Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
1001 Ways To Be Romantic
Author: Gregory J.P Godek
Publisher: Casablanca Press
Date: 1995
Discovered at: Turnstyles thrift store, Overland Park
The Cover Promises: If you own this, your relationship is failing.
Representative Quotes:
"490: Greet him at the door with confetti."
"495
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & SciencesThis Sunday won't be a terrific night for many restaurants -- at least for the ones patronized by men and women devoted to staying home and watching the annual Academy Awards ceremony.
Sunday night is the airing of the 81st annual award ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which first began presenting the familiar gold trophies on May 16, 1929, at a black-tie dinner (yes, there was food in those early days)
Shaft. Directed by John Singleton. Screenplay by Richard Price, from the novel by Ernest Tidyman. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Christian Bale, and Jeffrey Wright. (R)
Scott Tobias, film editor for the satirical newspaper The Onion, is in town next week to talk about his A.V. Club essay series "The New Cult Canon." He'll speak at the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, which is gearing up for its summer Off-the-Wall film series. The connection: This summer, the library's outdoor screenings focus on titles with the Tobias seal of new-cult approval. To go to the talk (at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 6), RSVP here. Meanwhile, here's The Pitch's e-mail i
