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With great sadness i just learned the death of the fantastic drummer Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.www.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-9922999%2FRolling-Stones-drummer-Charlie-Watts-died-age-80.

They probably didn't have their vaccination cards.

sewhite2000 and overeasy have already responded to this, so I will only add that I'm not sure "smugness" is quite the right term for what you seem to be referring to here. Anyone as preternaturally good-looking as Redford is usually going to have a certain degree of self-consciousness about their appearance and its effect on others, but I think that if anything, Redford's natural instinct was usually to try and downplay his potential to be devastatingly charismatic. This was presumably so that audiences could at least have some chance of better relating to his characters and be able to focus more on his acting ability. He also seemed to have a built-in tendency towards naturalism, authenticity, and underplaying (implicit, for example, in his gentle teasing of Natalie Wood for some of her onscreen mannerisms). Having said all that, I'll admit that it is sometimes harder for a viewer to relate to anyone so attractive that one naturally tends to assume they've never experienced any suffering or major problems in life. (When considering him for the lead role in The Graduate, for which he better resembled the book's physical description of Benjamin Braddock, Mike Nichols famously asked Redford, "you know what it's like when you strike out with a girl?" and Redford had no idea what he meant.) But I tend to agree with speedracer5's overall assessment: "Redford seems to bring forth a persona of self-assurance, some arrogance, but remains likeable and sympathetic. He also conveys intelligence and a sense of humor." To be sure, there's sometimes a certain remoteness, a certain wariness and restraint in Redford that can perhaps be mistaken for aloofness or smugness. But to me it reads more as someone who always chooses his words and actions carefully, and is constantly assessing any given situation for its truthfulness and potential pitfalls. Sort of reminds me of Barack Obama in an odd way.

Sleeper (1973) Logan's Run (1976) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) The Boys from Brazil (1978) Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1979)

The Andromeda Strain (1971) Silent Running (1972) Solaris (1972) Soylent Green (1973) Westworld (1973) A Boy and His Dog (1975) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Star Wars (1977) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Alien (1979)

The more I think about Nightmare Alley 2021 remake, it seems like a bad idea. Supposedly it's due out Dec.2, but there's no buzz at all. I picture a PC watered down version.

Rear Window The Birds Chinatown Wargames Jurassic Park

Very suggestive lyrics if you think about it, lol. Lydia, The Tattooed Lady Michael Feinstein Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh! Lydia, the tattooed lady She has eyes that folks adore so And a torso even more so Lydia, oh! Lydia, that "Encyclopedia" Oh! Lydia, the Queen of tattoo On her back is the Battle of Waterloo Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus too And proudly above the waves The Red, White and Blue You can learn a lot from Lydia She can give you a view of the world In tattoo if you step up and tell her where For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree Or Washington crossing the Delaware Oh! Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh! Lydia, the tattooed lady When her muscles start relaxin' Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson Lydia, oh! Lydia, that "Encyclopedia" Oh! Lydia, the champ of them all For two bits she will do a Mazurka in Jazz With a view of Niag'ra that no artist has And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz You can learn a lot from Lydia. La la la La la la La la la La la la Come along and see Buff'lo Bill with his lasso Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon And Godiva, but with her pajamas on La la la La la la La la la La la la Here is Grover Whalen unveilin' the Trylon Over on the west coast we have Treasure Islan' Here's Nijinsky a doin' the Rhumba Here's her Social Security numba La la la La la la La la la La la la Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh! Lydia, the champ of them all She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat And now the old boy's in command of the fleet You can learn a lot from Lydia

When Frid took his vacation, they had Charity stake Barnabas in his coffin.....imagine the uproar that caused at the time! Actually, it turned out to be merely a twin doppelganger that Angelique and Barnabas created while Julia tried to cure him of being a vamp.

You want double entendre? Here's Florence Desmond singing one of the great songs of World War II; followed by Bessie Smith singing "Kitchen Man." Don’t run away, mister,Oh stay and play, mister.Don’t worry if you hear the siren go.Though I’m not a lady of the highest virtue,I wouldn’t dream of letting anything hurt you.And so before you go,I think you ought to knowI got a cozy flat,There’s a place for your hat.I’ll wear a pink chiffon negligee gown.And do I know my stuff?But if that’s not enough,I’ve got the deepest shelter in town.I’ve got a room for two,A radio that’s new,An alarm clock that won’t let you down.And I’ve got central heat,But to make it complete,I’ve got the deepest shelter in town.Ev’ry modern comfortI can just guarantee.If you hear the siren call,Then it’s probably me.And sweetie, to revert,I’ll keep you on the alert.I won’t even be wearing a frown.So you can hang around hereUntil the “all clear,”In the deepest shelter in town.Now, honey, I don’t singOf an Anderson thing,Climbing in one, you look like a clown.But if you came here to seeWhy Sir John would agreeI’ve got the deepest shelter in town.Now Mr. MorrisonSays he’s getting things done,And he’s a man of the greatest renown.But before it gets wrecked,I hope he’ll come and inspectThe deepest shelter in town.Now, I was one of the firstTo clear my attic of junk.But when it comes to shelters,Now-a-days, it’s all bunk.So, honey, don’t get scared,It’s there to be shared!And you’ll feel like a king with a crown.So please don’t be mean,Better men than you have beenIn the deepest shelter in town. Madam Buff's was quite deluxe Servants by the score Footmen at each door Butlers and maids galore But one day Sam, her kitchen man Gave in his notice, he's through She cried, "Oh Sam, don't go It'll grieve me if you do" I love his cabbage gravy, his hash Crazy 'bout his succotash I can't do without my kitchen man Wild about his turnip top Like the way he warms my chop I can't do without my kitchen man Anybody else can leave And I would only laugh But he means too much to me And you ain't heard the half Oh, his jelly roll is so nice and hot Never fails to touch the spot I can't do without my kitchen man His frankfurters are oh so sweet How I like his sausage meat I can't do without my kitchen man Oh, how that boy can open clam No one else is can touch my ham I can't do without my kitchen man When I eat his doughnuts All I leave is the hole Any time he wants to Why, he can use my sugar bowl Oh, his baloney's really worth a try Never fails to satisfy I can't do without my kitchen man

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

CHARADE Also with Audrey, WAIT UNTIL DARK

The Great Gatsby (1949) The little remembered second screen adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age novel, with Alan Ladd cast in the role of the mysterious nouveau riche stranger who moves into a huge estate across a lake from the home of a woman he still loves from years before, even though she is now married. Fitzgerald fans will probably not be happy with this Paramount production, if only because the ambiguity of Gatsby's background is taken away with an image just minutes into the film of Ladd as a gun firing bootlegger. Those are the only action moments, brief as they are, in the film, a sop to Ladd fans who liked to see their hero as a man of action. A poster for the film, shown below, featuring Ladd in a trench coat, is also completely inappropriate for the image of the refined Gatsby living in high society. Having said that, Ladd is quite good in the title role. The actor always had an air of mysteriousness, of course (never more brilliantly utilized than when he would later play Shane) but he also brings subtle shadings to his characterization here, including a sense of vulnerability, at times, which are quite affecting. Macdonald Carey works well as Nick, Gatsby's neighbour commentator on much of Gatsby's activities in the film. A young Shelley Winters, Howard Da Silva and Barry Sullivan are also featured in key roles. Ruth Hussey brings a light hearted charm to, unfortunately, an ill defined character with limited screen time. The sinker for me, though, in the casting department was Betty Field as Daisy Buchanan, the girl Gatsby still dreams about and loves and for whom he is willing to make sacrifices. Now Daisy as a character, of course, turns out to be unworthy of Gatsby's devotion, but, as played by Field in a rather charmless manner, I had to wonder exactly what was the fascination that Gatsby found in her. Even the film's photography of Field seems unflattering much of the time. I've seen this actress, respected for her stage work, do good work on screen (Of Mice and Men and Kings Row come to mind, in particular) but this film is definitely not one of her shining moments. Still, the film has handsome production values (even if they pale beside those of the Robert Redford version of 1974) to make it worth a view. I'm not certain that Ladd fans (those few still around, that is) will be comfortable with his casting here, though. Hearing Ladd repeatingly calling people "Old Sport" does sound a little odd and unnatural, despite the actor's game performance. Unlike Redford, though, Ladd is convincing as someone who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. The Great Gatsby is one of a number of Ladd films recently released on DVD in fine looking prints by Via Vision Entertainment, an Australian company. 2.5 out of 4

You do sort of wonder about Julia's past love life and relationships or whatever. "So....you specialize in rare blood disorders. Do you think there's much of a future in that?"

Barnabas wasn't an easy guy to live with!

Actually there are a lot of DARK SHADOWS fans out there who did want Barnabas and Julia to end up together. I think they made better best friends myself.

Paul McCartney, Joan Jett, Elton John Remember Charlie Watts: “The Most Elegant and Dignified Drummer in Rock and Roll” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/charlie-watts-dead-musicians-react-1235002449/

He was flawed from the start. Guilt complex. He DID look at the money but his mind saw $150,000 instead of $150 due to delusions of grandeur. He took a few drinks and a had a lambent drinking problem that transformed into alcoholic psychosis. The psychologist wasn't real. She was in his mind, the agent of his guilt. His young wife was a realistic reality check for him, but also an angel. She restored him to sanity by bringing him down, then rescued him at the end. He will not go back on the con because the whole affair has become a nightmare. Nightmare Alley.

Educating Rita (1983) Mona Lisa (1986) two with Michael Caine

Wednesday August 25, 2021 Jane Wyman Summer Under the Stars on TCM bad men of missouri cheyenne brother rat crime by night larceny inc. a kiss in the dark stage fright so big johnny belinda miracle in the rain the yearling the story of will rogers three guys named mike

Family Plot 1976

Green ones used to be.

Her professional acting name was Shirley Grayson (born Shirley Grossman.) Story is Sam always called her "Grayson" so she just changed to Grayson Hall. I sort of like it. They were married at the time of her death.

A resume also includes the stage. I bet even Tom Hanks at some point in his life appeared in Fiddler...somewhere. I think Netflix has a version of Fiddler in the works that takes place on a submarine where Tevye battles aliens while trying to marry off one his daughters to a boxer. 🤫

I've read some things Matthew wrote about the show and his parents. He frequently visited the set, became friends with a number of the cast, read lines at night with his mother and collated carbon copies of scripts for his father. He said there definitely was a cap on number of speaking actors, but that it was per week. So, if a show was cast heavy early in the week by Friday his father occasionally had an actor roam around, alone, silently, running from something. (And Thayer David had, unsurprisingly, an absolutely enormous appetite. )

He was gorgeous in Razors but I love his voice especially. His lady friend Mary Roblee stated that he would read Byron to her in front of a fire in his NYC penthouse. What a visual, lucky lady!

Yes, I've always said that Dark Shadows actors gave great jawline.

Well, the slowest, anyway.

One of my favorite things about the pre-Barnabas episodes (I actually like them quite a bit) are the scenes at The Blue Whale --- especially Carolyn's dancing.

Yes, Andy Razaf was definitely a past master of highly suggestive lyrics, not only in this song and "Honeysuckle Rose," but perhaps especially in "My Handy Man": Now whoever said a good man was hard to find Positively, absolutely sure was blind 'Cause I just found the best man that ever was And here's just a few of the things that he does, ow He shakes my ashes, Greases my griddle, Churns my butter, And he strokes my fiddle, aw My man, is such a handy man Now he threads my needle, And he creams my wheat, Heats my heater, And he chops my meat, he's a mess, My man, is such a handy man Now I don't care if you believe it or not, He's a mighty nice man to have around, 'Cause when my furnace gets too hot, mm He's right there to turn my damper down, For everything, that man of mine's got a scheme And honey it's amazing the way he handles my machine My man, is such a handyman (oh that man is a mess ow) He flaps my flapjacks, Cleans off the table, Feeds the horses in my stable, My man, is such a handyman And do you know, sometimes he's up, way before dawn, Busy cleaning the rough edges off my lawn, My man, is such a handyman Now, he never has a single word to say, While he's working hard (poor soul), And I'd give anything if you could see the way, He handles my front yard, aw Now my ice never gets a chance to melt away, 'Cause he sees that I get a nice fresh piece everyday, My man, is such a handyman ------------------------------------ P. S. the first line of "Kitchen Man" is "Madame Bucks was quite deluxe" (i.e. she was well-to-do); the ninth line is "I love his cabbage, crave his hash"

"Guess who??"

I'd argue that Stage Door is Hepburn's best. She and Ginger are perfect together.

I'm a fan of Dragonwyck, but I'd argue that his role in Laura was superior. Just seemed to suit him so well. And yes, Sanders had a rather strange, up-down career. He excelled in things like All About Eve and The Picture of Dorian Gray, but did a fair amount of schlock, too. One think I've realized as I've aged is that, at some point, you indeed just do it "for the meal, instead of the reel." Ray Milland in Frogs is a good example. The same guy who could play the suave husband in Dial M ends up in a swamp house surrounded by evil frogs? Yikes! But, I'm assuming he got paid!

WATERSHIP DOWN (1978)

The Pirate

Richard Burton is out of control in . . . THE MEDUSA TOUCH! Tele-kinesis! HAMMERSMITH IS OUT (1972) Taylor, Burton, Beau Bridges, Peter Ustinov

Charles, Vera, played by Corale Browne in "Auntie Mame"

STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET (1960)

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) and THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS (1987) Two movies starring Michael J. Fox

Of course, it's a fake cake and the hot guy is dead--but you can't have everything!

Just stumbled across this site. Might be interesting: http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/

For all the people who said Margaret Dumont "never got" Groucho's jokes, she appeared quite tickled at his jokes onscreen, except when she had to act High Dudgeon at his insults, of course. (Watch the way she breaks up at Groucho's bad puns in his Animal Crackers "safari" speech.) But Groucho confessed she never did quite get the pre-code "risqué'" jokes he'd sneak in: "Oh, Rufus!" "All I can offer you is a Rufus over your head..." - Duck Soup

My pal Daphne is the spitting image of Divine. Has just about the same temperament too. "I TOLD YOU I WANTED CHA CHA HEELS!!!!"

I always loved this scene. Mike and Liz were totally in a "****" state of mind watching her act, and I just know that Dinah was enjoying putting them on. In some ways I think Virginia Weidler stole the show in here, not an easy feat considering the talented cast she was working along side with. Of course Roland Young's Uncle Willie was quite the scene stealer as well.

Warners was always the Hollywood studio, certainly during the '30s, most concerned with social inequities, going back to Public Enemy and I Am A Fugitive. Captain Blood, aside from the adventurous aspect of its story line, is also about injustice and oppression. Robin Hood, Technicolor fantasy escapism that it may have been, was also continuing that studio tradition. "it's injustice I hate, not the Normans."

I was watching The Mark of Zorro last night and thought the same thing -- the movie would have maintained more excitement if the duel was closer to the actual ending. The uprising is just one big crowd scene to me. The Adventures of Robin Hood also seems to have a much tighter script and more and better character actors. Claude Raines is deliciously feline and effete as Prince John, whereas Edward Bromberg is just a buffoon. The Mark of Zorro is definitely sexier and more adult in some respects, all that playing around with definitions of masculinity, which are quite fun and well-played by Power and Rathbone (who presents as the typical alpha male). I think TARH takes the social justice aspect of the outlaw story more seriously, all those explicit scenes of peasants being abused and Robin's courting of Marian by showing her the oppression of the people.

Two of my favourite films, having seen both of them for the first time on TV when I was a kid. I watched both of them again earlier this year. Robin Hood has the bigger reputation but The Mark of Zorro is a splendid film of its kind, with an often witty screenplay, great black and white photography, a rousing musical score by Alfred Newman and, of course, that cast, all perfect in their roles. The fast paced choreography of the fencing match between Power and Rathbone remains, along with the duels in Robin Hood and Scaramouche (1952), one of the three greatest that the movies have given us, in my opinion. The only real flaw of Zorro is that the duel does not come at the end of the film. There is 15 minutes to go after it with all that business with the peons rising up against the soldiers and that mass fight with swords and clubs between them seeming quite anti-climactic. They should have had the uprising take place but then have Power and Rathbone encounter one another either during it or after it for their classic fencing encounter. So, Basil, any comment on the fact that you always lost your screen duels to actors you could out fence in real life?

From "The Maladjused Jester" (The Court Jester, 1955): I bought a little gun and I learned to shoot I bought a little a horn and I learned to toot Now I can shoot and toot ain't that cute?

and Basil Rathbone was an excellent swordsman probably much, much better than either Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power.

Some good news while waiting for the conclusion of Summer Under the Stars - The remaining Noir Alley schedule for 2021 has been posted: https://noiralley.tcm.com/schedule More good news - there are no Noir Alley repeats scheduled through the end of the year. Here is the list of films (Saturday evening dates shown): 09-04 Cloudburst (1951) robert preston 09-11 Drive a Crooked Road (1954) mickey rooney 09-18 Human Desire (1954) glenn ford, gloria grahame 09-25 Hell Bound (1957) (tcm premiere) john russell 10-02 The Glass Wall (1953) vittorio gassman, gloria grahame 10-09 Brighton Rock (1948) richard attenborough 10-16 The Dark Past (1948) william holden, nina foch 10-23 La bestia debe morir (1952) 'The Beast Must Die' (tcm premiere) 10-30 Strange Fascination (1952) (tcm premiere) cleo moore, hugo haas 11-06 Five Steps to Danger (1956) ruth roman, sterling hayden 11-13 The Lineup (1958) eli wallach 11-20 Johnny O'Clock (1947) dick powell 11-27 Tight Spot (1955) ginger rogers, brian keith 12-04 The Unsuspected (1947) claude rains, audrey totter 12-11 Cruel Gun Story (1964) (japanese) 12-18 Blast of Silence (1961) allen baron