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01/01/12 Saul Bass, Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham, CITIZEN KANE
01/02/12 MAGIC MIKE
01/05/12 MANHATTAN
01/06/12 At Home, Bill Bryson, PRINCE OF THE CITY
01/07/12 ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
01/08/12 THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
01/09/12 WE BOUGHT A ZOO, SORCERER
01/10/12 WIN WIN, FATAL ATTRACTION
01/11/12 Painting ? No.3 completed, KILLING KASZTNER
01/13/12 MAGIC MIKE, “Seminar”, Theresa Rebeck, What Makes Sammy Run, Budd Schulberg
01/14/12 The Informer, Liam O’Flaherty, THE CANDIDATE
01/15/12 The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh, The Drawing of the Electric Pencil, Lucian Freud, edited by Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall
01/16/12 MAGIC MIKE
01/17/12 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
01/18/12 SMASH
01/19/12 PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM
01/20/12 McTeague, Frank Norris, DREAM HOUSE
01/23/12 MAGIC MIKE
01/27/12 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3
01/28/12 BLACKOUT
01/30/12 SUNSET BOULEVARD
01/31/12 Whatever, Michel Houllebecq, IN TIME
02/01/12 THE RECKLESS MOMENT
02/02/12 THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, FATAL ATTRACTION
02/03/12 THE AMERICAN FRIEND
02/04/12 The Map and the Territory, Michel Houllebecq
02/06/12 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, SMASH
02/07/12 THE DRIVER
02/09/12 A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
02/10/12 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
02/11/12 LIBERACE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (’54), THE FRENCH CONNECTION
02/12/12 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE…, MANHATTAN
02/13/12 A Universe From Nothing, Lawrence M. Krauss, SMASH
02/14/12 Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis
02/17/12 FATAL ATTRACTION
02/18/12 THE TRAIN, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
02/19/12 GRAND PRIX, THE LANDLORD, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
02/20/12 DOUBLE INDEMNITY, SMASH
02/22/12 THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
02/23/12 MAGIC MIKE
02/25/12 THE GRAPES OF WRATH
02/26/12 Rome, Robert Hughes
02/27/12 SMASH, THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
02/29/12 Apocalypse On the Set, Ben Taylor
03/01/12 “Rx”, Kate Fodor
03/02/12 THE RIGHT STUFF
03/03/12 THE GRADUATE
03/05/12 SMASH
03/06/12 When Prophecy Fails, Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter, MILLION DOLLAR LISTING
03/07/12 Boomerang, Michael Lewis
03/08/12 THE BIG SLEEP (’46)
03/09/12 MAGIC MIKE
03/10/12 THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS, ANATOMY OF A MURDER
03/11/12 Fun In A Chinese Laundry, Josef von Sternberg, LETTER NEVER SENT, BRANDED TO KILL
03/12/12 Believing is Seeing, Errol Morris, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, SMASH
03/13/12 MILLION DOLLAR LISTING, THE L-SHAPED ROOM, SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON
03/15/12 UPSTREAM COLOR, ANATOMY OF A MURDER
03/17/12 “Venus in Fur”, David Ives, THE CONFORMIST, STALKER
03/18/12 Zona, Geoff Dyer, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, THE KEY (’58)
03/20/12 SMASH, MILLION DOLLAR LISTING
03/21/12 THE HUNGER GAMES
03/22/12 ANATOMY OF A MURDER
03/24/12 PATTON, “Death of a Salesman”, BARRY LYNDON
03/25/12 MAD MEN (2 episodes)
03/26/12 SMASH, THE SERVANT
03/27/12 Finished painting “Myrtle”
03/28/12 MILLION DOLLAR LISTING
03/29/12 ROMAN POLANSKI: ODD MAN OUT
03/30/12 Finished painting “Beckett No. 1”, A BRIDGE TOO FAR
03/31/12 FEAR AND DESIRE, QUEENS OF PAIN VS. BROOKLYN BOMBSHELLS
04/01/12 The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack, Mark Leyner, THE KILLING (2 episodes), MAD MEN
04/02/12 SMASH
04/05/12 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, I CONFESS
04/06/12 Free Will, Sam Harris
04/07/12 MAGIC CITY
04/08/12 THE KILLING, MAD MEN
04/10/12 Begin principal photography on BITTER PILL
04/13/12 MILLION DOLLAR LISTING, MAGIC CITY
04/14/12 HIGH AND LOW
04/15/12 FATAL ATTRACTION, REPULSION, THE KILLING, MAD MEN
04/16/12 SMASH, GIRLS
04/17/12 THE WOMAN WHO WASN’T THERE
04/20/12 MILLION DOLLAR LISTING
04/21/12 MAGIC CITY
04/22/12 Never Mind, Bad News, Edward St. Aubyn, THE KILLING, MAD MEN, MOB WIVES, VEEP
04/23/12 SMASH, GIRLS
04/24/12 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL
04/25/12 MILLION DOLLAR LISTING, THE WILL
04/27/12 Some Hope, Mother’s Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
04/28/12 At Last, Edward St. Aubyn
04/29/12 THE KILLING, VEEP
04/30/12 The Spoiler, Annalena McAfee, Hot Pink, Adam Levin, MAD MEN, MOB WIVES, SMASH, GIRLS
05/05/12 MAGIC CITY
05/06/12 Dogrun, Arthur Nersesian, THE KILLING, MAD MEN, VEEP, GIRLS
05/07/12 SMASH
05/08/12 10 RILLINGTON PLACE
05/10/12 BOSS
05/11/12 MAGIC CITY
05/12/12 PANIC ROOM
05/13/12 MAD MEN, VEEP, GIRLS
05/14/12 THE KILLING, SMASH, BOSS (2 episodes)
05/16/12 Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
05/18/12 LOGAN’S RUN, MAGIC CITY
05/19/12 BOSS
05/20/12 Magic Hours, Tom Bissell, BOSS, THE KILLING, MAD MEN, VEEP, GIRLS
05/26/12 CITIZEN KANE
05/27/12 MAD MEN, VEEP
05/28/12 THE KILLING, GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY, GIRLS, BOSS
06/01/12 BITTER PILL
06/02/12 MAGIC CITY, BITTER PILL
06/03/12 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, PREMIUM RUSH, MAD MEN, VEEP, GIRLS
06/04/12 The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis, THE KILLING, BITTER PILL
06/05/12 WESTWORLD, BITTER PILL
06/06/12 BITTER PILL
06/09/12 Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
06/11/12 VEEP, GIRLS, THE KILLING, MAD MEN
06/12/12 THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
06/13/12 BITTER PILL
06/15/12 PRESUMED INNOCENT
06/16/12 Catherine the Great, Robert K. Massie, THORNE
06/17/12 The Los Angeles Diaries, James Brown, PROMETHEUS, GIRLS, THE KILLING
06/18/12 BITTER PILL
06/19/12 BITTER PILL
06/21/12 American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
06/22/12 HOUSE OF CARDS (2 episodes)
06/23/12 CHINATOWN
06/24/12 LOLITA (’62), THE NEWSROOM
06/25/12 Tragically I Was An Only Twin; The Complete Peter Cook, William Cook, Ed., A Hologram For The King, Dave Eggers
06/27/12 21 JUMP STREET, BITTER PILL
06/28/12 The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Robert K. Massie
06/29/12 BITTER PILL aka SIDE EFFECTS
06/30/12 JACKIE BROWN
07/01/12 Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, THE NEWSROOM
07/02/12 THE WORLD OF LIBERACE
07/03/12 SUNSET BOULEVARD
07/04/12 THIS IS SPINAL TAP
07/06/12 The Talented Miss Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
07/07/12 The Cry of the Owl, Patricia Highsmith, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, TWENTY TWELVE
07/08/12 TWENTY TWELVE(2 episodes)
07/09/12 SIDE EFFECTS
07/10/12 The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
07/11/12 Highsmith: A Romance of the 50s, Marijane Meaker
07/12/12 TWENTY TWELVE
07/13/12 THE MORNING AFTER, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
07/14/12 TWENTY TWELVE
07/15/12 Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds with David Patrick Columbia, TWENTY TWELVE, BREAKING BAD, LOUIE
07/16/12 Begin principal photography on BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
07/19/12 My Heart Is An Idiot, Davy Rothbart, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
07/22/12 PROMISED LAND, The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis, BREAKING BAD, LOUIE
07/23/12 THE GREAT ESCAPE
07/27/12 Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
07/28/12 SIDE EFFECTS, TWENTY TWELVE
07/29/12 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, BREAKING BAD
08/01/12 WISHFUL DRINKING
08/03/12 LOUIE
08/04/12 Dead Stars, Bruce Wagner, THE MALTESE FALCON
08/05/12 BREAKING BAD
08/10/12 HITLER’S SECRET SCIENCE
08/11/12 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
08/12/12 Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson, THE BOURNE LEGACY, STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET, BREAKING BAD
08/13/12 THE PELICAN BRIEF
08/14/12 TRADING PLACES
08/17/12 BOSS
08/18/12 JAWS
08/19/12 BREAKING BAD
08/25/12 “The Beatles LOVE”
09/01/12 BOSS (2 episodes), BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
09/02/12 BREAKING BAD (2 episodes)
09/03/12 TOP SECRET!, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, SIDE EFFECTS
09/06/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
09/07/12 BOSS
09/08/12 This Is Your Brain on Music, Daniel J. Levitin, SIDE EFFECTS
09/09/12 SIDE EFFECTS, TO BE OR NOT TO BE (’42)
09/10/12 SIDE EFFECTS, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
09/11/12 M (’51), BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
09/12/12 THE DEVILS (’71), SAMSARA, AMERICAN GIGOLO
09/13/12 THE HAUNTING, Lionel Asbo: State of England, Martin Amis, A SERIOUS MAN
09/14/12 THE CREEPING TERROR, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
09/15/12 Why Does The World Exist?, Jim Holt, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, SIDE EFFECTS
09/16/12 A Wilderness of Error, Errol Morris
09/17/12 The Blunderer, Patricia Highsmith, Caveat Emptor, Ken Perenyi, TAXI DRIVER, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
09/18/12 JAWS
09/19/12 BOSS
09/20/12 A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe, LOUIE (2 episodes)
09/21/12 BOSS
09/22 /12 “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark”, Lynn Nottage, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
09/23/12 THE MASTER, 13 Million Dollar Pop, David Levien
09/24/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
09/25/12 The Best American Science Writing 2011, Floyd Skloot and Rebecca Skloot, Eds.
09/26/12 Double Cross, Ben McIntire
09/27/12 SIDE EFFECTS (2)
09/28/12 BOSS, THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
09/30/12 Everybody’s Right, Paolo Sorrentino
09/31/12 HOMELAND
10/01/12 GIANTS @ DODGERS
10/03/12 JAWS, Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, DR. NO
10/05/12 Hikikomori and the Rental Sister, Jeff Backhaus, BOSS
10/06/12 BROOKLYN BOMBSHELLS @ MANHATTAN MAYHEM
10/07/12 HOMELAND, THE LAVENDAR HILL MOB
10/08/12 SIDE EFFECTS, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
10/12/12 ELYSIUM, We May Be Forgiven, A. M. Homes, BOSS
10/14/12 HOMELAND
10/15/12 KNUCKLEBALL!
10/19/12 The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver, BOSS
10/20/12 THE GIRL, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
10/21/12 The John Lennon Letters, Hunter Davies, Ed., HOMELAND
10/22/12 THE CANYONS
10/25/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
10/26/12 SIDE EFFECTS, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
10/27/12 TOM PAPA: LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY
10/30/12 Mao: The Real Story, Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine
10/31/12 True Believers, Kurt Andersen, The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
11/01/12 The High Window, Raymond Chandler
11/02/12 ALL FALL DOWN
11/03/12 The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler, ANATOMY OF A MURDER, SIDE EFFECTS
11/04/12 HOMELAND
11/07/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
11/09/12 THE GAME
11/10/12 Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe, FLIGHT
11/11/12 HOMELAND
11/14/12 The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
11/17/12 “The Twenty-Seventh Man”, Nathan Englander, FROM ROME WITH LOVE
11/18/12 MOONRISE KINGDOM, HOMELAND
11/19/12 TEN LITTLE INDIANS (’65)
11/22/12 ARGO
11/23/12 SKYFALL, MY BROTHER IS A SERIAL KILLER
11/24/12 SIDE EFFECTS, BROADWAY DANNY ROSE, WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?
11/25/12 HOMELAND
11/26/12 Silent House, Orhan Pamuk
11/28/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
11/29/12 THE SOCIAL NETWORK
11/30/12 “A Celebration of Harold Pinter”, Julian Sands
12/01/12 THE IMPOSSIBLE, SIDE EFFECTS, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
12/02/12 THE LETTER (’40), HOMELAND
12/04/12 PROMISED LAND
12/05/12 VISITORS, The Female of the Species, Joyce Carol Oates
12/08/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
12/09/12 God is Dead, Ron Currie, Jr., HOMELAND
12/10/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, SIDE EFFECTS
12/11/12 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
12/12/12 ZERO DARK THIRTY
12/14/12 NOT FADE AWAY
12/16/12 HOMELAND
12/18/12 LOOPER
12/20/12 BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, SIDE EFFECTS, DJANGO UNCHAINED
12/21/12 THE PARALLAX VIEW
12/23/12 On Saudi Arabia, Karen Elliott House
12/24/12 LOVE ACTUALLY
12/25 HELP!, THE THIRD MAN
12/26/12 “Dead Accounts”, Theresa Rebeck
12/27/12 PSYCHO
12/28/12 Skippy Dies, Paul Murray, HOME, JAMES, SEXY BEAST
12/29/12 “Glengarry Glen Ross”, David Mamet, 47 RONIN, A KIND OF LOVING
12/31/12 THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, RYAN’S DAUGHTER
--------------------------------- VINYL
SKETCHES OF SPAIN Miles Davis
THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM Soundtrack (John Barry)
REVOLVER The Beatles
THE SILVER ANNIVESARY COLLECTION (Records 1, 2) Liberace
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, THE GO-BETWEEN Soundtrack Combo (Michel LeGrand)
DISRAELI GEARS Cream
DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED The Moody Blues
TOUCH OF EVIL Soundtrack (Henry Mancini)
CLASS CLOWN SPOTS A UFO Guided By Voices
BLUR Leisure (2)
BLUR Parklife
RADIOHEAD OK Computer
BLUR The Great Escape
GREATEST HITS Sly and The Family Stone
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Loveless
THE LA’S The La’s
ELVIS COSTELLO Taking Liberties
JONI MITCHELL Court and Spark
AVERAGE WHITE BAND Cut the Cake
UTOPIA Deface the Music
GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR Squeezing Out Sparks
THE BEATLES Help!
THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM Various
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Vince Guaraldi Trio
ORGAN-IZED Walter Wanderley
STRINGS AFLAME Esquivel and his Orchestra
JOHNNY’S NEWEST HITS Johnny Mathis
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ Fats Waller
SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN Miles Davis
THE BIRTH OF THE COOL Miles Davis
THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER BOOK 1 J.S. Bach (Glenn Gould)