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Birth of a Notion

http://birth-of-a-notion.blogspot.com

A blog about entertainment, whether it's movies, books, music or TV.

• Added on: Nov 2nd, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: David
• Listed in: Film Books
• Tags: books music movies TV

Recent Posts

• The Holiday Season Begins

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 08:40 in 1989, anniversary, christmas vacation, holiday movies

  Thanksgiving dinner is behind us now, and the countdown to Christmas is under way.Which brings me to today's topic. It was 20 years ago today that "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" was released.There are many movies and TV s...

• Don\'t Miss One of Bogart\'s Best

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:50 in movie, bogart, turner classic movies, treasure of the sierra madre

  I've been a Humphrey Bogart fan for a long time, and Turner Classic Movies will be showing one of his best tonight.I guess, if you asked other Bogart fans of long–standing to name his best movie, they might say "Casablanca" or &q...

• The Faustian Vision of Dorian Gray

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 17:45 in movie, horror, oscar wilde, turner classic movies, picture of dorian gray

  "In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."Oscar WildeRecently, an old school chum and I were chatting on Facebook. And we agreed that no graduating class at our high school ever had as many beautiful women as ours did...

• A Holiday Treat With Grace Kelly

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 21:15 in movies, grace kelly, hitchcock, turner classic movies, to catch a thief

  On Thanksgiving night, Turner Classic Movies will conclude its "Star of the Month" tribute to Grace Kelly with the last three movies she made and a 32–minute short film of her 1956 marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.It's always...

• The Origin

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 15:27 in book, Evolution, history, creationism, charles darwin, on the origin of species

  Bert Cates: "For our science lesson for today, we will continue our discussion of Darwin's theory of the descent of man. Now, as I told you yesterday, Darwin's theory tells us that man evolved from a lower order of animals. From the fi...

• Literary Inspiration

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 16:34 in books, inspiration, herman melville, moby-dick

  Playwright Neil Simon has written many funny plays in his life with many memorable characters and many memorable lines.It would be hard to pinpoint which play — or which character or which line — would be his best (it's a matter of t...

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Our relatives are the family that we are born with, our friends are the family we choose--I choose you, David.

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