Wednesday at 7 PM ET, Carol and I will be seeing Turner Classic Movie’s 70th anniversary presentation of Casablanca at a movie theater.
The first, and only, time we saw the film at a theater was at a 40th anniversary showing. That was thirty years ago?? This whole accelerated progression of time thing really bugs me!
Yeah, yeah, I know. March Madness. Well, that’s not for me, see? No sir, noir is what I’m watching. Like this classic gem, Detour, made on a shoestring, hot on the heels of VE day.
This picture is of Christie Brinkley in high school. It’s proof that an ugly duckling can grow up to be a swan. 😉
Before I first heard Monty Python on WBCN in Boston in 1971-72, the station played records by the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre. Founding member Peter Bergman has died. In The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye, Bergman played Lt. Bradshaw, as heard in this audio clip.
http://youtu.be/Ouuq5J7lSuY
The first three Firesign Theatre albums are my favorites. They’re smart, savvy, carefully crafted, intricate, subversive, and for myself Nick Danger led to an interest in what is now called Old Time Radio. For someone of my generation, the Firesign Theatre records hold up well to repeated listenings, and they evoke a great deal of nostalgia. There was that time in college, in a dorm room that was not mine, listening to Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers, and… uh… well, never mind about that.
“… and there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut…”
Tom Moroney of Bloomberg News tells this tragic, compelling story about one outcome of the current state of mental health services, in an age of reduced social services funding. Tom was on The Takeaway radio program Tuesday morning.
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022812h.mp3|titles=The Takeaway – Mental health service reductions]Here’s another public domain gem from Archive.org. Impact is a tight, little flick in the noir genre. It’s not quite in the same league with the superb Gun Crazy, but I can almost promise that if you start watching you’ll keep watching. Impact is also available online from Netflix.
