Our goal was to do a no-holds-barred blogathon about unemployment in the movies. So let’s finish it up unashamedly naked as we present
Click here if you missed the blogathon entries from Day One. For this final day, click on the individual movie titles to read each blog’s entry about them.
A weekly poker game evolves into a mid-life crisis for two old friends (Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder) in Thursday’s Game, brought to you by Movie Movie Blog Blog II itself.
Outspoken and Freckled details how Doris Day is looking for employment and (to the chagrin of Cary Grant) something more, in That Touch of Mink.
It seems Kristen Wiig picked the wrong time to (a) lose her business and (b) help her best friend arrange her wedding. Moon in Gemini tells how it all works out in Bridesmaids.
Against all odds, the Joad family (including Henry Fonda) keeps looking for hope in the famous Depression-era story The Grapes of Wrath, as reviewed by Taking Up Room.
A teacher (Bette Davis) at an American girls’ school tells how she stirred up a, er, French revolution in All This, and Heaven Too. Pure Entertainment Preservation Society takes it point by point.
And lastly, what would one of our blogathons be without an ambitious trilogy contribution by Movierob? Here are his top choices for pink-slip movies:
Thanks to everyone who participated in our blogathon, either by writing for it or reading it. We wish you all very long and happy jobs and lives!
Finally, please allow one final indulgence from this blogathon. We have already arranged for a new blogathon to appear on Oct. 25, 2019, whose theme is the TV series “The Honeymooners.” Thus far, we have only three entrants in this ‘thon. You know this classic TV series is far more deserving of many worthy tributes. If you have any fans of “Honeymooners” or classic TV in your circle, please encourage them to contribute to this fun-based blogathon! Click on the banner below for more information and how to enter.
So, would you like to know how technologically inept I am?
One weekend in Feb. 2019, my computer had an Internet connection, but I couldn’t get anything to come up on my computer screen. As is the way of all non-savvy computer nerds, I quickly deduced that the best way to get everything going again on my screen was to purge everything I could think of. By mistake, that included the user ID and password of my WordPress account.
When I tried to get back into my WordPress account, WordPress asked me for my user ID and password. I had forgotten my password long ago (I only use a few thousand of them), and the user ID was an email account that I had deleted long ago after it got hacked. WordPress informed me that, unless I could send them an email message from my user ID’s account, they would not be able to send me a new password, and therefore, I would be locked out of my own account.
And so it went. My access to four-and-a-half years of blogging and several hundred blog subscribers were suddenly locked behind bars. (I imagined hearing a loud “cha-ching!” from the TV series “Law & Order.”)
So I’ve decided to try and make lemonade out of my WordPress lemons. I am resuming my blogging career on this “sequel” blog.
Of course, I still have a “history” of previous blogging that I’d like to reference on occasion. So be forewarned that now, I will often hyperlink to my previous blog. For example, if I’m writing about Charlie Chaplin, and I want to reference a Chaplin movie review from my old blog, I will link to it like this. So please note that, obviously, if you go to that hyperlink, you will have to press the “Back” button on your computer keyboard in order to return to this “sequel” blog.
If, by chance, you know anyone who followed my previous blog but is not aware of my current situation, please let them know so that I can restore some of my old readership. And of course, please feel free to return to and reference my previous blog, whose URL is listed on the masthead of this blog.
Thank you for bearing with me through a quite troublesome situation.
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MovieMovieBlogBlog II 
keep up the great work Steve!
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