Monthly Archives: January 2014

Can one be pounded any more, any harder, now that normal climate no longer lives here? A day for facing the basic fact that life is chiefly about personal survival for the most part. That it’s each man for himself and … Continue reading →

It had been months since he had seen his parents and home. The city skyline gradually came into sight after a long flat prairie drive. Suddenly he was passing the familiar landmarks as he entered the outlying district where he … Continue reading →

Most of us play different roles in our lives, especially in social situations and in relationships. We are actors all, playing many scenes, many stories, many movies. But how often is one merely oneself, an open book, freely and simply … Continue reading →

So often the people who clean out closets, attics, barns, the people who dumpster-dive or buy something for $5 at a thrift shop or garage sale, unwittingly, hit the jackpot and find out the painting they own is worth 20 … Continue reading →

The experts always say “Buy what you love. It’s the best reason to.” And yet… An old woman on today’s show who wears clothes and adornments signalling her interest in appearances, images, and likely beauty. Thought she’d bought a certain … Continue reading →

Uncle Charlie, a psychopathic killer of three rich widows on the run, arrives in Santa Rosa to stay with his older sister’s family which includes his overly-innocent niece-namesake young Charlie. A duality of good and evil and appearance and reality … Continue reading →

With one of his famous “unresolved endings” albeit a conventional romantic one, with perhaps shallower, less thoughtful audience members believing that Johnnie is really reformed after lying and manipulating his way through the entire plot, Hitchcock still has managed to … Continue reading →

Spellbound Casablanca Autumn Sonata Intermezzo Murder on the Orient Express Gaslight For Whom the Bell Tolls Notorious Cactus Flower Inn of the Sixth Happiness Anastasia Indiscreet                                                                                                                        Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Spellbound To Kill a Mockingbird Moby Dick The Omen Cape Fear The Boys from Brazil Arabesque The Big Country MacArthur Gentleman’s Agreement The Gunfighter The Keys to the Kingdom On the Beach Pork Chop Hill Twelve O’Clock High The Snows … Continue reading →

Inevitable, that Hitchcock, of all directors, should be the first director to deal head-on with psychoanalysis and stress disorder. He had been moving in that direction previously with psychological themes of earlier films (Shadow of a Doubt, Rebecca, Suspicion), and … Continue reading →