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I usually save pizza or spaghetti and meatballs for *Moonstruck* or when I'm watching gangster night on the Bio channel...

Beautiful print of Davis in *The Little Foxes,* Mongo. Love the textures in that photo. And Alicia Rhett is 96 and Elaine Stritch is 86! You go, girls... Stuart Whitman is 83!I am so glad he's still here. Loved that pistol packin' Fred Astaire in his golf hat and sports shirt! It's a hoot! Thanks for finding and posting these gems, Mongo!

Did you ever see 1980's *Heat and Dust* ? That was a Julie Christie-Bohemian-kinda- ramblin'-gal-kinda-movie. It has a flashback to her Great-Aunt Olivia and how she is searching to find out about her scandalous past, and how Julie Christie's character's existence parallels what happens to her. I liked it. I think it's a good companion piece to *Out of Africa*, especially if you are having friends over for movie night and making lots of spicy Indian dishes like Pork Bindaloo or something. I'm into theme nights...

This is so fantastic! Leslie Caron, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, Shirley Jones...Kevin Brownlow!!!!

*IT'S OFFICIAL!* *I just received this announcement by email!* Leslie Caron and Other Special Guests to Appear at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival TCM is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival line up: * Leslie Caron will be on hand for the opening night world premiere of the 60th anniversary restoration of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) * Debbie Reynolds will introduce a screening of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (1964) * Jane Powell will appear at screenings of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and ROYAL WEDDING (1951) * Shirley Jones will introduce CAROUSEL (1956) * In celebration of filmmaker Roger Corman's 85th birthday, he will host a special screening of his cult classic THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) * Filmmaker, author and historian Kevin Brownlow will introduce Erich von Stroheim's silent drama THE MERRY WIDOW (1925), with the Dutch composer Maud Nelissen performing the North American premiere of her original score live with a ten-person orchestra * The world premiere of the 60th anniversary digital restoration of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) * The West Coast premiere of the newly restored LA DOLCE VITA (1960), presented in partnership with The Film Foundation and Gucci * A screening of SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) as part of our tribute to George and Ira Gershwin

It's Official, Ladies...and Gentleman! I just received my email announcement. Leslie Caron and Other Special Guests to Appear at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival TCM is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival line up: * Leslie Caron will be on hand for the opening night world premiere of the 60th anniversary restoration of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) * Debbie Reynolds will introduce a screening of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (1964) * Jane Powell will appear at screenings of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and ROYAL WEDDING (1951) * Shirley Jones will introduce CAROUSEL (1956) * In celebration of filmmaker Roger Corman's 85th birthday, he will host a special screening of his cult classic THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) * Filmmaker, author and historian Kevin Brownlow will introduce Erich von Stroheim's silent drama THE MERRY WIDOW (1925), with the Dutch composer Maud Nelissen performing the North American premiere of her original score live with a ten-person orchestra * The world premiere of the 60th anniversary digital restoration of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) * The West Coast premiere of the newly restored LA DOLCE VITA (1960), presented in partnership with The Film Foundation and Gucci * A screening of SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) as part of our tribute to George and Ira Gershwin

*It's Official!* Leslie Caron and Other Special Guests to Appear at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival TCM is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival line up: * Leslie Caron will be on hand for the opening night world premiere of the 60th anniversary restoration of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) * Debbie Reynolds will introduce a screening of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (1964) * Jane Powell will appear at screenings of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and ROYAL WEDDING (1951) * Shirley Jones will introduce CAROUSEL (1956) * In celebration of filmmaker Roger Corman's 85th birthday, he will host a special screening of his cult classic THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) * Filmmaker, author and historian Kevin Brownlow will introduce Erich von Stroheim's silent drama THE MERRY WIDOW (1925), with the Dutch composer Maud Nelissen performing the North American premiere of her original score live with a ten-person orchestra * The world premiere of the 60th anniversary digital restoration of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) * The West Coast premiere of the newly restored LA DOLCE VITA (1960), presented in partnership with The Film Foundation and Gucci * A screening of SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) as part of our tribute to George and Ira Gershwin **THANK HEAVEN!!!!** *Leslie Caron will be appearing...Here is a review of Leslie Caron's autobiography ...which appeared earlier in this thread...* "Boxed, Like Proust" is one of my favorite lines from Auntie Mame, the film with Rosalind Russell. And I love to read biographies and autobiographies. I hope others might want to post a review of film-related materials they've read or enjoyed. Leslie Caron's memoir, Thank Heaven, published in 2009 by Viking Penguin, is a book that found its way into my bookshelf in a weak moment, but it seems I'm always having weak moments when it comes to books. One of my guiltiest pleasures is reading, and I especially have a penchant for volumes and volumes written by members of the Hollywood elite, glitterati, show-boaters, grand-standers, and the lucky who just happened to be at the right drugstore at the right time. For Ms. Caron, it seemed she was in the right tutu at the moment her pirouette of happenstance graced her with chance. Beginning with her early childhood, in France, she takes us on a journey concerning the downsizing of her family's holdings, partly related to the coming war, and partly related to a court case in which her paternal grandfather, Marcel Caron, would be posthumously exonerated by President Charles De Gaulle. When her father was demobilized from the French army where he served as a medic in 1940, she and her family moved to the Latin Quarter in Paris so that her father could reopen his pharmacy, and the deprivations and difficulties of World War II and German occupation changed her life forever. The severe rationing of soap, a commodity currently much taken for granted, is a reminder of her mother's ability to salvage "wafer-thin slices of soap in a glass, adding water to bind the leftovers together." Many years after the war when she stays in a grand hotel, she can't help "snitching" a perfumed bar from the hotel bathroom because "I know that the maids will throw it away after my departure." Caron recounts her brother Aimery's escape from a boarding school in the Alps, reminiscent of Louis Malle's Aur Revoir les Enfants, the shelling of her family's farmhouse, and the relief when the war was finally over. At the age of eleven, Caron began taking ballet classes once a week at Madame Preobrajenska's, housed in the Studio Wacker, the same studio where Zelda Fitzgerald studied and wrote about in her Save Me The Waltz. Preobrajenska had escaped the Russian revolution and was a legendary figure, a prima ballerina at the Maryinsky Theater. Caron claimed she progressed "slowly," but under the ambitious shadow of her mother, Caron quickly decided her path and stated to her family that "I want to become a professional ballet dancer." At fourteen, she entered the national ballet school, Le Conservatoire. Her travels with Roland Petit as director of Le Conservatoire led the young ballerina to adventures in Egypt, Scotland, and many other international destinations. Gene Kelly saw Leslie Caron dance at the Ballets des Champs-Elysees, and a year or so later, he came calling. "I'm going to do a film called An American in Paris," he said. A screen test was eventually made, and Caron's serious "classical ballet career" was all but over. Her marriages, her children, her highly-publiced affair with Warren Beatty, her London parties, her renovation of "Auberge La Lucarne aux Chouettes" and the lack of French filmakers interested in her talents make for an interesting jaunt through the countrysides of Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Proudly claiming to have written these memoirs on her own, the story doesn't suffer. There are moments when reading Caron's memoir where it is obvious that her native French has influenced her words more than her adopted English, but it is a lovely distraction.

It's Official! Leslie Caron and Other Special Guests to Appear at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival TCM is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival line up: * Leslie Caron will be on hand for the opening night world premiere of the 60th anniversary restoration of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) * Debbie Reynolds will introduce a screening of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (1964) * Jane Powell will appear at screenings of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and ROYAL WEDDING (1951) * Shirley Jones will introduce CAROUSEL (1956) * In celebration of filmmaker Roger Corman's 85th birthday, he will host a special screening of his cult classic THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) * Filmmaker, author and historian Kevin Brownlow will introduce Erich von Stroheim's silent drama THE MERRY WIDOW (1925), with the Dutch composer Maud Nelissen performing the North American premiere of her original score live with a ten-person orchestra * The world premiere of the 60th anniversary digital restoration of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) * The West Coast premiere of the newly restored LA DOLCE VITA (1960), presented in partnership with The Film Foundation and Gucci * A screening of SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) as part of our tribute to George and Ira Gershwin

*IT"S OFFICIAL!!!!* Leslie Caron and Other Special Guests to Appear at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival TCM is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival line up: * Leslie Caron will be on hand for the opening night world premiere of the 60th anniversary restoration of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) * Debbie Reynolds will introduce a screening of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (1964) * Jane Powell will appear at screenings of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and ROYAL WEDDING (1951) * Shirley Jones will introduce CAROUSEL (1956) * In celebration of filmmaker Roger Corman's 85th birthday, he will host a special screening of his cult classic THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) * Filmmaker, author and historian Kevin Brownlow will introduce Erich von Stroheim's silent drama THE MERRY WIDOW (1925), with the Dutch composer Maud Nelissen performing the North American premiere of her original score live with a ten-person orchestra * The world premiere of the 60th anniversary digital restoration of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) * The West Coast premiere of the newly restored LA DOLCE VITA (1960), presented in partnership with The Film Foundation and Gucci * A screening of SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) as part of our tribute to George and Ira Gershwin THANK YOU, TCM!

These are great! I hope to hear more about them in April....

Shirley is mainly known for her no-nonsense pixie-doo, but she is in an Oscar-winning project filmed in Texas on TCM tonight.... ...and deserves special BIG HAIR THREAD recognition for talent... MacLaine...&p=shirley[/i]maclaine++images&oid=8ec452e69158e102768cb0d49ac583b4&fr2=&no=47&tt=28300&b=43&ni=21&sigr=12kkg60n3&sigi=11m7i3as6&sigb=13l3ul8cn&.crumb=9xQn39aX5Iu] I think this was around the time *The Trouble With Harry* was filmed with Hitchcock and John Forsythe. She looked so waif-like yet troubled in this shot, I just had to include it. It is precious. There is such a twinkle in those pair of eyes...was something going on here? Lovely spirit of a survivor!

Just had to chime in on the Julie Christie thing.... Hair to chip a tooth on... Free-spirited Bardot phase... Update: Oscars 2008 in a good-looking survival kit ... Hope I look that great at 67!!!

Karen Black has always been an advocate for BIG HAIR. *Five Easy Pieces*....tonight.

O.K. Jack Burley and I vote for Rod Taylor! I don't know the status of his health, but he is 81. *Inglorious Basterds* (Winston Churchill for gosh's sakes!), *Giant*, *Raintree County*, *Sunday in New York*, *The Time Machine*.... *THE BIRDS*... anyone else? anyone? Bueller, Bueller....

I would love it if Rod Taylor were to grace us before a screening of *The Time Machine* or *Sunday in* *New York* !

I know that patience is a virtue, but I am quite anxious to know what's on the bill too... I've put a call in to Rod Taylor. I hope some of the Morlocks will be attending...

Thank you so much! I'm glad you stopped by... I so enjoy hunting for fun photos with fancy costumes and unusual coifs...

Tudor Do's and Tudor Don't's for February 1st... Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn in *Anne of the Thousand Days*... Bujold[/i]Anne+Boleyn.jpg] Elsa Lancaster as Anne of Cleves from *The Private Life of Henry the VIII*... Lanchester[/i]1933.jpg] Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn in *The Private LIfe of Henry VIII...* Claire Bloom in *Richard III.*..

Looking forward to meeting you, too, Jack. In the flesh....

Hoo-Wee! I can't wait! This is indeed wonderful news. The media has officially been alerted!!! Yay!

I just heard about it last year. I couldn't believe it either. But it seemed to be an "open" secret in Hollywood, evidently.

January 31st is Jean Simmons birthday! TCM will air six films... (1929-2010)

Ham, they say his lovely locks were last lopped about 7 or 8 years ago. Troy Polamalu information on the Steeler's website: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=4474 Latest information on his BIG HAIR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Polamalu You Go, #43!!

Ava Gardner:

She was so cute and snappy in *Funny Girl*. I wish we had enjoyed more screen time with Anne Francis in that epic..