New piece on examiner.com about Vaudeville Exhibit

Vaudeville's Echoes in Classic Film

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In Our Own Voice: African American Filmmakers symposium at the University of Arizona

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Sunday night, or perhaps it was Monday morning, I dreamt that Alfred Hitchcock was my grandfather, and he was telling me his memories of shooting Psycho. For example, how they did 14 takes of the shower scene, and every time Anthony Perkins would begin stabbing, Hitch would erupt into hysterical laughter ( Read more... )

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/rumsfeld/

Isn't the photo of Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld hysterical? It's downright wallpaper-worthy.

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/bfi/pages/PROD0514.html

Yeehoo. And that was a throwaway, "Ok, I have to mention somewhere that there are pretty pictures" blurb. I'm not sure what that says about the rest of my review. . .

You'll always be a planet to me, Pluto.

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I should've just asked him in the first place; I think I initially meant to:

"I hear you are looking for a comparison for Dave Gedge's voice. The only one that makes any sense to me is that he sounds like Grandpa Simpson would, if he starred in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning."

There's probably not anything I can say after that, other than "

That's one test over with. I only second guessed myself once, changing one correct answer to the wrong one--isn't that rule #1 in the test-taking handbook? DON'T do that? Yeesh. I'll never learn ( Read more... )

Random stuff ( Read more... )