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So far I don't care much one way or the other about the new design elements, except the lower right hand corner bug. I do think the C looks enough like the Criterion Collection C that this is going to re-establish some kind of connection there, which is good. What I DISLIKE about this new bug is that it shows on the screen a few inches to the left, which means that it covers the far right portion of the subtitles on the silent films and the foreign films. This gets a huge BOO from me and I already emailed them about it. Probably would get more attention if I were a social media person. grrrrrrrrr.

Well, here's a famous one - at least in New York. Sue Simmons, a respected local NBC anchor for decades, expresses some irritation:

Why, I never! I mean, they are the exact same mountains we all saw for twenty years in Dodge City, Kansas, on Gunsmoke.

Supposedly Make Way for Tomorrow was Ozu's inspiration for Tokyo Story. I saw the American film many years after I saw the Ozu film and only found out the connection then, after reading about the film online. I saved up Tokyo Story to watch last of my recordings from Setsuko Hara's day, since I knew it would destroy me. I also felt more of the Make Way for Tomorrow connection this time, but I also felt Tokyo Story was a greater film. That whole famous conversation at the end between Noriko and Kyoko is both more subtle and emotionally BIG than anything in the American film, much as I admire it.

"NO SANDWICH FOR YOU!!!!!!"

My first thought was that this was another name for the French Twist hairstyle.

How did Martin Sheen raise Charlie?

I did not subscribe to Terrapin, but many people I knew did, so I read it at the time. I don't like the post Syd Barrett Pink Floyd and felt this way back in the 70's. You do realize that somebody like Syd Barrett would NEVER go on social media. In fact he never did. Anymore than J.D. Salinger or Bettie Page did, or Thomas Pynchon does. Following someone like that is very different from following someone who WANTS to be followed.

My dad's high school graduating class was like this. It was the senior class of the one-room grade 1 to 12 schoolhouse in the county. He was the the valedictorian (not a joke).

Almost anything is a better way to go about it than that. It's like people who see someone sitting alone at a party looking unhappy and stride up to them and say, "Wow! you sure look like you're not having a good time!"

This is what I thought but I confess I'm surprised and kind of disappointed to find that this is the case.

Skidoo is worse. But that doesn't make The Great Bank Robbery any less of a turd.

They're both so bad - but Lylah Clare I think is even worse because of the exploitation nudity disguised as "quality art filmmaking." I don't know how many of you caught that other late 60's Novak turd The Great Bank Robbery. A great cast, and a big mess. Like they say, comedy is hard - bad dramas have camp value but bad comedies are just disgusting, like bad kissing.

The first I ever heard of it was Joanna Russ's essay on it in the mid 80's, about Kirk/Spock slash. Do you know the history of it that predates Star Trek, the Original Series?

Ding ding ding! That's the film where he and Ursula Andress met in the first place.

Sad to say this show began on the radio and went all the way back to 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day

My Montreal born friend always calls the front porch the "gallery."

Fractured Flickers has been showing for the past few months on the MOVIES! channel, originally just on Saturday mornings and now sporadically throughout the week as well.

Even if I had no other reason for disliking the NYT - their no comic strip policy was a great big solid reason.

I loved Jack and Chloe, right from the start, down to the inevitably tragic end. I know some of you have been around since the TWOP days (three forums ago, isn't it?). Remember when it somehow became an established "thing" that Mary Lynn Rajskub looked like a potato and thus Chloe's club nickname over there became Potato Face? Christ on a fucking cracker. That was the precise moment when I stopped really participating in the forums for scripted shows.

I'd probably find those tolerable if you replaced Southern Comfort with Cointreau or Triple Sec.

By the time I was in college I had toned it down a bit with the drinking (though soon to ramp it up with the drugs, for a few dramatic years, until I quit those in disgust). But junior high and high school? Number one would be this: https://www.southerncomfort.com/products/original.html One of my boyfriends gave me a bottle of it for my 30th birthday because I had told him about my earlier fondness for it and no sooner had I screwed off the top and breathed in the cough syrup smell - I ran down the hall to the bathroom and barfed into the toilet. All those years, and like Proust's madeleine, the scent brought back all the horrible memories of overdrinking. My housemates were happy to take it off my hands. **Shudder**.

Surprisingly, I actually know the answer to this since I dated a water polo guy in high school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggbeater_kick Like all the water polo guys (and unlike all the other team sports guys) he was a surfer/hippie type who was very smart, very cool and eventually became a National Park Ranger. Sometimes I still regret (well, okay, not that much) that I chose to go full-bore on exploring my own open-ended insanity and didn't stick with him. He was a genuinely good guy, probably still is.

No, I am retired. The shift away from browsing collections is one of the reasons I did. It's part of the whole de-skilling of the branch library system (not just NYPL either). How to explain this briefly, hmmm. Until recently (ten years ago, maybe) the Branch Librarian had to have at least a BA in Library Science and usually had a master's. All librarians, supervising or not, needed a degree in Library Science, also there were many para-librarians who needed to have a BA in something. Clerks needed just a high school diploma or its equivalent, but every branch had a Senior Clerk who was kind of like the Office Manager and had the power to hire and fire the clerical staff he/she supervised. The Branch Librarian and the Senior Clerk basically ran the branch together. The Branch Librarian and his/her staff specialist librarians (children's, adult, YA) chose the materials for the branch, both what they bought and what they discarded. Most of this isn't true today. The supervisor of the branch is now the Branch Manager, and this title doesn't require a college degree. Because of this, it doesn't pay as well as the Branch Librarian title used to. There are no more Senior Clerks, since all clerks can now apply to be Branch Managers. Oh, and Branch Managers are not part of the collective bargaining unit (yes, the union agreed to this) and can be fired at will without going through any kind of formal hearing. A central committee picks out all the books for everyone. It's possible to order titles for your branch, but you will run into the immediate problem of the other recently adopted policy of Floating Collections - meaning anything a patron returns to a branch, stays at that branch unless someone has placed a hold on it. This is particularly disastrous for branches outside of midtown Manhattan with smaller budgets since the children's books in particular will be checked out on the weekend and returned to one of the midtown branches by one of the parents during the week. These midtown branches will be flooded with books that don't fit on the shelves. The policy for making all the books fit is to ruthlessly weed out anything more than a couple of years old. All this means that browsing is kind of a challenge, since there is essentially no such thing as a permanent collection. The library wants patrons to request the bulk of their items online and pick them up as holds. Knowing my own collection was one of the things I was best at. I was very good at remembering what we had on pretty much any topic, since I had generally had a hand in buying it in the first place and even if not I'd been there forever. This was a skill that the patrons valued very highly, but clearly the library didn't. I kept thinking for a couple of years that if I just waited it out, a new management team would change things - but it's clear this is the wave of the present, if not (I hope) the future. Why pay librarians when you can just redesign the job so that anyone with a high school diploma and no library experience can do it.

Jesus Christ!! I'll say! One of the greatest short films ever - won the best Short Subject at Cannes and the best Live Action Short Film at the Oscars. Also, the 5th (last) season is better than the 4th because they returned to the half-hour format.