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    Surfing a Muse & the Amazing Nina Mae

    FEBRUARY 7, 2011 8:58PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: landmark first amendment decision, hallelujah (1929), nina mae mckinney, jean harlow, reckless (1935), ethel waters, jeanne crain, pinky (1949), william lundigan, united state supreme court, claude rains, mischa auer, scatman crothers, ray liotta, hector elizondo, david soul, vincasa.com, anita ekberg, charles mcgraw, casablanca 1955-6, otto preminger, sidney poitier, porgy and bess 1959, george gershwin, louis armstrong, mel torme, the boswell sisters, mildred bailey, paul whiteman, when it's sleepy time down south, sag striker, huac, hollywood blacklist, turner classics, stephen foster, langston hughes, bobby breen, way down south 1939, amoeba.com, race films, pardon us 1931, laurel and hardy, etude ethiopian chorus, freita shaw, roman freulich, black sharecroppers, the broken earth, oxbow incident, martin scorsese, night nurse 1931, raoul walsh, french foreign legion, stink bomb, douglas fairbanks, first oscar-winning film, wings 1927, wild bill wellman, princess gioia tosca di cuto, donald cook, prostitution, pre-code hollywood, lechery, dorothy mackaill, safe in hell 1931, night of the hunter 1955, charles laughton, kitty white, walter schumann, dragnet theme, all talking picture, a c bilbew, negro spirituals, stepin fetchit, charlie chan in egypt, first black actor millionaire, lincoln theodore monroe andrew perry, the old south, hearts in dixie 1929, robert levy, dr jekyl & mr hyde, lafayette players, arthur s penn, harlem renaissance

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    Giffords Exploit: The Blunderful Lizards of "Oops!"

    JANUARY 11, 2011 12:52PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: arizona, second amendment, right to bear arms, julian asssange, cenk uygur, young turks, 1917 espionage act, gop as terrorists, terrorism defined, high-tech terrorist, guns don't kill people, malice, anti-muslim fervor, lone crazed gunman, parallax view 1974, taxi driver 1976, shocked shocked, casablanca, claude rains, spineless congress, nipper his master's voice, washington lobbyists, political corruption, new york post, princess diana's ring, media manipulation, wikileaks, journalistic integrity, candor, exploitation, media and arkansas, media and bp, media and haiti, billary, banking scandal 2008, hypocrisy, united states congress. obama campaign for change, nra, violence, talk shows, panel of experts, journalism, robert kennedy assassination, 1968 democratic convention, 1968 police riot, robert forster, peter bonerz, peter boyle, jeff donaldson, felton perry, sid mccoy, christine bergstrom, medium cool 1969, haskell wexler, fox news, rightwing radio, rightwing blogs, rightwing media, sarah palin, jared loughner, gabrielle giffords, media frenzy, hate speech

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    A Top Ten List of B&W Movie Moments

    NOVEMBER 10, 2010 4:50PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: black-and-white, movies, max & dave fleischer, snow white, betty boop, cab calloway, a child is waiting, paul stewart, bruce ritchey, judy garland, steven hill, burt lancaster, casablanca, conrad veidt, paul henreid, claude rains, ingrid bergman, humphrey bogart, gold diggers of 1933, my forgotten man, joan blondell, etta moten, miracle of morgan's creek, willam demarest, betty hutton, eddie bracken, preston sturges, religious fanatics, the seventh seal, ingmar bergman, dodsworth, maria ouspenskaya, walter huston, william wyler, ruth chatterton, night of the hunter, james gleason, robert mitchum, lillian gish, the list of adrian messenger, gladys cooper, george c. scott, the man who played god, bette davis, george arliss, st. james infirmary blues

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    Memo to Barack: Watch Old Movies

    DECEMBER 20, 2008 11:44PM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: senate, mr. smith goes to washington, claude rains, jimmy stewart, frank capra, barack obama, politics, movies

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