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Cookie’s Fortune (1999) | Robert Altman
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Cookie’s Fortune (1999). October 30, 2009. The movie opens with Camille Dixon (Glen Close) directing an amateur play, starring her sister Cora, and Willis Richland (Charles Dutton) getting drunk and then going over and cleaning Cookie’s collection of guns. Cookie misses her late husband and uses one of her gun’s to join him. Then all hell breaks loose. Cora tells the police that Cookie had been murdered. She seems to be getting her revenge on Cora, who had caused her to lose her husband and end up an...
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Le cercle rouge (1970) |
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Le cercle rouge (1970). Le cercle rouge (1970). September 22, 2009. Starts with an escaped thief and a newly released criminal meeting up by accident and joining together to pull the big heist. Alain Delon plays the released prisoner who immediately sides with the criminal being hunted. He definitely knows what side he is on. When the duo join with former police sharp shooter, now alcoholic criminal for sale, we have three pretty cool guys planning a big caper. In tone and style. Bob le flambeur (1956).
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September 21, 2009. There isn’t a lot of dialogue in this movie, particularly by Jef. He is a man of few words. As a matter of fact there is no dialogue in the first ten minutes of the movie. Despite his meticulous planning Jef is discovered by the police. Because of this his former employers want to also dispose of him. His world begins to close in on him, and when he puts down his hat check on the counter you know he will never leave that bar room alive. Tags: Best jean-Pierre Melville Films. But overa...
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The President Who Spoke English as a Second Language | American History Bits
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Laquo; 2 Civil War Medals of Honor. The President Who Spoke English as a Second Language. December 10, 2013 by jeangabin. Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York. His father Abraham Van Buren (1737 1817) was a farmer working with slaves, was the owner of six slaves, and was a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook. Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States. In present day Netherlands. And to date, he has been the only U.S. President who has spoken English. Frankl...
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About | Francoistruffaut's Blog
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6 February 1932 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. As well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film. Industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows. Came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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The Great Hanging at Gainesville Texas (1862). November 22, 2009 by jeangabin. In April 1862, when the Confederacy began to draft men into service, thirty Cooke County men signed a petition protesting the exemption of large slaveholders from conscription and sent it to Jefferson Davis. A few months later, the petitioners began to try to form a Union League to resist the draft. This incident has been called the largest mass lynching in American History. Truman in the KKK. October 30, 2009 by jeangabin.
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Love on the Run (1979) | Francoistruffaut's Blog
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Love on the Run (1979). February 7, 2010. The fifth, and final, film in Truffaut’s Adventures of Antoine Doneil that began with. When we last left off in. Antoine had returned to Christine after having left her for a brief fling. While leaving the court house lawyer Colette who we had met in. Sees him and then goes and picks up his book. Antoine is shocked to find out that Colette, who is unemployed, has been making money sleeping with men on trains. Another youthful dream exploded. This was a good movie...
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Grandfather Shot Too! | American History Bits
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Laquo; The President Who Spoke English as a Second Language. January 15, 2014 by jeangabin. What president, who was shot and killed, also had a gradfather with the same name, who was shot and killed. Abraham Lincoln. His grandfather, Abraham, was shot and killed by Indians. One day in May 1786, Abraham Lincoln was working in his field with his three sons when he was shot from the nearby forest and fell to the ground. The eldest boy, Mordecai. Note : Thomas was President Lincoln’s father).
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Grant, Lee and Slavery | American History Bits
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Laquo; The Declaration. Died on the Same Day. Grant, Lee and Slavery. October 28, 2009 by jeangabin. Ulysses S. Grant owned a slave named William Jones, whom he freed in 1859. His wife, Julia, also owned slaves whom she inherited from her father. These slaves were freed in 1865, when the war ended. Robert E. Lee freed the slaves he inherited in 1862. (He freed them because it was stipulated in the contract when he inherited them that they must be freed within five years). Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Truman in the KKK | American History Bits
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Laquo; Lincoln/Kennedy Connection. The Great Hanging at Gainesville Texas (1862). Truman in the KKK. October 30, 2009 by jeangabin. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
