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THE MT VOID
11/29/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 22, Whole Number 2356

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Topics:
         Middletown (NJ) Science Fiction Discussion Group
         Mark's Picks for Turner Classic Movies in December
                 (comments by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)
         Wooden Satellites and Brick Moons (comments
                 by Evelyn C. Leeper
         Synchronicity (letter of comment by Jay E. Morris)
         This Week's Reading (SPECTACLE ENTERTAINMENTS OF EARLY
                 IMPERIAL ROME) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)

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TOPIC: Middletown (NJ) Science Fiction Discussion Group

Dec 5 Xmas Bonus: Dr Who: THE CHRISTMAS INVASION (2005) and
       TWILIGHT ZONE: "The Star" (1985)
       & short stories: "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke (1955)
         <https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf>
         "Rebuttal" by Betsy Curtis (1956)
         <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67455>

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TOPIC: Mark's Picks for Turner Classic Movies in December
(comments by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)

TCM has, of course, a plethora of Christmas films for December.
They are running the Reginald Owen version multiple times, but the
Alistair Sim version not at all.  Whether or not that is an issue
over the rights, it's a shame, as the Sim version is the classic.

But they are also running an excellent non-Christmas film, BLACK
ORPHEUS.  They haven't totally abandoned the holiday
concept--BLACK ORPHEUS takes place during Carnaval (a.k.a.,
Carnival, beginning the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday and
ending at noon on Ash Wednesday; in the U.S. the parallel holiday
is Mardi Gras, which is a single day, the day before Ash
Wednesday).

The film is the re-telling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice,
set in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.  Known for its soundtrack,
featuring what have become classic bossa nova songs, it won the
Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1959 and the Academy Award and Golden
Globe Awards for Best Foreign Film in 1960.  But in keeping with
the trend at the time, its soundtrack was not even nominated.

It should be noted that many Brazilians (and scholars) feel it
reinforces negative stereotypes and "exoticizes" Brazil.  It
should also be noted that these criticisms could be applied to
many of the films of that era.  [-mrl/ecl]

[BLACK ORPHEUS, Tuesday, December 10, 3:00AM]

There is also a 24-hour "Andy Hardy" festival stating on December
26 for those so inclined:

THURSDAY,  December 26
8:45 AM    Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
10:15 AM    Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
12:00 PM    Out West with the Hardys (1938)
1:30 PM    The Hardys Ride High (1939)
3:00 PM    Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
4:30 PM    Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
6:15 PM    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
8:00 PM    Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
10:00 PM    Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

FRIDAY,  December 27
12:00 AM    The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
1:45 AM    Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
3:30 AM    Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
5:30 AM    Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
7:15 AM    Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

And a "Thin Man" festival on December 31:

TUESDAY,  December 31
9:15 AM    The Thin Man (1934)
11:00 AM    After the Thin Man (1936)
1:00 PM    Another Thin Man (1939)
2:45 PM    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
4:30 PM    The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
6:15 PM    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Other films of interest include:

THURSDAY,  December 5
8:00 PM    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

FRIDAY,  December 6
4:00 PM    Knights of the Round Table (1953)
10:00 PM    Hamlet (1948)

SATURDAY,  December 7
10:07 AM    Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)

SUNDAY,  December 8
11:45 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)
1:00 PM    Ben-Hur (1959)
5:00 PM    King of Kings (1961)

MONDAY,  December 9
6:00 AM    Safari Drums (1953)
8:30 AM    Rhino! (1964)
10:15 AM    Mighty Joe Young (1949)
6:00 PM    Tarzan, The Ape Man (1981)

TUESDAY,  December 10
3:00 AM    Black Orpheus (1959)
5:00 AM    Sylvia and the Phantom (1946)
6:45 AM    The Glass Slipper (1955)

WEDNESDAY,  December 11
10:00 AM    The Crimson Pirate (1952)

THURSDAY,  December 12
3:45 AM    The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

SATURDAY,  December 14
10:09 AM    Bomba on Panther Island (1949)

MONDAY,  December 16
5:00 AM    The Funeral (1984)
8:00 AM    The Terminal Man (1974)
10:00 AM    The Omega Man (1971)
11:45 AM    Westworld (1973)
1:30 PM    Soylent Green (1973)
3:30 PM    Logan's Run (1975)
5:30 PM    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

THURSDAY,  December 19
4:30 PM    The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

SATURDAY,  December 21
7:30 AM    The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
10:30 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)

TUESDAY,  December 24
5:15 AM    A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
8:45 AM    A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

WEDNESDAY,  December 25
12:00 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)
1:30 AM    Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
6:00 AM    Star in the Night (1945)
10:15 AM    The Great Rupert (1950)
10:00 PM    Topper (1937)

THURSDAY,  December 26
12:00 AM    Cabin in the Sky (1943)
2:00 AM    Blithe Spirit (1945)
6:00 AM    A Family Affair (1936)
7:15 AM    You're Only Young Once (1938)

SATURDAY,  December 28
12:15 AM    Blood Simple (1984)
10:08 AM    The Hidden City (1950)
12:00 PM    Xanadu (1980)

MONDAY,  December 30
12:45 PM    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

TUESDAY,  December 31
4:00 AM    House on Haunted Hill (1958)
5:30 AM    The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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