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I guess she figured WITH A RACK LIKE THAT, no one was looking at her hair. (and a fair assumption it was) ps- I really hope that's a wig.

As a child, I can remember watching Hal Holbrook performing as Mark Twain on television. Everyone marveled at the makeup and people discussed how long it took for him to get it all on. And you might say he rather grew or aged into the role.😄 He was a versatile professional actor who will be missed not only by his fans but also by the industry. Deep Throat is how I will remember him. The right man, in the right place for the right role.

This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Here's a secret I don't just tell everyone! In my younger days I did promotion for an independent TV station. It was a fun job, and I really got a chance to see a ton of what we then called, "old movies." A lot of it was great, but there was a ton of junk, too. FOOD OF THE GODS was one of the later! And I remember doing a promo for this very movie, in which I used a snippet of dialogue that stays with me to this day; "Just don't let no rats eat us!" That film is crazy bad!

I can see how she was able to turn Anthony Perkins straight though. Really, those breasts are exquisite and I am by no means a connoisseur.

MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE THE HEIRESS PRECIOUS NOW, VOYAGER Two musicals that are so centered on parent-child conflicts that they have whole numbers about it: BYE BYE BIRDIE -- "Kids!" FLOWER DRUM SONG -- "The Other Generation" Many Disney movies about parent-child conflicts such as: FREAKY FRIDAY PARENT TRAP BRAVE HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS (the ULTIMATE conflict!) CINDERELLA if we're counting step-mothers ...and if we are, SNOW WHITE

Watching "The Star Chamber" tonight. Holbrook is wonderful (as always) and fun to see a good old 1980's thriller.

Wednesday, February 3 8 p.m. Cry, the Beloved Country (1951). This Zoltan Korda film is really worth a look. It has some fine performances by Charles Carson, Canada Lee, Joyce Carey and Sidney Poitier.

Oh and, the rats they use (In FOOD OF THE GODS) are- I am pretty sure- “domesticated” rats, like pet store rats. (Basically gerbils and in no way unsettling, Nor would you find them in the wild unless they had escaped a pet store) Also for some barely explained, lightly touched upon reason, their Rat Leader is the **one WHITE rat**, which is maybe vaguely racist? but the rest of the movie is so gottdamn STUPID that I guess I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt because I sincerely doubt that even that PUNY level of thought went into *ANY* aspect of this film.

Any Paramount pre-code that has not already aired on TCM.

Neither have those breasts. BAM! Sorry, it was there, so I took it.

Lorna? Well. While everybody googles Victoria's breasts, I'll put on a pot of coffee and refill the dog's water bowl.

wait... Victoria's or just breasts in general?

Yea, I will ask her about that. My financial advisor was also her financial advisor and that is how we meet. About 12 or so years ago we went out to dinner. We start talking about things and she just assumes I would be clueless about the music, movies, and T.V. of the 30s - 50s. E.g. comments like "well I'm sure you don't know this actor, but when we were on the set filming Honey West,,," and I would then tell her thinks I knew. She was shocked that this much younger man knew anything about that (i.e. she didn't know that my passion was that era of music, movies, T.V. of her era). She gave me a copy of one of her Honey West books signed by Anne Francis. She had a room in her home dedicated to the books and T.V. show. Anne and her would see each other from time to time, but sadly my advisor friend and I were never able to set up a "date" with Anne. I really wanted to discuss the filming of Bad Day At Black Rock with her, Robert Ryan, Tracy, etc.... and how it was being the only women on that set.

Death of a Scoundrel

I'm a friend of Gloria Fickling, who wrote the series of Honey West books with her husband Skip. Fun lady with lots of good stories to tell (just don't ask her about Aaron Spelling, who she says canceled the T.V. show after a year because he didn't wish to pay them, and then stole their concept and came up with Charlie Angel's). I didn't know about Decoy. I guess I could ask Gloria if her husband and her got the idea for Honey West from that series: No,,,, I haven't the guts! Here is Gloria and Skip on You Bet Your Life.

Well, it wasn’t boring, I will say that for it. In fact, it actually kind of flew by time wise. So...silver linings?

That reminds me of one of my co-workers who always used to say "warsh" for wash. It was "warsh" this and "warsh" that with him which used to drive me crazy. Finally one day, after hearing him say, "Time to warsh the car" I asked him, "Ron, how do you pronounce the name of the first President of the United States?" "Lincoln," he replied. Served me right for even trying.

Jeopardy! guest host Ken Jennings did in fact respond to the contestant's comment about his being very impressed with TBOTRK by telling the contestant that Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is his own favorite classic movie, and then advised him to seek that one out.

All About Eve A Star Is Born (1954)

YOUNG AND INNOCENT

The Great Santini (1979) The Jazz Singer (1980)

Thanks. We got off track a bit! *** Ronald Colman

Underdown, Edward

Arrowsmith

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Parsons, Estelle

I first saw Hal Holbrook on a CBS soap, The Brighter Day, where he played the minister hero's adult son. His wife and he adopt a troubled girl who was played by Patty Duke, also unknown to me. Was this a "who knew" moment or what? I knew he was going to be someone to be reckened with even at my young age. My only problem with The Senator was an episode based on the Kent State shooting. I've always had one with these kinds of stories as impressionable viewers think they're getting the real story rather than a fictionalized idea of what really happened. (Yes, Law & order hit me the same way.) I was glad to see him get his Emmy though. A few years later Dixie and Donald May became a soap star couple on The Edge of Night and I loved her no-nonsense yet feminine Southern charm even then. Hal and she were always a great team and a joy to watch, alone or together. RIP, Sir.

Sounds like a slogan for a Viagra commercial.

I had the pleasure of seeing Hal at the Virginia Film Festival back in, I think, 2015. There was a documentary -- American Odyssey: 60 Years of Mark Twain Tonight -- being shown about him after his performance the previous evening in Mark Twin Tonight. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-laff-hal-holbrook-american-odyssey-20140614-story.html One of the scenes in the documentary showed him doing stretching and calisthenics so he could stay in shape for the Mark Twain role. He was pushing 90 years old at the time !! Very talented actor who will be sorely missed -

Stella Stevens

The Bad Seed The Children's Hour North by Northwest (Cary G. and his mother) To Catch a Thief (Grace K. and her mother - same actress) A Raisin in the Sun Kramer Versus Kramer All those brats on the Kraft cheese commercials (that wasn't the way I was raised)

So sad to hear this! I worked with Hal on a project in the 1990s. Lovely man; great actor. R.I.P.

I had the good fortune to see Mr. Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight!" in 1997. He was wonderful. It was a small theater in a small town and afterward he came into the lobby and mingled with the crowd as they were leaving. He signed a photo which my husband had purchased in the lobby as "Mark Twain", and on the back he signed "AKA Hal Holbrook." 😄 ~RIP, Mr. Holbrook

As Deep Throat -- reporter Bob Woodward's key government source on the Watergate scandal -- Holbrook uttered the most famous line in the 1976 historical drama "All the President's Men": "Follow the money." But the line was an invention by the screenwriter William Goldman, who won an Oscar for his screenplay adapted from the book by Woodward (portrayed in the movie by Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein.

The 1972 ABC TV movie "That Certain Summer" starred Holbrook as a divorced father visited by his teen son (Scott Jacoby). The boy discovered that his father was in a relationship with another man (Martin Sheen). Directed by Lamont Johnson, the production was one of television's groundbreaking portraits of a gay couple. Written by Richard Levinson and William Link -- the creators of "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" -- the made-for-television movie received seven Primetime Emmy nominations. Jacoby won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama.

GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER

Frame, Mike -- played by Fredric March in TOMORROW THE WORLD! (1944)

Gloria Stuart Next: Hosted a quiz show

Worth checking out on YouTube is a 1979 TV movie called "Murder by Natural Causes." Hal Holbrook plays the unhappy husband of a younger woman (Katharine Ross) who attempts to set her and her lover up for his 'murder.' It plays like an episode of Columbo. The performances are very good.

UNDER CAPRICORN (1949)

In 1962 Patty Duke played Helen Keller in the feature film version of THE MIRACLE WORKER (1962), after performing the role on Broadway for nearly two years. In 1979, she played Anne Sullivan in the NBC TV-movie version of the story. That time young Melissa Gilbert was Helen.

Yates, Jess, played by Lyle Bettger in "Johnny Reno"

Janssen, Famke

Robot Monster-"You look like a pooped out pinwheel!"

He was so good in that.

Postcards From the Edge East of Eden Butterflies are Free Footloose Come Blow Your Horn Lost in Yonkers Only the Lonely Mother (1996) Mildred Pierce

The Conqueror: John Wayne cast as a Mongol warrior? Really? Although I’ve read he worked to snag the part, he is beyond awful in this film. He is so miscast the movie becomes more of a farce than some sort of film epic. And wouldn’t Wayne, all painted up to mimic some cosmetician’s concept of an Asian male, be on a par with Joan Crawford in blackface? Wayne’s performance is just as lame. All his bluster and shouting don’t make up for his total lack of nuance and a total failure to understand any sort of Asian culture, tradition or heritage. Wayne would have to vastly better his performance just to reach awful. It’s the ego that drove him to demand this role in the first place and it’s the same ego that prevents him from understanding how absurdly miscast he is. And Agnes Moorhead as Wayne’s mother? Who thought that casting would work? Agnes Moorehead made some great films and how she fell into this pit of a movie is inexplicable. She was an intelligent woman. Unless she was starving and homeless, why else should she accept such a ludicrous role? And Susan Hayward in the role of the angry and generally vindictive daughter? Nobody thought to give her any sort of make up to at least attempt to fake Asian ethnicity. She looks and is dressed as if she just walked across the stage from filming Some gladiator flick and stumbled into these scenes and was told to ad lib. Unless one considers the efforts of the horses,, this film is devoid of successful acting.

THE LIFE OF VERGIE WINTERS