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WolfmanOz at the Movies #97
That zither music. “I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market.” And with that brilliant opening voice over narration (actually spoken by director Carol Reed) we are…
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Give Peace a Chance
I argued on another site that Trump should be allowed breathing space to try and forge an acceptable peace. Apparently, numbers of others, including supposed and even genuine conservatives, think that this is a betrayal of Ukraine. Apparently, all unbeknown to me, I was, according to another contributor, supporting “Ukraine’s capitulation.” I understand where these…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #96
The degeneration of Oscar. Well it’s been over a year since I last posted – a severe case of writing block re movies. But somehow I have managed to rise from my slumber and have conjured this up. In Jean Cocteau’s marvellous 1950 film Orphée the poet asks what he should do. “Astonish me”, he is told.…
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Singling out Steve Waterson’s writing
There is a line in the movie True Romance (1993) spoken by Clarence Worley, Christian Slater’s character, where he says: I ain’t no fag but Elvis was prettier than most women, you know, most women. I’ve always said if I had to fuck a guy, I mean had to, if my life depended on it,…
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Stop panicking. Abundant supply leads to lower prices and more spending power to earners (in the US), so there is…