Eleanor Ringel collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Eleanor Ringel collection
Creator: Ringel, Eleanor
Inclusive Dates: 1970-2007
Language(s): English
Extent: 20 Linear Feet 17 boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 7 oversized folders
Collection Number: ms4147
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Eleanor Ringel is an award winning writier, movie critic, festival juror and panelist, and teacher from Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Ringel writes for the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Saporta Report, and was a movie and theater critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1978 until 2007. She has been featured on multiple national television networks, and also taught criticism at Oglethorpe and Emory Universities.

Scope and Content

This collection contains press kits, stills, posters, promotional items, and clippings regarding motion pictures from the late 1970s through 2017.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Eleanor Ringel collection, ms4147, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

The audiovisual materials related to this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Press kits
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1	1	Stills - Vanilla Sky; The Mexican; The Insider; The Siege; American Beauty; Whatever It Takes; Where The Money Is; Rules of Engagement; Three Kings; The Ninth Gate; Spider; Flawless; The End of the Affair
1	2	Stills - Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me; American Beauty; The Love Letter; Pushing Tin; Bounce; Anywhere But Here; The Messenger - The Story of Joan of Arc; Fight Club; Tequila Sunrise; Happiness; The Last Starfighter; Melena; The Score; Waking the Dead
1	3	Stills - Jagged Edge; The Muppet Movie; Balto; Proof of Life; Down to Earth; About Adam; Blow Dry; Lara Croft Tomb Raider; Very Bad Things; Vertical Limit; Jean de Florette; Antz; Velvet Goldmine; Being John Malkovich
1	4	Stills - Shekhar Kapur; Cutthroat Island; Strange Days; Albino Alligator; Blue in the Face; Drop Dead Gorgeous; Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling; 1969; The Jewel of the Nile; Rounders; What Dreams May Come; Vanilla Sky
1	5	Stills - Return to Me; Rear Window; Kill Bill Volume II; Personal Services; The Lair of the White Worm; The Crossing Guard; Powaqqatsi; Private Parts; The Eighth Day; Children of the Revolution; Razor's Edge; Miss Congeniality; An Ideal Husband; Hurlyburly; The Parent Trap; 54; I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1	6	Stills - Halloween - H2O; Running; Saving Private Ryan; Your Friends and Neighbors; Return to Paradise; Plunkett and MacLeane; Drive Me Crazy; The Blair Witch Project; Random Hearts; Besieged; Blue Streak; Absolute Power; Big Daddy
1	7	Stills - Cry, The Beloved Country; Crazy in Alabama; Stir of Echoes; Steal Big Steal Little; Othello; Now and Then; Godzilla; The Muse; The Green Room; Dreamworks Pictures 1999 Summer Preview; Dreamworks Pictures 2000 Summer Preview; Revolution Studios 2001 Summer Preview; Dreamworks Pictures 2002 Summer Preview
1	8	Stills - Sunset; Arlington Road; Universal Soldier - The Return; Stepmom; Jakob the Liar; The Young Black Stallion; Urban Legend; Dance with Me; John Carpenter's Vampires; Apt Pupil; Limbo
1	9	Stills - Somewhere in Time; The Avengers; The Fan; A Life Less Ordinary; As Good As It Gets; Scream 2; The Thomas Crown Affair; Getting Away With Murder; Only When I Laugh; F/X; Parting Glances; Protocol; The Seventh Sign; Seems Like Old Times; Spetters; Murder at 1600; The Great Muppet Caper; Muppets From Outer Space; Nobody's Fool
1	10	Stills - Gorky Park; Dracula Dead and Loving It; Good Morning, Viet Nam; Hackers; The Mighty; Madeline; Querelle; Texas Chainsaw Massacre II; Never Been Kissed; Borderline; Good Morning, Babylon; The Island of Dr. Moreau; 10; Sticky Fingers; Gothic
1	11	Stills - Tender Mercies; The Telephone; Funny Farm; Stir Crazy; Rambo III; The Sound of Music; Stormy Monday; Honkytonk Man; The Idol Maker; Legal Eagles; Just Between Friends
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2	1	Stills - Short Circuit; Night Shift; Night, Mother; 1900; Grumpier Old Men; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Over the Top; One-Trick Pony; Lord of Illusions; Outland; High Anxiety; Out of Africa
2	2	Stills - Nuts; Near Dark; The Outing - The Lamp; Sixteen Candles; Six Pack; Go Tell the Spartans; Taps; Tarzan, the Ape Man; On Golden Pond; No Mercy; Polyester
2	3	Stills - Labyrinth; Return of the Soldier; Home Fries; Soldier; Independence Day; Incredible Shrinking Woman; Richard's Things; Revolution; The Seduction of Joe Tynan; Julia
2	4	Stills - Table for Five; Sylvester; The Killing Fields; Ghost Story; Strange Invaders; The New Age; Second Best; The Osterman Weekend; Godzilla 1985; Heartbreak Ridge; Heat
2	5	Stills - Heroes; Stars and Bars; The Hitcher; The Gods Must Be Crazy; The Karate Kid; The General's Daughter; The Wood; Wild, Wild West; The Glenn Miller Story; Mystic Pizza; Night Hawks; The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia; A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon; A Nightmare on Elm Street 4; Nicholas and Alexandra
2	6	Stills - Ocean's Eleven; Why Do Fools Fall in Love; The Thin Red Line; Wrongfully Accused; Babe - Pig in the City; House of Games; Revenge of the Pink Panther; The Karate Kid Part II; Kaos; Superman II; Superman III; A Piece of the Action; Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
2	7	Stills - My Best Friend's Girl; Peggy Sue Got Married; Stroker Ace; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Same Time Next Year; Runaway Train; Priest of Love; Red Planet; Sabrina; The Object of My Affection; Into the Arms of Strangers; Entrapment; Dick; Marilyn Monroe Confidential; Neighbors; Psycho II
2	8	Stills - Promised Land; Prizzi's Honor; Private Benjamin; The Prisoner of Zenda; Purple Rose of Cairo; Mall Rats; Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls; Moscow on the Hudson; Mr. Mom; Assassins; Nothing in Common; The Scarlet Letter: My Brilliant Career
2	9	Stills - Perfect; Old Boyfriends; City Hall; The Presidio; Target; Personal Best; A Perfect Couple; Near Dark; The Hunger; New York, New York; The Pick-up Artist; Paradise; Pascali's Island
2	10	Stills - Broken Arrow, The Hotel New Hampshire; Pauline at the Beach; Lean On Me; It's My Turn; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Michael Collins; The Lost World: Jurassic Park; Strangeer Than Paradise; Prince of the City; Seems Like Old Times; Gorky Park; American Outlaws; Gloria; Saint Jack; The Stuff; My Dinner with Andre
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3	1	Stills - Disney - Air Bud - Golden Receiver; Lion King II - Simba's Pride; Aristocats; Spirited Away; Sleeping Beauty; Pinocchio; Mulan; miscellaneous
3	2	Stills - Paramount Pictures - Pretty Baby; That Was Then, This Is Now; Pretty in Pink; Ordinary People; Gallipoli; The Seduction of Joe Tynan; Terms of Endearment; Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
3	3	Stills - Paramount Pictures - Nate and Hayes; The Keep; The Golden Child; Heartburn; The Stars Fell on Henrietta; North Dallas Forty; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Lady Jane
3	4	Stills - Paramount Pictures - The Muppets Take Manhattan; Supergirl; Prizzi's Honor; Stephen King's Silver Bullet; An Officer and a Gentleman
3	5-7	Stills - miscellaneous
3	8	Stills - AMC, TCM, IFC - miscellaneous
3	9	Stills - TV - miscellaneous
3	10	Stills - actors, directors
3	11	Stills with slides - Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York; Trail Mix-Up; Street Smart; Psycho; She's Having a Baby; Seven; Volcano - The Coast is Toast; Lost and Found; Little Nicky; 15 Minutes; Three to Tango; Bamboozled; Red Heat; Practical magic
3	12	Stills with slides - Brokedown Palace; Muppets from Space; Armageddon; Analyze This; Message in a Bottle; Ginger and Fred; True Crime; Into the West; Limbo; The Ice Storm; Gorillas in the Mist; Switching Channels; Some Like It Hot; The Glass Menagerie; Seven
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4	1	Stills with slides - School Daze; Punchline; Prick Up Your Ears; Saving Grace; The Cell; The Matrix; How Stella Got Her Groove Back; The Natural; Tumbleweeds; The Bachelor; Rush Hour 2; Stanley Kubrick Collection
4	2	Folders - Moonstruck; Midnight Run; Songwriter; High Road to China; Little Shop of Horrors; Overboard; Mamma Mia! The Movie
4	3	Folders - The Right Stuff; The Last Wave; Mickey Blue Eyes; Modern Romance; Wild Bill; Wanted; 9 to 5
4	4	Folders - The Milagro Beanfield War; Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Murphy's Romance; Norma Rae; Payback; Dancer in the Dark; The Name of the Rose
4	5	Folders - The Sting; Richard Pryor Here and Now; The Hand; Red Sonja; America's Sweethearts; Zoetrope Studios - Napoleon; Looking for Mr. Goodbar; The Mission; Less Than Zero
4	6	Folders - In the Name of the Father; Popeye; Quest for Fire; The Newton Boys; The Mummy; Hamburger Hill; Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; The Outsiders
4	7	Folders - Magic; Hoosiers; Sudden Impact; 20th Century Fox Summer 1995; United Artists Summer 1995 Roundup
4	8	Folders - Disney - Finding Nemo; The Prince of Egypt; Mickey's Christmas Carol; Young Black Stallion; Beauty and the Beast; Disney Art Editions
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5	1	Slides - miscellaneous
5	2	Production notes - Gallipoli; A Small Circle of Friends; Psycho; There Will Be Blood; Casino Royale; Saving Private Ryan; Fox Forecast; Dreamworks Pictures - Coming for Fall
5	3	Folders - empty - Frost/Nixon; Seabiscuit; Flags of Our Fathers; Zodiac; Conspiracy Theory; Disturbia; Bruce Almighty; The Interpreter; Snake Eyes; The First Wives Club; French Kiss; The Hit; Here's Looking At You, Kid; Signs; Mean Girls; The Sum of All Fears
5	4	Folders - empty - Once Upon a Time in America; The Perect Storm; Billy Elliot; The Shawshank Redemption; School of Rock; World Trade Center; Nell; Land of the Dead; Perfume - The Story of Murder; Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; 007 Ultimate Edition; MGM Summer Movie Preview; Paramount Classics; Universal Previews of Coming Attractions 1996
5	5	Folders - empty - Titanic; Absolute Power; Devil's Advocate; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Priest of Love; Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters; A Beautiful Mind; 007 Golden Eye; Van Helsing; Intolerable Cruelty; Eyes Wide Shut; Mission Impossible III; The Bourne Identity; The Bourne Supremacy; Bowfinger; Paramount Entertainment Summer 93
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10		Production Notes - Be Cool
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12		Digital - The Lord of the Rings
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15		Digital with production notes - X Men 2
15		Booklet and flip book - Corpse Bride
15		Booklet - Frost/Nixon

 

2. Posters

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Notes on a Scandal; Henry V; Seabiscuit; Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Big Fish; Barton Fink; Sense and Sensibility; Titanic

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Little Miss Sunshine; The Dark Knight; Doubt; Happy Go Lucky; Shall We Dance; The English Patient

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The Devil Wears Prada; Do the Right Thing; Finding Neverland; March of the Penguins; Shakespeare in Love; Four Weddings and a Funeral; The Bridges of Madison County; Sarasota French Film Festival

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Lassie; Good Night, and Good Luck; Wanted; Man on Wire; Rachel Getting Married; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Legends of the Fall; Indiana Jones, He's Back - Comic Con

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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King; Changeling; Defiance; The Reader; The Interview; Red

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Tropic Thunder; Slumdog Millionaire; Hellboy II; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; The Silence of the Lambs; The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King; Star Trek; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Speed

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Waltz with Bashir; The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King; Lassie; Bolt; Grease; The Wrestler; Frozen River; The Remains of the Day;

 

3. Promotional items
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5	6	Gladiator - The Making of the Ridley Scott Epic
5		Lunch Box - Over the Hedge
5		Box - Donnie Brasco
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6		T Shirt - Barton Fink
6		T Shirt - The Long Kiss Goodnight
6		T Shirt - Moon Over Prado
6		T Shirt - Any Which Way You Can
6		T Shirt - Thief of Hearts
6		T Shirt - Rambo III
6		T Shirt - The Beast Within
6		T Shirt - Flash Gordon
6		T Shirt - Excalibur
6		T Shirt - True Stories
6		T Shirt - Team America - World Police
6		T Shirt - Fire With Fire
6		T Shirt - Working for the Weekend
6		T Shirt - The Stepford Wives
6		T Shirt - The Abyss
6		T Shirt - Back to the Future, Part I, II, II
6		T Shirt - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
6		T Shirt - Love Actually
6		T Shirt - The Break-up
6		T Shirt - Eve's Bayou
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7		T Shirt - Dark City
7		T Shirt - Little Shop of Horrors
7		T Shirt - Traffic
7		T Shirt - Cinderella Man
7		T Shirt - The Honeymooners
7		T Shirt - Air Force One
7		T Shirt - Heart and Souls
7		T Shirt - Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
7		T Shirt - UHF
7		T Shirt - Thank You for Smoking
7		T Shirt - The Electric Horseman
7		T Shirt - Meet the Fockers
7		T Shirt - Dead Peots Society
7		T Shirt - In Good Company
7		T Shirt - 31st New York Film Festival
7		T Shirt - Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
7		T Shirt - Savannah Film Festival
7		T Shirt - 27th New York Film Festival
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8		Tote Bag - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
8		Duffel Bag - You, Me and Dupree
8		Tote Bag - Last Holiday
8		Bag - Bourne Identity
8		Messenger bag - M.A.S.H
8		Garden Hose - Over the Hedge
8		Money Bag - The Newton Boys
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9		Game Board - Independence Day
9		Organizer - John Grisham's The Rainmaker
9		Holiday lights - The Santa Clause 2
9		Cooler - Small Soldiers summer survival kit
9		Candle - Nacho Libre
9		Hair Spray - Ultra Clutch official hair spray of the movie HairSpray
9		Ajax Cleaner - Mommie Dearest
9		Sunglasses - That Darn Cat
9		Mouse Pad - Flubber
9		Mouse Pad - Finding Nemo
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10		Mouse pad - X-Men - The Last Stand
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9		Coffee Mug - The Vanishing
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10		Notebook - School of Rock
10		Record album - Pop
10		Underwear - The Real Cancun
10		Underwear - I Think I Love My Wife
10		Underwear - Bridget Jones' Diary
10		Car Flag - Talladega Nights - Ballad of Ricky Bobby
10		Lawn Flamingo - Over the Hedge
10		DVD Clock - Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
10		Wind-up spider legged doll - Nightwatch
10		Mirror - Shrek
10		Hat - Elf
10		Hat - Four Brothers
10		Bobblehead - Mr. 3000
10		Bobblehead - The Guru
10		Camera - High Art
10		Wine bottle - Eurotrip
10		Tin container - The Last Stand
10		Fish toy - Finding Nemo
10		Candle holder - Eragon
10		Lotion bottle - The Silence of the Lambs
10		Leg shaped hand grips - Very Bad Things
10		Candles - Girl with the Pearl Earring
10		Foam hand - Bruce Almighty
10		Flying disc - The Shaggy Dog
10		Flying disc - Small Soldiers
10		Flying disc - Mimic
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11		Walkie-talkies - Spiderman 2
11		Triple Action Web Blaster - Spiderman 2
11		Rubber Gloves - Mommie Dearest
11		Squeaky chicken - Chicken Run
11		Stay Puft Marshmallow Man soft toy - Ghostbusters
11		Wooden ruler - Wonderland
11		Bobblehead - Veronica Corningstone - Anchorman
11		Paperweight - Die Another Day
11		Map case - RV
11		Flip calendar - Surf's Up, 2007
11		Leather bound notebook - Finding Neverland
11		Clip board in case - Anger Management
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12		Stuffed snake - Anaconda
12		Talking doll - Napoleon Dynamite
12		Chinese take-out box - Mulan
12		Djembe drum - The Visitor
12		Inflatable tube - Titanic
12		Water bottle - Small Soldiers
12		Honey jar - Bee Movie
12		Beach pail and shovel - Surf's Up
12		Towel in surfboard shaped wrapper - Surf's Up
12		Bath oil bottle - Surf's Up
12		Evidence bag - Lethal Weapon 4
12		Can of golf balls - Sideways
12		Snow globe - Ice Age
12		Growth measuring chart - Elf
12		Jewelry box - The Phantom of the Opera
12		Video game - The Lord of the Rings
12		Book - The Lord of the Rings
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13		Inflatable beach ball - Around the World in 80 Days
13		Coffin shaped pencil box - The Haunted Mansion
13		Bobblehead - Champ Kind - Anchorman
13		Figurine - The Love Guru
13		Toy Bowling ball - The Big Lebowski
13		TV shaped box - TCM - The Dick Cavett Show with Special Guest Mel Brooks
13		TV shaped box - Ed TV
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14		Pop Tarts box - Spiderman
14		Cereal box - Spiderman
14		RV shaped box - About Schmidt
14		Wooden box - Da Vinci Code
14		Elephant ear headband - Horton Hears a Who
14		Wrist sweatbands - Honey
14		Wrist sweatband - White Chicks
14		Wrist sweatbands - Team America
14		Playing cards - The Cooler
14		T shirt in bone shaped package - The Shaggy Dog
14		Playing cards - Out to Sea
		Puzzle in can - Bean
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14		Ink pad - Fred Clause
14		Sticky notes - Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
14		Puzzle cube - Bravo Network
14		Puzzle cube - The Big Lebowski
14		Bobblehead - Harvey Pekar - American Splendor
14		Animal Crackers box - Secondhand Lions
14		Disposable camera - Picture Perfect
14		Metal figurines in box - Small Soldiers
14		Belt buckle in wooden crate - Steve McQueen Wanted: Dead or Alive - season one
14		Desk light - The Matrix
14		Sponge - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
14		Head shaped box - Homer - The Simpsons complete sixth season DVD
14		Hamburger in take-out box - Fast Food Nation
14		Figurine - Sykes - Shark Tale
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15		Cell Phone - When a Stranger Calls
15		Collector cards - The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
15		Cast cards - Gosford Park
15		Booklet - The Sideways Guide to Wine and Life
		Book - The Lord of the Rings - Gollum - How We Made Movie magic
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15		Book - Pirates of the Caribbean - The Visual Guide
15		Duckbill hats - (2) Honey
15		Flat top cadet hat - M.A.S.H
15		Baseball cap - pointed with ball - Jingle All the Way
15		Baseball cap - Fled
15		Baseball cap - The Rundown
15		Baseball cap - American Wedding
15		Baseball cap - Ray
15		Baseball cap - Savannah Film Festival
15		Baseball cap - George of the Jungle
15		Baseball cap - Cinderella Man
15		Baseball cap - King Kong
15		Baseball cap - Peter Pan
15		Baseball cap - Speed
15		Baseball cap - The Truman Show
15		Baseball cap - signed - Jerry Lewis - Damn Yankees
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16		Compact mirror - The Closer
16		Plastic shot glasses - Failure to Launch
16		Small pins - Borat
16		Belt buckle - X-Men
16		Pen with figurine - Red Eye
16		Cookie cutters - Elf
16		Emery board - Phat Girlz
16		Silicone bracelet - Chicken Little
16		Keychain - disco ball - Starsky and Hutch
16		Toy lipstick - Nancy Drew Get a Clue
16		Lip gloss - Charlie's Angels Full Throttle
16		Keychain bottle opener - You Kill Me
16		Shoulder patches - Ladder 49
16		Lapel pins - Mission Impossible III
16		Lapel pin - Alien Nation
16		Keychain - Dr. Doolittle
16		Dogtag - Christopher Reeve Foundation - Superman
16		Pins - Night Watch
16		Pin - The Grinch
16		Pin - Timeline
16		Pin - Matrix Revolutions
16		Pin - Marie Antoinette
16		Pin - Toys
16		Pin with clock - The Day After Tomorrow
16		Hair pin - A Scanner Darkly
16		Evidence bag - Casino
16		Hotel key - National Lampoon's Vacation
16		Tipping chart - Waitress
16		Sticky note pad - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
16		Sticky not pad - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
16		Figurine - Doug E. Doug as Bernie - Shark Tale
16		Seed packet - Wallace and Gromit's Giant Carrot seeds - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
16		Magnetic poetry - Your Friends and Neighbors
16		Magnets - Big Fish
16		Popcorn container lid - Scream
16		Luggage tag - Last Holiday
16		Lenticular card - Striptease
16		Bookmarks - Girl With the Pearl Earring
16		Candy bar wrapper - Millions
16		Instant coffee wrapper - A Nightmare on Elm Street
16		Alarm clock - A Nightmare on Elm Street
16		Hair gel - There's Something About Mary
16		Metal wallet - Steve McQueen - The Essence of Cool - TCM
16		Playing cards - Mafia
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17		Duffel bag - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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2		Stand-up poster - Thelma and Louise
2		Board game - National Treasure
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1		Block of wood - Walking Tall
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2		Broom - Bewitched - Summer 2005

 

4. Writing

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My Year End Lists

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Clippings, 1978-1984