the only human being left in New York

 

When one of the really good movies shows up on You Tube, I always want to inform readers about it so that they can watch it if they so choose.

        Not that we can't all rent or buy the classic films on Amazon Prime and watch, but there's something wild and fun about finding one on You Tube for free.

        If you can't stand the ads that some You Tube uploaders pepper their videos with, you can run it through Free Ad Block and you will have no ads.  Aaahhh!  Relief! - And the pleasure of a fantastic film!

And - you want to catch the movies we recommend ASAP, because after they get put up on You Tube, they get taken down by - I don't know who - some "Wet Blanket"....

I think it was a couple of years ago, we featured the information that Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) was on You Tube - two different ones, the same movie, but one in the original black-and-white, and one in color.  (How do they "colorize" movies?)  And pretty soon - a few days or weeks - I went back and checked, and both of them were gone.

        And then just recently, a few weeks ago, I think, I promoted All About Eve which was on You Tube - it's gone, now.

So the one I want to inform you of, now, is Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews.  The excellent stage actor Clifton Webb also has a central role.

The movie is permeated with personal style and atmosphere.

It has "dissolves" - where the scene you see on the screen sort of melts away and you see a different scene in its place.

        I love that - it makes the film flow more smoothly and dreamily, instead of the jerky, disjointed "cutting" from one scene to another.  

        You need cutting, sometimes, but in later movies, they use it all the time, with never any dissolves, someone decided that was better, & I don't think it is.

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There are two videos on You Tube with this movie, both from the same channel / uploader, named Kovboy Filmleri

The one to watch has the title "Laura I Mystery Movie" - and it says under the title "12 days ago" - meaning it was put on you tube 12 days ago, or by the time you get to it, it might say 14 or 15 days - recently.

        The other one from Kovboy Filmleri has a different title and was put up 7 months ago.  The sound cuts out on that one.

The good one starts without the opening credits or music or title of the film - I think the uploaders sometimes cut off the opening to try to have it go undetected on you Tube for a longer time before they take it down.

So it starts with the voice over:  "get the weekend..."

What he said was "I shall never forget the weekend..."

Vincent Price, Clifton Webb in Laura - 1944

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"the fundamental things apply..."

 And thinking about that short trip to Hollywood in the '90s, I remembered also, when I went looking for the restaurant at the hotel, one had to walk through a piano bar to get to the dining area, so I stopped in the piano part, and sat and listened for a few minutes, & when the song ended, I asked the man if he could play "As Time Goes By" from the movie Casablanca.

        He didn't say anything, he just started playing it.

        It sounded great.

        It was a sparkling moment.

                You can experience that scene from the film on You Tube - a video titled:

Play it, Sam

uploader / channel:  BlauweBarry

You must remember this

A kiss is still a kiss

A sigh is just a sigh

The fundamental things apply

As time goes by...

"Play it once, Sam.  For old time's sake."

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at the Hollywood Roosevelt

 

When I watch that Sopranos episode where "Christopher Moltisanti" goes to Hollywood to try to make a movie deal, sometimes I recall a trip I made to Hollywood in the early 1990s, for a couple of days.

        I signed up for a seminar in screenwriting taught by somebody who had done some TV and movie scripts.  I bought his book and was reading it, when I arrived at LAX.  I had reserved an affordable room at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood, which was the location of the one-day seminar.

        In the evening I went downstairs to the hotel's restaurant - after ordering, I was reading the seminar guy's book.  Glancing around the room, I noticed a man who looked like the book's author.  (His picture was on the back cover.)

I thought, "Hey! I bet that's him!  I mean, I stayed at this hotel because the seminar is downstairs tomorrow morning, probably he did, too!"

        I was kind of thrilled at the idea of meeting a published author personally, so I was thinking, Yeah, I'll go over there and say Hi.

So I walk over - there's another guy at the table, with him.  I had the book in my hand - and I just asked him - "excuse me..." - asked him, "Is this you?  Did you write this book?"

And he says, "No."

(lol)

        He and the other guy just seemed kind of surprised, and - not - upset with me, or anything.  Just sort of like - "Hmmm, this woman thinks you're the author of - that book in her hand..."

        I said, "Oh - well, sorry to interrupt you. - I just thought you looked like the author's picture, here..."

The other guy said, "...But better-looking, right?"

me:  "That's what I meant."

They laughed.

I think maybe I laughed, too - sort of - a little bit - to go along with their laughing.  

I went back to my table.

        My dinner arrived; I was eating, and reading... the waiter brought over a glass of white wine that I hadn't ordered, and pointed at the two guys who were leaving; they waved to me on their way out.

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"Luxury Lounge"

 

In the Sopranos episode titled "Luxury Lounge," in Season 6, Christopher goes to Los Angeles with Little Carmine to try to make a movie deal.

To say that Christopher gets distracted from his  main purpose would be an understatement.  Partying, and free luxury goods kind of lead him astray from his goal, and pretty soon the trip is over, with no deal made.

Lauren Bacall, iconic actress from Hollywood's Golden Age, is a guest in this episode, as is Ben Kingsley.  Bacall would have been about 80 years old at the time this was filmed.

        Little Carmine and Christopher meet informally with Ben Kingsley and "pitch" him a movie idea for him to start in.  Kingsley says, "As ever, it would be script-dependent."

        He has an appointment, so they walk with him, continuing their pitch, and the destination is the Luxury Lounge, where there is all this "swag" - expensive items being offered for free, to the stars.

Christopher starts getting really envious, as it dawns on him that all these expensive, prestigious things are being given free to movie stars who can well afford to buy it if they want it.

        The "unfairness" and irony of this situation just starts driving Christopher a bit crazy - partly because he is so in love with the luxury items - watches, sunglasses, weird underwear...  it just kills him that rich people are getting it for free.

He is driven to intimidate Ben Kingsley in an elevator, and to actually "mug" Lauren Bacall as she is carrying her big gift basket outside after dark.

        (Surely they had a stunt double for that scene....)

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Classic films with Lauren Bacall, which you might want to catch:

Key Largo

To Have And Have Not

The Big Sleep

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later

         Googling information about alligators and crocodiles, I learned that besides living mostly in water, they both can come out of the water and travel around, on land.

They "motorate" two ways:  they can crawl, and also stand up on four legs and walk, or run.

I guess I thought about it because I remembered a guy at my work, several years ago, told me he was leaving and moving back to Florida, where he was from.

Some time later, he showed up at work again, I asked him about returning to the Midwest from Florida, and he said he was working there in landscaping, and one day he turned around, and there was one of these things, walking on land, coming toward him.

        I can't remember, now, if he said it was an alligator or a crocodile - it was one of the two.

        He said that's when he decided to move back here and work with us, again.

Reading up, I learned that as a rule, anyplace you find alligators, there will be no crocodiles, & anyplace where there are crocodiles, there won't be any alligators.

With one exception.

Florida.

Florida has both.

Reading Viewer Comments, some Floridians wrote in and said a lot of people who live there think there are no crocodiles or alligators except in zoos or animal parks, where they are imported, but it isn't so - both alligators and crocodiles live in the wild, in Florida.

        A video on You Tube shows an alligator climbing over a fence - after a strenuous struggle, he gets over, lands on pavement face-first, gets up and walks away. ...

        Another video, probably filmed with a phone, showed a crocodile and alligator sort of - fighting - circling one another, and taking menacing stances... one Comment said, "They are quarreling about whether it's later, or after a while.

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"whodunnits"

 

I listen to mystery stories sometimes - even many years ago when I was in elementary school I got interested in mysteries.

We used to get a sort of paperback catalog of books we could buy, I think it was from Weekly Reader.  My mom would let me buy a book or two, sometimes.  One of the first ones I got was Adventure At Black Rock Cave, by Patricia Lauber.

        I loved AABRC.

I read almost all of the Nancy Drew books that existed at that time.

I read Sherlock Holmes stories, which I received - a huge, thick book - one Christmas, under the tree....

Murder, She Wrote and other TV shows and movies - and "true crime" shows, about a million of them, on You Tube.

These stories seem to draw your mind in close to them, and you notice things, and start to speculate, in a casual way.

It's exercise - kind of like fast-walking for your mind.

    

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"you'd think I was Hannibal Lecture or something"

 

On the last post here, I typed in the title, "Law & Order, the SUV" - of course the correct name of the TV show is "Law & Order, SVU" (special victims unit).  

        What I typed referred to a moment in The Sopranos where Christopher and, I think, one of his New Jersey associates are in Hollywood, trying to get Christopher's career as a screenwriter started.

        I believe it was the other character who says, "I'm a big fan of your show, Law and Order the SUV!"

Eehhhh - funny.

An hilarious element of The Sopranos is the periodical inclusion of a moment like this, where they kind of know what they are talking about, but they misspeak.  It adds texture to the atmosphere of the show:  like, this is who these people are.

        They know some stuff, but they don't know other stuff.

"He's the hair apparent."

The term is heir apparent, and heir is pronounced "air." - it's the person who is going to inherit.

Christopher says "hair", pronouncing the "h," like the hair on your head. ...

In a way, it's off-putting, and in another way, it draws you in, because you come to know these characters better and better, one little layer at a time.

        (Now, whether these are people you would want to know...that's another question...)

The misnomers and malapropisms of these crass, wily, murderous North Jersey Mafiosi just make me laugh, every time.

"the sacred and the propane"

"Law and Order the SUV"

"you know - Quasimodo predicted all this"

        L-l-l- to the o-l

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"Law And Order, The SUV"

         Sometimes when I am listening to videos on You Tube and reading the Comments under them, I come across a comment where I read it and think, "I agree with this!" and then I see the screen name and realize, 'Oh, that Comment was typed by me, two years ago...'

Usually, I see comments and they have a number of "Likes" under them - like, 49, or 250, or 17, or 2 K.

        Any comments typed in by me mostly have no "Likes," or 3, or 11.

This evening, watching Law and Order clip compilations, I saw a comment written by me two years ago, with 591 Likes clicked on it.

Goodness.  That was unexpected.

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Law & Order is similar to The Sopranos in that the guest stars who show up - Yowie.

Hal Holbrook, and Lauren Bacall on The Sopranos. ...

Jane Alexander (All The President's Men) on Law & Order - (and that's only the tip of the iceberg...)

  

(Lauren Bacall, 60 years before her appearance on The Sopranos)

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Tucson is a weird place

 It's a hundred days since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, in Tucson, Arizona.

The investigation continues.

(The reason this case receives a lot of attention is because the missing woman is the mother of Savannah Guthrie, a television personality on a daytime talk show.)

Notes:

    * An independent journalist named Brian Entin has followed this story, he puts up videos - I see them on You Tube - they get broadcast in various places - for example, it sounds like he did a show on this topic which appeared on CW.

    * The investigation was massively fumbled by Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.  Pretty shocking.  Latest news says he committed some kind of perjury.  Citizens are collecting signatures on petitions to recall him.

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                Podcasts on You Tube discuss the Nancy Guthrie case on an ongoing basis - they have these guests - retired detectives, retired policemen, retired FBI agents, local experts, etc.

        Listening to one from four days ago on the channel Surviving The Survivor, I heard a commentator finish off his thought / description with the sentence, "Tucson is a weird place."

Okay . ...

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that ol' black magic

 

The movie Green Book, currently available to stream on Netflix, is based on a true story.

        The movie opens outside the Copacabana nightclub in New York City - cars pulling up, people hurrying across the street to go in.

        Inside, an orchestra plays and an actor portraying Bobby Rydell sings an upbeat rendition of a song called "That Old Black Magic," which was a hit for Frank Sinatra. 

 

(Written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, in 1942, "That Old Black Magic" has been recorded by other artists, including Bob Dylan.)

        ([Harold Arlen also wrote the songs for The Wizard Of Oz, along with lyricist Yip Harburg.])

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On You Tube, there are two different videos with the Green Book version of "That Old Black Magic."

Green Book Movie Clip - Opening Scene (2019)

uploader / channel:  Fandango at Home

        8 minutes, 41 seconds

        you hear part of the song, then some scenes with people talking, then back to the song - then going forward into the movie with scenes after the nightclub part

 Green Book Soundtrack - "Old Black Magic" - Green Book Copacabana Orchestra

uploader / channel:  Milan Records USA

        2 minutes, 13 seconds

        you just hear the song, straight through

    

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some road trip

 

Green Book, now available to stream on Netflix, is a good movie.

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couldn't make it do what I wanted

 Last night I tried to type two blog posts, one for Tuesday, May 5, and one for Wednesday, May 6.

I typed the May 6 one after midnight, so it should have been dated May 6th, but instead Blogspot put only one date at the top, May 5th, and then put both titles under that date:  "one of these days" and "wake up in the morning."

        I'm not getting mad about small frustrating things like this anymore, so it is only an inexplicable frustrating detail.

        The Relationship between Technology and Me is sometimes a tad dysfunctional.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn with a giant 1950s computer behind them, in the movie Desk Set

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"wake up in the morning"...

         In the film on Netflix called "The Wrecking Crew" they talk about recording "These Boots Are Made For Walking."  Carol Kaye played bass on that.

        I wanted to look up the info on when Buckingham and Nicks went to L.A. - 1971, they moved there together.

1973 - their album Buckingham Nicks came out.

1975 - they joined Fleetwood Mac.

        (The Mac was looking for a guitar player and contacted Lindsey.  When they invited him to join, he told them he and Stevie were "a package deal" and the band agreed to have both of them join.)

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On You Tube,

video titled:

RARE: Stevie Nicks Bob Welch Gold Dust Woman Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie 1981 HQ Version

uploader / channel:  LaVidaLocaHomie

        - play and enjoy -

-- viewer comment:

Damn.  I feel I've been elevated to a new level of rock wisdom now.

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one of these days, these boots...

 On Netflix right now is a documentary titled, The Wrecking Crew - it's about all these L.A. musicians who played on many hit records in the 1960s.

They discuss Phil Spector and his Wall Of Sound.

They have a lot of good interview footage with bass player Carol Kaye.

Cher is interviewed in this film, as well.

 ...And others - all kinds of musicians.

Dick Clark.

        They discuss the music business center of action kind of changing location - evolving, from New York to Los Angeles.

That part made me think of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who left a band called Fritz in the San Francisco area and went to L.A. to try to make it as a duo:  Buckingham Nicks.

        Their producer was from Minnesota.  Stevie cleaned his house right at first, to make money because they weren't making money with their music yet.

The producer said she would show up at his door with her equipment and products, dressed for grubby work, and she would say, "All right, I'm gonna clean it."

On You Tube,

video titled 

These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

uploader / channel:  Nancy Sinatra

        ...and PLAY!

Frank Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra (Frank's daughter)

the band, Fritz.    Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are in the middle.

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"I'd rather..." and "the dozens"

I was thinking about those sayings - those exaggerated expressions people sometimes use to emphasize how much they don't want to do something. - They say, "I'd rather..." [do some ridiculous thing that you would never really want to do] than to do [some other thing].

It came into my mind because I was listening to a You Tuber telling advice, or wisdom, and someone typed in the Comments, "I'd rather lick a freshly-tarred road than live by this advice."

        Now there was one I had never heard before.

        It reminded me of the time the Municipal League lobbyist told me cheerfully, "I'd rather chew barbed wire than listen to country music."

OK.

        And gathering my thoughts for this little essay, I remembered sitting with a couple of school superintendents after dinner one night in the state capital - these guys were cousins, and they kind of teased each other by saying the other one's school wasn't very good, & making exaggerated, silly statements - to challenge each other.

        It took me a minute to realize they were joking around, when they started that.

        It was like "doing the dozens," which is an inner-city competition where two guys trade insults in front of an audience - it's sort of a contest of wit.

The one superintendent said an "I'd rather" - "I'd rather [do something-or-other] than work at your school."

        And the other one came back with, "I'd rather sell used cars door-to-door than work at your school!"

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The Internet calls this type of expression 

        "I'd rather" jokes

or

        "I'd rather" sayings

...and states that they are "a form of hyperbole, an intentional exaggeration which is used to emphasize an extreme dislike for a particular situation or activity."

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Sam Waterston is back.

 The seasons of Law & Order currently available to watch on Netflix get better as they go along.

The writers, producers, and directors are hitting their groove.

 

        There are still words and phrases and action dynamics that get repeated a lot.

        It's as if the writers are new to it, and they're partly trying to be like the original Law & Order, and partly trying to add new things.

In just about every episode, the person in charge at the precinct, played by actress Camryn Manheim, refers to the crime victim as "the vick."

In many episodes, when the two main detectives go to interview someone, the person runs like hell to escape them and they have to chase the person.  

---------------- Their suit jackets flap and fly out as they "pound the pavement."

        And in several episodes where someone is referring to a murder victim, they say, "He is - eh - was..."

Maybe just have the people sometimes say, "He's such-and-such..." and others in other episodes say "He was - this-and-that..."

Sometimes present tense, and sometimes past tense, and not make such an emphasis on the speaker remembering in the moment that the person he's talking about is now dead.

Oh - just as I type this, one of the detectives says somebody-or-other "can kiss my ass."

Get some alternative phrases and expressions, folks!

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television on Netflix

 

There's a "Law And Order" on Netflix, now.

It says 'Season 21' and 'Season 22.'

        Something is different - well, they have some different actors and actresses, but what I'm referring to is a different - feeling to it.

It is less tight and compelling and intense than older episodes.

Dick Wolf's name is still on it, and Sam Waterston is in it, a little bit.

        I noticed in Season 21, two episodes in a row had the same two phrases in their dialogue:  "roll the dice," and "kiss my a--."

        (Those phrases were not used together, they were in different scenes in the episodes.  -- When I type them together here, it looks funny....)

The thought crossed my mind, "Is AI writing these?" ...

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tremendous poise

 

        A cloudy, gray sky and a damp-looking outdoor scene, reminded me of the 1972 Woody Allen movie called Play It Again, Sam.

Awkward blind date scene - first meeting, and ensuing slapstick catastrophe.

Dick:  That's why it's silly to go to the Pier.

Nancy:  Do you think you could turn the music down a little bit?

Allen:  Of course.

Dick:  What's the point of going to an outdoor restaurant, if it's going to rain?

Linda:  You used to like to take me walking in the rain.

Allen (from across the room where he is turning down the music) - I love the rain.  It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

------------------------- He says it with self-conscious dramatic emphasis, like it's a "deep" thought, right?

"I LOVE the rain.  It washes memories off the sidewalk - of life."

There are two clips containing this scene, on You Tube.

The shorter one is 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

title:

Play It Again Sam Blind Date Scene

channel / uploader:  Greg Blazio

        You can experience it.

        (The awkwardness! - LOL.  "The key to decorating is to avoid looking like you used a decorator."...)

Tremendous poise.  I'm an absolute master. ...

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from Sicily to the Bronx...

 Netflix has on a show called "American Godfathers:  The Five Families."

Produced by the History Channel, and based on a book written by Selwyn Raab, who appears in the series.

        (I was kind of surprised the History Channel made it - the last time I checked, the History Channel was no longer doing history (similar to MTV dropping music from their content) - they were doing flying saucer stuff instead.)

The series is narrated by Michael Imperioli, the actor who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos.

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"the wrecking crew"

 

Yesterday I left a note for a musician at work, to watch "The Wrecking Crew" on Netflix.

Then when I typed in that title on Google, I find that there are about 50 different movies and shows called 'The Wrecking Crew,' (one from 1968, with Dean Martin in it) so that's going to be confusing - will have to add specific information.

The one I watched and thought was interesting is a documentary about a bunch of musicians working in Los Angeles during the 1960s and '70s.  As a group, they were nicknamed "the wrecking crew."

I love documentaries about bands, singers, and musicians.  I enjoy hearing people talk about their work.

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mysteries solved

 In yesterday's post here, I mentioned how people would ask us to "look on the cameras" to see who "stole" their lunch-box or whatever - and actually stealing anything was rare to nonexistent, what usually happened was either the person thought they brought their lunch that day, but they didn't and it turned out their lunch-box was at their home all along.

        Or someone did take their lunch-box home, but did it by accident because the two people's lunch-boxes were identical looking.  And then the next day the person who took it home by mistake brings it back.... 

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ok, who stole my lunch-box?

In the place where I work, there are cameras, and people sometimes would ask -  watch the camera and see who stole my lunch, or my lunch-box, or my soda... about 17 years ago, a maintenance man (mechanic) on the Ready-To-Eat side, who has since retired, asked me to watch the camera and see who stole his lunch-box.

I watched some camera footage, and I remember he came into the office and said, "I had that lunch-box throughout three tours in Vietnam."

        (Three tours...??!!)

                ?? ?    !! !

(What??!)

And I had this thought:  his lunch-box survived the Viet Cong - several times - in spite of the - tunnels, but - couldn't survive our break-room.... 

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song sleuthing

 

I had to become a You Tube sleuth to find the song that's on the opening credits of Smokey And The Bandit.

Type in video title:

smokey and the bandit intro movie

uploader / channel - Terje Hallandvik

        and Play and Enjoy - !

        Mr. Hallandvik provided the song's lyrics in subtitles which are in some language - Norwegian?  Dutch?  Finnish?  Hungarian? ... I don't know.

The song, recorded in 1977, is called "The Legend" and was written by Bill Justis and Jerry Reed.

For some reason, I love the idea of a European man being so enthusiastic about an American movie that he has to give us a video on You Tube.

        Here in the U.S., when we see an Italian movie with subtitles, or a French film, we refer to it as "a foreign movie."

        I wonder if, in Europe, when people plan to watch Smokey And The Bandit, they call it a foreign movie. ...

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is there anything on, tonight?

 So - Many - Good - Shows - !

I have been wanting to list them here, as they come to my attention -

Smokey And The Bandit

American Hustle

All The President's Men

The Big Easy

I Am Jackie O

The Seven-Year Itch

The Sixties

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Smokey And The Bandit

        Netflix

One thing I really appreciate about this film is, scenery we experience as they drive around the country is real.  No green-screen, blue-screen, or CGI back in the day, when they shot this.

        One little mystery, though:  there's a song playing over the opening credits - I thought it was such a good song, I wanted to know what it was and who's singing it - Googled, and was assured that it's "East Bound And Down."

Typed in the question, re-worded several different ways, and got same answer.

I know the song "East Bound And Down" and that is not it.

So....

American Hustle

        Netflix

Christian Bale gives a tour de force performance as Irving Rosenfeld; but - every actor and actress in this movie is fantastic in their roles.

All the songs providing background / mood are perfect, and exciting.

"She knew how to live with passion and style.

She understood Duke Ellington." ...

All The President's Men

        HBO Max

Dustin Hoffman.

Robert Redford.

Jason Robards as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee.

        [Woodward and Bernstein enter an elevator, press the button for the floor.  Carl Bernstein is smoking a cigarette.

Bernstein:  You made a mistake in there.

Woodward, after a pause:  What?

Bernstein:  You said to Bradlee we haven't had any luck yet, and - and that's the thing that he jumps on, you can't talk about luck, if you can't give specifics, you shouldn't say anything.

Woodward:  Is there anyplace you don't smoke?]

The Big Easy

        Amazon Prime Video

(There are two shows titled The Big Easy, one says 1987, and one says 1996.

1987 is the one we're recommending.)

New York City is nicknamed "the big apple."

New Orleans is nicknamed "the big easy."

        This movie was shot on location in New Orleans.

        Not blue-screen-green-screen-CGI New Orleans, but actual New Orleans.

I really like that.

        The story is a fun adventure, snappily written.

I Am Jackie O

        Amazon Prime

A very good documentary about Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.  It was made in 2020 - I was surprised this has been out for six years already and I had never heard of it.

        There were items and scenarios in this which I had never seen or read about before. - a jazz concert at the White House, for one...

The Seven Year Itch

        Amazon Prime

As per the usual, at the beginning of this streaming classic movie, there's a warning in the upper left-hand corner of the screen:

smoking, sexual content, violence

        It doesn't have any of those things in it, well maybe the smoking - at least, in one scene, he goes looking for cigarettes - he has to find the pack which he has hidden from himself so that he won't smoke....

(Those warnings are ridiculous - they put them on every movie....)

Marilyn Monroe and a funny script.

Enough said.

The Sixties

(2013, 1 season)

        HBO Max

Excellent documentary.

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Jack Ruby

 
Rick Danko, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson - in The Last Waltz

 Sitting in the movie theater in Boston, watching The Last Waltz, when I heard Robbie Robertson say, "it was Jack Ruby's club" - I was very surprised.  

It was an impactful moment, in some kind of a way.

        I wasn't expecting to hear the name "Jack Ruby" and it struck me and stayed with me.

Jack Ruby - the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald allegedly shot and killed President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

I was a little child when that happened - it was the year before I started kindergarten.

(My father jumped up out of his chair and cried out, "My God, they shot him!")

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When I was at that movie, I probably had not thought about the name "Jack Ruby" in eleven or twelve years.

        To me, at that age, it was an ancient memory that came jolting out.

The memory of hearing that name in the movie went back into my Memories and floated there, near the memory of the day when Pres. Kennedy was killed, and the memory of the day when Oswald was on TV, being moved from one jail to another, with a crowd of people, and a sudden chaos on the television screen, & later on, the name "Jack Ruby."

One of those occasions where Time seems to collapse and fold up on itself, as events line up in our minds.

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