Paranoid Ramblings

Feb 09

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Jan 26

What in the???

Jan 18

thefilmcanister:

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock. 

Clearly, on the set of Suspicion.  What a great shot.

(via normabates)

Jan 16

I’ll be speaking at Game Design Expo Vancouver this coming Saturday (January 19th) on the subject “More than Fun - Balancing Meaning and Game Design”.  My point?  In short, fun’s important, but it’s not everything.   Read more about it here.   Those interested should be there bright and early (I’m on at 10:05 - yes they appear to be very precise on starting times in Vancouver).  I’m not goin to talk about X-Com as I originally thought, but to make up for it Patrick Plourde has agreed to help me talk about Far Cry 3.  Should be interesting.       

Jan 11

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Dec 29

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Dec 26

It’s that time of year again - Turner Classic Movies is running its always moving TCM Remembers segment.  On a personal note there’s Michael Clarke Duncan (I got to work with him on The Suffering Ties That Bind) .  But on an even more personal note, there’s Ray Bradbury, who as I’ve mentioned in talks in the past, was hugely influential on me. For a moment there, I almost forgot that he was gone.

Dec 16

Old Hollywood Questions

• 1. Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly?
• 2. Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire?
• 3. Sunset Blvd or All About Eve?
• 4. Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield?
• 5. Cary Grant or Clark Gable?
• 6. Bringing Up Baby or My Man Godfrey?
• 7. Bette Davis or Joan Crawford?
• 8. James Dean or Marlon Brando?
• 9. Carole Lombard or Myrna Loy?
• 10. Joan Fontaine or Olivia DeHavilland?
• 11. James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart?
• 12. Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder?
• 13. Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich?
• 14. Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby?
• 15. Casablanca or Gone With the Wind?
• 16. Howard Hawks or Preston Sturges?
• Of course, the answers are: Grace, Gene, Sunset (by a hair), Monroe, Cary, Godfrey, Davis, Brando, Lombard, tie, Bogart, Wilder, Dietrich, Sinatra (for Manchurian), Casablanca (by a mile), the one and only Howard Hawks (because he survived for the long haul)

Dec 14

Dec 10

Helping the audience know what’s best for it.