Month: September 2022

My favorite Ealing comedies

This list of the top 100 British films reminded me of the great comedies produced by the Ealing Studios in the later 1940s/1950s. I recommend all of them. I am posting overviews and then stuff on specific films. Alec Guinness stars in several of them.

I think the best one is Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) which is available on Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber.

The Man in the White Suit (1951). It’s on Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). It’s on Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber.

The Ladykillers (1955). Its on disc from Studio Cabal/Lionsgate. The Coen Brothers remake is not as good.

Passport to Pimlico (1949). It’s on Blu-ray and DVD from Film Movement.

Whisky Galore! (1949) has also been remade. It’s on disc with The Maggie from Film Movement.

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953). It’s on Blu-ray and DVD from Film Movement.

Douglas Slocombe’s home movie from the making of Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Maggie (1954)

Mean but funny Ivana Trump burial memes

Playing into the idea that Trump buried stuff with his ex-wife. He’s terrible but I doubt he would stoop to this.

I included the second one for the grave tweet there.

See the bottom for the current state of her grave site.

The grave has not been treated well

I support the pitch clock

I went to a minor league game this year where they used the pitch clock and really liked it. The pace was definitely faster.

Two drummers on playing with Bob Dylan

Jesse Ed Davis

I saw this tweet on Jesse Ed Davis today. He played on a lot of great albums.

The Bob Dylan Center is having an exhibit on him starting on November 15, 2024.

A tweet I saw: Cleveland Browns had 59 starting QBs during the Queen’s reign

At an Orioles game many years ago I saw someone wearing a Sosa #21 t-shirt. They had crossed out Sosa and written Markakis.

Did you know that Super Bowl confetti was shaped like the Lombardi trophy?

I didn’t know that until I bought some on eBay after the Ravens won the Super Bowl after the 2012 season. I think I read back then that the Lombardi-shaped confetti is by the stand where they present the trophy. I also got rectangular strips. The colors are those of the winning team.

Now there is tweet confetti

The confetti I have

and a satire:

More generic ballot congressional polls 9/8/22

Momentum has shifted to the Democrats. We’ll see in November.