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MARTIN'S STORE, SAWYERVILLE, ALABAMA

10/27/2018

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I have learned that Martin's Store, which has been the centerpiece of Downtown Sawyerville, is to be demolished to make parking space for a new business that is to be opened. I will be sorry to see it go, but I suspect that it has declined to the point that it could not be salvaged.

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MIKEY AND NICKY

10/16/2018

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Criterion will release Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky on Blu-ray and DVD on January 22, 2019. My late friend Ton Miller would be delighted. He worked as publicist on that movie in Philadelphia and wrote a long piece about his experiences which was published under his pseudonym Tom Canford in his memoir A Fever of the Mad: A Movie Publicist Works with Francis Coppola, Elaine May, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Richard Gere and Survives to Tell the Tale! This will bring to 3 the number of Criterion Collection titles Tom worked on, the others being Amarcord and Blow Out.
 
I am printing the article “On the Whole I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia” below for those interested in the movie or Ms. May (no kin). Or both.

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TOM MILLER, RITA HAYWORTH, ME, & THE WRATH OF GOD

10/9/2018

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I was playing around with the IMDB for “The Wrath of God” entry and came up with this review by Roger Ebert:

The Wrath of God

Release Date: 1972
Ebert Rating: **½    
By Roger Ebert / Sep 18, 1972

There's a scene in a 1968 movie called "Five Card Stud" where Robert Mitchum plays a preacher with a gun hidden in his Bible. Dean Martin, who is the local terrorist, notices that Mitch has the Bible upside down. "If that IS a Bible," he says, "read it. If that ain't a Bible, drop it."



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