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Okay here, HAM!!! As I ALWAYS have, I RESENT your comment about the television Anderson family here being "unrealistic". And because FIRST, Robert Young who played the patriarch in this multi-Emmy winning television series NOR in fact ANY of the actors and actress who played a member of that family EVER played them as being "unrealistically perfect", nor for THAT matter, "unrealistic" in ANY fashion whatsoever! Nope, not EVER! Most episodes CLEARLY portrayed all the family members' foibles and shortcomings as human beings, but in fact DID so VERY realistically and or but hardly ever for a cheap laugh, and which is most uncommon for sitcom writers to do. This television program was VERY well-written and VERY "realistic" in MANY ways. And secondly, and while I don't know about YOUR mom and dad, MY parents and their behavior regularly seemed to almost mirror in REAL life those of Robert Young's Jim and Jane Wyatt's Margaret Anderson. What, perhaps I was just "lucky"?! Nope, I don't think so. Ah, but of course then again, THIS was during an era in America when PRESIDENTS actually acted like caring and intelligent adults TOO! (...and so in closing, I sure as hell wish people would STOP saying this about that wonderful 1950's TV series, and 'cause it just ISN'T TRUE!!!)

Arts Performants @rosewdc #ARTS @KenCen The 2020 Kennedy Center Honors, which traditionally is held in December, was postponed until May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 Kennedy Center Honorees are Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Midori and Dick Van Dyke. https://kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/2020-honorees/… 5:20 PM · Jan 13, 2021·Twitter Web App

Well Nip, IF your **** ever did anything of note, maybe they would. (...kind'a doubt though that your **** ever has)

Some Like It Hot George Raft sees someone flipping a coin like he did in old movies. "Why did you learn a cheap trick like that?"

the kennedy center can honor my ****

After Office Hours

Mason Next: Calvert, Diller, Thaxter

The Remains of the Day is an interesting case where both the novel and the film are excellent in different ways. The novel, where everything is seen from the butler's viewpoint, if I remember correctly, is high comedy with undertones of tragedy. The film has a more objective point of view, so that it feels like a tragedy with overtones of high comedy.

Pat Loud, whose family life in Santa Barbara, California was recorded by television cameras decades before the Kardashians excelled at it, has died at the age of 94. The death of the matriarch of the 1973 PBS reality series "An American Family" was posted on the official Loud Family Facebook page. She is said to have died Sunday of natural causes. In 1973, Loud, her husband Bill and their five children became celebrities when they allowed TV cameras to follow their activities for the groundbreaking public television 12-part series. Pictured below from the top left: Lance (1951-2001) and Michele (b. 1957); middle row, Kevin (b. 1953), Delilah (b. 1955) and Grant (b. 1954); and bottom row, Pat and Bill (1921-2018). Lance, who died of AIDS-related hepatitis, was one of TV's early openly gay figures. The series exposed problems with Pat and Bill's marriage that ultimately led to a breakup. They later reunited. In one episode, Grant entertained family members with his cover of a 1970 song by the British band The Kinks. The tune was written by the group's frontman Sir Ray Davies. On November 18, 1978, the Not Ready for Prime Time Players (and guest host Carrie Fisher) did a Loud Family parody (of sorts) on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." In the 2011 HBO production "Cinema Verite," a drama about the "An American Family" experience, Loud was portrayed by the actress Diane Lane. Thomas Dekker co-starred as Lance. Tim Robbins appeared as Bill and James Gandolfini was creator-producer Craig Gilbert. Thomas Dekker @theThomasDekker The incredible Pat Loud has moved on to the next place. She graced us with 94 years of charisma, power and bravery and there are so many things she championed and supported, not least her equally electric son Lance, whom I had the pleasure of portraying in the film 7:22 PM · Jan 11, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Robert Lloyd @LATimesTVLloyd I'm sad to learn of the death of Pat Loud, of "An American Family" fame, a great mother of television and (say people I know who know) in life. 11:32 PM · Jan 10, 2021·Twitter Web App GLAAD @glaad Rest in peace, Patricia Loud. Her acceptance and support of her son Lance before and after his death was an important part of LGBTQ media history. 4:32 PM · Jan 11, 2021·Twitter Web App

Ladies in Lavender (2004)

In Witness for the Prosecution, Tyrone Power watching himself playing Jesse James on screen. In How to Marry a Millionaire, there are several inside jokes, including one about Harry James (from Betty Grable) In Doc Hollywood (sp?), Woody H. makes a joke about Ted Danson (Cheers reference - his character, who comes out to Hollywood/LA - claims Danson isn't a real celebrity).

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The book by KAZUO ISHIGURU is superb. It was one of the first "grown up" books I read ca. age 15.

Thanks-I saw this in the theater too & don't recall much of it, except liking it. All I can think of is Corky St Clair in WAITING FOR GUFFMAN suggesting a "Remains Of The Day" lunchbox, lol. Also THANKS to Lorna for your observations of NASHVILLE, a film I've always wanted to see but now won't be upset if I never do.

The Remains Of The Day (1993) TCM On Demand 10/10 Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) is a loyal, unemotional butler to an English lord, Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson) is the out spoken housekeeper, they often clash but have mutual respect. I had seen this on first release and many times since, I still love it. It's one of many collaborations of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, I think this was the best. I think Hopkins and Thompson give the performances of their lives, and both have been great other times. Stevens is a fascinating character even if we don't know much about him, he never shows emotion and we can only imagine what's going on in his mind by the subtle looks on his face. Miss Kenton is much more emotional and quick with a angry or sarcastic remark. She sometimes says things just to get a rise out of him but cannot do it. There is a hint that they are actually in love, they meet again 20 years later but not much has changed, at least as far as Stevens. This film is so brilliantly acted and directed that after the entire 135 minutes is over, you don't realize that not much has happened.

She played a creepy housekeeper in the Abbott and Costello movie The Time Of Their Lives (1946), one of the characters asks her "Didn't I see you in Rebecca?"

Thursday, January 14 6:30 a.m. Le Notti Blanche (1957). Luchino Visconti film with Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell. The scene (above) where Mastroianni dances is as funny as any dance that Chaplin did. Recommended.

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The Nuisance (1933)

Shut your mouth!

Madigan, Amy

For a 1950s TV show FKB was fairly realistic, though that's a relative concept. I always got a kick out of how Jim Anderson would come home and take off his suit jacket and put on a jacket with patched sleeves. One cool hepcat.

That was fun. I still play a lot of British Invasion music with a guy I was in a rock band with over 25 years ago. Well I showed him how to play Lola. He is a better singer than I so he would sing the song. Well we played it for years before, after a lot of wine, I talked about what the song was about. He said "say what???", with a confused look. I laughed and said,, "really,, you have been singing the words to this song and you never understood what it was about?". He though it was about a tomboy!

Fun strum along song from The Kinks, remastered and with an eye-catching comic book storyboard. And talk about your surprise endings. Wiki says some stations faded out the audio before the big reveal at the end. Ray Davies said he was inspired by an encounter his manager had one evening. (Ray: Didn't you notice the stubble? Manager:I was too p!ssed to care.) From 1970.

I'm gonna say Raft, Crawford, and Hearst above are total nonsense. As far as Errol Flynn goes "pervert" is a loaded word and what was supposedly "covered up" when he very publicly stood trial for statutory rape?

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Kristofferson, Kris

HAWAII (1966)

And thus influencing every single Quirky LA Traffic-Jam homage scene we've ever seen in quirky-independent films for the next forty-five years...Yes, we're looking at you, "La La Land"! 😄 Altman's "secret" is that this isn't really a movie about Nashville, it's just as much about the desperation of the folks in Hollywood's entertainment industry. (Like "The Long Goodbye", "Short Cuts" and "The Player", sooner or later, it's always About L.A...) Which he allegorically illustrated by having Gibson, Tomlin, Carradine, and anyone else playing a struggling country singer, write their OWN songs for the movie, with various degrees of success. An Oscar, in Carradine's case.

It might surprise you that I DO NOT look like Errol Flynn, as I'm female, but I think you could definitely do worse than be told that you bear a resemblance to Dame Angela Lansbury. I grew up watching Miss Lansbury on our favorite show, Murder She Wrote. It used to air every Sunday night after 60 Minutes. I also knew her as the fabulous Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast. I had no idea until later that she'd had such a prolific Broadway career and that she had made movies when she was very young. And it might seem weird, but to me, Lansbury has always been a kindly (yet, potentially murderous... seriously what's with the high crime rate in Cabot Cove?) grandmother. It is almost odd to me to see her so young in films like Gaslight or The Harvey Girls.

The Great White Hope (1970)

I need a translator

I love the music from Nashville! All the songs! Bought the LP shortly after I saw the film for the first time, in 1975.

FLOWER DRUM SONG 1961

THE AFFAIRS OF MARTHA 1942

Eve Knew Her Apples

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Wednesday, January 13 3:15 p.m. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964). With super performances by both Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough.

More like better late then too-late. Glad to see these two get their due.

one thousand nine hundred fifty-first category Inside jokes In THE GROOM WORE SPURS (1951) the director of a movie within the movie is played by the director of THE GROOM WORE SPURS, Richard Whorf. Ida Lupino & Edmond O’Brien take a tour of Hollywood homes in THE BIGAMIST (1953). They see Edmund Gwenn’s home. Edmund Gwenn plays a character in THE BIGAMIST. In OCEAN’S 12 (2004) Julia Roberts’ character Tess Ocean impersonates Julia Roberts.

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Our fourth villain or villainess is GALE SONDERGAARD. She appeared in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1942) with Brian Aherne. She wanted to get her hands on THE LETTER (1940). And Watson & Holmes got tangled in her web in THE SPIDER WOMAN (1943).

THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN (1945)

THE CRIMSON KIMONO 1959

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