Back at the Chicken Shack 4/10/19 Playlist

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51st show
4/10/19

Brownie Memorial Broadcast

PJ & Artie - I think it's gonna Work Out Fine
Bukka White - Parchman's Farm
Slim Galliard - Chicken rhythm

Tony Joe White - Old Man Willis
Eddie Hinton - You Got Me Singing
Clarence Carter - The Feeling is Right
Shuggie Otis - Booty Cooler
Otis Redding - Chained & Bound (live)

Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You would
Bo Diddley - Who do you Love
Billy Boy Arnold - I Aint Got You
Howlin Wolf - Evil
Sonny Boy Williamson - Dont Start me Talking
Jimmy Rogers - One Kiss
Billy Stewart - Billy's Blues Pt 1

Ike & Tina Turner - I Idolize You
Delaney & Bonnie - Things Get better (live)
Mike Jones Group - Fool
Rolling Stones - When the Whip Comes Down

Bas Sheva - Lust
Trans Global underground - Khaleegi Stomp
Tower of Power - What is Hip?

Professor longhair - Jambalaya
Irma Thomas - I need Your Love So Bad
Allman Brothers Band - Trouble No More
aubrey ghent - just a Closer walk with Thee

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - All in a Day
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
999 - Homicide
PJ & Artie - Squad Car

Cactus - Parchman's Farm (live)
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"Script Too Red for the Marxes"

"Script Too Red for the Marxes"  
2016 Ken Struck

Anita Ekberg

Time wasters!

Friends with Kids (2011) – BOMB.  Horrible “romantic comedy” about two platonic best friends
(Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt) who decide to have a baby while still pursuing other sex partners. Unamusing complications ensue for unlikable characters. Writer/Director Westfeldt has so much Botox in her upper lip she sounds like Elmer Fudd.

Hope Springs (2012) - ** ½. Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones go to a marriage counselor (a one-note Steve Carell). Another  potentially provocative film plays it Hollywood - safe. Jean Smart, Elizabeth Shue, & Mimi Rogers have co-star billing but have about five lines between them.

Shutter Island (2010) - ** ½. Scorsese and DiCaprio  go  pulp with middling results. Watchable as always  but outlandish plot twists (and plot holes) and a very contrived conclusion do it in.

Europa ’51 (1952) - ** 1/2 . Murky,  slowly paced Roberto Rossellini/ Ingrid Bergman film about a rich woman who is compelled to help lower-class people after the suicide of her son.

Washington Merry Go Round (1932) - ***. Overlooked depression comedy-drama stars Lee Tracy as a newly elected senator who vows to clean up congress. One of lovely Constance Cummings’  best Hollywood roles. Clarence Muse brings a quiet dignity to his role as Tracy’s valet/confidant.

The Heart of New York (1932) - ** ½. Comedy team Smith & Dale (supposedly the inspiration for Neil Simon’s Sunshine Boys) in one of their few starring features,  which is basically a filmed Yiddish stage play. Witty word-play disbursed throughout the expected histrionics.

Looper (2012) - * 1/2. Initial interest wears thin for  this overlong self-important sci-fi mess. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a time traveling assassin who eventually has to kill his future self (Bruce Willis). Gordon-Levitt wears distracting make-up (apparently to make him resemble Willis) in a film that just doesn’t make any sense. Stay away.   

Movie Reviews # 678449009

Central Airport  (1933) - ***. Unjustly neglected William Wellman film about barnstorming aviator brothers, Richard Barthelmess and Tom Brown vying for the same gal, Sally Eilers. Some frank  Pre-Code sexual innuendo (Barthelmess & Eilers are undoubtedly ‘ living in sin’) and stunt work keep this yarn moving.

The Illustrated Man (1969) - *1/2. Slow, confusing adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s  short story collection. May be worth seeing for Rod Steiger ‘s intense performance but besides that it is hardly worth the time.

God’s Gift to Women (1931) - ** ½. Amusing romantic farce features Frank Fay (who greatly resembles Frank (Wizard of Oz) Morgan) as a self-proclaimed Don Juan who bypasses past conquests (Joan Blondell and Louise Brooks!!) for the heart of Laura La Plante. Already too old for this part, Fay is known primarily as Barbara Stanwyck’s first husband (if remembered at all.) . An alcohol-fueled ego ruined his career, though he did star in the first stage production of “Harvey” in the 40s. Director Michael Curtiz adds some needed style to this Pre-Code relic.

Harold Teen (1934) - **. Carl Ed’s popular 20s comic strip stars was already dated by the time this  extremely hokey film version came out. Most of the ‘teenagers’ look middle-aged. Long-limbed star Hal LeRoy does do a remarkable tap dance routine in the finale if you can wait that long. 

The Monster (1926) - ** ½. Minor Lon Chaney film is of your basic ‘haunted house’ variety. Top-billed Chaney’s  barely in it, instead film relies too heavily  on the comedic talents of timid Johnny Arthur. Arthur , memorable in many Hal Roach shorts, is only annoying  here.

Mummy’s Boys (1936) - **. Tiresome Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle teams them  with Willie Best and plump Barbara Pepper investigating a curse in Cairo. Poor direction by Fred Guiol has actors standing around looking confused. Pepper was lifetime friends with Lucille Ball from their Goldwyn Girl days and Ball gave her small roles on I Love Lucy during hard times. She later played Mrs. Ziffel on Green Acres.