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Oct
13

RAY

Just a quick one: Ray Brown was born on this day, October 13, 1926, and was one of the greatest
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Oct
13

DON G

'Don Giovanni' is an opera that, 200 years later, we're still struggling to try to understand.
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Oct
12

MCDOWELL AT THE GOLDEN GATES

Screen actor John Amos died last week, and although I can't vouch for much of his work throughout
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Oct
11

DARK ART

"Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds." - Joker (Jack Nicholson) Recently, on the popular film podcast Unspooled,
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Oct
10

TAKESHI

It's Takeshi Kaneshiro's 51st birthday today, and I felt compelled to pay a small tribute to
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Oct
10

THE BEAST IN ME

Having recently watched the Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil (1998), I was greatly impressed by Derek Jacobi'
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Oct
09

NOT SO FUNNY NOW

It's not easy being a clown. Just ask Pagliacci, Punchinello, or Pierrot, and you'll soon learn
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Oct
09

LOUISIANA 1927

What Has Happened Down Here Is The Wind Have Changed Clouds Roll In From The North And It Started To
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Oct
08

I HEARD IT IN THE WIND LAST NIGHT

A torrential rainy night in Penzance didn't initially seem congruous with Joni Mitchell's sunny (with a
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Oct
07

BOB, CAROL, TED AND ALICE AND CHARLIE (MANSON!)

Sometimes I like to imagine classic films with alternative plot twists, and Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol &
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