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Saturday, March 7, 2015
The word of the day that might not come up
Mehari - racing dromedary. Meharist, n. soldier riding one.
I'm not sure there are many of you that are getting ready to saddle up.
We lose an hour of sleep tonight - daylight saving time starts at 2 AM tomorrow morning, so don't forget to turn all those clocks, microwaves, DVD players, etc. ahead.
Please do this work yourself: where would you have been an hour earlier tomorrow?
March 7, 1936 - Walt Disney's Mickey's Grand Opera, premiered on this date.
I'm not a big Disney fan (especially Mickey Mouse) but this one is pretty funny. Donald Duck undergoes a major face lift after this cartoon.
March 7, 1962 -
The Alain Resnais' enigmatic masterpiece, L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad), opened in the US on this date.
I'll tell you the plot - a man meets a woman at a European spa and tries to convince her (and himself) that they met one year ago. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence - just watch it.
March 7, 1964 - John Frankenheimer's under- appreciated almost documentary-like thriller set set during WWII, The Train, premiered on this date.
In real life the museum's paintings were indeed loaded into a train for shipment to Germany, but fortunately, the elaborate deception seen in the movie was not really required. The train was merely routed onto a ring railway and circled around and around Paris until the Allies arrived.
March 7, 1986 -
This was a Red Letter Day for Daniel Day Lewis.
The stars somehow aligned for him and both My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room With A View, opened in NYC on this date.
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