A while back Library Thing made some programming changes which allowed its users to catalog their music and movie libraries. I have heretofore been keeping a spreadsheet of my CD and Vinyl music collections, but the widget I used to use to convert Excel to HTML doesn’t work with Open Office spreadsheets and it’s a …
Someone had a helluva lot of fun putting together this video of Easter Eggs he found (or thinks he found) in Rogue One. If you haven’t seen it yet, DO NOT WATCH THIS! I’m sure there were tons of symbols in the movie that I missed, but one I saw and wondered about was the …
I know Hollywood likes ideas that have worked before. It costs a fortune to make a big blockbuster movie, so you need to believe the one you’re pitching has a ready-made audience. Some movies wouldn’t seem to need a remake, though. I’m sure with today’s CGI techniques the gladiator fights and the chariot race will …
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I don’t have a large DVD collection, but somehow I managed to buy, at separate times, two used copies of Serenity. I have only one copy of Firefly, fortunately. Got all the Star Wars movies including the newest one, all the LOTR ones including The Hobbit trilogy and all the Harry Potter films. Got a …
I’m talking 30-40 foot waves. Here’s a slideshow from one of our TV stations. The surf may be big enough and well-formed enough to hold the Eddie Aikau contest on Thursday and if not then possibly Friday. The contest is invitation-only for 28 of the best big-wave surfers in the world, named for a man …
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I wasn’t ever a big fan of David Bowie or his music, probably because I didn’t hear a lot of his 1970s material since I was out of the country almost continuously from 1972 to 1978. Nonetheless I recognize how big a cultural icon he was. I’d know that if only by the volume of …
I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens this afternoon. It’s definitely a popcorn movie ($6.99 for a large bag, $6.59 for a medium soda) with lots of whooshes and bangs and booms, but there’s some poignancy involved too. You’ll get no deep thoughts about this movie from me. If you want a good …
Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl. Omar Sharif appeared in an awful lot of films and television movies, but he was best known in America for the three listed above. Sharif died today at 83. Here’s his first appearance on-screen in Lawrence of Arabia:
The music is also called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. It was composed by France’s Paul Dukas in 1896-1897.
I wandered through a used book/cd/dvd store this afternoon and found a copy of MGM’s 1963 epic How the West Was Won. This was one of the last movies with huge casts of big stars. It included Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie …