I guess if I was going to herald “Some Like It Hot,” I should rightfully have done so last week before it’s showings at the Village 8 this past weekend. Well, sorry. My bad. But there’s always Wild & Wooly or one of those chain rental places.
Anyway, the Film Babe and I did head over [...]
Baer’s Button store on the 600 block of West Market was run by Mr. Baer. Just as my parent’s store (Handbag Mart, an apt, utilitarian moniker) was owned and operated by my family down the street. In the 50’s and 60’s, some even surviving into the 70’s, they and thousands across the land like them [...]
Read the entire articleU of L football has careened off its collision course.
It doesn’t make sense. If the Pakistani Graduate Student Theory (details below.) is correct, the Cards should be BCS perennials, not rebuilding.
That players are getting shot and arrested is not really the problem. If the hypothesis is legit, Cardinal prospects for the upcoming season should be [...]
My reaction to the immediately infamous New Yorker magazine cover — hubby and wife Obama caricatured as their most ardent enemies would portray them — was immediate and visceral. I stopped what I was doing, scurried to my computer and shot off an email to the editors of the weekly ‘zine I adore and receive [...]
Read the entire articleSultry Dolly Harshaw (Virginia Madsen) shows up at her hubby’s used car lot while he’s off on a hunting trip. Always bored and looking for some action, she’s driven her vintage pink 60’s Caddy convertible with those enormous tail fins through the streets of the small dusty Texas town to check out the new salesman, [...]
Read the entire articleAs a film reviewer for public radio, I keep aware of what’s upcoming in the world of films. To a fault. I check out advanced previews on the www. I read reviews and updates on films in progress. I listen to the buzz about projects.
All said and done, it’s not a good thing.
Like any human, [...]
The Film Babe and I were married a few weeks back. During the tumult and tension a few days before the ceremony, she asked — the polite verb to use — that I burn a CD of favorite love songs to give to the guests.
As if there wasn’t enough other preparation going on.
(I won’t even [...]
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