Pennsylvania has wheelbarrows, tractors, tractor tires, bicycles, trucks, custard cups and glasses, rifles, silverware, candlestick holders, and more, all rounded up for auction, handled by auction companies such as Zettlemoyer Auction Company in Fogelsville, which boasts three generations of speedy auctioneers who keep up a…
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio. –“We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel Walk into the Casa de Regalos (House of Gifts) gift shop at Ventura Harbor Village in Ventura, California, or any other gift shop…
Besides inspiring a desire to watch The Hunt for Red October again, which was met right after watching this, The Sinking of the Laconia also inspires disbelief: The Nazis? Humanitarians? Really? It’s true. Apparently, the farther they are from the heart of Berlin, the slight…
First, let me get out of the way all the words that would make me worry about overuse throughout this review: Smart, excellent, first-rate, astute, intelligent, remarkable, exceptional, unusual, offbeat, unconventional, quirky, outlandish, entertaining, zany, diverting, sparkling, hilarious, uproarious, continuous screams of laughter, amusing, hysterical,…
You never forget Ann-Margret writhing around in baked beans spewing out of a television set in Tommy, no matter if you’re in high school, as I was, or any age really. Once you’ve seen that, you’re ready for anything else that auteur Ken Russell has…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel does what movies are supposed to do: Show us something different; show us something new. The different is in Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson appearing together, along with Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel,…
With respect to the copywriters at Shout! Factory who summarize plots of TV shows so succinctly for the episode lists you find on the inside of their DVD cases and on the back of separate cases for some multi-disc sets as well, I thought, while…
Amidst the debate about the quality of movies today, there’s the loud, wailing lament that because of frenetic action epics (not epics in the traditional sense, but sometimes as big as them) like Battleship and the Transformers franchise, we might as well give up on…
The husband, Ray Tisdale (Jeff Fahey), gets up from the bed early in the morning to sneak out to go fishing at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, where he and his family live. A small town where everybody knows each other. He finds a single…
“Who would want to live in a city with no sense of its own past? I wouldn’t.” – British journalist Andrew Marr The Santa Clarita Valley, 30 minutes north of Los Angeles and totally isolated from it, is considered a suburb of the famous metropolis….