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tv notes: REMEMBERING ROGER EBERT tomorrow night on World Channel...
from the World Channel today: WTTW in Chicago was kind enough to offer WORLD a broadcast window for its locally-produced tribute to film critic Roger Ebert, who died last Thursday. We're pleased to be...
View ArticleFive Years of Friday's Forgotten Books: from early on...(and some more)
Patti Abbott has been hosting Friday's Forgotten Books for five years now...and this week is continuing to feature past reviews from some of her guest reviewers...I thought I'd take a look at some of...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Film and/or Other A/V: more links
Baby FaceBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...a particularly good set today (and lots of remembrance of Ms. Funicello...
View ArticleTHIS AMERICAN WIFE video satire: "The Pledge Drive"
from the expert public radio satirists of This American Wife: "The Pledge Drive"
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FFB: Bill Pronzini 70th Birthday Week: GRAVEYARD PLOTS by Bill Pronzini...
(courtesy WorldCat)Graveyard Plots: The Best Short Stories of Bill PronziniSt. Martin's Press, 1985Cain's mark A lot on his mind The pattern I don't understand it Proof of guilt Multiples / with Barry...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: Five Guys Named Bill Evans...and everyone digs Bill...
1. The George Russell Smalltet featuring pianist Bill Evans: "Concerto for Billy the Kid"The Bill Evans Trio, 1965, on the BBC series Jazz 6252. Yusef Lateef (previously William "Bill" Evans): "The...
View ArticleHappy Belated Birthday...Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer turned 85 on 9 April. His songs are perhaps not timeless, but they continue to be timely...given the current missile-rattling in North Korea, there's still this:And given the even more scary...
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From a hospital near the Boston Marathon last night...and later last night...
My friend Laura notes:It is so weird to see bomb aftermath pics of places I've walked through, ridden through, eaten at, shopped at hundreds of times. Not used to "home" looking like a war zone. The...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new links
The Mephisto WaltzBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links... as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers...
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TV notes: THIS AMERICAN WIFE video #2; ZOMBIELAND doesn't debut; BORGEN...
BorgenSome quick notes, while seeking time to do some more extensive ones:Salonhas a review up touting the virtues, and quite impressive virtues they are, of the Danish tv drama Borgen, which I have...
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FFB: Books By or About Comedians (Standups, Dramatists, Tellers of Tall Tales)
Stop me if you've read these before, but this collects some of my FFB reviews from the past five years, this group devoted to funny people...with a few items on the fringes of the humor industry or the...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some jazz vocalists
Urszula Dudziak: At the first Thelonious Monk Memorial Concert, at Constitution Hall, 1986: Improvisation on 'Round Midnight (I was present, and met and spoke with Dudziak, and David Amram, Gerry...
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INDEPENDENT LENS: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines;...
Watch Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.Writer Susan Orlean interviewed by Janet Varney:This week multiple literal and metaphorical doors...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Film and/or Other A/V: the links
King Solomon's MinesBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links... as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers...
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Gillian Jacobs on the 4th anniversary episode of KEVIN POLLAK'S CHAT SHOW...
Nicholas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton (creators, Numb3ers), Taylor Elmore (Justified), and Michael Gilvary (Chicago Fire; Breakout Kings). Recorded March 17, 2013 (audio podcast at this link)
View ArticleApril's Underappreciated Music: the links
June and Jean Millington's Play Like a Girl tour, etc.Patti Abbott: movie themes; Tuesday night music; Suzi QuatroBrian Arnold: Standing in the Shadows of MotownSean Coleman: Lou Reed: Metal Machine...
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FFB in progress: INTERSECTIONS: THE SYCAMORE HILL ANTHOLOGY edited by John...
There was a time, in the early/mid/into the latter 1980s, that a knot of some of the more adventurous sf writers started seeing themselves as a school, which some of them dubbed "the Movement" (leaving...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: songs for (of) my parents
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton: You've Got What It TakesBrubeck Quartet: The DukeElvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins: I Shall Not Be MovedRay Charles: Hit the Road, JackJoe Turner: Honey...
View ArticleAlison Brie interviewed (and lured into action posing) by Paul F. Tompkins
"IT’S A NEW SPEAKEASY WITH PAUL F. TOMPKINS!"This time out I chat with the terrifically talented and charming Alison Brie about Mad Men, Community and being just a little baby!""Also? I am sorry for...
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