19 September 2025

“The urchin who treads on the garden hose”

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Film narrative began with the figure of a mischievous child. The very first movies were “actualités” documenting how people, animals, or m...
10 September 2025

Are You Gonna?

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“Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” performed by WJM (William Lipton, Jeremy Yun, and Max Simas, with guest bassist Collin Simas, uploaded to YouT...
05 September 2025

“To do it exactly like Douglas Fairbanks”

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In 1976 Robert Parrish, an Academy Award–winning film editor and less heralded film director, published his first memoir, Growing Up in Holl...
25 July 2025

Marking the Many Media of Oz

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Tori Calamito, host of the Oz Vlog , is doing a live online event called “Defying Gravity: The Evolution of Oz from Page to Stage to Screen”...
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20 May 2025

Easy Cases Make Good Law?

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The Washington Post and Forbes reported on how five US Supreme Court justices recused themselves on a copyright infringement case. Four ...
19 May 2025

“Seeing all those curls lying on the floor”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett finished Little Lord Fauntleroy with young Cedric still wearing the same clothes and hairstyle as when he started. ...
16 May 2025

“The Fauntleroy period had set in”

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The hairstyle and costume popularized by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy , as illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, didn’t rema...
10 May 2025

The Little Lord’s “Love-Locks”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy started to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885, then came out in book form in 1886. I...
21 March 2025

Pulled into the World of AI Language Models

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The Atlantic Monthly just published a searchable listing of works uploaded to the LibGen collection of pirated writing. I found two th...
06 March 2025

Raskin Returns, the Sequel

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As Publishers Weekly points out , there’s poetic irony in two previously unknown literary projects surfacing from the literary estate of El...
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