Jeffrey Risher

Have you seen "Night Has A Thousand Eyes"? Or "All My Sons"? Two more fantastic performances. If you haven't seen them, put them on your mental list.

I've been randomly checking for a cheap copy of "The Whole Town's Talking" for years. Your post inspired another search and I got lucky this time!

I started collecting Eddie films after my Burt Lancaster phase. I have over 50 now. One of my absolute favorite performances of his is in the Night Gallery episode "The Messiah on Mott Street" with Yaphet Kotto.

Love this movie AND I don't own it ;) It's been out of print and difficult to find for years (at least for a reasonable price). This post made me look for it again, and I found it on Blu-Ray for $12.50 (free shipping) on eBay! Of course I ordered it! Thank you!

I usually describe it as a "gay-owned Spencer Gifts with a clothing dept". It was a very popular local chain, with 4 stores in the city (Polk, Market, and 2 on Castro). In later years they expanded outside the city. Not long after, started closing stores until they were all gone. Too much too fast.

YouTube video by Honeydew Hideout TV Headlines San Francisco Store Commercial - Castro Polk

My first job in SF (1989 to 1993). This is a rare find. I rarely even meet people who remember it. Searches for photos or stories is often futile. I worked at this, the first store opened in 1975 on Polk. I managed the upstairs, then later became Asst Mgr of the store.

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"I'm flying out to visit Darrell and Marcus over Labor Day. The jazz fest is that weekend and Mavis Staples is playing on Monday."

I found the info above in an email I sent to April in 2007! It doesn't seem possible it was almost 20 years ago!
But I guess it was. Unreal.

What year did we see Mavis? You do know I planned my trip around that date, right?

I didn't know you saw them live! How did I never hear about that? I would love to George live (without or without Parliament and/or Funkadelic).

Here's something you're not used to hearing. I haven't seen this one nor do I have it. I'll have to see if it's on Demand.

I had that 45, but I tend to lean toward "Heavy Fallin' Out" and "Rock n Roll Baby", but it's hard to go wrong picking any of their stuff. (I actually thought you'd pick "Stop, Look, Listen""

So maybe I can "...read your mind", except I was thinking I wanted to hear "Sundown", but it is quite a distance...

This is crazy, I pulled out "Complete Greatest Hits" today when I was deciding what I wanted to hear. I ended up putting on Mike Oldfield's "Five Miles Out" instead, but Gordon is still in the stack...

Oops, I forgot about these...

Morning Watch: "The Tin Star" (1957) Another winning Western from Anthony Mann. This time with Henry Fonda, and Anthony Perkins. Beautifully shot, with an enormously appealing cast working with a tight, and satisfying script. Every scene and plot point is exactly right. A real pleasure to watch.

My standard base Christmas watch list. ("Christmas in Connecticut" is the only one in the 4 Pack I watch, sometimes "Boys Town"). I'll pop in "Die Hard" and others but these are my main viewings scattered through December.

It's a fun, nostalgic and likable movie, with lots of quotable lines. I don't know if you'd enjoy it now, only because it feels like you've made up your mind about it. It's not "It's a Wonderful Life", but I do understand why it's become so popular.

"Porkys" wasn't my kind of movie (but it did well with pre-teen & teenage boys). But "A Christmas Story" has replaced "It's a Wonderful Life" as THE Holiday movie everyone loves (there's even a stage show now). I honestly can't believe you haven't seen it. They do marathons of it every December.

Often credited as the first "slasher" film. Four years before "Halloween". Directed by the late, Bob Clark, the same guy who later did "Porkys" and the now enormously popular "A Christmas Story".

The Criterion release of Guillermo Del Toro's remake of "Nightmare Alley" includes his original black & white vision. While the color theatrical release garnered 3 Oscar nods, had it been released as intended, it would be hailed as a dark, gritty masterpiece of modern filmmaking. Beautifully bleak.

Maybe a tiny shred, but only at the beginning during her fierce ride to scatter her father's ashes. After that, her deceptions are far too calculated to feel anything but repelled. Probably her best and most complex performance.

The thought that someone, somewhere 110 years ago used this pattern to create this very same doily is the reason I enjoy using (primarily) antique patterns.

This one, simply named "Doily" is from the "Priscilla Crochet Book: Centrepieces and Doilies" published in 1915, Priscilla Publishing, Boston

You probably would have loved it like I did. The scene where Amy Irving makes the guy explode predated the exploding head in "Scanners" by a couple years and was THE horror scene frequently discussed among my friends. I have a lot of affection for that flick.

Today's underrated film: "Christine" (2016) Anchored by a brilliant performance by Rebecca Hall as FL news reporter, Christine Chubbuck. Who, in 1974, achieved National infamy when she announced on WXLT's Suncoast Digest, the network was about to present "exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide".

I think I have four copies of this on Blu-Ray. It was public domain so a dozen different labels released it. Then the boutique studios did some restorations and every time another released their "restored version" I bought it. I'm hopeless. It's also a frequent watch for me. Welles hated it.

As near as I can tell this pattern is from the mid-1950s. I like it, it's more playful than a lot of the patterns I hook.

Are you spying on my Facebook account? At the beginning of the month I did a whole post about the perfection of the "Innervisions" album.

Same. I know I'm risking my 'gay card', but I've never liked "Auntie Mame". I like her in "His Girl Friday" & "Night Must Fall". Find her tedious in "The Women"& (the awful) "The Guilt of Janet Ames". But in "Picnic" & "The Velvet Touch", she's excellent.

Oh good. I found it streaming and thought it might be hard to find. From the writing on up, every aspect lifts it above similar storylines. I think it's the most subdued and textured performance of Russell's career. Plus Sydney Greenstreet as the detective! It's a real hidden gem.

Today's find: "The Velvet Touch". A well-written/directed noirish drama with Rosalind Russell giving a great performance as a comedic Broadway star desperate to play a serious role. Russell is hit-or-miss for me. Her shrewish turn in "Picnic" is a fave, but, for authenticity, this wins. #Filmsky