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With Stephanie Potter at KBOO last night (cameraphone photo by Marliese Franklin) You can't see it in the picture, but Stephanie is wearing an Austrian peaked cap. In honor of which we sang "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music soundtrack. Which we recorded, because
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Perfect film for a hot summer night: Slow-paced and comfortable. I enjoyed it, though I still don't understand the last scene.
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I watched "That's Entertainment!" this weekend. What an amazing collection of film clips! Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in "Singin' in the Rain". Fred Astaire in "Royal Holiday". Astaire and Eleanor Powell in "Broadway Melody of 1940"
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My radio is always tuned to KBOO, but on Sunday evenings I use the Internet to listen to a station far away across the mountains: KTCU in Fort Worth. From 5pm to 7pm (Portland time) is a show called the Rock Menagerie. Host Dale Gleitz picks a theme each week,
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The funniest thing I have seen on Saturday Night Live recently is available for viewing on the Web, and is was a free download at the iTunes store.
Sports
So I'm watching the Fort Worth Bowl, which this year matches my former employer, the University of Houston (Go Coogs!), against the University of Kansas. ESPN has sent their D team to provide commentary — before tonight, I had never heard of either person in the broadcast booth. Midway
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Our parents had to stay up until 12:30 to watch all of Johnny Carson. We only have to stay up until 11:30 to watch all of Jon Stewart.
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Good movie, though heavy-handed with its anti-capitalist framing. Go see it. (I have to add that it was strange to watch a movie owned by Mark Cuban in a theater owned by Mark Cuban while the Rockets play Cuban's Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs.)
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Two parts thought-provoking; one part hippy-dippy silly. 2 > 1. Go see it. (Towards the end of the movie, "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" by Simple Minds looped insistently through my mind; but that's probably an idiosyncracy.)
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I watched Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey years ago, and found it boring and baffling. After looking at this site, though, I might give the movie another try. (Warning: Site has slow-loading Flash animations. They're worth the wait, though.) [Link courtesy of Dale Keiger.]
Houston
As part of its "Revivals" film series, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston showed Leni Riefenstahl's film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Olympia I. Olympia I is a stunningly beautiful film. Except for the parts which have Nazis in them. There's no harm in