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What I’d Say If I Were On Twitter

“The Internet really has sped things up. It takes only a minute for me to sort the two Sunday papers I get, and not much longer than that to read the tiny comics sections.” Hmm… that’s 170 characters. Ten too many? I’d better trim it down.

“The Internet has sped things up. It takes only a minute to sort the two Sunday papers I get, and not much longer than that to read the tiny comics sections.” There, only 156 characters.

I’m not on Twitter, but I’m on Facebook, and every time I go there it asks, “What’s on your mind, Doug?” How about what was on my mind 55 years ago?

Audio for the Aged

M4A. “Medicare for All”? Yeah, but it’s also “MPEG 4 Audio,” that’s sort of an update to MP3. Now you know.

QT on the QT

My buddy Denro received his copy of the Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood novelization on Saturday, but I won’t get mine until tomorrow. Both copies were in the same order, so what’s up with that, Amazon??

Tarantino continues to trash-talk Bruce Lee, but not in this senior-friendly interview for CBS Sunday Morning.

The book is here, a day earlier than expected. Amazon must have seen this blog post. 😉

Paperback Writer

The novelization of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is out, and as befits the material, there’s no hardcover edition.

Getting Hitched

I continued my Alfred Hitchcock viewing on TCM. Saboteur — not to be confused with Hitchcock’s earlier Sabotage — has a brief scene that’s straight out of a Western. Then there’s an encounter with a blind man, just like in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. And how about a nod to Tod Browning’s Freaks for good measure?

Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings’ co-star in Saboteur, passed away in 1995. When she died I learned that whenever I visited my younger sister’s family I was driving past the retirement home where Lane lived out her final years.

Hitchin’ Post

This is Turner Classic Movies’ Alfred Hitchcock binge weekend. I’m a Hitch guy, and I never tire of watching many of his films.

Foreign Correspondent is a favorite that I hadn’t seen in a long time.

Watching Shadow of a Doubt, an otherwise much greater film, I was reminded how much the ending just doesn’t work for me.

I was in high school when Hitchcock appeared on The Dick Cavett Show.

P.S. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Psycho, but my favorite was at a sold-out TCM Event showing in Phoenix, where the movie is ostensibly set. It’s playing on TCM right now, and until this moment I’d never before noticed the shower behind Janet Leigh in her apartment, before she runs away with the money.