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Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (1968)
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Snowy Morning Movie
Eddie Muller introduces ROADBLOCK from 1951, with the great square-jawed, gravel-voiced Charles McGraw.
Monty Python and the Filthy Lucre
The financial trouble John Cleese has had resulting from his multiple divorces is well known, and now Eric Idle says that he too is running short of funds.
“I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster… I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.”
Drag Night
Here’s another simulated evening’s viewing of TCM Noir Alley. He Walked By Night has everything going for it — a tense story based on actual events, outstanding cinematography, and Jack Webb’s inspiration in creating his Dragnet radio and TV series. There’s no mistaking the voice of Reed Hadley, who narrated many crime movies, and appeared in a few of them. Take it away, Eddie…
Beantown at Its Best
Bill Iffrig, on the ground in that famous photo, passed away a month ago, at age 89.
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a46458984/bill-iffrig-dies-at-89/
“This is our fu*king city.” – David “Big Papi” Ortiz
A Feyn-man Mess-age
Freakonomics has started a podcast series about Richard Feynman. Highly recommended listening.