The films of Glenn Ford available in Media Services: The Big Heat DVD 758Blackboard Jungle DVD 1232Gilda DVD 1604 Ford always struck me as a likable journeyman. With a few exceptions, including his role in Gilda, he usually found himself playing easy-going sympathetic characters. Of the 85 or so films he made, only the above-mentioned […]
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Obit: Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian Novelist
Mahfouz is the only Arab to have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also the oldest living recipient of the award. A critic of Egyptian society and Islamic Fundamentalism, in 1994 Mahfouz, then 82, was stabbed in an assassination attempt over perceived blasphemy in his 1959 novel Children of Gebelawi. Media […]
Continue readingPortal to public domain videos online
This website provides nice orderly links to streaming videos of old films that reside at Google Video, Dumpalink, iFilm, and YouTube. The collection is a combination of works that are out-of-copyright (public domain), orphaned (obscure videos that are still under copyright but probably forgotten by their owners), and some that are more recent and possibly […]
Continue readingAppreciate old-time radio? Here’s a site with 11,000 programs online
The quality ranges from good to microphone-to-a-radio-speaker bad, but on balance this is a remarkably rich resource. If you’ve ever listened to comic geniuses Bob and Ray, represented here with a scant seven programs, you’ll recognize many of the programs they satirized in their skits. A few of the nuttier titles include Mr. Keen: Tracer […]
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