I was born in 1953. We didn’t have video games. We had physical toys and playing cards. We glued cars together from kits. Here are some of the toys:
Train set
The History Channel ran a series called The Toys That Built America.
My generation was the first exposed to and motivated by toy ads on TV.
She used “gazpacho” when she meant “Gestapo”. She shouldn’t have used that either. She’s terrible.
This is unreal. The Metro West Building at 300 N. Greene St. near downtown Baltimore was opened in late 1980 and closed in early 2014. I worked there for all but about six months of the time it was open. Originally, there were about 5,200 employees but there were only about 1,200-1,400 by the time it was emptied. The clerical work done there had mostly been replaced by electronic processes. It’s a huge building that takes up two city blocks.
The common perception was that the federal government would sell the building to the University of Maryland which has professional schools and a large hospital nearby. I was surprised when it was sold to a private company. As far as I know, only the indoor garage and parking lot have ever been used before this. The article linked to at the top says the garage has room for 452 vehicles.
GSA on the sale of the building
With ‘plenty of space,’ Caves Valley considers plans for Metro West
Developer plans large garage at Metro West site
This new (2/17) article doesn’t even mention the building!
The Window is a recent Warner Archive Blu-ray release. As usual for the Archive, the video quality is great. The film is a fine film noir about a boy who tells lies but can’t convince his parents that he really saw a murder. I couldn’t find a trailer online.
“Act Naturally” is a 1963 Buck Owens record that was the last Beatles cover (1965) not counting the fragment of “Maggie May” on Let It Be. Ringo was the lead singer of the Beatles version and later recorded a duet with Owens. I saw Ringo perform this on TV today in a Soundstage rebroadcast – see the clip below
This is an incredible story. It’s like Pizzagate.
“Love Potion No. 9 ” was a hit for the R&B group the Clovers in 1959 and the British Invasion band The Searchers in 1964. At that time, young rock fans like me had not heard the earlier version.
I call The Weather Channel “weather porn” because they put their correspondents out in the snow, wind, and rain to look miserable when they could show the same stuff just with a camera and someone doing a voice-over from a safer spot.
This is great news. Jancso’s films have been hard to find here. UK company Second Run has Blu-rays of Silence and Cry and Electra, My Love. It appears that the version of Electra coming from Kino will be a 4K upgrade. Of the six films to be released, I think only The Red and the White was ever in a US edition (Kino Lorber DVD).
The listing on the Kino Lorber site. I ordered mine today.
Kino: New 4K Restorations of Six Miklós Jancso Films Coming Soon to Blu-ray
“The Addams Family 2” is not a good film. The animation and voice work are excellent but the plot is dumb and predictable. If you’re not familiar with them, look at the Charles Addams cartoons that are the basis for the TV show and films. You can buy prints of the cartoons here.
Sad! 