Chapter 3 I’d spent some time harassing the other men from the poker game, but came up empty. All I had so far was that, on occasion, Nice Mister Bert hit his pregnant wife, she was taking her clothes off for a lowlife to paint her, and he was still missing. The Colonel didn’t seem to know anything about his… Read more »
This Week (July 22-28) in 1954… This week was quite a week for U.S. filmgoers. A new Brando, a musical, a comedy with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and even a Mickey Spillane film! First up, on Thursday, the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers debuted in theatres. This film starts by showing a man named Adam Pontipee agreeing to… Read more »
Aged nine years, all from a single barrel, and an amazing color. All that awesome and I haven’t even gotten to the taste or aroma. That’s right, time for another short and to the point review of something full of alcohol! I haven’t had a lot of bourbon in my time, but I’ve got to say, this is my favorite… Read more »
This Week (July 15-21) in 1954… Valley of the Kings premiered on Wednesday, starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker. This film is about archeologist Mark Brandon (Taylor), convinced by Ann Mercedes (Parker) to search out solid proof of the Bibilical Joseph’s travles in ancient Egypt. On Monday, the French film The Earrings of Madame de… was released in the United… Read more »
Lynn Dwyer Mini-Bio Lynn was born the first of two children to her parents, Mary and Samuel Collier, on August 3rd, 1927. Her brother, Daniel Collier, is attending medical school in Birmingham at the start of the Boots Are Red. Like Stretch and Ron, her dad worked at a textile plant and her mother was a home maker. In high… Read more »
This Week (July 8-14) in 1954… Garden of Evil was released on July 9th. This western stars Gary Cooper and Susan Hayward. Cooper plays Hooker, part of a group heading to California to prospect for gold. They stop in Mexico and are hired to rescue Leah Fuller’s (Hayward) husband. Twists and turns see them facingmuch adversity during their journey! On… Read more »
Chapter 2 I don’t like to run. It’s not that I’m lazy but I’ve got a nagging issue with my fat getting in the way of me being a good runner. It makes my knees hurt, my ankles ache, and after a while of it my hips even seem to swell up. That’s like a practical joke, a fat guy… Read more »
This Week (July 1-7) in 1954… This week saw the release of two major films, the re-release of one, and the release of an animated short. On July 1st, the British film Background, staring Valeria Hobson, Philip Friend, and Norman Wooland, was released in the United States as Edge of Divorce. IT’s a film about a couple (Friend and Hobson)… Read more »
I wasn’t born smoking a cigar. As someone working his way toward thirty, and someone who never smoked as a teenager, smoking a cigar wasn’t a habit I just transitioned into. Especially not with all the anti-smoking media we’re exposed to. It was very much a choice. Sure, I grew up around a few smokers. I never minded the smell… Read more »