Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Jane Austen's favorite novelist: Fanny Burney

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...There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performan...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Rita Hayworth and Raj Kapoor

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A few nights ago my partner and I watched Down To Earth (1947), a musical sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). The title Down To Ear...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

My Life in Middlemarch

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"We have often wished that genius would incline itself more frequently to the task of the biographer—that when some great or good pe...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

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I've long been skeptical about the 1940 MGM Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier—the glossy classic Hollywoo...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Films of Jean Arthur, part 2

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A continuation of Films of Jean Arthur, part 1 . This part discusses If You Could Only Cook , Too Many Husbands , The Devil and Miss Jone...
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