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What you may need to know.

1. Al Pacino! Christopher Walken! And Alan Arkin? Say no more.

2. They should have called it ‘Auld Fellas.

3. Pacino and Walken were both in the infamous Gigli (2003), but they’ve never shared the screen before.

4. The trailer looks better than anticipated. We’re reminded of the Cassavetes/Falk flick Mikey And Nicky (1976).

5. Hey, Al’s been in a lot of toss over the years, but he can still bring it, as anyone who has seen You Don’t Know Jack (2010) will testify. He’s doing Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway this winter (in the role Jack Lemmon played in the movie) and has a Phil Spector biopic in the can. Hoo-haa! Take that, Bobby De Niro!

Release Date: January (U.S.)


In 1981, a 74 year-old Jimmy Stewart, guesting on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, read a poem he’d written about his dog, Beau

Unless you have a heart of flint, you will well up by the end.

No really, you will.

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Remember ‘Sweet’ Cigarettes?

Sugar replicas of cigarettes, with red tips, marketed to children?

Good times.

Well, they had their own cigarette cards.

From The Irish Traditional Music Archive

In the 1960s the Dublin sweets firm of Liam Devlin & Sons issued at least two undated series of sweet cigarette cards. The second series was ‘Irish Theatre and Showband Stars’ (36 cards in all, issued in 1967) In spite of its title, the series also includes contemporary ballad singers and ballad groups, a stepdancer, a harper, a traditional cabaret group, a showband that showcased Irish traditional music, and a ceili band.

 

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

 

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