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For Sylvia Plath on her birthday

Sylvia Plath, October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963 These poems are read by Tom O'Bedlam (seen below), on his website Spoken Verse, one of the web's most impressive treasures. You can spend hours on a visit.

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House on Haunted Hill

The Ebert Club is invites you to share this classic William Castle B-rated movie, streaming free. And please join the Club and explore an eclectic assortment of discoveries. Your subscription helps support the Newsletter, the Far-Flung Correspondents and the On-Demanders on my…

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Every single drink in "Mad Men"

Speaking as a person with some experience with alcohol, I watch "Mad Men" with incredulity. The characters typically take their booze neat, usually at two fingers to a glass, and seem to start well before lunch. Yet there is surprisingly…

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Tom Shales lunches with Siskel & Ebert

My good friend Tom Shales won the Pulitzer Prize while writing for The Washington Post from 1972 to 2010. Sixteen years after the article below appeared, when Gene Siskel fell ill we needed a substitute on the first shows Gene…

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"Baby Got Back" made from 295 movies

The YouTube poster, "dondrapersayswhat," says this: "Clips from 295 movies used to recreate Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back, because I'm just that much of a nerd. Click the closed captioning button for movie titles."