I’ve seen ‘Double Indemnity’ (screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler based on James M. Cain’s novel) about a thousand times over the past fifty years and never knew–or frankly cared about– the identity of a man sitting outside Barton Keyes’s (Edward G. Robinson) office. Sixteen or so minutes into
Dig this nifty mini-doc (27 packed minutes) that is not about Raymond Chandler per se. It’s about the corrupt doings of Los Angeles in the 1930s and how they inspired and impacted what Chandler wrote about as his mid-life career as a writer was launched (he’d been an executive at
‘Heavenly Daze’ (1947) is the 109th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, June 23 through Thursday, June 26 1947 and released on Thursday, September 2, 1948 (the 246th day on the Gregorian Calendar). The film is a complete misfire, a stunningly
See that top video of New York City in 1956? See the video below it of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 2? Roll them both simultaneously (the NYC footage has no sound) and spend a few minutes of your Friday taking a poignant time travel trip to a New York
Yesterday I posted legendary AM pop DJ Dan Ingram’s broadcast during the Great East Coast Blackout of 1965. Today we’re digging excerpts of Ingram on his 77 WABC afternoon music show from February 26th, 1975. This is classic Ingram stuff–a lesson in pure DJ word jamming, a lost art (I
On November 9, 1965, shortly after 5PM, New York City began experiencing the ominous signs of an impending blackout due to a gradual loss of available electricity. The cause of the failure was the setting of a protective relay on one of the transmission lines near Niagara Falls. The safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQx8xyGacU In 1959 Larry King–born Lawrence Heiger–was a twenty-six year old Disc Jockey working in Miami. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, working as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon. (He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast, for which he was paid $50 a
‘Three Little Pirates’ (1946) was the 96th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, April 15th through Thursday, April 18th, 1946 and was released on Thursday, December 5th of that year (the 339th day of the Gregorian Calendar). In spite of Curly’s
I don’t know what the hell this little clip is but I think it’s fabulous. It appears to simply be footage of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin dancing in a smoky nightclub to their recording of Gainsbourg’s song ‘La Decadance’, intercut with footage of people speaking French with no subtitles.
Although the ultimate Serge/Jane recording is generally considered the wildly scandalous ‘J’ Taime…Moi Non Plus’, with Birkin’s climactic orgasm managing to get the song banned almost world-wide, my favorite S&J duet is ’69–Annee Erotique’. Above is an unconvincing (but entertaining) mock-performance of the song in a faux concert setting. The