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Name: DVG Source: unca20081110.htm Two movies that I've never been able to identify--thought perhaps someone here would know of them... The first, possibly 1950s, opens with a young woman being killed for her necklace by someone that a witness is completely unable to describe. A second young woman ...

Two movies that I've never been able to identify--thought perhaps someone here would know of them... The first, possibly 1950s, opens with a young woman being killed for her necklace by someone that a witness is completely unable to describe. A second young woman modeling for a painting while wearin...

Thanks-- My question is based on a comment in Peter Nichols wonderful book “The Science in Science Fiction.” In criticizing a scenario where antigravity is featured, Nichols reprints an image from a film where a young boy is floating while scientists look on and asks: “if there is no gravity in the ...

Imagine a room at standard earth gravity. In the center of the room there is a table with a large clock on it. Through some mechanism, the gravity of the room is reduced to zero-g. Assuming there has been no shifting of the room itself, no air current within or other independent force involved, will...

Name: DVG Source: unca20080219.htm To Mr. Ellison & sundry: I am looking for a review that Mr. Ellison wrote of "The Goonies," a film I am currently writing an essay on. I have looked high and low for this review and am unable to find it--it is not the brief blurb given in the collected "Watching" ...

Name: DVG Source: unca20080219.htm I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I prefer the original theatrical release to the later released Director's Cut (have not seen any other versions). My reasons are threefold (am trying not to include spoilers): 1. The voice-over, while not a world-beater, ...

Not bothering to read all the responses...and why bother? I have always thought that religion and science, considered wholly in the abstract, are ultimately and irretrevably evil, each leading to nothing but destruction, stupidity, hatred and despair. When the choice is between Mengele's collection ...

Name: DVG Source: unca20061122.htm Alas, Frank, Hopper's "Early Sunday Morning" depicts a stretch of New York City's bohemian Seventh Avenue south of 14th Street. Hardly a bastion of red-state virtues then or now. The title, incidentally, was not Hopper's--the painting may not depict Sunday Morning...

I suppose some people might quite like Savannah. It's a very walkable city with some charming gardens. I can't stand the climate and don't care for "colonial" atmosphere personally. There are plenty of places to see on the East Coast, but our nation's roadways are rapidly effecting a trans...

I say this as one who hates any form of travel, but this sounds like a rather pointless project, I'm afraid. "Scenic routes" on the Coast itself are more or less non-existant, as much of the coastline has been gobbled up by rampant sprawl. Route 1, the most famous, is well-nigh unmitigated...

Name: DVG Source: unca20061122.htm And now for something completely different. Im sure everyone here has had one of those dreams where, just as one is about to receive the answer to a question of extreme importance, one wakes up, and I am equally sure that the resulting frustration is part and parc...

Yes, to clarify, I mean an artist who is seen as a popular success but who seems to have aesthetic chops to go along with it that are seldom acknowledged.

My recent dialogue with Ezra regarding Lovecraft interested me to the extent that I suppose we all have at least one artist (in whatever medium) whom we define as being of great worth in the face of fairly widespread public opinion to the contrary. I believe I have more than one: David Lynch Bret Ea...

Nothing is wrong with being an entertaining popular writer. Lovecraft was certainly not popular during his own lifetime, and is still more a "writer's writer" I suspect, than, say Stephen King or Dean R. Koontz. Dipping into satire of his most verbose effects is no different from the vario...

But Ezra, with all respect, and not to draw the argument out, none of your points address my own belief that Lovecraft is more than merely a popular writer. He has been misrepresented, often by his own editors, and badly imitated by countless others, but his core vision of the universe is as compell...