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The Annual Oscar Memorial Reel Fiasco: Who Got Snubbed This Year
sistercelluloid ♦ February 27, 2017 ♦ 7 Comments
Okay boys and girls, it’s time for our annual Sister Celluloid tradition: filling in the massive gaps in the Oscar memorial reel! Granted, this was a horrible year. That old cliché that celebrity deaths come in threes? Yeah no. Sometimes it felt more like tens. The most common posts on social media consisted of a single word: No. As in, Not him. Not …
RING-A-DING GIRL: The Deceptive Lightness of Maggie McNamara
sistercelluloid ♦ March 26, 2015 ♦ 15 Comments
One snowy New Year’s Day, as I slothed out on the sofa for my seventeenth-or-so Twilight Zone marathon, I noticed something funny: most of my favorite episodes were written by Earl Hamner Jr. of Waltons fame—including The Hunt (an old man refuses to enter heaven without his dog), A Piano in the House (a vicious husband is undone by a …
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