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Category: This Mobius Strip of Ifs

  • Peter Lorre, Emigre, Star of M, Face-Maker, Mis-Used, Actor’s Actor

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    Matt

    Several months back I saw Fritz Lang’s M in which Peter Lorre introduced himself to cinema. In the film he is a child molester and murderer;  for the greater part of the movie we see Lorre at angles, in shadows and then we catch that face with eyes as big…

  • I Really Don’t Know Me and I Really Don’t Know You

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    Matt

    Recent interactions on a family basis have caused me to reflect. I thought I knew that person and I thought I knew me and what I have realized, if that is the word, is that neither that person nor I really know one another. I am not surprised at all.…

  • Trains=Holocaust And Other Observations, Railfans

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    Matt

    This blog will twist and turn because I have too much mentation floating about with regard to trains.  Several commentators have observed that the Holocaust is synonymous with the scheduling of trains during the Nazi era. Cattle cars shuffling along track for hundreds of miles and depositing Jews into death…

  • Orson Welles in Heaven

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    Matt

    This is a short story in progress. I am offering it here for you to comment or to dismiss, whatever the flavor of the day is. Orson Welles is dead, and Steven Spielberg did him in. Always trying to finance another film, Welles is invited by Spielberg to dinner. Spielberg…