Category: movies
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i do not discuss harry potter or vampire sex…I DO discuss animal advocacy!
my modest little book, lamenting the state of the world and extolling my happy childhood which made me the liberal soul i am to this day here in the dull midwest, can be accessed at www.susieduncansexton.com …only an e-book and floating in the air. my little book is NOT a hit with 20 somethings because i do…
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…where is charlton heston BTW?
…i am appalled that the more i learn the more i am aware of all the money to be made from an overpopulation of cats, dogs, deer, etc. actually being encouraged…bodies for cash move down more avenues than can be imagined. and those who are profiting speak out of both sides of their lying mouths.…
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Susie’s movie reviews: “the film that shall not be named….”
so as if stanley tucci as a talk-show host with a royal blue pony tail wasn’t alarming enough, we sat through the rest of the film for the eventual confirmation that this movie was not up our alley…and the three of us were scattered all over the theater, keith in front row with huge bucket…
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Moronic Ox Q&A: Secrets of an Old Typewriter, politics, animal rights, classic films, and just about…everything!
In this Q&A with Moronic Ox literary journal, I talk openly about my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter, politics, animal rights, classic films, and just about…everything! Excerpt: “I hold out hope for youthful altruism and acceptance of one another and living and letting live. Perhaps, one day, individuality will trump group-think. EVOLUTION accomplished! Preservation…
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my photograph is NOT something i like seeing everyday…
i used to feature homeless dogs and cats and all animals all the time via my profile pics on facebook…gotta get back to that…my photograph is NOT something i like seeing everyday…and besides i am not a jailed orphan, yet. i do have a home and warmth and food and security sorta? i want all…
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who we are as we sit and gaze at the screen.
I got my copy of my son Roy Sexton’s Reel Roy Reviews today and I not only LOVE IT…I ABSOLUTELY KNOW THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME…and I am not biased…I am candid as can be. Ask anybody! Why do I love and enthusiastically recommend this exquisite, easily digested book of clever and meaningful words…
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LIFE IS LIFE IS LIFE and is sacred.
My response to my son Roy Sexton’s review of Disneynature’s film Bears follows – you can read his review by clicking here … Oh, this is my favorite review of Roy’s ever!!!!! Wish I could have figured out how to say exactly what he has said…like as in “TAKE ME OR LEAVE ME… I know whereof I speak…I have…
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THINK, FEEL, EMPATHIZE! Misguided fundraisers, kind words, and bad movies
h*ll, no, we won’t go…to “fundraisers” or festivals specializing in hog roasts, port-a-pit chicken, barbecue ribs, fried pigeons, etc. huh-uh. whatever happened to car washes and rummage sales? especially when raising money to support other animal ventures? must not butcher certain unfortunate animals to raise revenue for other animals…or for any reason whatsoever. how ghoulish…
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So honored to be featured on the TV show Patty’s Page
Enjoy this interview of yours truly on lovely Patty Hunter’s Fort Wayne-based talk show Patty’s Page. View at this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA_zB… We candidly discuss the experiences of growing up in small-town Columbia City, the high and lows and the delights and frustrations of writing columns and books, my love of animals and movies and fun, the importance…
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like osage county only with males, males, males: Guest review of The Judge (2014)
originally posted by my son roy sexton on his blog www.reelroyreviews.com – enjoy! I received the following email from my mom Susie Duncan Sexton last night, and I thought it was pretty funny, succinct, and spot on … and definitely worth sharing here (especially since it saves me from having to see this one, which from the…
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even a BUCKET of popcorn unfortunately did not help relieve the depressing fact … my reaction to the hunger games phenomenon
in response to my son roy sexton’s review of the latest hunger games movie and inspired by this great exchange he had with wonderful arlene steinberg … thanks to roy for intellectualizing this utterly useless series of absolute sh*t! what has happened to great literary achievements and their often successful cinematic treatments? this is THE dumbest franchise methinks…maybe you can convince…
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Got (almond) milk? Books, movies, politics, culture, and AGRIganda
A photograph of my bed? Wow! A really firm mattress is possible! Thanks to delightful Sheryl Mandel for sending this … Well, Sheryl, I am on the 7th of my nine lives, and if I were to pull out a book to read from that bed, I’d be lopsided…as usual! So I just try to…
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Inherent Vice: dollar signs and control freakism
DEEP, DEEP THOUGHTS: I need to live in a rainforest if one still exists? Importing adorable calves to raise for 4-H beef contests is evil stuff! And INHERENT VICE needs to be seen my lots of people who need to get their fancy-ass toes stepped on really firmly! [More about the film here.] I was too young…
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Enough…enough. No more denial from any one of us. EARTHLINGS (film)
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” – Count Leo Tolstoy I watched the documentary EARTHLINGS which arrived from AUSTRALIA today, and now I’ll never be the same. I care even more than I did already about even-ing up the score on behalf of all of those species so much in need of help…
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I am sensitive about animals suffering, but if we look away we cannot help.
Just now added a new friend to my life, and she got me to thinking as I messaged her and realized that this post applies to nearly my entire list of friends. So here goes…my love note to you all, and you know who you are! She is the best as are you folks!!!!! And…
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Doris Day: talent, cuteness, and teaching the world to respect all animals
I have adored Doris Day since I got old enough to listen to singing perfection itself via whirling breakable 78 RPM discs on our record player in the corner of our living room and attend every one of her MGM musicals reel-to-reel in the movie theatre on the corner of Van Buren and Main Streets…
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Life’s Imitation of Art or vice versa?
Regarding NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD (inspired by Upton Sinclair’s 1927novel, OIL!), and IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (based upon actual events), eager consumers/customers queue up at bookstore cash registers, movie ticket box offices, and DVD rental shops for doses of violence–or enlightenment? Daily, the senselessness of human cruelty is thrown…
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Mounting anxieties require self-control
“God of Carnage,” a 2009 Tony-garnering Broadway play, shares much in common with Eugene O’Neill’s 1928 Pulitzer-prize winning script, “Strange Interlude.” Both literary creations teach us something about ourselves while also impressing audiences as reflective of this time in which we live. Their messages? Common decency and respect for others demand considerably more willpower than…
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RACHEL AND THE STRANGER — a “Current Events” Poem, plus a Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Too (the Past in Prose!)
“Donald Trump should build his wall out of Hillary Clinton’s emails since no one ever can seem to get over them!” (borrowed from cute and witty Chicago friend Barb’s Facebook page where she can be seen hugging her dear friend Rahm Emanuel!) Been penning a “nostalgia” column for nearly a decade! Thought I’d recycle a fun previous backyard escapade— The…
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“A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course?” (A Journey from Competitiveness to Graciousness…and At Long Last, Love!)
“I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human for God’s sake.” ~ J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Editor’s note: Pardon J. D.’s French!) Time to admit the truth. Choosing authorship as a pastime or a passion or a means of making a living is fraught with frustrations such as:…
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SUBMISSION TO “ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS….”
(With an Homage to Cinematic Hitch!) My Wikipedia googling capabilities seem to be on the fritz, Dear Fabled Master Director, thus I’m unable to recall the evening of and the time — registered by the chiming of the old grandfather clock in the corner — for your suspense-inducing broadcasts during television’s Golden Age of perpetual…
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ORIGINAL “SPIN”, CHILDHOOD FRIENDS, & A LIFE LED BATTLING “-ISMS”
Publisher Rick fired off an e-mail to “Homeward Angle” Susie inquiring where I might have gotten to, after this deplorably lengthy “Climate Change” winter of my discontent. My reply lies herein: Incredibly, John Lennon and I have much in common…”all I am saying is give peace a chance!” I’m totally convinced that the aforementioned 60s…
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MY FUNNY VALENTINE…A “Penny Serenade”
Dutifully responding to my shameless suggestion, my son Roy bought me another book! David Denby impressed me terrifically as a guest on the Charlie Rose show, defending movies “the way they were” when author Denby and I both fell loyally, tenaciously in love with the cinematic industry — without reservation. At the height of the…
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Less Miserable –Thanks to Leading Men!
Ah, the holidays – magical, manic, frantic, stress-inducing, scintillating! My heretofore rather mild psoriasis attack blossomed into Elephant-Man-itis. Doc appointments wriggled their way into the usual notably bustling festivities. Exhaustion and disillusionment R US! “Doctor Feel-Good” adventures invaded my individualistic “I do what I wanna do, and when I wanna do it” schedule at the…
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Rebel…With a Cause
“You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean Quirky dame that I am, I admit to never swooning over Elvis Presley…with one exception. His rendition of “Battle…
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BOO, LEW & NORMA
Milling about within the same household year upon year, voices rise and fall and chatter and go silent and joke and reminisce. Sawing a couch into three parts prompted an ongoing interior design fest. Sawdust and also a unique upholstery-powder, resulting from gigantic rips in a seriously tough durable fabric, both continue to permeate the…
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AND … THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE? A Film Fest for Armchair Critics
“Fabulous Fifties” inform my every thought, especially during the month of April. Comedian Bob Hope, spiffy in a tuxedo with tails as master of ceremonies, sparked each Academy Award ceremony televised in living black and white year after glorious year. Monday evening telecasts eased into Tuesday mornings as one glamorous presenter after another headed toward the…
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Spielberg’s Spirited Steed Inspires Memories of Literary Heroes
Magnificence of message, which not even Walt Disney or David O. Selznick captured at the top of their games, appealed to captivated audiences on Christmas Day, 2011. Nature in its original pastoral loveliness — appreciated by valiant, well-meaning humankind — ought never be defiled by greed, violence, enslavement, assembly-line manufacturing of weaponry or the nightmarish…
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ME & SHIRLEY…SHIRLEY JONES! (I think I love you…)
Celebrating the publication of my first book at age 65 — and probably my last — hubby Don, who naggingly urged, “When are you ever going to write your damned novel?” for ages, drove me, MISS DAISY, to Bearcreek Farms – The Hoosier version of Branson, Missouri, the quintessential home of Misplaced-Celebrity-Fests. Why? To meet…
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Jock Interrupted by Philo
Sure, sure, so Joanne Peabody Bates performed cartwheels alllllllll the way home after school. Her mom, Phyllis, would peer outside and then swing wide the screen door, judging that her freckle-faced, double-jointed grade school kid might land somewhere inside the kitchen shortly after her daughter’s sneakered feet sailed wildly past the window above the sink!…
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Drama Queens – and Kings – UNITE!
Oh, the labels manKIND whips from his collective pocket and slaps onto us all! To discover one’s Facebook comfort zone, try careening blissfully from homeless domestic animal epidemic, locally and globally, to battling extinction of wolves and whales to complimenting would-be poets to visiting a fantastic movie site called “Movie Stars & Movie Characters of…
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LITTLE HOUSE ON…the Back Lot!
Tab Hunter, Lyle Bettger, Alec Guinness, Doris Day, Audie Murphy, Curt Jurgens, Sessue Hayakawa, James Whitmore and Gloria Grahame all lived in my back yard in the early fifties. So did Johnny Lillich, Craig Langohr, Jill Whiteleather, Steve More, Lester Gaff, Jane Ann Morsches, Mary Ann and Martha Squires. Still wishing that Bobby Morsches mighta…
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Fiddle Dee Dee, I’m Thankful for Russell Crowe
My name might as well be “Maximus Decimus Meridius”, and I am here to explain myself and my family and how we classify as GLADiators. Sure, we count our blessings every November and then give mighty thanks for…stamina! Personally, I defend spider monkeys as I chastise NASA, who brought manKIND Tang, for daring to consider radiation experiments on those sentient darlings with the…
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A Dog Story and A Cautionary Tale
Winter of 1983 settled in, and my freshly dismal world crashed around me. Saddest season of my 37 years of living. Daddy, aged 37 the year I was born, died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage one month past, when October leaves turned orange, yellow, red. Surrounding, oppressive gloom weighed heavily as I slouched all nestled…
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“Come back to the corner of Van Buren & Main, Jimmy Dean! Jimmy Dean!”
Sometime during the summers of 1955 or ’56, my big sister Sarah and I engaged in our happy walk of a couple of blocks to attend a block-buster which our mother recommended. Edna, an avid reader, boasted often, “Hmmmm, this movie…not nearly as good as the book,” and the transplanted southerner usually wasn’t “just whistlin’…