photo caption: Desktop still life with Kara Walker, Santa Olaya, PR, 2011
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Monday, June 12, 2000
Albany, NY I needed to go to our Blockbuster which is on Delaware Avenue to take back my overdue movies: "The Millionairess", with Rock Hudson and Anita Ekberg; "The Long Goodbye", with Eliot Gould; and David Lynch's "Lost Highway". I had wanted to get Groucho Marx in "Night at Casablanca" and "Mambo Kings" with Tito Puente, but the teenage-movie-buff-clerk on duty that night told me both films were in moratorium. "Both films?" I asked him. "Yep," he replied. "What's a moratorium?" I asked. "Well, I don't exactly know," he said, "but that's where they are."
"Whatever for?" I asked.
"It has something to do with communism, the embargo of Cuba, and other remnants of the cold war," he said. "What?" I asked... [click here for continuation] Jan Galligan75Grand/Sur
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