Dec. 26th, 2011

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I am the proud possession of a classic "flat" hat, not unlike that traditionally worn by the dysfunctional British humour strip character Andy Capp. Or, perhaps, what seems in retrospect to have been nearly half of those male "99 Percenters" alive during the Depression of the 1930's who were able to afford and/or hold onto hats of their own at all.

Thanks, sis.
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While I'm expecting to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows later this week, and hope to get around to the new adaptation of three of the Tintin graphic novels sometime early next month, it seems a good idea to remember a movie I saw five years back that was worth the money spent at the Bytowne, worth the money spent at the retailer selling the DVD, and worth some more time now, namely Good Night and Good Luck.

Produced by a team led by the likes of George Clooney - who worked on both sides of the camera to get it done - this film retold a tale many of us around the anglophone portion of the world know to varying degrees: the battle between United States Senator Joseph McCarthy and longtime CBS reporter and later news anchor/producer Edward R. Murrow, itself fought on both sides of the news cameras of the day.

In rummaging around the Net tonight, I stumbled across a blog entry at the Columbia Journalism Review website by one Michael Meyer looking back at Good Night and Good Luck five years after its initial release. It seems worth sharing, as a counterweight against my own instinct toward escapism. Escapism has its usages as a mental health preservative, carefully managed, but a well-done docu-drama is worth as much for its own virtues.

Looking back at what I wrote when I first saw it...those of you who responded to my review had points that also needed making as much as anything said by the movie itself. Thank you for answering my thoughts with your own.

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