Monthly Archives: August 2016

The 10 Unanswerables

August 25, 2016 – 6:14 pm

According to the Old Testament Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets inscribed with 17 Commandments and although the adopted son of the pharoah was the only man in the crowd who could read, Yahweh deigned not to write in Egyptian, so there could have been a thousand commandments for all Moses or […]

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Ali McGraw – Chanel Promo

August 25, 2016 – 5:22 pm

Ali McGraw was in LOVE STORY, but she shined in THE GETAWAY with Steve McQueen. They were a cool couple. And those were a cool time. ps Jim Thompson adapted his novel of the same title for the screenplay. Cool. Shot by Sam Peckinpah. Ali’s character Carol Ainsley McCoy betrays him. That still doesn’t stop […]

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MOSES’ BEST FRIEND by Peter Nolan Smith

August 25, 2016 – 2:25 pm

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. Vadim was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. The tough zek smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. Only […]

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TOUCH OF EVIL Opening Scene

August 25, 2016 – 12:51 pm

According to Wikipedia many critics considered Orson Welles’ three-minute, twenty-second tracking shot in TOUCH OF EVIL as one of the greatest shots in cinematic history, especially considering that it’s the opening scene. Here’s the synopsis. On the U.S.-Mexico border, a man plants a time bomb in a car. A man and woman enter the vehicle […]

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26,560 hits – One day

August 22, 2016 – 11:23 pm

On Aug 19, 2016 mangozeen hit over 20,000 pageviews. I can’t figure out why. But I’m sure it had nothing to do with Emerson Lake and Palmer. I lost my virginity during their 1970 concert on the Charles River. To Linda Imhoff. Few more beautiful than her. She had long legs. Very long legs. Sadly […]

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