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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, November 6, 2026

Tonight on TCM:

In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own. It has been reviewed here. Let the “games” begin (updated) Friday November 6 at 12 am PST.

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

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All responses are not only welcomed but encouraged in the comments section below.

Hope to see you Monday, November 9th.

A.G.