Now, if they had made the movie as risque as the book, and cast Ava Gardner in the Deborah Kerr role, I wouldn't object if they showed it once a week.

Awful. I remember the Pocketbook brand........

I have never heard the phrase "pocket book" and Eternity is, like, 700 pages.

I guess as with "Kleenex" or "Xerox," the term "pocketbook" became the reference for paperbacks. There was a publishing company that referred to its line as Pocket Books and I guess father had deep pockets.

He must have - he took everything with him when he left home about a year later, we were left penniless and the rest is not anything that I wish to discuss here.

I have never heard the phrase "pocket book" and Eternity is, like, 700 pages. You need some big ole' clown pants or some MC Hammer Genie pantaloons or something for that sucker to fit in your pocket.

ps- you might want to read my post below. your dad was reading some sick s***

ETERNITY is not on the list because it's a Columbia Picture and the weekend I cited is dedicated to MGM (this year, 31 Days are arranged by producer/film studio.)

ETERNITY is playing on the 24th(?) with Ye Faithefulle Perennial Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and everything else from Columbia that- odds are- you're sick to f-ing death of.

And for the record, I was at my local liberry some time a year or so ago and I took a copy of the James Jones novel off the shelf and perused the first random paragraph on which my eyes landed. IT IS FILTHY! What I read made me blush, and I'm not exactly Julie Andrews- and that was just the first thing I landed on. Seriously, just the one paragraph I read before I put the book back and promptly washed my hands was a baroque tapestry woven of profanity and sexual imagery.

Am I making any of you want to read it now?

Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on Nov 7, 2012 5:55 PM

Why do people keep avoiding me?

Even better, with the potential airings of 200-300 movies a month, why can't they air a handful of 70s and later movies?

I was only about five years old, but I recall my father asking me to go get his pocketbook from the bedroom. This confused me greatly as I thought that only women carried pocketbooks. Little did I know that he wanted his paperpack book, I thought that he wanted his purse.

Anyway, the book was a copy of, believe it or not, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and 56 years later I can still recall that it had an image on the back cover of Burt Lancaster with the broken bottle in his hand confronting Ernest Borgnine. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I've seen the still reproduced many times.