The Glass Character
Friday, July 25, 2025

Toulouse-Lautrec: zoom in

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  Zoom in, zoom out. Of course nothing like this could be accomplished in the era in which this was painted. But perhaps with our painterly ...

Lautrec, Lautrec - I know you too well

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    One of my favorite images of Lautrec. Labelled as a "trick photo", I actually think he was magical enough to split himself in ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Lost in Lautrec: why Jose Ferrer was the best Toulouse

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I watched the movie long before I knew very much about the man. But as with that other painter-of-the-people, Van Gogh, Lautrec's artwor...

Toulouse, Toulouse! Why do I feel that I know you?

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OK  then, this is NOT going to be an essay. This is NOT going to be a biography (there are plenty of those). This won't be a rehash of t...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Space Cats — Magic Fly

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Cat palate cleanser.  Spit out those dirty memories! And this one, even better!
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Mushmouthed English: Why does everyone sound like Sean Connery now?

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  Why can’t anyone talk anymore? Am I being such a grammatical fussbudget? Not if I hear the language twisted into a corkscrew every day. Fi...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Today, all I want to do is watch 7 hours of drive-in intermission shorts!

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Oh yes! Escapism at its finest. Given my medical status (THREE appointments with specialists in the next few months, not to mention multiple...
Friday, July 11, 2025

BETRAYED: A Story of Religious Abuse

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This little clip from YouTube claims to be a story of fraud, betrayal and abuse of power. And ironically, it turned out that way after all. ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Bless him! Damn him! It's Elmer Gantry

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Though this started off paranthetical, I want to devote a whole post to yet another movie I re-watched for the first time in at least 30 ye...
Monday, July 7, 2025

When a good movie turns bad: how many times is this going to happen?

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Having come out the other side of The Roosevelts and Taxi  Driver, I'm finding most of my movie nostalgia trips are disappointing. I f...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

So why did I watch Taxi Driver - again??

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A little Italian let’s praise today: The Topo Gigio of pictures, let’s say. When Taxi Driver comes on TV, I always drop what I’m doing, you ...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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