Vertigo | Vertigo
Mar.07.2013
Pittsburgh Filmmakers exhibits a wide variety of first-run foreign and independent American films, as well as, classics and documentaries at its three theaters: Regent Square Theater in the East End; Harris Theater in the downtown cultural district; and Melwood Screening Room in the...
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Jan.24.2013
Note the fine reading material on Jimmy Stewart's coffee table.
It’s around 4 a.m. I can’t get to sleep. Vertigo is on one of the Starz HD channels. It only takes a few minutes to draw me in.
Kim Novak is in the next room freshening up. Jimmy Stewart, looking so safe in his green V-neck sweater...
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Dec.27.2012
Reams spin untold stories on untouched sheets quivering before eyes zooming in, zooming out images of magnified clouds colonising the sky turning into cottonwool swabs soaked in blood unseen wounds unfelt pain
Tree branches cover streets birds sing in sewers cars rush past...
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Aug.01.2012
With the 2012 Summer Olympics chugging along in London, the British Film Institute has made their choices for the greatest films of all time. These selections are compiled and updated every decade, and printed in their official magazine, Sight and Sound. There were 846 critics,...
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Jul.09.2012
Today started so well, too. Up at four, two hours of puttering, setting the kitchen to rights, putting away the folded laundry, catching up on the computer, enjoying my first two cups of coffee and some bacon with my eggs.
Then off to my bedroom closet/office, to put on my headset and get...
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May.16.2012
The weather was cool and drizzly today. The phone awakened me (AT&T doing a follow up survey on the wi-fi box purchase), and I was soon up and running.
The work today alternated with transferring some of my substantial CD Collection to the iMac. Formerly, my use of the...
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Jun.27.2010
My husband and I are on a road trip with our motor home. Along the way we’ve experienced good news and bad. Our initial stop was Petersburg, Nebraska, population 380, for my 50th class reunion. The first few days storms raged every night. The sound of thunder and the pelting of rain on our motor...
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Oct.12.2009
Eisner Award nominee, Glyph Award winner and American Library Association Top 10 lister G. Willow Wilson is headed back to her hometown! Come get your books signed and purchase a copy of the newly released VIXEN: RETURN OF THE LION trade paperback. Hang out, chat and get your holiday cheer on....
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Sep.07.2009
Visit to San Juan Bautista, CA, and the famous Mission (1797), a multi-arched adobe structure situated just above the San Andreas Fault. Featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Friend we were with searched all over for the tower that had appeared in the movie... that tower...
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Aug.02.2009
Grove Press, the independent publishers of Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and bestsellers Man Gone Down and Peace Like A River, will publish Willow’s memoir The Butterfly Mosque in Spring 2010. Stay tuned for details!
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