The Rendition of Goldfish

Posted on 07:00 by Unknown
English genre, social realist and portrait painter,Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856 - 1916)Australian digital artist, designer and art director, Ken WongAustralian modernist painter and printmaker, Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)Contemporary American realist painter, Janet FishR. Humphrey (unable to find further info) But it's such a lyrical painting, I had to include it.French modernist painter Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)German Impressionist/Expressionist...
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Friday, 13 September 2013

Forgotten Book Friday: MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE (1976) by Joan Aiken (1924 - 2004)

Posted on 07:00 by Unknown
Joan Aiken was a prolific and very talented English writer who specialized in creating intriguing books for children and young adults. She also turned out some pretty terrific Gothic romance novels as well as stories based on Jane Austen characters.I suppose Aiken is most well known and best remembered for the classic, WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE - especially the version with the Edward Gorey illustrations. (My own personal favorite is MIDWINTER NIGHTINGALE...
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Remembrance

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September 11th, 2001. A day to honor and rememb...
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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked (or Forgotten) Film: THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982) starring Tom Burlinson and Kirk Douglas

Posted on 07:00 by Unknown
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982) is a film directed by George Miller based on a poem by A.B. 'Banjo' Patterson and written by Fred 'Cul' Cullen and John Dixon. It stars newcomer Tom Burlinson and Kirk Douglas.If you, like me, thrill to the vision of men on horseback riding across the screen accompanied by sweeping romantic feel-good music (by Bruce Rowland), then this is the film for you.Aside from the beautifully rugged Australian scenery, I can't...
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Friday, 6 September 2013

Listening to Books

Posted on 11:27 by Unknown
Artist: Eleonora ArroyoI'm doing something a little different this season - I've joined www.audible.com so I can listen to my favorite books on the computer. It's not a bad price - certainly it's cheaper than buying the CDs and less stressful than borrowing them from the library and being on a deadline. (I can manage that with books, but find it extremely annoying with CDs - go figure.)I'm currently listening to Georgette Heyer's book, COTILLION...
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