Jeremy Dauber

Final posting of yesterday's note!

Today's note of praise is for a book I'd heard about for many years but never read until today: Ralph Nader's 1965 UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. Though obviously there's much to adjudicate about his later life legacy, this book is a sober, measured, well-researched, damning indictment that reminds you

I had never seen this sketch before, but, as so often with Walken, it's the line readings that no one else on earth would deliver in precisely that way that make this sublime

Didn't know that, but I totally believe it

yup

I will never watch that treasure of my childhood, Silver Spoons for somewhat similar reasons, though I can't imagine that it does

It was such a coup to be one of Nader's Raiders...

just *how* dangerous the world of cars used to be, and how much safer it is now - and the book had a great deal to do with it.

Today's note of praise is for a book I'd heard about for many years but never read until today: Ralph Nader's 1965 UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. Though obviously there's much to adjudicate about his later life legacy, this book is a sober, measured, well-researched, damning indictment that reminds you

I FORGOT THAT

that's fantastic

Final posting of yesterday's note!

I had never seen this before, and I want to say, as a professor in his 26th year of teaching: this is technically accurate.

yup! a nice companion piece to Halloween obviously

Agree with all of this. End of an era for sure.

Okay, without looking it up, what nightmare movie from Gen X childhood am I now watching? Your only hint is: "Have you checked the children?"

It's just a great scene

I mean, this looks great.

one of the best lines in the movie

Me too! And what's particularly lovely about it is that while McDowell can of course be intensely charismatic, this is not...that role for him....

Today's note is for the two lead performances in TIME AFTER TIME, or, the "H.G. Wells time travels to 1979 San Francisco in search of his friend who's actually Jack the Ripper" movie. As you might suspect from that logline, not the world's greatest *movie,* but Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen

Charlie Chaplin directing the Tevye stories by Sholem Aleichem (the ones FIDDLER ON THE ROOF were based on).

I agree - I think that moment when he shows McDowell the television clips is amazing

Yes, this is fantastic

Charlie Chaplin directing the Tevye stories by Sholem Aleichem (the ones FIDDLER ON THE ROOF were based on).

agree - there are some great individual moments in the movie, and this is one of them

This is amazing

was real: the two got married soon after.) It's an enjoyable movie - with a moment or two of punch when the Ripper suggests how the violence of the world of the 1970s so far outmatched the one where he was an outlier - but mostly harmless - but fun lead performances!

are both lovely in their very winsome and innocent ways: McDowell playing against type as a rather diffident, buttoned-up Wells, and Steenburgen as the independent, sexually liberated career woman who's somehow *also* winsome and diffident, who is oddly attracted to him. (Apparently, the attraction

Today's note is for the two lead performances in TIME AFTER TIME, or, the "H.G. Wells time travels to 1979 San Francisco in search of his friend who's actually Jack the Ripper" movie. As you might suspect from that logline, not the world's greatest *movie,* but Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen