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Dominick DiNapoli. You with the way you smile with your chipmunk cheeks. The way you wave your hands as you butter a slice of perfectly crusted bread. So kind and so pleasant. You feel the pain and joys of your neighbors as they search for the ideal sentiment in your little card shop. A friendlier face in the neighborhood couldn't be found. You were born a good boy and your mama loved you. Your cousin Sal, your favorite cousin, is on his way to heaven. Just 39. There wasn't a slice of pizza that he didn't love and you're the same way. Even at Sal's funeral you couldn't avoid that large pot of sauce bubbling away on the stove. Your sister Antoinette is inconsolable. "You son of a bitch! Where are you my sweet cousin? Where the hell are you?" "The good people are the fat people and the fat people die young." 😔 Is it hitting home yet, Dominick? Dom Deluise as Dominick Ann Bancroft as Antoinette Antoinette will not let this happen to her brother...

   When I first chose The Skull (1965) as my subject, I thought perhaps I could offer witty insight into the removal of flesh from bone. I was once tasked with creating entertainment for a Jurassic Park themed company picnic. One contest involved a confirmation of manly strength and agility by tossing a "dinosaur bone' the furthest. Not a simple plastic bone under my watch, I needed the closest to actual dinosaur I could muster in the modern era. The friendly neighborhood butcher procured a nice large cow femur. Before every bit of information was on the world wide web, I went about this by the seat of my pants. Already a little rank, I started with a heavy boil. Not a good smell. Left outside to the elements and flies, hung by a rope into the creek for the crawdads and finally bleached by the sun. But within the first few minutes of this Amicus Production, I realized how much simpler a bottle of skin reducing acid would have been. So much less fun, however, as the entire comp...

It's been a (long) long (time) time (comin') comin' It's going to be (long) a long (time) time (gone) gone But you know the darkest hour Is always, always just before the dawn     - Crosby, Stills and Nash   I wasn't sure where I was going to go with my thoughts on this movie. I've never blogged before so you can expect a quick read. I am grateful that this movie helped me understand my father a bit more. He was born in Brooklyn in 1912, so he carried a bit of the old ways with him. I never quite understood why he used the word "Dutchman" under his breath at times. I think the legacy of the Patroon may have lasted generations in New York. For those of you that haven't seen the movie or studied the history of New York, patroons were manorial lords... wealthy Dutch landowners that reaped the benefits of a feudal farm system. The farmers were mostly German or Scotch-Irish settlers. I do know that I thoroughly enjoy watching Dragonw...