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If you were going to pick two people from Top Secret! who would be breakout…
Attention Must Be Paid: Carrie Fisher
No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled…
Disney Byways: “Pluto’s Sweater”
Many years ago, I knew a woman who had racetrack rescue greyhounds. She made them…
The Solute Year in Review: 2021
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Gilda (Year Of The Month)
The most interesting scene in Gilda is when the eponymous character draws a direct connection…
Celebrating the Living: Ruth Buzzi
Research for this column routinely takes me in strange directions. Mostly I went into this…
Attention Must Be Paid: Sabu
On my calendar for today is “Sabu (unless someone more Christmasy comes up).” But then…
Year of the Month: The Incredible Power of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Roger Ebert ends his review of It’s a Wonderful Life with a story. “At a…
Disney Byways: “From All of Us to All of You”
Odds are pretty good that, today, my quasi-sister-in-law and her family (her brother and I…
Year of the Month: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Conventional wisdom is the Western changed forever sometime in the late ‘60s, dividing the genre…