I wrote a grand total of two (2) fics this year:

• "The Sanity Clause Affair" (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) for the Down the Chimney Affair ficathon at muncle, which, weirdly, turned into a homage to the Marx Brothers in the writing.
• "Breakfast" (TRON: Legacy), a gen fic about Sam, Quorra, and food set immediately after the film, for Yuletide.

I also created ( Read more... )

Some days, a girl just needs a melted-and-resolidified Lindor Truffles bar and a little ’sixties hoyay...

• Ah, Friday night at the Film Forum for two helpings of Brit Noir.
  
  Did William Hartnell ever play a wholly sympathetic character? (As much as I love the First Doctor, he is not a particularly nice person.) If he did, it wasn’t in Hell Drivers (1957), in which he and Patrick McGoohan conspire against ex-con Stanley Baker (seeking redemption for the ( Read more... )

The prize in tonight’s round of Spot the Actor at the Film Forum’s Brit Noir series: Leo G. Carroll (A.K.A. Alexander Waverly, the boss of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), whose hound-dog features were nearly unrecognizable behind the massive mustache he sported as a confidential inquiries agent in So Evil My Love (1948), another Victorian potboiler about ( Read more... )