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One America

Before Bad Bunny was born, Brazil’s Xuxa had this message.

Portuguese

English

Also from Brazil.

He’s been sundowning then staying up late into the night, posting unhinged screeds and sharing offensive fake videos. In the Oval Office he’s always sitting at his desk. His speech patterns have become so odd. Something is very wrong, even by his bizarre standard.

From the bruising on his hands it’s obvious he’s on a blood thinner, and it isn’t just aspirin. A mini-stroke must have been suspected, so he had an MRI. The CT scan was a cover-up story, or perhaps he was given one of those too.

Photo confirmed to be genuine, not generated or modified by AI

Young Love

This scene is from The Blue Bird, a very strange 1940 Shirley Temple movie.

It’s perhaps the best, and certainly the briefest, portrayal of a Romeo and Juliet romance on film. The ages are in keeping with Shakespeare’s play.

Cliff Note

WWII hero, former stunt double for Rick Dalton, and all-around bad boy Cliff Booth is coming back for more trouble!

Return to Turner

Ignite Films is an interesting little video outfit, specializing in meticulously restored independent productions from the past. I have their excellent premiere release, Invaders From Mars.

Ignite’s latest is a film with a title that sounds like it could be a breakfast at Denny’s. The Big Combo, now in the public domain, is a noir title from 1955.

https://www.ignite-films.com/products/the-big-combo

I ordered the regular Blu-ray edition, as my JVC video projector has the 2K resolution formerly known as “full HD.” Did you know that the 3-chip DLP projectors in movie theaters are “only” 4K? That’s right, your 4K TV at home has the same resolution as seen on those gigantic screens.

HBO Max occasionally has some of Eddie Muller’s ‘Noir Alley’ installments from Turner Classic Movies. Here is The Big Combo, in another DogRat simulation of a TCM presentation. My fingers remain crossed that TCM will become available without a cable TV subscription.