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Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Books, movies, art, theater, conservation, and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline. 
Latest movie scores [5 max]
::: 3 The Fallen Idol (1948)
::: 5 Brazil (1985)
::: 3 Pursued (1947)
::: 2 The Ice Harvest (2005)
::: 3 Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
::: 2 They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
::: 3 The Major and the Minor (1942)
::: 3 The Anniversary Party (2001)
::: 2 Rent (2005)
::: 3 A State of Mind (2004)
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John Garfield is wasted in 1939's They Made Me a Criminal, and Claude Rains could not be more miscast. This is perhaps the only flick with a plot point that hinges on a farmer opening a valve to irrigate a field of vegetables.
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9:27:59 PM
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Sounds like a Broadway hit to me:
A black, empty stage. Lights up on Annie, a bruised and battered orphan girl whose cataract-stricken eyes have no visible pupils. Around her, other abandoned girls sleep fitfully on the dirty sweatshop floor as she sings...
(Thanks to robot wisdom.)
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11:57:54 AM
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D.C. officials have released designs for the new baseball stadium for the Nationals. Ehh, it's hard to tell from a few renderings, but it's not very impressive. Looks too much like it was designed to satisfy too many non-baseball interests.
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9:07:06 AM
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