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Features Toast of the Town (1948)
Chronology
A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.. Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire. It was first published as a strip in the comics magazine "Raw" in 1989, and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. Richard's father at one point early in the film names several cities that he states are along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, when in fact these are all cities that [from trailer] Richard: You know, if you like, you could spend the rest of the night here.Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here..
Clarinet Concerto, Pts
1 and 2Written by Artie ShawPerformed by Artie Shaw and His OrchestraCourtesy of RCA RecordsBy arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. The most intriguing part of this movie, to me, was the clever use of technology to jump back and forth in time – but not space – to show what had happened at one unremarkable place in the area now occupied by New England from the age of the dinosaurs to today. Transitions are often effected by adding picture-in-picture windows on top of the one central video and then jumping to a different time in some of the smaller windows before the whole screen changes to that era as well. I’ll confess that that gimmick did grow old after a while, but I still found it at least sometimes clever of the Young family, through its three generations – is not particularly interesting.
Why should we care about one of Ben Franklin’s sons?
But the other, minor stories, that are woven in and out of it are really of no interest at all. Or the Indian/Native American young woman and her young lover? Or even the man who invents the Lazy Boy recliner? Nothing is done to link those stories to the main one, and they are of no interest by themselves.That was particularly true of the short time we spent with a young African-American couple who live in the house for some unspecified time in our modern and.
Since they are not of themselves interesting, and don’t reinforce the main one, that’s a problemI wasn’t bored
(They have COVID masks.) All we see of them, really, is that the woman gets along well with her Latina housekeeper. And that the father at one point gives his son what we white folk are told is 'the talk," in which the father tells the son how to behave when stopped by a white police officer so that he doesn’t get killed by the same. That’s pretty much of a cliché, and none of my Black friends ever had such a conversation with their parents.Nothing really holds these various stories together. I could even see watching this movie again on TV, where I could pause it for a break now and then.
