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(Again, they don’t make ’em like they used to.) 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 … Continue reading →

(unlike most actresses today) 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

is the last of the good/more popular, older Canadian writers. When she dies, the olde pre-20th century CanLit school* is toast (except for maybe Ondaatje if you’re a fan). I would expect her to win the next or second-next Nobel Prize … Continue reading →

peaceful and beautiful in a Wordsworthian Romantic way, the Byronic/Voltaire-ian view is probably more true in these turbulent, chaotic times. “Disasters” and “eruptions” as Shakespeare correctly described them. Volcanos, wildfires and suffocating smoke, ice and icestorms, winter blizzards, heavy snowfalls, alternating rapid … Continue reading →

They appeared slowly one row at a time on the edge of the horizon. It was going to be another hot summer morning and the mist had faded. They had travelled far in the night–tired, hungry, walking on empty. It … Continue reading →

“You cannot travel on the Path before you have become the Path itself.” -Buddha Clarity and achievement of significant purpose predisposes that an individual has the consciousness of being “It” in terms of choices in one’s own life and that … 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 →

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 →

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 →