Category: Site News
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT plus Pre-Codes on TCM in March 2025
Long time readers will fondly recall the entirety of 2024 where I kept hinting that I had something big in the works. Well, it wasn’t that Young Man of Manhattan review that somehow took me for forever. No, I have a book coming out! And it’s about pre-Code Hollywood! Written with my pal Kim Luperi,…
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Announcing THE PRE-CODE COMPANION!
I love pre-Code Hollywood. I hope you’ve picked up on that. I love writing about it… but I also love reading what other people write about it. Since doing a blogathon earlier this year didn’t fully cure me of the itch and I’m always looking for good ways to create new works for charity, I’m…
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Christmas Carole-ing!
As I mentioned at the beginning of the month, I’m taking the last few weeks of December off (mostly) and the first week of January off (completely) to recoup after Thoughts On The Thin Man and to plot out the absolutely insane 2015 I have planned for the site. And, you know, to celebrate the…
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THOUGHTS ON THE THIN MAN is now available!
For those of you following along since my initial post in July and through the many updates I’ve posted since, you know this has been a long time in coming. And it’s come! Thoughts On The Thin Man: Essays on the Delightful Detective Work of Nick and Nora Charles is now available at Amazon in both…
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Cliff Aliperti’s New Pre-Code Book!
For those of you not in the know, frequent site citation and cool guy Cliff Aliperti released his first eBook a few days ago. The book is called 11 Pre-Code Hollywood Movie Histories: Early Depression-Era Melodramas, Adaptations, and Headline Stories. I breezed through the book this last weekend, and Cliff does a fantastic job of…
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Another THIN MAN update!
Progress Report We have 7 essays that have been reviewed and finalized. We have 9 essays in rough draft or in progress (not including my own). The tone in the essays range from academic to nostalgic, and I’m very excited about all of the ones I’ve seen so far! I talked to the nice maintainers…
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THOUGHTS ON THE THIN MAN timeline & design update!
Good news, everyone! In the six weeks since I announced the collaborative book Thoughts on The Thin Man, progress has been made! Besides finally finishing up grad school and getting to the prospect of finally receiving my Thin Man DVDs in the mail (ordered July 5th, estimated arrival August 21st?!), I’ve managed to get a…
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Announcing THOUGHTS ON THE THIN MAN book project!
Hey. I’m putting together a book about The Thin Man series of movies. I know there are some excellent writers out there, and I need contributors! I got the idea from the Columbo fan book project I helped with. It got me to thinking: wouldn’t it be great to get some good writers writing on one…
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A Couple of Tidbits, 6/12
Just a few quick items I wanted to mention. First, I did an interview I did with Brad Avery went up over on Smug Film. It’s mostly me enthusing about pre-Code movies (gasp, shock), but I talk about a few other things in there as well. Second, thanks to a contribution by regular reader Andrew…
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My Summer Vacation!
This week is my 30th birthday, and I’ll be spending it with my wife in Hawaii… so I’m taking a short rest. 😉 I’ll be back in a week with a July-long series of reviews dedicated to my favorite star of old Hollywood. Until then!