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The Blue Mask Diaries: Episode One

David Poland
Apr 21, 2020
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The Blue Mask Diaries: Episode One
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I've been in lockdown pretty much since March 9, when I returned from the great and glorious True/False Doc Fest. Thirty-seven days. It's not really that much, but it feels like forever at times.

But when I am on the couch/chair/bed watching something great, time stops and the world is my oyster.

There has been a lot of expected viewing. News, news, news. Junk I like on Bravo as an alternative to electroshock therapy. Binging and waiting for weekly episodes.

My favorite part of this the freeform connection between films that has appeared so often during lockdown.

I went from Once Upon A Time ... in Hollywood to Once Upon A Time in America to searching for other Tuesday Weld performances to a long-lost film that I loved as a kid in 1980 called Serial, in which Ms. Weld co-starred with the great Martin Mull and a load of familiar TV faces, because the director was an old-school TV guy named Bill Persky.

Set in late-70s Marin County, where swing was the thing, the film was based on a "novel" …

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