I think the old expression “when Hell freezes over” might have got it wrong, because sometimes, Hell is being frozen over, as those residing in our neck of God’s Country—aka Connecticut—for the past month can attest. Without the official statistics of this Sisyphean nightmare, I can’t tell you exactly how many snowstorms we’ve had (although [...]
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Snowstorms Ate My Blog
Posted in Rants on January 29, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Will MGM Succeed Where Blofeld Failed?
Posted in Rants, tagged James Bond on April 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Word is out that work on the as-yet-untitled twenty-third film in the official James Bond series has been stopped indefinitely, due to the ongoing financial woes of distributor MGM. You might reasonably expect that the reaction of a guy who saw his first theatrical Bond in 1969 at the tender age of 6 (Dad was [...]
Dead (Reckoning) on Arrival
Posted in Rants, tagged Humphrey Bogart, TCM on January 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ve mentioned the recent month-long Humphrey Bogart retrospective on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). There being only so many hours in a day, I used it primarily as an opportunity not to catch up on my favorites, many of which I own anyway, but to take another look at some of his lesser and/or lesser-known films that [...]
