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« Reply #120 on: July 19, 2013, 11:49:31 AM »

I love that Penguin QUATERMASS, DR Doug R!

Me, too. Great stuff.
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« Reply #121 on: July 19, 2013, 11:50:35 AM »

Page Five Wild Town Dance!

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« Reply #122 on: July 19, 2013, 11:53:19 AM »

Musicals!



The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.
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« Reply #123 on: July 19, 2013, 11:59:11 AM »

The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.

And I just noticed the $2.95 price on that.  Yikes!  Obviously not my original, just a clean copy acquired in recent years.
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« Reply #124 on: July 19, 2013, 11:59:58 AM »

Are all of these Jim Thompsons your own copies, DR John G.?
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« Reply #125 on: July 19, 2013, 12:03:41 PM »

Hello Everyone:

TOD:

DVD:  Seabiscuit
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« Reply #126 on: July 19, 2013, 12:03:59 PM »

Goodbye for now!
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« Reply #127 on: July 19, 2013, 12:09:21 PM »

BTW, if anyone here likes this stuff at all, but hasn't read any Wyndham ..... DO IT.  Wonderful books.

I love John Wyndham's books DR ChasSmith.
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« Reply #128 on: July 19, 2013, 12:12:00 PM »

The coziest of the Cozy Catastrophes, DR Doug R.
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« Reply #129 on: July 19, 2013, 12:13:28 PM »

All three Quatermass films were done as Penguin paperbacks and if you have the set and their first printings they are valuable.  I have a lovely set.  They are the true first editions.

I also have "The Quatermass Experiment" (still in very good condition) but sometime over the years I lost "Quatermass II" and had to make do with buying a reprint.

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« Reply #130 on: July 19, 2013, 12:14:53 PM »

Then I need to be squeezed often and by someone who knows how.

An almost Clark Gable reference.
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« Reply #131 on: July 19, 2013, 12:17:35 PM »

Shortly I shall be on my way to a lunch meeting.  In the meantime, I am hopping mad - this creep who does endless cabaret events that he thinks are all about him, this person who has been copying what I do for YEARS (and not well), this person who last year tried to buck our first Sunday of every month shows by scheduling his own just down the street (and failing miserably, I'm happy to say - Adryan Russ spoke to him then and he agreed not to do that anymore as it wasn't good for anyone - especially HIM, which is why I think he did agree), has just scheduled a memorial for the recently deceased Rick Starr - that's a good thing to do and we all would like to be there because we all liked Rick, so when did he schedule it - the first Sunday evening in October, literally across the street from our show - at the El Portal.  How selfish and stupid do you have to be to do that?  It will now be very hard for us to get an audience, as our audiences all knew Rick and it will be hard for us to get a cast because many of our folks also knew Rick.  Adryan has written this guy and called him on his insanity - we'll see how he responds, but if he doesn't fix this he will rue the day he ever did it.  He will see the side of me that no one ever needs to see. 
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« Reply #132 on: July 19, 2013, 12:18:06 PM »

Most of my Movie Tie In paperbacks including MY FAIR LADY - the one on the right above - were purchases at thrift stores.....many years after publication....
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« Reply #133 on: July 19, 2013, 12:18:40 PM »

TOD

DVD - THE WINDOW (1949)
BLU - BODY HEAT, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, DO THE RIGHT THING

Yesiree, got a little "heat wave" theme going here.
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« Reply #134 on: July 19, 2013, 12:19:25 PM »

I have two copies of PARRISH.....the newer one has Troy Donahue on the cover.

The older one has a drawing on the cover and the breathless information on the inside that:

Soon to be a Warner Bros. Major Motion Picture.....directed by Joshua Logan and starring Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty!
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« Reply #135 on: July 19, 2013, 12:21:19 PM »

Holy cow(s), that is some mighty and righteous stupidity, BK.
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« Reply #136 on: July 19, 2013, 12:23:05 PM »

That is impossible to understand MR BK.....ALL of the same people would attend both events if they were held on different evenings.

No reason for it....except you are a success and he is not.....
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« Reply #137 on: July 19, 2013, 12:32:56 PM »

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« Reply #138 on: July 19, 2013, 12:36:12 PM »

Good morning. I mean afternoon.
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« Reply #139 on: July 19, 2013, 12:36:26 PM »

The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.

And I just noticed the $2.95 price on that.  Yikes!  Obviously not my original, just a clean copy acquired in recent years.
Yeah, well, I doubt it was $2.95 back in 1976.
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« Reply #140 on: July 19, 2013, 12:37:28 PM »

Good afternoon, DR Laura.  Please tell us, did your adventure yesterday involve snow shoes?
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« Reply #141 on: July 19, 2013, 12:38:37 PM »

I certainly hope for everyone's sake that this photo was taken BEFORE Labor Day!


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« Reply #142 on: July 19, 2013, 12:38:35 PM »

Are all of these Jim Thompsons your own copies, DR John G.?

They are not. I found them at this lovely, lurid link:

http://vintagepaperbackarchive.com/tag/jim-thompson/
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« Reply #143 on: July 19, 2013, 12:41:10 PM »

TOD:

DVD: Gypsy (the Natalie Wood version shown earlier on a paperback cover), maybe a bootleg or two.

CD: Giant. Can't stop listening to this score.

Car CD: The Song of the Lark, which I'm ashamed to admit I have never read before and am loving every moment of. Big Willa Cather fan.

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« Reply #144 on: July 19, 2013, 12:41:24 PM »

DR John G. - loving your lovely little lurid link!      :)
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« Reply #145 on: July 19, 2013, 12:41:23 PM »

No, just snake boots.
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« Reply #146 on: July 19, 2013, 12:42:16 PM »

And I saw an elk. Two elk. Elks?
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« Reply #147 on: July 19, 2013, 12:43:55 PM »

DR John G. -


There was an interesting book review in the Sunday NY Times a few months ago, reviewing the publication of Willa's letters, and the ethical issues of doing so, seeing as how she never wanted them published.


Here it is, in case you didn't see it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/selected-letters-of-willa-cather.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0



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« Reply #148 on: July 19, 2013, 12:44:25 PM »

Elki?    :)
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« Reply #149 on: July 19, 2013, 12:47:41 PM »

Elkae?
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