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GOOD TIMES
© Laurie Lipton
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GIFTS
ANGEL
Thanks to the extraordinary, almost hallucinatory clarity of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray of Leave Her To Heaven, I just noticed, after many viewings of the film, that Mae Marsh has a brief one-line cameo in it, holding a fishing rod on a boat dock in the opening scene.
Marsh was there when the art of movies was born, playing in many films by D. W. Griffith, becoming a major star in the silent era. Later on she had small character roles, often uncredited, in scores of films right up until 1964, a few years before her death. John Ford used her often in small roles, but so did other directors.
She was like a recording angel in those fleeting later appearances, carrying the whole history of American movies in her always expressive eyes — a professional angel collecting small paychecks for doing a job she obviously loved, whatever notice it may or may not have brought her.
She persevered, as angels do.
A WESTERN MOVIE POSTER FOR TODAY
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THE SIXTIES
GO TELL THE SPARTANS
You fall in love with someone who sees you as the best you can imagine yourself to be. You fall out of love with them when you realize that they see you as you know yourself to be, just as fucked-up as everyone else is.
None of this is really about love.
Love is a pact between two totally fucked-up people “to uphold each other in joy”. It’s an agreement to rendezvous and stand your ground at Thermopylae.
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A WESTERN MOVIE LOBBY CARD FOR TODAY
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THE SEA, THE SEA
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THE CAVE OF THE STORM NYMPHS
I’m sure I’ll wash up here one of these days. What a way to go . . .
By Sir Edward John Poynter, 1903 — with thanks to Jessica Ritchey.
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YOUNG CUSTER
The Peninsula Campaign, 1862.
With thanks to Paul Pearson . . .
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A PAPERBACK COVER FOR TODAY
SUMMER
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BE STILL, MY HEART
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SUMMER READING FOR FREE
In honor of the start of summer yesterday, my Kindle novel Bloodbath will be available free today, Sunday, 22 June.
Bloodbath is a neo-noir pulp thriller — short, violent and dirty. At the center of it is Tim Holt, a battle-scarred vet, now a soldier of fortune working the darker byways of Latin America in 1954. When a job in Guatemala goes way wrong he’s thrown together with a beautiful young woman who, like him, is bent on revenge — but the cost of it is going to be higher than either of them could possibly imagine.
The book has no redeeming moral or social message whatsoever. It’s sole ambition is to resemble the sort of lurid paperback thriller you might pick up at a drugstore or train station in the 1950s, read quickly and think, “Well, that was fun.”
Check it out here:
If you don’t own a Kindle, you can read it on almost any computer or portable device with one of the free Kindle reading apps available here: