Memorandums from Mary
Monday, May 27, 2024
Losing a Dime Making a “Message” Film
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How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Roger Corman with Jim Jerome. Director, screenwriter, and film producer Rog...
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Underwhelmed by TV
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HBO based House of the Dragon on a 131-page George R. R. Martin short story called “The Princess and the Queen.” The story focused on two ...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
The Plight of the INCEL
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The “wild and crazy” Festrunk Brothers (Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd) seek large-breasted American women, in a 1977 Saturday Night Live s...
Monday, April 29, 2024
Demonizing “the Other”
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1938 Nazi propaganda praising the “Neues Volk” (the “New People”) of Nazi Germany. Why Hitler chose to persecute the Jews of Europe when he ...
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fearing Societal Collapse, or Creating It?
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Gloria (America Ferrera) explains being a woman to Barbie, in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. In Dorothy L. Sayer’s essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human...
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