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Monthly Archive: May 2022

Terrified

            Want to see a really scary movie? I can’t tell you how many times I have been disappointed by that recommendation. But the Argentinian film Terrified directed by Demian Rugna is the real McCoy. And then some.             The film is…
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Dr. Hambone & Mr. Hyde

            Robert Louis Stevenson knew plenty about doctors and medicine- he wrote most of his 1886 classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in bed, coughing up blood. After reading the book in seventh grade, I would retire to my…
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Bette Davis- The Anniversary

            M– is for the monstrous way she treats us.             O– means that she can be just obscene.             T– is for the torment that she causes.             H– is for the hatred she receives.             E– is for the eyepatch she wears smiling.…
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