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‘Schoolgirl Report #1: What Parents Don’t Think Is Possible’ (1970): What do schoolgirls want this holiday season?

So…while we’re all waiting for Dick Van Dyke to kick off (please…you think anyone’s going to care the day after he hits 100?), there’s currently not much else to do in the popular culture than celebrate the upcoming Christmas holiday. And what’s the best way to do that? Why, with early 70s German soft-core porn,… Read More ‘Schoolgirl Report #1: What Parents Don’t Think Is Possible’ (1970): What do schoolgirls want this holiday season?

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‘Lisa and the Devil’ & ‘The House of Exorcism’ (1973/1975): Bava’s arty failure gets exploitation makeover

Ahhhhh…the falling leaves. The soft, orangey twilight at day’s dimming. The pumpkins. The apple cider. The grown adults decorating their houses and lawns with plastic skeletons and ghosts and asking you, apparently the only neighbor left who likes to keep to himself, what you think of it with their idiotic grins, pissing themselves because they’re… Read More ‘Lisa and the Devil’ & ‘The House of Exorcism’ (1973/1975): Bava’s arty failure gets exploitation makeover

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‘September 30th, 1955′ (1977): The Waltons’ Richard Thomas obsesses over James Dean

Next Tuesday is the 70th anniversary of the death of actor James Dean (Google him)…which is probably going to elicit hardly a peep on social media, where such trivia are now noted by posters desperately looking for hits, facilitating amateur “comedian commentators” to make insufferably lame jokes, and where certifiably insane advocates—for every cause and… Read More ‘September 30th, 1955′ (1977): The Waltons’ Richard Thomas obsesses over James Dean

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‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy

Reduced, these past few weeks, to basically laying flat on my back (they took out 37 feet of my guts—I’m basically a soda fountain now), there hasn’t been much I can do but watch TV and movies. And certainly patterns of comfort TV-watching manifested themselves fairly quickly, including hours and hours of 70s TV (Emergency!,… Read More ‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy

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‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Deliciously awful Anthony Hopkins takes home the Emmy

So, wait: Lindbergh willingly sacrificed his kid to Nobel Prize-winning biologist Alexis Carrel in some Abrahamic gesture to provide Carrel a body for eugenics experimentation that went wrong…and then covered it up? That promotion for a new whack-job book conspiracy theory came over my news feed a while back, and sucker though I am for… Read More ‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Deliciously awful Anthony Hopkins takes home the Emmy

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‘Airport 1975’ (1974): Celebrating 50 years of landing jumbo jets – the hard way

Maybe I missed something during the absolute euphoria of the last three weeks, but I’m not seeing anything online about the 50th anniversary of the apex of the “golden age” of disaster movies: the November/December 1974 releases of Airport 1975, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno. All were socko successes with ticket buyers (if not the… Read More ‘Airport 1975’ (1974): Celebrating 50 years of landing jumbo jets – the hard way

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