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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken

Updated list of best holidaze movies.

Back from Turkey: mostly eastern, but I revised my Istanbul review from before epinions time began.

The French Finds writeoff, for Barbara Fields (Ifif1938) turned into a memorial for the much-loved epinionator who encouraged so many of us.

*****

Though dormant, the Fritz Lang writeoff remains open.

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Contributions to the Minnesota writeoff (originally on the occasion of Sinclair Lewis's birthday):

Lewisiana
NFP - Arrowsmith
SM - Elmer Gantry (movie)
SM - The Man Who Knew Coolidge
SM - Dodsworth (movie)
SM- Cass Timberlane (movie)
SM- movie of Ann Vickers not in epinions database at
www.associatedcontent.com/article/5565032/corruption_and_melodrama_in_the_movie.html?cat=40

Jiahong - Sauk Centre & Lewis Boyhood Home (retrospectively annexed)

Contributions about Other Minnesota/an Topics
Skbreese - Absolute Zero by Chuck Logan
Drdevience - American Gay by my favorite Minnesota-born writer
Gaviidae - Bemidji Town and Country Club
MrsNormanMaine - Blood Simple by the Coen brothers
Macresarf1 - Fargo by the Coen brothers
Eplovejoy - The Jolly Green Giant by Jack Greene
FB6006 - Homosexualities by Stephen Murray
Quidrock - Ice Capades
SM - Minneapolis Institute of Art
SM - The Things that They Carried, Going After Cacciato, In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Curtis_Edmonds - Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan
EdGrover - Once Upon a Lake by Thelma Jones
Slarter - Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson
Quidrock - Peace Like a River by Lief Enger
Popsrock - Pipestone National Monument
Pmills1210 - Purple Rain by and about Prince
Millinocket - A Simple Plan dir. by Sam Raimi
DrFreudine - Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
kamel622 - You Know You're a Minnesotan if... by Ed Fischer


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For the URLs of the John Steinbeck 99th birthday writeoff see
Steinbeck@99

The John Steinbeck 100th birthday writeoff URLs are listed at
Steinbeck@100

I think that my rating criteria are fairly obvious, but might note that my conception of what is unsuitable for children is less about whether there is any sexual content than about whether they are likely to understand and be able to sit still through the movie I'm reviewing.


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