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2 days ago · Act I. Billy Crocker, a young Wall Street broker, has fallen in love with a beautiful girl he met at a party and spent the evening in a taxi. His boss, Elisha J. Whitney, is preparing to make a business deal and is going to travel to London aboard the SS American.
- P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton
- 1934
1 day ago · If you ask me what drives a story, plot or character, I’ll answer: character. The first thing that popped into my mind, on that sunny afternoon, was the name of my protagonist. Declan. No idea where that came from, not inspired by friends or relatives. The only Declan I know performs as Elvis Costello. The last name had to be a counterpoint.
3 days ago · Twenty years ago, Sharon Sakai, the lovely wife of longtime CAPS member Stan Sakai, developed a brain tumor. At first it was diagnosed as benign, but over time it began to grow. You can read the details in Mark Evanier’s foreword to the 2014 book The Sakai Project, which I’ll get to in a minute. But suffice to say that by 2010 it was ...
3 days ago · A well-dressed ne’er-do-well named Lindsay Marriott wants Marlowe to accompany him on a midnight rendezvous to buy back a lady friend’s stolen jade necklace. Unfortunately, the plan goes awry when Marlowe is knocked unconscious and awakes to find a pummeled dead body. Dick Powell and Claire Trevor.
1 day ago · I use it for making trifles’. Film. Ian McKellen on actors and critics: ‘They gave me a glass bowl. I use it for making trifles’. He plays the acerbic lead in Anand Tucker’s film ‘The ...
5 days ago · Ingredients. 2 lbs (950g) pork loin, tied 1 ¼ tsp salt 1 ½ tsp black pepper 8 ounces (220g) dried prunes (ideally, pitted) ¼ cup (60ml) Armagnac or Cognac 2 tbsp butter, unsalted 4 medium onions, peeled and sliced in ½ rounds 3 ounces bacon (3 strips/about 100g), sliced into ¼” (0.65cm) thick matchsticks ½ cup (125ml) white wine ½ cup (125ml) chicken stock, ideally low sodium 1 or 2 ...
4 days ago · Stuart’s in-depth take on the Essential Film Noir: Collection 4 Blu-ray box set from Imprint Films and Via Vision Entertainment, which features The Enforcer (1951), Beware, My Lovely (1952), Jennifer (1953), Rope of Sand (1949), and Appointment with Danger (1950).
