Monthly Archives: January 2010

TCM Thrillers (January 4 – 10)

January 2, 2010
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TCM Thrillers (January 4 – 10)

  This week: * Monday—William Holden finds it tough playing a violin with boxing gloves. * Tuesday—Victor McLaglen turns stoolie. * Wednesday—Loretta Young marries a Nazi, which union Edward G. aims to dissolve. * Thursday—Janet Leigh is on her toes behind the Iron Curtain. * Saturday—Walter Pidgeon would love to drop the hammer on a certain mustachioed paper hanger. * Sunday—George C. Scott plays hide-and-seek with a serial killer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday—January 4th 9:45 PM—Golden Boy (1939) A crooked promoter lures a young violinist to give up music for boxing. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-99 mins, TV-PG 11:30 PM—All My Sons (1948) A veteran discovers his father cut costs on wartime military equipment. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians. Dir: Irving Reis. BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC ———- Tuesday—January 5th 3:00 AM—The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 5:00 AM—D.O.A. (1950) The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler. Dir: Rudolph Mate. BW-84 mins, TV-14 8:00 PM—The Informer (1935) An Irish

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2009: A bad year for newspapers, especially The Los Angeles Times

January 2, 2010
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2009: A bad year for newspapers, especially The Los Angeles Times

It’s been a bad year for all newspapers, especially my alma mater The Washington Times, which decimated its reporting staff just before the New Year. The Los Angeles Times is no exception to the hard times, but Patterico is convinced a lot of their troubles are self-inflicted. He makes a good case. To call Patterico a thorn in the paw of the LA Times is to say that “paw” means the whole body and “thorn” means flesh-eating disease. He’s been running his annual “Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review” for the last seven years, and his 2009 run-down of bias, willful distortion and general stupidity at the LA Times is quite comprehensive. I recommend reading the whole thing if you’re interested in a detailed breakdown of the meltdown of one MSM lion. Here are a few highlights … On “WHITEWASHING THE ACORN SCANDAL”: Peter Dreier wrote a fact-challenged op-ed claiming that Giles and O’Keefe had received assistance at only two ACORN offices. (The documented number was at least five at the time the op-ed appeared.) Dreier also incorrectly claimed that “not a single person who signed a phony name on a registration form ever actually voted” — although one

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