Haiku: The Big Sleep (1946)

What is happening?

It’s entertaining, who cares?

An intriguing pair

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Haiku: Vertigo (1958)

If you can't take heights

Watch out for dames with dark twins

Who tell crazy tales

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Haiku: King Kong (1933)

Beauty didn't kill

The beast who was torn from home

'Twas men setting sail

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Quote of the Week

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

-Groucho Marx

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Haiku: Charade (1963)

She can't get over

How many names this guy has

Or that dashing cleft

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Haiku: It Happened One Night (1934)

Heiress on the run

A shapely leg thumbs a ride

Walls of Jericho

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Haiku: All About Eve (1950)

Girl in the alley

An intentional mishap

Girl in the mirror

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Quote of the Week

She was like a horse on the track. Nothing, and then the bell goes, and something happens.

-James Wong Howe, on Greta Garbo


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Haiku: Peter Ibbetson (1935)

He dreams for hours

Of the Duchess of Towers

And touches her hand

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Haiku: Scarface (1932)

If the world is yours

Because of Tommy Gunfire

It will turn on you

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Haiku: Bombshell (1933)

There's no one to trust

He wants to run through her hair

This business is nuts

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Quote of the Week

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

-Mae West

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Haiku: The Maltese Falcon (1941)

It's awfully absurd

To obsess over a bird

And a tricky dame

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Haiku: The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Nothing wrecks the nerves

Like a stairway to nowhere

That reveals a blonde

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Haiku: A Star Is Born (1954)

A hopeful starlet

The start and end of success

Mrs. Norman Maine

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Quote of the Week

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

-Peter Sellers

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Haiku: Notorious (1946)

The endless embrace

One of the keys is missing

The endless staircase

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