Posts by Tom Fynan

Jay,   If you end up in West Stockbridge, the Shaker Mill Tavern is a great place for a beer and/or dinner, and Truk's has very good Vietnamese. If you have some spare time in Dalton, check out the Crane paper museum....

Jay,   I've had a summer place in Stockbridge for three years now, so I know a little about the area. You might want to check out the Berkshire Eagle, the local paper, online. I don't know much about housing in...

If you enjoy Levant's humor, you should try to track down any of his three books: "A Smattering of Ignorance," "Memoirs of an Amnesiac" and "The Unimportance of Being Oscar." They are...

I just purchased a 60" Kuro Elite, to replace my 6 year-old Sony rear projection LCD that developed yellow blob. The picture on the Pioneer is stunning with my new Blu-ray player. The high def cable gets installed today. I got a very...

I don't have much insight, but I did see clips from LOA in blu-ray at the Sony store in Tokyo in late 2006. It was part of a display for blu-ray players and HD TVs, comparing them to standard DVD. So some work must have been done to...

My Vertigo and Rear Window arrived yesterday (in separate boxes), the same day I received an e-mail from Amazon saying they would be delayed one week. No sign of Psycho yet

Footlight Records, formerly of NYC, now web-only, is an excellent resource for soundtracks.

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but we are very excited here in New Haven, because they will be filming some secenes for IJ4 here in late June/early July - a motorcycle chase down Chapel Sreet, and through parts of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon Martin The other MIA ones are THE PLEASURE GARDEN, THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE, DOWNHILL, ELSTREE CALLING and WALTZES FROM VIENNA. DOWNHILL is available in the R2 Concorde box set from...

I just got back from a vacation in Japan, and we ate Kobe beef in Kobe. It is very different from any steak or beef I've had at home. It's very heavily marbled with thin veins of fat, and very, very tender-literally melt in your mouth....