Morning Links, 12-19-06

• Remember last week, when you thought Michel Gondry was some kind of foot genius? See incontrovertible evidence to the contrary above.
• The Guardian's film staff and friends count up 50 Lost Movie Classics. It's an inspired list, the kind of alternative contemporary history that's definitely worth keeping in mind when updating the Netflix queue. Sample selection: "#33 Less Than Zero -- An example of an over-rated book being beaten by the film version...It has this amazing sadness and helplessness to it and at its heart there's a career-defining performance from Robert Downey Jr."
• Nobody loves Frances Gumm, even when she's being marketed as Judy Garland.

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All I Want For Whatevermas, Part One

I just updated my Amazon Wish List, to include Under the Rainbow, John Carlyle's memoir which includes a detailed account of his affair with Judy Garland (confusingly, Under the Rainbow is also the title of a different Garland-family chronicle, a ten-year-old exploitography on Liza Minnelli); and Sound and Vision: A Music Video Reader, which seems to whip in about out of availability every week or so, and which I've been try to acquire since roughly 1998. It's back in print as of this writing, but who knows for how long (hinthinthint)?

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