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Movie: My Name is Nobody (1973) – A comic spaghetti western

Spaghetti westerns were all the craze starting with the ‘Man with No Name’ series, starring Clint Eastwood, and directed by Sergei Leone. More directors and stars got into the act, and soon, there were a number of such movies in the market. However by, the early 1970′s, the whole concept of spaghetti westerns were becoming [...]

Book: Vanity Fair(1847) – by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair was a book published as a serial rather than in a single book form (this was done in 1847-1848, and was typical of that time, since Charles Dickens also published his classics in serialized form). Vanity Fear was written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and was based on the story of 2 different people [...]

Movie: A Fistful of Dollars (1964): The original spaghetti western

In the 60′s, and the early 70′s, Spaghetti Westerns, shot with young or ageing US leads along with Spanish / Italian stars, and using an Italian / Spanish cast caught on, and continued till the early 70′s, when people started getting tired of this line of films. Two of the people who were most closely [...]

Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1993)

Isaac Asimov wrote a huge amount of science fiction over the years, and is known for many of his books such as the Empire Series, and most famously for the Foundation Series. The 3 main Foundation books were the ‘Foundation’, ‘Foundation and Empire’, and ‘Second Foundation’. It was later, in order to try and fill [...]