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BCLMC BROOKLYN CAMPUS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER |
December, 2005: Happy Holidays!
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The Long Island University Brooklyn Campus Library Media Center Newsletter | ||
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"Please serve the nuts. I mean, please serve the guests the nuts." --Nora Charles (Myrna Loy), The Thin Man (1934). | ||
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BCLMC archives: no. 1, no. 2, no. 3 , no. 4, no. 5, no. 6, no. 7 , no. 8 , no. 9 , no. 10 In the Mix: a random shuffle of some movies we've played recently in our Now Playing program:
Richard Pryor (1940-2005) in the BCLMC: Other sites we like:
Connections This time of year, we're all familiar with the meanest, "'warped, frustrated, old man" in Bedford Falls, Mr. Potter, played by the saturnine Lionel Barrymore with a patrician growl and a steely squint. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is a great, if often misunderstood, film, but look for other fine, and more sympathetic, Barrymore performances in Key Largo, David Copperfield, Grand Hotel, and Dinner at Eight [the last two also featured his brother, John Barrymore], among other films in our collection.
And yes, there is a relation to today's kittenish star Drew Barrymore: she is Lionel's great niece, and John's granddaughter. In our collection, you can see her as a little kid in Spielberg's E.T., and a much older victim cameo in the meta-slasher pic, Scream.
"See that girl over there on the corner? Well, I'm her Santa Claus." --Pepi Katona (William Tracy), The Shop Around the Corner (1940). This issue of BCLMC is brought to you all the way from the back row by Media Assistant Patrick "Baddest Santa Ever" Jewell. Tell your friends. |
Overindulging...
There is a tendency to overindulge ourselves this time of year. All the holiday parties, all the cookies and cakes, the wine and the eggnog. I have a friend who makes her own eggnog, and let me tell you, that is over the top, indulgent, decadent stuff. Some of these movies would go well with her eggnog and some chocolate-covered potato chips:
...and the Subsequent Correctives
As a corrective to all that overdoing it, we pop a couple bromides, and then try to walk the straight and narrow in January, cutting bad habits like smoking and gambling and kicking small dogs, and starting good ones like eating healthy and exercising, volunteering for charity, and calling your mother once a week.
Movies to put you in that ascetic and self-improving frame of mind:
End of Semester Update on the New Media Center We now have full electricity, with five individual viewing stations, one portable viewing station, one listening station, and a partridge in a pear tree...I mean, a group viewing room that seats up to twelve viewers. We now have online searching capability in the BCLMC on our public computer. The hole in our ceiling is fixed, and we next turn to finishing our unpacking.
BCLMC Mailbag A Miss Virginia O'Hanlon, from 19th century New York, writes: "I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The BCLMC Newsletter, it s so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?"
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, but we all would have been better off without Tim Allen's The Santa Clause, believe you me.
"That's it! Out you two pixies go, through the door or out the window!" --Nick the bartender (Sheldon Leonard), It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
The Media Center is located on the fifth floor of the Library Learning Center. Come up and see us some time. | |
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BCLMC BROOKLYN CAMPUS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER |
Questions?
Comments? Contact us. Andrea
Slonosky, Media
Librarian (718) 488-1311 Andrea.Slonosky@liu.edu | |
