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Goodbye, Columbus
1969 ‧ Romance/Comedy ‧ 1h 42m

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Goodbye Columbus

Neil, a wry, intellectual Jewish man from Newark, and Brenda, is a glamorous, privileged Jewish woman from affluent Short Hills.
Ultimately, the story ends with Neil's realization that he cannot truly belong to Brenda's world, marking a poignant farewell to that youthful summer and its illusions.

As their relationship matures, their differing cultural backgrounds cause Brenda's mother (Nan Martin) to have trepidations about the couple.
As their disparate ideas about sex and birth control come to the fore, their feelings for each other are tested.

Here’s their story: Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin), a young librarian in New Jersey, has eyes for Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a beautiful Radcliffe student. Although they are both Jewish, Brenda's family is much wealthier than Neil's.

Bliss wore clothes by Villiger as did Ali McGraw in the film.
I was about to go into the Navy. Bliss was about to continue at Cornell College.
Our romance ended at the conclusion of the summer, much like Ali and Richard.

Goodbye, Columbus (1969) means so much to me because it completely mirrors my life in 1968 and 1969.
I was in love with a girl named Bliss Arneberg.
My parents worked for a hotel. Her parents owned one.
So even though I am not Jewish and neither was Bliss, the film was much like my life.

The Blue Gardenia
Not Rated 1953 ‧ Noir/Thriller ‧ 1h 30m

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There’s a nasty cynicism. The callousness of the columnist, the good-natured liberties taken by men with women and the cop and the columnist’s willingness to trip each other up and cross ethical lines to get their Blue Gardenia, as the newspaper comes to label the femme fatale.

Wiseacre roommate Crystal (Ann Sothern) cracks, “Honey, if a girl killed every man who got fresh with her, how much of the male population you think there’d be left?”
The operator tries to cover her tracks and evade the columnist and his cop pal (George Reeves) (who later became Superman)

There are glimpses of paranoid gloom and shadows, of a criminal’s struggle to learn to be cunning in the tension contained in a tiny phone booth where our operator tries to confess to a local hotshot newspaper columnist (Richard Conte).

It’s a brisk, grim tale of a long-distance operator (Anne Baxter) who gets a Dear Jane from her man in Korea, accepts the come-ons of a lady-killer artist (Raymond Burr) and fears she murdered the cad after he gets her blackout drunk and comes on entirely too strong.

Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Norah's drunken night out with Prebble ends in a hazily remembered confrontation and Harry has been murdered.

The Blue Gardenia (1953) seems to be another movie where a woman kills “Perry Mason.”
In Crime of Passion, a film released four years after Gardenia, Barbara Stanwyck tries to kill Raymond Burr.
The movie was made just as Burr was starting out on Perry Mason.

Thanks for asking. I was out to VA last Friday. Checking three sores on back. Turned out to be acne!
Crewsing Movies first thing in morning. Have breakfast and watch some TV. Take out the garbage and check the mail. Empty Stanford's litter. I see about 3 neighbors a day. I miss Lori too, my friend.

The Magnetic Monster movie

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The Magnetic Monster movie

The Magnetic Monster movie

The Magnetic Monster movie

Earnest atomic scientists are in a race against time to transport it to Canada where the only instrument powerful enough to destroy it is located. A seemingly credible scientific explanation also works well. The climax, with electricity surging and sparks flying is actually thrilling.

Dr. Stewart (Richard Carlson) finds a dead man, killed from radiation. In fact, the whole place is radioactive. Some object is much more magnetic and dangerous. The powerful substance is so powerful that it threatens to destroy the planet unless something is done quickly.

The Magnetic Monster is a better than average sci-fi/horror film. They manage to make the story seem possible, and much of it is because it is told in a semi-documentary style. This is entertainment when combined with the taut, fast-paced story line, excellent performances and exciting climax.

This is very good 1950's science fiction with tale where the use of a particle accelerator causes magnetism to go crazy. It results in implosions that could eventually end all life on earth. It's up to Richard Carlson and King Donovan to come up with a solution.

The Magnetic Monster (1953) is an exciting film. Transport yourself back to the time when science was young and naïve. The "monster" is an isotope created by a mad scientist. It will, if not destroyed, eventually engulf the world.

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