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These stories have been around a long time. Some of them I have updated. Many of them I haven’t. This started out when blogs were like, new!
Headin’ Down “Thieves’ Highway” (1949)
Highways, delivery trucks, post-Ellis Island immigrants, fierce competition---all this makes Jules Dassin's 1949 Hollywood piece, Thieves' Highway, a distinctly American film. But that's not all. Many, many bad things are done by the people in this film. The chief...
Who is smartest…Beavis or Buthead?
Do you like Beavis and Butthead? Be honest..Do you really think those dudes are funny? -Well I DO! I guess they have not been around for quite some time have they? Spreading havoc all over the place...Ruining the neighborhood...Bagging on good and bad music... Just...
When Movie Comedies Were Interesting: “Libeled Lady” (1936)
Financial disaster is always looming, for someone---in this way the screwball rom-comLibeled Lady (1936), directed by Jack Conway, is highly relevant to early 20th century America and other Western nations. The disaster in question will hit a city newspaper...
Reaper And 2008 Macbook – Excellent Combo
Back in the music lab again…Recording my latest and greatest masterpiece… It is yet 'untitled' Maybe I'll just keep that name for the record. Uh……..? I must begin by saying that getting this 6 year old macbook is improving my lab tremendously. I have sought out to do...
Living In Tulsa County, Visiting Osage County: “August: Osage County”
A true sense of tragedy intermittently comes through in August: Osage County (2013), the John Wells film of Tracy Letts' play, as the troubled Oklahoma characters blow it big-time. Successfully Letts adapted it, confidently Wells directed it. The complaint has been...
Demented Dave – D&G Arts Solo Project
Back in the early days here in Tulsa OK my friend Gary Hunt and myself shared a house over by Tulsa University… We were *like* college kids…But didn't go to school at TU. You know what I'm saying? Yes folks…We were right there on campus. We were a bunch of kids...
Me & “Cinderella” – A Book Review
Cinderella in Cinderella (2010), a "graphic novel" by Chris Roberson (writer) and Shawn McManus (artist), is a fairy tale figure-cum-action heroine. Sound bad? Not quite. In fact, it's okay. It's a breezy, pleasantly drawn and colored page-turner with a cable-TV...
“Chasing Papi” is a Rightly Forgotten Movie
What a debacle Linda Mendoza's Latino-dominated Chasing Papi (2003) is! I wish Christian singer Jaci Velasquez, one of the stars here, could have been cast in a well-done screen musical with an intelligent director to work on her acting, instead of in this sloppy,...
Re Classical Liberalism (Politics)
In the early 60s Frank Meyer, a conservative, pointed out a number of good things that classical liberalism (different from contemporary liberalism) blessedly developed for the West, among them the belief in "limited state power" and "the free-market economy." But he...
