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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: Harry & Tonto

June 4, 2011

Harry & Tonto 1974 Director: Paul Mazursky Principal Actors: Art Carney, Tonto the Cat Gut-level Take Everything either changes or dies. Observe it, accept it, and keep moving on. Basic Plot Evicted from his lifelong apartment in New York, old-guy Harry and his old cat Tonto take a road trip west meeting sweet, eccentric people [...]

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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: Full Metal Jacket

May 30, 2011

Full Metal Jacket 1987 Director: Stanley Kubrick Principle actors: Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio Gut-level take It’s impossible to be ironic, detached, intellectual, and objective in war. Basic plot A journalist enlists in the Marines, and we follow his journey from basic training to reporting on the front during the Tet Offensive. Themes The importance of [...]

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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: The Conversation

May 29, 2011

The Conversation 1974 Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola Principal actors: Gene Hackman & Harrison Ford Gut-level take An introvert’s greatest nightmare is being observed without knowing it. Basic plot Gene Hackman plays a guarded surveillance expert hired to record the conversation of two people in SF’s Union Square but his morality starts to intrude on [...]

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150 things to read, watch and listen to, so you don’t die of boredom this summer, according to Sassy Magazine, July 1990.

May 10, 2011

It was the summer of 1990. I was 14 years old and at a crossroads. New Kids on the Block, Sweet Valley High books, and Growing Pains didn’t appeal to me anymore, and I was looking for whatever would come next. I’m not sure how I came across Sassy magazine for the first time, but [...]

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