Retired journalist / music addict / film buff (TCM) / road trips / foodie / progressive / college hoops (Kentucky) / Detroit sports / in search of the perfect burger /🏳️🌈
Metro Detroit
Darrell Clem
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Morning tune.
Marvin Gaye’s album What’s Going On is a masterpiece (a term I use sparingly) with themes of war, poverty, police brutality, discrimination and environmental destruction.
Still relevant 55 years on.
Title track
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The Killing checklist:
• Marie Windsor steals every scene she’s in
• Kubrick establishes himself as an amazing director
• One of the best #FilmNoir ensemble casts ever
• Never put all your money in one place, especially a suitcase
What a thrill ride of a film!
… ambition, greed, bigotry (toward Native Americans) and virtuousness, CIMARRON seems like a well-intentioned but overblown, dull adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel.
A 1931 version of the film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
3/3
#FilmSky
… lacking chemistry as husband and wife in a loving but rocky marriage.
It’s the first Anthony Mann-directed film I didn’t like very much, but I read that he walked off production due to differences with the producer, and another director finished up.
With themes of …
2/3
I’m kind of addicted to checking our internet speed and I love seeing this.
First watch: CIMARRON (1961), a sprawling, tedious misfire about a frontier family’s lives from the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 to WWI.
I thought this nearly 2.5-hour #western, though beautifully shot in CinemaScope, was woefully miscast, with Glenn Ford and Maria Schell …
1/3
#FilmSky #MovieSky
Music for cooking breakfast
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
Good Morning - The Dandy Warhols
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Rewatch: THE BAD SEED (1956)
Time to check in on sweet little blonde pigtailed Rhoda.
She’s only 8 years old. Surely she’s not the psychopathic, murderous little monster that some suspect she is, haha.
This one is always a fun psychological #horror diversion.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
Another highlight: The Apartment, Michigan’s oldest LGBT+ bar (since 1972).
It’s a shotgun bar (no dance floor) with a high-energy vibe, a rainbow of patrons, super-friendly staff and patrons, music videos and an anti-hate message at the front entrance.
2/2
#PrideMonth #Pride #RoadTrip
So many cities close enough for weekend road trips from Detroit.
Marvin and I chose Grand Rapids this time. Fun town!
Favorite nightspots: Bob’s Bar, a working-class dive bar (since 1937) with a lively vibe, good bar food, friendly staff and nonstop jukebox.
1/2
#RoadTrip #GetAway
