Roger Lee Leasor

Looking for Mr. Wong Movie night and a lovely evening for another stroll through Poverty Row; the low-budget side of Hollywood. Asian detectives were plentiful and standard fare for movie-goers in the 30’s and 40’s. Th…

Spending way too much time with Asian shamuses who are neither Asian nor impressive detectives these days.
What's Chinese for "shamus" anyway?
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Dreamin’ on Poverty Row Movie Night! I’ve been watching a number of films made in the 1930’s by studios of which I’ve barely heard; Chesterfield, Invincible, Allied, Mayfair, Imperial-Cameo, et al. These were low-low-low-…

Grim news day...escaping to snappy hats and cocktails...
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Turning Toward the Morning One of my favorite voices belongs to a singer/songwriter/sailor/boat builder from Maine. His name is Gordon Bok. I’ve never sailed nor built a boat and I’ve never been to Maine. Thus, I don’t alway…

Whew!
I will look to a better morning from the past, s'il vous plait.
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Frogs and Dogs I posted a picture of the knot of frogs that inhabits our little pond. That’s what a group of frogs is called. I’m inordinately proud to know that. I like the frogs. One night recently, our wonder …

Triggered by the SOTU ordeal.
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Tee ‘Em Up I don’t play golf but I wish I did. I don’t know enough about golf to be legit in passing judgment about any part of it. But why let that stop me – eh? I find it pleasant when I channel-surf and ha…

An escape in the mind from watching the snowflakes;
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Lo! A Hammer film I didn't even know existed; THE UNHOLY FOUR (1954), a noir effort directed by Terence Fisher no less, & featuring a 40-something Paulette Goddard.
Film noir was never Hammer's film forté.
YouTube's version colorized...makes it even more unappealing.

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning Movie night! The year; 1939. The challenge; can you take a cast consisting of Peter Lorre, George Sanders, Ricardo Cortez, John Carradine, and Robert E. Lee’s cousin (Virginia Field) and prevent Wo…

Movie night!
Another Asian detective played by a non-Asian.
No, it's not Chan.
No, it's not Wong.
It's Moto!
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Two-Fisted Noir…Japanese Style << Trains? Waterfront docks at night? Rain-slick shiny pavements under halo-sporting street lights? >> Well sure. Director Koreyoshi Kurahara’s 1957 criminous flick, I AM WAITING is on …

Movie nights!
Trench coats with Rossini on the radio.
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The Road Best Not Taken We all grow up to soundtracks. Mine included the Beatles, the Temptations, Neil Sedaka, and Wilson Pickett. Don’t judge. It also included Walter Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley. It also included loca…

Have those pitchers and catchers reported yet? I've had my fill of ski-jumping and luge.
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Frettin’ ‘Bout Normalcy Giddy. There’s no denyin’. That’s how I felt… …giddy. Janie and I, being fully vaccinated, felt secure enough to accept impromptu invitations to gather with old friends (fully vaccinated) and some …

A pleasant and loving Valentine's Day has emerged after an icy two weeks. I find myself recalling similar thoughts and feelings after emerging from the fears of Covid.
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Boar Hunting on the Brazos That’s how I spent my afternoon. Neal Stephenson’s book, TERMINATION SHOCK, arrived today and we’re off to a flying start. Well, maybe not a completely successful flying start. In the first few pag…

Lithium mining with the queen of the Netherlands...sounds like a date gone awry.
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Pigeons…What Might They Mean? Movie night! For the umpteenth time I’m revisiting King of Hearts. I’m pretty well convinced you can’t pretend to be a knowledgeable human being without seeing this film, though t…

Another understudied film genre...
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The halftime extravaganza was as understandable to me as the rap year, the Miami music year, or even the Rolling Stones or Elton John year.
Outdoors, loud, & my geezer ears are too slow to be entertained by this "concert" experience.
My appreciation of patter music died with Gilbert & Sullivan.

Worst. Fistfight. Ever. Movie night! Victory Pictures Studio could always be counted on to deliver a quality product (well no, they couldn’t) and AMATEUR CROOK (1938) proves it (well…No! It doesn’t). AMATEUR CROOK was wor…

It's flicks like this that'll drive ya to watch the Super Bowl.
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The Homeward Three-Step Multitasking – I’m thinking of giving it up. Oh, it’s been fun to pretend to be smarter and more productive now than 30 years ago when I was doing a mere one thing at a time. But it’s not true…and …

Woof!
....................................and checkmate.
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Movie night!
80-year old low-budget noir to ward off another frigid weekend. Philip Ford's 1946 delicacy; THE LAST CROOKED MILE with Nestor Paiva and Ann Savage and an adequate body count....and a roller coaster! What else do ya need?
Well............summer would be nice.

The Devil Rides Out Movie night! The Devil Rides Out (1973) aka The Devil’s Bride. My favorite Hammer horror film; period. There are so many points of interest. The script is an adaptation of a Dennis Wheatley a…

My favorite Hammer flick;
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Cinema Scarcity – Ack! A geezer thought. We rarely watched movies on TV in Lexington in the 60’s. There were few channels and thus, few movies to watch. I remember there were two channels; Channel 27 (CBS) and Channel 18…

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth..."
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The Wyoming Whirlwind Movie Night! First, sing along with me, buckaroo; “And that ol’ sheriff, he said; ‘Git you early to bed, And always keep yer hat screwed on real tight, In case you git in a fight.” –Ralph McT…

Binge-ing YouTube can lead you to...Lane Chandler?
Only if you're real lucky.
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Fire Truck (Revised) Now before I start ramblin’, all you fact-checkers, and score-keepers – just let it go. Relax. This little tale has been pressed through a 50-year-plus filter of memory. If it’s not perfectly factu…

Mentors come in a wide range of ages.
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Julie et Jim The title is a total stretch but there’s a “Julie” and a “Jim” in the tale. I couldn’t pass it up. Sorry. The Southeastern Theater Conference (SETC) was held recently in Lexington and I enjoyed rea…

Theatre sucks...unless there's ducks.
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TCM alert!
Hiroshi Teshigawara's disturbing 1964 film, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES will be on TCM this morning at 4am.
I've never gotten over seeing it...but I'm glad I did.

Bicycles, Air-Conditioning, and Invisible Bunnies The first house I bought in Lexington was a block away from Castlewood Park in the 1980’s. This neighborhood was home to me. I grew up off Meadow Lane, played Little League baseball and basketball …

On an icy, snowy night in the Bluegrass, recalling gentler summer nights...and invisibility of a sort.
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Droning Tonto and the Atomic Bic I’m reading a script these days that was originally performed to some acclaim as part of the Humana New Play Festival at Actors’ Theatre Louisville. It reminded me of another Humana New…

Some nights at the theatre are......what's the opposite of transcendent?
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What’s in a Name? Not So Much. Movie night! Because an abominable virus cries for an abominable snowman to lift our spirits. Shriek of the Mutilated is tonight’s delicacy. It’s so very bad and so very strange. In the extensive c…

I'm guessin' they spent more time on the titles than they did on the flicks.
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The Nearness of Sin “He uttered a triumphant cry: IT IS ACCOMPLISHED! And it was though he had said: Everything has begun.” With those words, Nikos Kazantzakis closes his novel; THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. And with…

Lexington celebrated the opening of its first legal cannabis retail shop.
It hasn't always been so...
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Cinema Paradiso on TCM........
........hooked again.

Funeralville Funeralville Kentucky is unendingly interesting to me. I’m perfectly happy to spend all my time here. It is composed of many things that are unsurprising, predictable …pedestrian even. Still, it co…

Snow in the forecast, but I'm re-living a past, sad, well-spent summer day.
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Dang-a-Dang-Dang — Revised I used to drive around Kentucky quite a bit in my job. Most of the time, it was a great blessing. I love living in Kentucky; the people and the places are precious to me. One blissful evening I dro…

Classical music can help you get down the road.
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Dracula and the Five Dollars I Owe You (Cue the weird music…perhaps an organ sting…perhaps the theme from JAWS…or that nee-nee-nee-nee music from The Twilight Zone.) Understand. All actors think they can play anything…anything. They can…

Ever watched a show that was so bad it was................just................bad?
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