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Month: February 2016

Books

Playboy Swings (but not so much)

Feb 4, 2016 Wade Sheeler 0

There’s a small readership sub-set who might enjoy Playboy Swings. And it’s not exactly fans of Playboy. In fact, if you’re looking to find out what Playboy Mansion guests might encounter in the waters of the […]

Reviews

Long Ago, and Oh So Far Away: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (1989)

Feb 4, 2016 The Retro Set 0

Karen Carpenter’s tragic struggle with anorexia nervosa is the subject of this memorable made-for-TV movie from director Joseph Sargent. O, Made for TV movies, how I adore you. You were there every week, come rain […]

Judith of Bethulia
Movies

B-Roll: D. W. Griffith’s JUDITH OF BETHULIA (1914)

Feb 2, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

Few directors are burdened with a more troubling legacy than D. W. Griffith. Though undeniable in importance and influence as one of the great innovators of the first few decades of the cinema’s existence, his […]

Opinion

50 Years Without Buster Keaton: My Neurotic Relationship with Buster Keaton and Why He Makes Me OK with Being Me.

Feb 1, 2016 The Retro Set 2

On this day in 1966, the motion pictures lost one of its few, true creative giants: Buster Keaton passed at the age of 70.   Taken by an aggressive form of lung cancer, Keaton didn’t have any idea […]

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