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CIPC #258: My cousin Vinny

Posted on February 1, 2022December 28, 2022

After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…

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CIPC #257: The silent partner

Posted on January 26, 2022February 3, 2022

The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…

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CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires

Posted on January 18, 2022February 3, 2022

Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…

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CIPC #255: Alcoa aluminium ad

Posted on January 11, 2022January 13, 2022

We finished last year talking about a strange advertisement from an American aluminium company. We will start this year by talking about a strange advertisement…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2021

Posted on January 4, 2022January 13, 2022

I almost forgot about it, but in exactly one week this blog will celebrate its fifth birthday! Well, it will be its fifth birthday, at…

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CIPC #254: Bohn ad

Posted on December 28, 2021

Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…

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CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt

Posted on December 21, 2021

During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…

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CIPC #252: Chess in literature, the sequel

Posted on December 14, 2021January 3, 2022

Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…

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CIPC #251: Vogue cover

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Let’s continue our discussions of magazine covers. This time, we go all the way back to 1929. Vogue is already a well-established fashion magazine. Chess…

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CIPC #250: John Bull 16-12-1950

Posted on November 30, 2021

John Bull apparently started his existence — life seems too strong a word for a fictional character — in an eighteenth century pamphlet.1 Since then,…

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