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Blog postThis Tumblr will no longer be maintained – BUT it’s been recreated as a Substack, also called Jason Fry’s Dorkery.
I don’t have any plans for subscriptions etc. right now, but I’m hoping the change of scenery will inspire more frequent posting about my various geeky endeavors.
Anyway, I’m now at https://jasonfry.substack.com/. I’d be honored if you joined me over there, and thanks so much for reading here over the last 10 (???!!!) years.
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Blog postI’ve fallen behind on a winter’s worth of Movies Everybody’s Seen But Me and now it’s baseball season again, so some overdue capsule reviews….
Dark Victory (1939)
A melodrama about Bette Davis as a young socialite diagnosed with brain cancer, with no hope for a cure – “prognosis negative,” as she spits in one key scene. Loses its footing at the end, with a simultaneously idyllic and faintly ridiculous switch to Vermont and Davis dying accompanied by a yowling celestia -
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HEY, COOL, SO I’M CRYING ABOUT OBI-WAN KENOBI AND ANAKIN SKYWALKER AGAIN.
This is such a fascinating look at their dynamic when Anakin was younger, that Anakin is clearly boiling with frustration and Obi-Wan’s reaction is to give him leeway, to understand that he’s working on it, that nobody’s perfect and nobody expects Anakin to be a perfect Jedi, but he’s getting there. Obi-Wan praises Anakin several times in this issue alone and, when Anakin has -
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Blog postMore classic movies everyone’s seen but me!
They Live By Night (1948)
Bowie and Keechie are doomed young lovers in Nicholas Ray’s debut as a director. A lot of the tropes will be familiar to film noir fans – you know Bowie and Keechie will never achieve the normal lives they want, and the movie’s ending feels as fixed and inevitable as Shakespearean tragedy, with avenues of escape closing off one by one. But a few elements set it apart. For one thing, there’s the Depression sett -
Blog postEB Special: Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View Author Interview | RandomChatter Network: I joined my new Zoom besties Amy Ratcliffe and Mike Chen to discuss our From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back stories with Tim and Tom from Echo Base.
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Blog post"Rendezvous Point" by Jason Fry by Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back • A podcast on Anchor: Talking with the awesome Tom Hoeler about my Wedge Antilles story in From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. This book was such a pleasure to be a part of!
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Blog postWinter rolls along! No baseball! That means catching up with more classic movies everybody’s seen but me!
The Sugarland Express (1974)
This is Steven Spielberg’s first big-screen feature (1971′s Duel was made for TV), and it’s amazing to think it arrived just a year before Jaws, which would change American movies forever.
It’s impossible to watch The Sugarland Express without analyzing it in terms of Spielberg style, which is too bad, because it can be enjoyed perfectly w -
Blog postMore classic movies everybody’s seen but me!
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Just an amazingly strange film. It’s an American gothic, directed by Charles Laughton, of all people. How a veteran English actor wound up creating a singularly original piece of primal American outsider art is a fascinating puzzle, but he sure did. I watched Night of the Hunter in bemusement, not quite sure what I was watching, but know parts of it will stay with me forever. There’s Robert Mitchum’s sh -
Blog postOur A Met for All Seasons series at Faith and Fear in Flushing continues with a chronicle of my quest for a decent color photo of momentary Met Al Schmelz. (Hint: This isn’t it.)
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I’m halfway through The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark and it’s about what I expected, it’s mostly just straightforward retellings of the episodes. I had hoped for a bit more thoughts being woven into the perspectives, though I wouldn’t say any one of the stories I’ve read yet is worthless, either. It’s perfectly serviceable so far, is generally my feeling. (Mild, mostly general feelings spoilers so far, but feel free to block the “#solad spoile -
Blog postNew book out today! The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark adapts TCW episodes with a wonderful roster of authors, including some folks who are new to the GFFA. (Welcome, shinies!)
My story, “Sharing the Same Face,” retells the episode “Ambush” from Yoda’s point of view, and checks something off my bucket list – despite writing a lot of books and stories, I’d never had a chance to write Yoda beyond a cameo or two.
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Our A Met for All Seasons series continues at Faith and Fear in Flushing with Mike Piazza, 2001 and a home run for the ages.
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Before the Mets play baseball again on Friday, a look back at the last moment of 2019. Thank you, Dom Smith – thank you more than any of us could have known.
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Blog postFaith and Fear in Flushing’s A Met for All Seasons series continues with an appreciation of Todd Pratt, a backup catcher whose moment in the sun was a long time coming – and joyous indeed.
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Blog postWith baseball quickly approaching (for who knows how long), time for a pandemic installment of Classic Movies Everyone’s Seen But Me!
Summertime (1955)
David Lean works small (for him) in terms of both running time and vistas. He does a wonderful job with Venice, making the city practically a character in its own right – and as someone who knows Venice well and loves it, I only caught Lean cheating on the geography a couple of times.
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Blog postOur A Met for All Seasons series continues at Faith and Fear in Flushing with 1996, Rey Ordonez, and hearing that sound. Oh, and we’ll discuss this amazing play.
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Blog postThe Man Who Was Untraded « Faith and Fear in Flushing: Faith and Fear in Flushing’s next Met for All Seasons is Wilmer Flores, who was front and center for one of my most enduring and affecting Mets memories.
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Blog postOur A Met for All Seasons series at Faith and Fear in Flushing continues with the story of Shaun Fitzmaurice, a can’t-miss kid who, well, missed.
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Blog postBaby-Faced Killer « Faith and Fear in Flushing: Our A Met for All Seasons series continues at Faith and Fear in Flushing with an appreciation of David Cone, AKA Luke Skywalker in pinstripes.
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Blog postWith baseball on pandemic hiatus, I’ve revived my wintertime pursuit of watching classic movies I’ve never seen. This time out: Bette Davis, a French thriller, and a mainstay of “all-time best movies” lists.
The Little Foxes (1941)
William Wyler directed this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play about the machinations of a wealthy, corrupt southern family. Davis is superb as Regina Giddens, who works to thwart her brothers and her saintly but sickly husband to grab more than her
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