In no particular order, these are five of my “more recent” favorites. All of them have been featured here before.
Hmm… Okay, let’s make it six.
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A DogRat Favorite
A good post is worth repeating. This one, with some added editing, is from over eight years ago.
Waiting for the Landscape Contractor
Or someone like him.
Looking forward to having the front walkway demolished and replaced… whenever that will be.
Follow-up: He’s here. No problem pulling out the 6-inch slab and breaking it up with an 8 lb. sledge.
The 12-inch slab is a problem. They’re working on it with a jack hammer. I SAID, THEY’RE WORKING ON IT WITH A JACK HAMMER!
CONFIRMED! Jimmy Hoffa was not buried under the concrete of my front walk.
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Thirteen years after The Great Escape, John Sturges returned to WWII as the subject for his final film.
https://youtu.be/FgiLkbhK4fE
A YouTube Alternative
When an old movie isn’t available on YouTube, Archive.org is worth checking. Night Must Fall is a well-regarded 1937 film that was adapted from a stage play, making it chatty and slow by today’s standards. Rosalind Russell is excellent as a very attractive old maid, to use an outdated expression.
The poster frame for the video has the name Douglas Shearer, brother of actress Norma Shearer. She was the wife of MGM studio executive Irving Thalberg, who had died suddenly the year before Night Must Fall. I used to assume that Douglas had a title at MGM thanks to his sister, and he never did any real work. How wrong I was. I’ll say more about him later.
TV Writing
Monday night’s Better Call Saul was quite a wild ride. Some of the situations and plot devices in the series are a bit contrived, as they were in Breaking Bad, but every character is brought to note-perfect life by the actors. Which was not the case with Breaking Bad. At least it wasn’t for me.