I’m not feeling up to working right now, so I’m making some snacks and cueing everything up for a Sterling Hayden double feature. If you’d like to join me, I’ll be starting with John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950), and then moving imediately onto Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956). Then, if I’m still awake, I’ll […]
By Mark | October 11, 2009
I showed Clementine The Wizard of Oz a couple of months ago, soon after she turned five. I thought that she was old enough. We’d already read the book. And I’d already warned her about the flying monkeys. And I’d shown her the scene where the Wicked Witch of the West melts on YouTube. So, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Clementine, crying, Dorothy, empathy, greed, gun violence, Humphrey Bogart, killing, Robert Blake, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wizard of Oz |
