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Sal Mineo as Lawrence Sherman in Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965).

Mary Astor was in Dodsworth with Ruth Chatterton.

I remember seeing it when it was released, at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. The space was much more impressive than the rather dull film. Very disappointing.

Some bright spots in July: Ah! Wilderness is being shown on July 4, which is appropriate, as it features some nice July 4 scenes. Two good spy movies: Confidential Agent, worthy if only for Katina Paxinou's nastiness; and I Was an American Spy, one of Ann Dvorak's best. (Btw, there does seem to be a focus on the Canadian wilderness on May 28, a few days after Victoria Day, which I think is a holiday in Canada. So perhaps TCM feels that's enough about Canada for a while!)

More Sam Jaffe: Lost Horizon (1937) Gunga Din (1939)

More with Ernest Gold scores: Exodus (1961) Ship of Fools (1965)

On Svengoolie tomorrow, May 22, 2021: I know nothing about this movie (aka King Kong Escapes):

Mary Poppins (1964) Next: Seaweed

History of the World, Part I (1981) Next: Evil clergy person

Since this seems challenging, how about: Sung in a basement or attic or anywhere in a house!

Freddie Bartholomew was in Lloyd's of London with E.E. Clive.

There will always be a place for Ayllene Gibbons.

5. He played Marlene Dietrich's husband twice, in Blonde Venus (1932) and Angel (1937).

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) Goodfellas (1990) --(Henny Youngman plays himself.)

Dianne Foster was in The Last Hurrah with Anna Lee.

"You Are Woman, I Am Man" -- Funny Girl (1968) -- "Just some dried up toast in a sliver, on the top a little chopped liver." Next: Sung in a basement or attic

More bunnies: Us (2019) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972)

It's deeply insulting to the gay police officers who have worked against great odds for their positions. The defund the police activists are louder, but they are not (I don't think) in the majority in New York City; and I think the June 22 primary will reflect that. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, one of our leading African American candidates for Mayor, has said that "Young white affluent people lead the defund the police movement."

I didn't watch the whole movie, just bits and pieces, then the ending. I agree that just being able to kill the creatures by bullets is rather pedestrian, though they did have a nice way of splattering. Although I missed the part of how the creatures came to exist, I gather it had something to do with the scientist's mind. That sort of reminded me of The Brood, and Samantha Eggar's projected creatures without navels.

New York Times: "L.G.B.T.Q. police officers will not be allowed to participate as a group in the annual march, and organizers said they will rely on private security for their events." Daily News: New York City Pride has told the Gay Officers Action League — which represents officers from the NYPD and other law enforcement organizations — that it is not welcome in the parade, said NYPD Det. Brian Downey, president of the police group. We have a Democratic Primary for Mayor coming up on June 22, which is already super complicated. For the first time in my life, I don't know who I'm going to vote for. There are many candidates, but this year we get to rank them if we want. It's a very motley assortment. I wonder if this issue is going to come up.

We're Not Dressing (1934) Next: Tom Tom

I am deeply saddened and depressed by this ridiculous decision: NYC Pride parade bans police; Gay officers 'disheartened' https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/nyc-pride-police-attend-gay-officers-77714718

Maggie Smith was in A Private Function with Tony Haygarth.

I love the Britcoms and their ancestors, the Carry On films and Ealing comedies. Oddly, two Britcoms that I do not like are Keeping Up Appearances and Fawlty Towers. I love Patricia Routledge in almost anything, but not that series. Though not a Britcom, I'm not a fan of Doc Martin, even though I had dinner with Martin Clunes' mother Daphne many years ago, at the Garrick Club.

And then there's the final scene in Blood Feast (1963), when Egyptian caterer Fuad Ramses runs through the city dump and jumps into the back of a garbage truck to hide from the cops. The truck is just about to leave. The driver, not knowing he has human cargo, shuts the rear loader, scrunching Fuad Ramses. The cops rush up, one of them says: "He died a fitting death, like the garbage he was."