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The Cameraman
In the late 1920s, after Buster Keaton’s “The General” had been a box office disappointment, though now is rightfully seen as a masterpiece, Keaton’s longtime distributor United Artists began to reign in the independence Keaton had seen throughout much of his career as an independent filmmaker. UA insisted that Keaton work with a production manager […]
Andrew Snyder
Lesson 1: Welcome to Getting Schooled
Hello readers! Since this is the first of what I hope to be several weekly columns, I felt it best to introduce myself to the The Loafer’s readers. To start, every column or online blog has a theme, or what I am going to refer to as a vision. Some are satirical in nature, […]
Pop Life
Erwin Elephant Revival
Colorful elephants are back in downtown Erwin, Tn.. so I reached out to Jamie Rice, Communications Specialist for the town of Erwin about the delightful pachyderms. Tell those who may not know, how the Erwin Elephant Revival began? EER began in 2016 as a community initiative created to heal and reflect on the memory of […]
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The Inevitable Column about Animal Crossing
In these pages in the past couple of years I’ve talked about my enjoyment of the Nintendo Switch, a gaming system that frankly I’ve loved about as much as my Sega Genesis and original Nintendo back in the day. I say that as I can’t recall when I last enjoyed playing video games as much […]
Pop Life
The 4ever Movie
If you were around in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and lived in the Appalachian Highlands I’m sure you remember the success of the East Tennessee State University basketball team. The ETSU team in question won the Southern Conference Championship four years in a row and left a lasting legacy. Said team is the […]
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
People tend to be split on the work of filmmaker Wes Anderson, folks either don’t care for his unique, inventive worlds, or they’re all in on them. I, am the latter, and have been ever since “Rushmore” came out in 2002, though I don’t think I fully fell in love with his work until “The […]
Pop Life
ETSU Buccaneers
Tray Boyd III. Bo Hodges. Daivien Williamson. Patrick Good. Jeromy Rodriguez. Damari Monsanto. Octavion Corley. Isaiah Trisdale. Joe Hugley. Vonnie Patterson. Jordan Coffin. Lucas N’Guessan. Charlie Weber. The aforementioned names were part of the 2019-2020 ETSU Buccaneers who won the regular season Southern Conference and tournament basketball championships. With the recent cancellation of the NCAA […]
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Leave Her to Heaven
When you hear the term “film noir” what comes to mind? Do you envision dark streets, clouds of cigarette smoke and icy femme fatales all shot in stark black and white? What you don’t envision, I imagine, is pretty blue skies, and deep rich 1940s Technicolor imagery. Yet, that’s exactly what the 1945 noir “Leave […]
