- Downloading & installing iOS Beta 5 while charging my car battery. Yes my Sunday afternoon is THAT exciting. Envy me. I may also do laundry. #
- To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spy v. Spy, here's some one-of-a-kind art from #MAD http://t.co/xVPlrrc #
- My new life mission: To own a working ROM: The Space Knight action figure. My goals are lofty, indeed. http://t.co/KkaCYSD #
- Watching A Single Man. Brilliant film. #
- Love that Jon Hamm is the voice on the phone in A Single Man. As it's set in a stylish 1962, I consider it in the #madmen universe. #
- And Colin Firth won the Best Actor Oscar this year for A Single Man, really. They realized their mistake. #
- New at josephdickerson.com, The absent corpse: How Hollywood is hiding us from death http://t.co/p5y6KZ5 #
- A declaration, for the record: You're either a Freddy, Jason, Ash, or Michael Myers fan. I'm a Freddy man. #
- Now, to rewatch, for the first time in HD, a personal favorite, Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Inspired by @Lileks. #
- Absolute economy in storytelling. Less than five minutes in, we know our hero, the premise, and to some extent the story. #northbynorthwest #
- I love that Ed Platt, the Chief from Get Smart, is Cary Grant's attorney in North By Northwest. #
- "You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?" Best. Line. Ever. #northbynorthwest #
- If anyone doesn't think that Man from U.N.C.L.E. isn't the indirect sequel to North by Northwest, I present Exhibit A: Leo G. Carroll. #
- "The moment I meet an attractive woman I have to conceal the desire to make love to them." Cary Grant, North by Northwest ME: You & me both. #
- "That's funny. That plane's dustin' crops where they ain't no crops." Genius. #northbynorthwest #
- "So tell me, how does a girl like you become a girl like you?" I'll use that one. #northbynorthwest #
- Used to do a spot-on James Mason impression. No longer, sadly. The vocal cords, they change with age… #northbynorthwest #
- Wow, Martin Landau is so young… And so gay… In North by Northwest. #notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat #
- Why didn't Eva Marie Saint's character take off her heels before she climbed down Mount Everest to escape the bad guys? #northbynorthwest #
- And that last shot of the train entering the tunnel? Makes me laugh long and hard every time. #northbynorthwest #
- Now, onto the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A life in pictures. #
- No wonder I love Kubrick films. Like me, he started out loving photography. He, obviously, got better. I'm still working at it. #
- Geez Louise, Kubrick direct Lawrence Olivier and Kirk Douglas in Spartacus when he was just 30?! Balls. Of. Steel. #
- Orson Welles started in full control w/ Kane. Stanley Kubrick earned full control after repeated success. The best path to take? Kubrick's. #
- And watching this Kubrick documentary reminds me I am way overdue for a rewatching of Dr. Strangelove. #
- Memo to self: Do a double-feature of Dr. Strangelove and Pink Floyd's The Wall. #guesstheconnection #
- "Standing behind you is more than 30 ghosts. Above you there is enough land for all of us have our own world." Arthur C. Clarke #
- The more you advance in power and responsibility the less time you spend doing and the more time you spend meeting and talking about doing. #
- The fact that Kubrick only got one Oscar – for visual effects – tells you all you need to know about the Academy Awards. #
- The lens Kubrick used to shoot candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon were f0.7 – 2x faster than the fastest lenses available today. Wow. #
- The fact that Barry Lyndon was criticized by so many upon its release proves that we have always had philistines. And we always will. #
- Just heard in the Kubrick doc I'm watching, Kubrick talking for 1st time. We sound a lot alike. Especially if I was yelling at Shelly Duvall #
- Weekend Box Office: Good Word Propels Rise of the Planet of the Apes to $54 Million http://zite.to/pz3oWT #
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