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Before I got hooked up to Turner Classic Movies, which turned 15 years old in April, a few friends issued this promise or warning: "It will change your life." Like me, they were FOOFs - friends of old films - and in the late '90s, the repertory cinemas of our New York youth, the oldies houses, had pretty much vanished. There were exceptions: one could see many artifacts of Hollywood's golden age on videocassette, the eight-track of its day. And the commercial-free American Movie Classics channel was still showing Paramount and Universal goodies from...
...when they spoke of TCM, the FOOF's voices fell into whispered reverence. People scheduled their vacations around it, obsessively taped its movies; there's a clique of Turner Classic Monastics who record, then trade, every premiere of an antique film on TCM. From its airing of films from the rowdy 1930-34 period, a new genre called pre-Code entered the FOOF phrase book along with auteur and film noir. To the faithful, TCM was the Lamborghini, the Mouton Rothschild, the very Callas of movie channels. Eventually, I got to see what all the rapture was about...
...Lineup Details like stripes and beading give an edge to classic sportswear pieces. This page: LACOSTE Zepher Mesh Mr. 2 sneaker, $95 zappos.com) LANVIN green beaded high-top sneaker, $1,382 barneys.com Opposite page: COACH men's striped weekend tote, $398 (available at Coach stores...
...Famous Author.”For those still holding out on me, here’s one last thing to think about: You’re sitting with your Kindle in a forest that you might have saved by buying your Kindle. You are near the end of a classic with a surprising ending—say Hemingway’s “A Farwell to Arms”—and just before the best (or, in this case, the worst) part, your Kindle’s battery dies! You are miles away from any electricity...
...loss to Boston University (36-15) at the BU Softball Field perfectly mirrored the highs and lows the Harvard softball team has experienced throughout the season.The Crimson (27-17, 11-9 Ivy League) started off its 2009 campaign on a strong note with tournament wins at the Miken Classic and Highlander Classic, but in the end, suffered tough home sweeps to Yale and Dartmouth that derailed its quest for a third consecutive Ivy North title. In a similar trajectory, Harvard scored first yesterday but relinquished its lead in the bottom of the third. And while the Crimson looked to rally...