Happy Thursday, everyone. It's a beautiful day here in Richmond and we're almost to the weekend and maybe watching a few movies (there's a lot of interesting stuff right now, like the film version of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., which is getting some really good reviews. But today, let's look at some stuff I've found in thrift stores.
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For those who don't know, every year in Major League Baseball they hold Jackie Robinson day, to honor the date of his major league debut with the LA Dodgers in 1947. Every player in the league wears his number of 42 (and more recently, the number is also in the Dodger's number font, which is nifty). This year's celebrations reminded me that I have never seen 42: The Jackie Robinson Story, the 2013 movie that is also the breakout role for the late Chadwick Boseman. So I was happy to run across this one last weekend and I think I'm watching it pretty soon.
One last thing; the late Mike Royko wrote a beautiful column about seeing Robinson play in 1947 at Wrigley, not knowing at the time how much abuse he was going through on and off the field. (It's the second column down.)
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Never seen it, possibly never even heard of it, but how could I ignore a movie title Castle Of Blood? I don't think I've ever read the Edgar Allan Poe story this is based on but the movie seems to be fairly well regarded. (And hey, Barbara Steele always a welcome sight.)
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Back in 2006, NBC was absolutely convinced they had a new hit on their hand. An Aaron Sorkin show about the behind the scenes of an SNL-esque show starring an extremely capable cast? What could go wrong.
Well, we learned pretty quickly that Sorkin might be able to write about politics, though he always has a bit of "old man yells at cloud" to it; the problem is, he can't write about comedy. And boy does it show here (and it shows up even worse in the terrible Being The Ricardos). But hey, I only found this for a buck and I can just fast forward to the parts with Amanda Peet and especially Sarah Paulson (and I think this may be the first place I really noticed Paulson).
The actual moderate hit for NBC that season? 30 Rock, which was infinitely cheaper and funnier and the critics loved it. That ends up going for 6 seasons and multiple Emmys. Studio 60 meanwhile, faded like crazy over it's one season and no one was surprised when it didn't come back.
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