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The vast majority of the 31 Days of Oscar - February and March 1-3
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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 8, 2012 12:58 PM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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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.

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Posted: Nov 8, 2012 10:05 AM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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I'm adding it to my Feb 2013 reading list! :D

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 8, 2012 10:04 AM   in response to: clore in response to: clore
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Awful. I remember the Pocketbook brand........

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 8:22 PM   in response to: clore in response to: clore
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They air that movie too much anyways.

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 6:36 PM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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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.

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 6:12 PM   in response to: Hibi in response to: Hibi
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Hibi wrote:HELL, YES! (LOL) Even by 50s standards?
By any standard what I read was really profane and highly sexual. All apologies if you run out and grab it and spend like four days reading it and I somehow remember wrong, but I do remember being like, "Oh my GOD!" out loud and all the homeless and sex pervs loafing about the downtown branch of the liberry looked over at me and I was all, "sorry...by the way, some of you would really like this" before putting it back...And washing my hands.

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 6:05 PM   in response to: clore in response to: clore
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clore wrote: 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.
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***

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 5:58 PM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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HELL, YES! (LOL) Even by 50s standards?

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Posted: Nov 7, 2012 5:54 PM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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finance wrote:...or, even though it's not on this list (geez, why not?), catching up on your reading by reading James Jones' "From Here to Eternity".
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?

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Re: The vast majority of the 31 Days of Oscar - February and March 1-3
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 5:47 PM   in response to: Mike00 in response to: Mike00
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You'd be better off voicing your concerns to the TCM programmers. No one here can help you......and continuing to repeat your post over and over isnt going to get a reponse here from other posters.......

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Re: The vast majority of the 31 Days of Oscar - February and March 1-3
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 5:34 PM   in response to: calvinnme in response to: calvinnme
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Why do people keep avoiding me?

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 4:57 PM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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...or, even though it's not on this list (geez, why not?), catching up on your reading by reading James Jones' "From Here to Eternity".

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Re: oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please....
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 11:46 AM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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Even better, with the potential airings of 200-300 movies a month, why can't they air a handful of 70s and later movies?

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 11:26 AM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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NO WAY! LOL (but I've read it already.........)

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Re: the quintessential round-up of usual suspects
Posted: Nov 7, 2012 11:07 AM   in response to: AddisonDeWitless in response to: AddisonDeWitless
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AddisonDeWitless wrote:
It would be teribly ironic if one of the books you wanted to catch up on was Doctor Zhivago.
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.