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« Reply #120 on: May 16, 2021, 07:34:10 PM »

The Silent Move Series for which I ushered today featured two Harold Lloyd movies:  Speedy and High and Dizzy.  Here's the description from the Washington Center's website:

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Two shorts from “The King of Daredevil Comedy” Harold Lloyd. Speedy (1928) sends Lloyd on a tour of New York City, featuring glimpses of Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, and Babe Ruth as himself. High and Dizzy (1920) finds our man getting tipsy on a then-illegal stockpile of liquor before making a daring rescue at dizzying heights. Thrilling special effects made this an audience favorite! © 2021 Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc.

World-class theater organist Dennis James brings the silent era to life on our historic 1924 treasure: The Mighty Andy Crow Wurlitzer Organ. Experience the silver screen as it was meant to be seen! Our Silent Movie Series is a signature event at the Washington Center. We welcome people of all ages to step back in time and enjoy the sound and nostalgia.


I love Harold Lloyd. I'm going to have to watch Speedy. I know I have a copy.
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« Reply #121 on: May 16, 2021, 07:34:31 PM »

Five!
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« Reply #122 on: May 16, 2021, 07:36:02 PM »

Starting to watch Jules Dassin's Uptight. It's a fascinating update of The Informer to the week after Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta.
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« Reply #123 on: May 16, 2021, 07:36:35 PM »

I doubt I will be able to watch all of it tonight.
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« Reply #124 on: May 16, 2021, 07:40:33 PM »

:)

I am trying to up my exercise game, but this is pretty much me...

And? ??? ? I've lived my life this way. I see no need to change things now.

Same here!
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« Reply #125 on: May 16, 2021, 07:48:04 PM »

The Silent Move Series for which I ushered today featured two Harold Lloyd movies:  Speedy and High and Dizzy.  Here's the description from the Washington Center's website:

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Two shorts from “The King of Daredevil Comedy” Harold Lloyd. Speedy (1928) sends Lloyd on a tour of New York City, featuring glimpses of Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, and Babe Ruth as himself. High and Dizzy (1920) finds our man getting tipsy on a then-illegal stockpile of liquor before making a daring rescue at dizzying heights. Thrilling special effects made this an audience favorite! © 2021 Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc.

World-class theater organist Dennis James brings the silent era to life on our historic 1924 treasure: The Mighty Andy Crow Wurlitzer Organ. Experience the silver screen as it was meant to be seen! Our Silent Movie Series is a signature event at the Washington Center. We welcome people of all ages to step back in time and enjoy the sound and nostalgia.


I love Harold Lloyd. I'm going to have to watch Speedy. I know I have a copy.

I was wondering if it was available.  I kind of want to see it again because I think that there was one shot after Harold and his girlfriend are having fun looking at the funhouse mirror (after he gets paint on the back of his jacket) and as they leave the mirror, it looked to me like he flipped off the mirror!  I wondered if I actually saw that correctly!
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« Reply #126 on: May 16, 2021, 07:51:54 PM »

Criterion has a number of Harold Lloyd movies in their lineup. Speedy's one of them.
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« Reply #127 on: May 16, 2021, 07:52:05 PM »

It's available on Blu-ray from Criterion (as well as Amazon), so I think I'll get it.  I really did like it!
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« Reply #128 on: May 16, 2021, 07:52:28 PM »

Criterion has a number of Harold Lloyd movies in their lineup. Speedy's one of them.

Yup...I saw that! ;D
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« Reply #129 on: May 16, 2021, 08:02:20 PM »

I'm off. Things will have to wait until tomorrow.
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« Reply #130 on: May 16, 2021, 08:02:31 PM »

Good night, all.
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« Reply #131 on: May 16, 2021, 08:03:07 PM »

The episode of Password with Stephen Sondheim and Lee Remick (and Phyllis Newman and Peter Lawford and others) has been posted on YouTube!
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« Reply #132 on: May 16, 2021, 08:03:19 PM »

Good night, John.
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« Reply #133 on: May 16, 2021, 08:03:38 PM »

I saw this on FB today:

Pro tips for gasoline hoarders:
Once you've filled your bathtub with gas, you can camouflage the smell by putting scented candles around the edge of the tub.


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« Reply #134 on: May 16, 2021, 08:03:44 PM »

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« Reply #135 on: May 16, 2021, 08:04:45 PM »

I got on I-275 at 6:45 am this morning, and pulled into my driveway at 6:00 pm. I don’t think my stops added up to more than 45 minutes this time. It was a grueling push the whole way, and this DR is dead tired but happy to be back. I shall ketchup aplenty in the morn’.

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« Reply #136 on: May 16, 2021, 08:07:05 PM »

But someone brought one of those cakes that are actually a quarter of four different cakes on a plate. We tried small bites of the three non-chocolate cakes and they were dreadful. The best wanted to be a lemon cake but it tasted more like it had been made with Lemon Joy.

Another one was hard to describe. Acrid fake vanilla? Fake mint? Fake, yes. But too fake to figure out what.

The third was just bland.

Yikes! :o That's too bad!
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« Reply #137 on: May 16, 2021, 09:41:12 PM »

Finished with my viewing.
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« Reply #138 on: May 16, 2021, 09:41:58 PM »

Had some more veggies with onion dip - cauliflower this time. I also got some Keto friendly chips or something resembling chips. They're not great but work fine with the dip.
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« Reply #139 on: May 16, 2021, 09:42:55 PM »

I'm on the last of the Ormandy CDs - there are two more after this, but interestingly not him conducting, but simply older things with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Maybe they were at some point coupled with some Ormandy.
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« Reply #140 on: May 16, 2021, 11:37:35 PM »

It's available on Blu-ray from Criterion (as well as Amazon), so I think I'll get it.  I really did like it!


I hated it.  I couldn’t hear a damn word anybody said.
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« Reply #141 on: May 16, 2021, 11:38:39 PM »

Hello, George.
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« Reply #142 on: May 16, 2021, 11:39:31 PM »

I see you haven’t tried to deny the vampire story!
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« Reply #143 on: May 16, 2021, 11:45:10 PM »

The episode of Password with Stephen Sondheim and Lee Remick (and Phyllis Newman and Peter Lawford and others) has been posted on YouTube!


I watched that on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.
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« Reply #144 on: May 16, 2021, 11:46:05 PM »

It's available on Blu-ray from Criterion (as well as Amazon), so I think I'll get it.  I really did like it!


I hated it.  I couldn’t hear a damn word anybody said.

Sometimes it's not what they say, but how they say it. ;)
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« Reply #145 on: May 16, 2021, 11:48:17 PM »

I see you haven’t tried to deny the vampire story!

No...no need.
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« Reply #146 on: May 16, 2021, 11:49:26 PM »

The episode of Password with Stephen Sondheim and Lee Remick (and Phyllis Newman and Peter Lawford and others) has been posted on YouTube!


I watched that on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.

Did you see just the segment with Sondheim?  I saw that, too.  This specific video is the whole episode and was only posted to YouTube today. 
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« Reply #147 on: May 16, 2021, 11:59:51 PM »

Well...
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« Reply #148 on: May 17, 2021, 12:00:00 AM »

...we can't...
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« Reply #149 on: May 17, 2021, 12:00:08 AM »

...stop here...
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