{"id":1646,"date":"2026-02-12T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:59:16","slug":"if-thursday-february-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/if-thursday-february-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"If&#8230;. An extra dot in an ellipsis? Entirely forgivable in this case."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/if_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/if_4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/if_4-602x360.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My face is a never-failing source of wonder to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpectedly, we had another great turnout tonight. I say &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; not because I was worried that folks wouldn&#8217;t love this movie, but because only 4 people responded to the invite. That&#8217;s the way it goes these days. I get it though, and I&#8217;m always happy when the doorbell just keeps ringing (and Tick just keeps barking, excitedly). Many thanks to Sheldon for acting as door-opener while I&#8217;m busy shaking up cocktails!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lindsay Anderson&#8217;s quirky 1968 film, <em>If&#8230;.<\/em> marked Malcolm McDowell&#8217;s cinematic debut. Before this, he was known in Britain for his role as Crispin Ryder on the long-running ITV soap opera, <em>Crossroads<\/em>. He went on to garner acclaim in <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, and <em>O Lucky Man!<\/em> and he has since appeared in well over 200 movies. As of today&#8217;s date, at age 82, McDowell is working on 7 projects, both filming and in pre-production. His latest film, <em>Psycho Killer<\/em>, will be released next week in theaters. Rock on, Malcolm! You are a never-failing source of wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063850\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpectedly, we had another great turnout tonight. I say &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; not because I was worried that folks wouldn&#8217;t love this movie, but because only 4 people responded to the invite. That&#8217;s the way it goes these days. I get it though, and I&#8217;m always happy when the doorbell just keeps ringing (and Tick just keeps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/if-thursday-february-12th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If&#8230;. An extra dot in an ellipsis? Entirely forgivable in this case.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}