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Pacino’s got nothing on ‘The Dog’

The Dog A documentary directed by Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren USA, 2013 The great advantage of documentaries is their ability to dampen the cinematic white noise and give us a peek into the human condition.  In the fantastic documentary, The Dog, we meet a man whose entire life is predicated upon the fundamental need …

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Maybe It’s Not Just Me; Maybe They Really Did Make Them Better In The Old Days

So I’d gone over to my cousin’s house to see his new puppy and, as he and I are often wont to do, we got to talking about movies and TV and the like. The conversation drifted around to movies we liked but our kids didn’t. “I have Blazing Saddles (1974),” he said, nodding at …

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Remember Me: Charles Durning (1923 – 2012)

Some acting careers are made by a single role. Think Brando’s Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Robert DeNiro’s Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973), Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack in the box office behemoth Titanic (1997). A similar connection can happen on a more personal basis. You watch a movie and an actor — …

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Remember Me:  John Calley (1930-2011) – “A Class Act” 

Hollywood joke:  A writer, a director, and a producer are crawling across the desert without water, dying of thirst.  They look up and sticking out of the sand is a nicely chilled bottle of apple juice.  Before the writer and director can grab it, the producer is on his feet, unzips his pants and starts …

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