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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Some thoughts .... Hurricane Katrina

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For the last few days, I have been watching television coverage of the disaster along the Gulf Coast. It is frightening. The loss of life a...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005

On this day in 1930

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On this day in 1930,  The Hollywood Filmograph  reports that Louise Brooks was among the celebrities present to see Duke Ellington perform ...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

Lulu in Honolulu

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On Friday, I visited the  California State Library . I had intended to look at some more California newspaper, but instead spent the afte...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

"American Venus" Discloses Her Beauty Secrets

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Here is a nifty, 1922 article I came across today. I think it nifty because it refers to Dorothy Knapp (Louise Brooks' later friend in ...
Friday, August 26, 2005

Diary of a Lost Girl screening

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Diary of a Lost Girl  will be shown at the Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, Illinois on September 7th. Live piano accompaniment per...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

Today

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I spent half-a-day at UC Berkeley, where I went through two-and-a-half years of  Neie Freie Presse , a daily newspaper from Vienna, Austria...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Library research jottings

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Quick trip to the library today, where a couple of microfilm loans were waiting. I went through a few months of the  Paterson News  (from P...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

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I watched another documentary.  The Legend of Rudolph Valentino  was made in 1982, and released on DVD in 2000. It is a pretty poor excuse ...