Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

fast food on the game reserve

Roadkill? Maybe its a metaphor for sexual tourism. Maybe he doesn’t really kill the animal, going through the whole tracking and shooting. Instead, he hers them into a fenced in area and runs them over in a Land Rover. Or … Continue reading

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writhing six feet deep

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J) From the Introduction (reprinted from the 1947 Dell edition): “This business of selecting stories for a Dell Book anthology is getting to be a habit with me, though not … Continue reading

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zombie banking: deposit at your risk

Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al.  warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of  zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading

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dr. jekyll and mr. raw hyde leather

Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies. Dr. Jekyll faced some atrocious consequences when he let his dark side run savagely wild with a potion that transformed  him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. The extreme makeover aside, perhaps are … Continue reading

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car 39 where are you?

The 39 Steps was the film that projected Alfred Hitchcock into the status of acclaimed filmmaker. Recently,there is a story circulating that “39″ steps that were “recovered” from the World Trade Center are going to use as an entrance way … Continue reading

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collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang

Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading

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paperback writer

Forget the paperback writer. Its the vehicle that the paperback novel represented which surpassed the content value…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): The paperback book existed before WW2. however, it was not a big seller, not an important item so … Continue reading

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An Oscar for the “male gaze”

Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading

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A NON-NARRATIVE GAZE: The Snuff Between The Action

It is a popular video on the web at the moment; yet it is eerie and creepy since there is an actual murder that takes place off camera about two minutes in. In other words a police officer killed John … Continue reading

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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses

Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading

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