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    The right hat in the strangest place

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... I got an incredible, and incredibly unexpected deal today in the most unusual of places. There's a venerable toy store in Hollywood called the Hollywood Toy Store (boy, are the owners clever or what!) that has a large costume trade, including a...
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    The Big Sleep

    I just saw "The Big Sleep" for about the tenth time, and noticed something new. In the first sequence, Norris, General Sternwood's butler, says to Marlowe: "Are you attempting to tell me my duties?" Marlow answers, "No, I'm having fun trying to figure out what they are." Apparently, Norris's...
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    Another TV legend dies

    I was saddened to see this week that Howard Morris passed away. He was not exactly a household name, but had a notable career, starting with the Sid Caesar show in the early 50s, through the "Andy Griffith Show," in which he played "Ernest T. Bass," animated cartoons in the 60s (he was the...
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    Film Flubs

    I finally got around to seeing "Seabiscuit" and there was a rather glaring anacronism in it. At one point the rabid racetrack announcer played by Wiliam H. Macy calls Seabiscuit something like "the hottest thing on four legs since Hope and Crosby." But the film is set in 1938. Hope and Crosby...
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    "The Aviator"

    Saw a trailer for "The Aviator." It actually looks pretty good, and DiCaprio cuts a decent figure as Howard Hughes, but for some reason his voice sounded like he was sucking helium. I don't remember DiCaprio sounding that high pitched and reedy in his his previous movies. The real Hughes...
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    Who's the best?

    From the total frivolity department (and tough times occasionally call for total frivolity)... I'm curious to know who y'all think is the premiere fedora wearer of motion pictures. Harrison Ford is automatically eliminated. I'm talking about someone from the Golden Age. Who do you think...
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    How did they keep those hats on?

    I saw "Republic Serials" invoked on another post here, so I can't resist throwing in a little tidbit of trivia about one of my favorite subjects. Ever wonder how the stunt guys' hats stayed on in those room-leveling fight scenes? You've probably all scene the backstage footage of Harrison Ford...
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    They've blown it again...

    The current Vanity Fair features advance pictures of "The Aviator," the new Scorsese movie starring Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. In the first picture there's a shot of someone with what to an untrained eye might look like a vintage fedora, but it has...like always...a pre-blocked crown. I...
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    Dave Brown

    Does anyone have first-hand knowledge of Dave Brown hats?
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    Ebay Glossary

    The following is a handy dictionary of terms for those who shop for hats on Ebay VINTAGE: Older than last August. FEDORA: A trilby, porkpie, homburg, derby, Western...we have no idea. 1940s: 1980s. MONTECRISTI: Something better than sea grass. GENUINE FUR: A wool hat that...

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