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Focused Favorites: Films Based on Sci-Fi Shorts
We Are Movie Geeks —
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FOCUSED FAVORITES is an ongoing taste of my personal favorites, narrowed down with a fine-tooth comb, into very specific categories… just for fun. It’s a way I can share some of my personal choices in film and hopefully introduce others to films they may not have otherwise seen or even heard of. Enjoy! I love ...1 day ago -
Review of “Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America”
Travel Blissful —
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The cover shows Pulpit Rock in Utahs Echo Canyon, in a photochrom by William Henry Jackson. The strong economy by the end of the 19 th century, when North America was fully settled, led to affordable popular tourism. Not only wealthy people had the means to travel. Also the less well-off set out to discover the ...1 day ago -
"And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart..."
Considering Lily —
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“And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart...4 days ago -
Hero-cidality
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The image that attracted you to this post was the DC comic book cover announcing the death of Superman , the Man of Steel at the hands of Doomsday . While the battle with the other-wordly monster took issue upon issue to unfold the death was was no less dramatic. This was a very public, albeit fictional, instance ...4 days ago -
Why Do We Seem to Thrive on Hero Destruction?
Blogs —
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The image that attracted you to this post was the DC comic book cover announcing the death of Superman , the Man of Steel at the hands of Doomsday . While the battle with the other-wordly monster took issue upon issue to unfold the death was was no less dramatic. This was a very public, albeit fictional, instance ...4 days ago -
Short Takes
KR Blog —
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A bookseller with a killer haircut receives Rhys “I think people are gradually starting to understand and accept the realness of unreal things ,” -Haruki Murakami Van Gogh’s letters ! In translation! Illustrated! How cool is that? Austen’s in the air: death by cow , “ moral compass ” or “ vicious ...5 days ago -
The Great Gatsby on my iPhone
Ripple Effects —
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Two years ago I posted about reading Pride and Prejudice on my BlackBerry . At that time, I was receiving free installments of the book, sent to me daily via email from DailyLit . Well, I’ve moved on since then. I’m using an iPhone now, and with the application Stanza , I get access to several online ...6 days ago -
The Minor Seventh, the Major Ninth, and the Dying of the Light
Icono-Curmudgeon-Clast - Loring Wirbel's Rants —
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Funny how hearing an old song can not only evoke those familiar emotions you thought you left behind, but helps you solve a contemporary puzzle at the same time. Hearing Joe Jacksons "Steppin Out" over the Thanksgiving weekend helped me to understand the vague misgivings I was feeling when listening to Lady Gaga . ...1 week ago -
Short Story Sunday: "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ready When You Are, C.B. —
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I was expecting P.G. Wodehouse. A story by F. Scott Fitzgerald called "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz." Sounds like a comic tale of wealthy New Yorkers, probably full of witty repartee like one finds in a Jeeves and Wooster story. Instead of P.G. Wodehouse, I found H. Rider Haggard. "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is ...1 week ago -
The strange book of Von Junzt
Disambiguation —
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Aside from my teaching, I had for some years been engaged in various anthropological projects with the primary ambition of articulating the significance of the clown figure in diverse cultural contexts. I was interested in original sin and had dabbled in esoteric philosophy; my remote ancestors had been Salem witches. ...1 week ago -
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Hollywood Misadventure Quiz
TCM's Classic Movie Blog —
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I just read the six-page article in the November 16th, 2009, New Yorker by Arthur Krystal titled Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. Reading about the famous American author who took the literary world by storm with The Great Gatsby and other stories, only to find himself at the bottom of the food chain [...]2 weeks ago -
410. Translating the euphemisms
Judging Crimes —
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In my former life as a first amendment lawyer (well, as a low-level associate who glommed onto as much first amendment work as I could sniff out) I would, at least once a week, read these words or an excerpt from them: T hus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the ...2 weeks ago -
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button PROPER
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Patsy Ruth Miller and F. Scott Fitzgerald: Politically Incorrect in Hollywood
Big Hollywood —
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Actress and author Patsy Ruth Miller. In 1924 while shooting a film in New York, actress Patsy Ruth Miller (1904-1995) developed a close friendship with author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Frequently, Fitzgerald and Patsy Ruth would go out for dinner while Zelda remained home pleading fatigue. Patsy ...2 weeks ago -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Fifty Books Project 2009 —
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On F. Scott Fitzgerald: His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he ...2 weeks ago -
Dree Hemingway Is Topless On The Beach (NSFW)
Sinlung —
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Dree Hemingway, great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and daughter of actress Mariel, gets topless in this month’s V magazine , on newsstands now. The 22-year-old ballet dancer turned model may have inherited her mother’s good looks but doesn’t seem to be gifted with the family’s literary gene. “Right ...2 weeks ago -
Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story
Grossblogger —
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Image via Wikipedia Until now, little has been known of Albert Einstein’s brief career in Hollywood, where the great physicist and mathematician spent two frustrating years as a screenwriter in the 1930s. But the recent finding of a trunk full of his screenplays and memos has shed new light on the episode. ...3 weeks ago -
The Women
The Front Row —
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In his 1926 story “ The Rich Boy ,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were ...3 weeks ago -
Glorious: The Story Behind the Story
Naki —
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My novel GLORIOUS was six years in the making and now its just six months away from publication. The story first came to me in 2004 as I sat in my kitchen sipping tea when I became suddenly was aware of the presence of two women, who I will contend until the day I die, were the spirits of Zora Neale Hurston and ...3 weeks ago -
The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Book —
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Hollywood is ugly, dangerous – and completely magical. No one captured this better than F. Scott Fitzgerald.“He wrote two very good books,” Hemingway said about F.Scott Fitzgerald in his own memoir A Moveable Feast, “and one which was not completed which those who know his writing best say would have been very ...3 weeks ago
