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As I readied for the last couple of weeks of 2012 I intended to revisit and re-share a tribute to Paramount Pictures that I’d previously posted.  The great studio celebrated its centennial this year and its legacy deserves attention from movie fans as so much…

Paramount Pictures a centennial tribute

December 17, 2012
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The home of the classics, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) played Frank Capra‘s 1934, Best Picture Academy Award winner, It Happened One Night this past weekend.  This is, for some reason, a film I never think of when I consider Capra’s great films, and he made…

Morality and Relationships, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

November 21, 2012
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Norma Desmond: ”You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark…” _______________________________________________ The opening credits role down the famed, Sunset Boulevard and end at the L.A. Country Morgue.  A dead…

Sunset Blvd…It IS Big!

October 3, 2012
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There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK! - Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD
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