A perennial (well, not quite exactly perennial) favorite of MovieNight, Gilda did not fail to deliver once again. Rita Hayworth (28 years old at the time) was just soooo sexy, and the film makers managed to sneak a lot of pretty racy stuff past the sensors.

A clever bit of back lighting with just enough detail.

The side-boob shot!

On another note, although I am still missing the gentler inter-frame interpolation of the old Panasonic projector, the new Benq does a far superior job of making pure neutral black and white. I guess you can’t have everything… certainly not at these prices!

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After last week’s hard-core finale to our kinda f*cked up mini-season, it was time for a good bubble. Oh yeah… “bubble bath” (pronounced boff) is Cockney rhyming slang for “laugh” (pronounced loff), and when using CRS it is common, but not mandatory, to drop the part that actually rhymes, presumably to confuse the uninitiated even more. For instance… “Do me a lemon, wouldya? Get on the dog and call us a sherbet.” translates to “Do me a favor (lemon flavor), wouldya? Get on the phone (dog and bone) and call us a cab (sherbet dab – a kind of sugary sour dipping powder candy).

Anyway, it was a great, fun MovieNight. I got rather Brahms and Liszt!

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Christmas usually sneaks up on us from what appears to be a comfortable distance. This year was no exception… Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving… then boom! Hanukkah! Christmas! But still, we managed to get a tree, and trim it just in time for MovieNight.

Once again, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment made us laugh and cry (just a bit) while putting romance, comedy, drama, the Holidays, and our beloved city center stage. Just lovely.

Looking forward to seeing you all next year!

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OK… this was hysterically funny, and a great MovieNight!

As I look at this image, I’m reminded of some people I used to to know… indeed, I was related to one by marriage… something about the woman with the lesser mustache looks familiar.

Woah! That’s really TMI, but doesn’t that come with the territory of writing a blog that one doesn’t suspect is ever read by anyone? Bring it, peeps! Comment. Love me. Hate me. Do something!

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