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Category: Books

  • Babbling Books And Motion Pictures

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    Matt

    I thought it might be of interest to myself, perhaps to you, to give the classic bibliographic list of books and films that are very much current in my mind, and for that matter, in my literary and cinematic genetic database. Here, first, is a list of books, stories or…

  • LEVIATHAN — WORKING-THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST

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    Matt

    Sitting downstairs is the first good draft of the above titled book. Coming in about 185 pages, it contains about 20 or more original stories written since I thought about writing such a book, I believe, in May 2009. Jane will do the first reading of it, writing notes for her…

  • Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers

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    Matt

    Before I begin this howl, I’ll define Yahoo as a lout, brute and coarse human being, the term itself derived from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I vaguely recall reading this fabulous book in the early years of college, thinking it was written for kids. Was I wrong! For the past year…

  • Peter Lorre, Emigre, Star of M, Face-Maker, Mis-Used, Actor’s Actor

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    Matt

    Several months back I saw Fritz Lang’s M in which Peter Lorre introduced himself to cinema. In the film he is a child molester and murderer;  for the greater part of the movie we see Lorre at angles, in shadows and then we catch that face with eyes as big…