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To All My Fans, With Love, From Sylvie By Ellen Conford
For Sylvie, movies weren’t just stories. They were a way out. A few years ago I reviewed Conford’s And This Is Laura, and recalled it as pleasant, but largely unremarkable. So I was surprised to find Sylvie a much more sophisticated piece of work, … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1982, Author C, Child Abuse, Historical, Little Brown, Movies, Orphans, Reader Request, Runaway, Sex, Title T, Travel
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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Heartburn By Nora Ephron
(Click here for information on the 2015 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. As all of the four selected titles have filmed adaptations, we will be looking at the movie versions as we go along. … Continue reading
Posted in Non-YA Fiction
Tagged 1983, 1986, Author E, Director N, Imaginary Summer Book Club, Movies, Random House, Title H
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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Girls Town (Charles F. Haas, 1959)
While Father Flanagan may have claimed that “there are no bad boys”, its opposite number begs to differ. With a cast led by eternal bad girl Mamie Van Doren, the girls of Girls Town are born to be bad… So … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged 1959, Director H, Juvenile Delinquency, Mamie Van Doren, MGM, Movies, Nuns, Paul Anka, Rock and Roll, Title G
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Wrapping Up The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975)
(Click here for information on the 2013 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. As three of the four selected titles have filmed adaptations, we will be looking at the movie versions as we go along. This … Continue reading
Posted in Non-YA Fiction
Tagged 1975, Director F, Imaginary Summer Book Club, Movies, Title S
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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Halloween Edition, Featuring A Giant Monster-Head Nightclub
In celebration of Halloween, today we are looking at two movies featuring go-go dancers performing inside of Giant Steam-Breathing Monster Heads, a standard nightclub fixture of the 1960s… Ok, actually these movies were both filmed in the same nightclub, The … Continue reading
Movie Madness and/or Mania: Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (Ted Post, 1979)
New year, new features, part 2! The third Friday of every month will now be devoted to Lost Classic Teenpics. And we’ll start it off right, with a Made-For-TV scare-film about an imaginary hitchhiking epidemic starring the teen cast members … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged 1979, Director P, Hitchhiking, Made-for-TV, Movies, Scare Films, Title D
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch By Jack Martin (Based on a Screenplay By Tommy Lee Wallace)
An Annoying Autobiographical Pause: There was a de facto ban on horror movies, or at least “slasher movies” throughout my childhood, which is somewhat odd in retrospect, considering that we were allowed to watch pretty much all of the R-rated comedies … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1982, Author M, Horror, Jove, Movies, Novelization, Title H
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