Author: DOuG pRATt

My favorite actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don’t know if Capote is the best thing he’s ever done, but it certainly beats Love Lisa. Here is Hoffman winning his Oscar™.

Was Grace Kelly ever nude in a movie?

Eva•tone Soundsheets were fun.  They were more generically called flexi-discs.  I have a few, and I’ll get around to transferring and posting them. There’s precious little information available about these earliest of floppy discs, even from Eva•tone; which is still in business, but ceased soundsheet production in 2000.

Here’s a flexi-disc from the early 1970’s with an interview of Batman comic-book writer Denny O’Neil.  A much more recent interview with O’Neil is on the Batman Begins DVD.

This is an attempt at embedding a video that’s not from YouTube. One of my own. Let’s try the opening credits from Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, because it happens to be handy and it’s short.

I helped teach this guy how to drive, and I took him to see The Blues Brothers. What was I thinking??