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Repo Man (1984)

ISBN:  025192851025 It is likely that if I mentioned the name of Mike Nesmith most of us would think of the 1960’s band The Monkees.  Some of us might think to recall him for his work with the First...

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Hairspray (1988)

ISBN:  794043609923 You may have seen the musical.  You have most likely seen the movie starring John Travolta, Queen Latifah, and Nikki Blonsky, but have you see the movie that started it all?  The...

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American President

ISBN:  883929039982 Not too long ago I was reminded of one of my favorite romantic movies, The American President.  The film stars Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd and Annette Bening as...

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The Blob (1958)

ISBN:  715515011129 If the stories I’ve heard are true there is a five-gallon bucket somewhere in the United States that contains a batch of red silicone still moist from the 1958 production of The...

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Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines

ISBN:  024543112044 In 1965, there were two racing comedies released both of them set during the first 10 years of 1900’s.  The more popular of two was “The Great Race,” which was about an around the...

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Television Series)

ISBN:  883929422180 The 1960’s was the time of the “Cold War” and the “Iron Curtain” Both of these terms were indicative of our relationship with Russia during those years.  We may not have been in a...

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Arsenic and Old Lace

ISBN:  883929151615 Mortimer Brewster’s aunts Abby and Martha are two of the kindest, most loving women you could ever hope to meet.  They are always willing to help others and always seemed to have a...

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The Great Race

ISBN:  085391109129 A while back I posted an entry about the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines. In that post, I mentioned another film that came out the same year called The...

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Cheyenne Social Club

ISBN:  012569816121 Harley Sullivan: What kind of business you figure your brother left you? John O'Hanlan: Well, the letter don't say - but that's just like a lawyer. They don't tell you no more than...

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Citizen Kane

ISBN:  883929184811 Citizen Kane tells the fictional story of rich newspaper publisher Charles Foster Kane, his rise to power and eventual decline as he shifts from an idealistic publisher/editor into...

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The Invisible Man (1933)

ISBN:  025192545429 Claude Rains was perhaps one of the most recognizable character actors from the classic era of film.  He was able to play almost any part. Among his best known roles were Captain...

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Gene Wilder (1933 – 2016)

I can still remember the first time I saw Gene Wilder in a film.  He was playing a mousey accountant by the name of Leo Bloom who, while going over the books of once-famous Broadway Producer Max...

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Ninotchka

ISBN:  012569566828 I have a confession to make. For years, I had a secret crush on a much older woman.  She passed away in 1990 at the age of 84. I was 34 at the time. I only knew her through her...

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Pushing Daisies

ISBN:  883929024322 Voices are unique, especially in the world of audiobooks.  For years I worked in the Movies and Music area of the library and paid very little attention to the world of books beyond...

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Five of my Favorites and So Long

 This Sight and Sound blog post was perhaps the hardest for me to write of all of my posts.  There are two reasons for this.  The first is because I will retire from the library shortly after this post...

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