The Ur-Version
In 1981, season 10 episode 2 of M*A*S*H featured an already-thirty-year-old Joe Pantoliano as a…
Gillianren
Gillianren is a forty-something bipolar woman living in the Pacific Northwest after growing up in Los Angeles County. She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. She fills her days by watching her local library system's DVD collection in alphabetical order, watching everything that looks interesting. She particularly enjoys pre-Code films, blaxploitation, and live-action Disney movies of the '60s and '70s. She has a Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/gillianren
Articles:
Stuff My Kids Watch: Crafting Videos and a Child’s Emotional Development
I don’t know why we started watching them. Maybe it was the fascination of Howl’s…
Celebrating the Living: Joan Cusack
Two people with the last name of Cusack have been nominated for Academy Awards. One…
Attention Must Be Paid: Kenneth Mars
I thought I already had a hook for this article. We’re taking a man whose…
Disney Byways: THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE
The problem with this movie on a narrative level is that Walt, screenwriter Lawrence Edward…
The Solute Book Club: WHOSE BODY?
When people discuss twentieth century female British mystery novelists, they talk about Agatha Christie. And…
Tony Stark, Antagonist
An antagonist in literature is not, in fact, a villain. An antagonist is one who…
Celebrating the Living: John Cusack
In about 2002, I went through a Cusack Completist phase. I’m not sure how many…
Attention Must Be Paid: Susan Strasberg
Hollywood nepotism is real. Oh, not all the people with the same last name that…
Disney Byways: “The New Neighbor”
When I was a kid, we had a woman move in next door who basically…