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Technically, that's an opinion, not a fact.

Spellbound is, of course, full of symbolism, with my favorite (simply because it's so laughable) being the kiss where all the doors open.

You might want to search out the music video for Collins' "I Wish It Would Rain Down", which has some classic movie references: I think this might be the one I have in mind (I didn't watch it):

As somebody who graduated high school in 1990, I can tell you there was nothing wretched about 80s music. (Well, maybe New Kids on the Block.)

I too looked it up on Wikipedia, which I think says John Astin is turning 86 tomorrow. Wikipedia also says Sean Astin did a paternity test in the 90s, and it turned out his biological father was neither John (who adopted him) nor Desi, but Patty's second husband (they had a very brief marriage) whose name escapes me.

My mom had Alzheimer's, and I laughed at the joke. Lighten up.

Each of them was turned on by the other's voice.

Lightning Strikes Twice. The movie starts off with an apparent murder, followed by presumably two more because two cops fall through a grate into the sewers, a running gag which inexplicably runs several times, never getting funny. Cut to some rich playboy type who wakes up with a hangover to find that two strangers injured in a car accident are recuperating his his house, which is a problem because his fiancée and his aunt are supposed to visit. The murderer never tries to make an escape. This 1934 movie is supposed to be a funny murder mystery or something, but it was so unbelievably bad that I actually switched it off halfway through; I haven't erased it from my DVR yet however. Ben Lyon plays the playboy; Thelma Todd the fiancée; Pert Kelton the woman who was in the car accident; and Laura Hope Crews the aunt. I think they all made this only because they were under contract. 1/10, only because I don't want to give anything a 0.

There's a scene in Night Nurse where one of the maids goes on and on about an old wives' tale about how a milk bath would be a good thing for a kid suffering from malnutrition. Barbara Stanwyck downplays the idea since it's not like they have the money to get the milk anyway. But she mentions the story in passing to her gangster boyfriend, and the next scene has the gangster knocking over a dairy shop. There's something thoroughly absurd about the whole idea, but it's the sort of thing that makes this pre-Code so much fun.

And then there are the movies where characters dislike mirrors. The Ivor Novello character in the Hitchcock The Lodger wants a mirror to be turned to face the wall, if memory serves. (Or is it just the portraits he wants facing the wall? It's been a while since I've seen that.) Tallulah Bankhead in Fanatic (aka Die! Die! My Darling!) hates mirrors, among a whole host of other dislikes.

Abar tries to hitch-hike by showing off his legs?

Next week brings Abar, the First Black Superman, which sounds hilariously bad.

Or in Hot Spell....

Actress who was friends with Grace Kelly and played Herodias in King of Kings dies at 88. It's been a while since I've seen Night People. Fox has kept that one in the vault for years.

BTW, Spence, you need to fix your keyboard. Caps Lock seems stuck half the time, and asterisks randomly show up in bizarre places. It makes your posts difficult to read.

Charlton Heston also took part in Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington: As he told Robert Osborne in his Private Screenings interview, both the Republicans and the Democrats approached him to run for office, although obviously not in the same time frame.

Eugenia H asked: Oh yes! In addition to Tales of Manhattan which was already mentioned, Fox would make O. Henry's Full House (with the stories introduced by John Steinbeck!) in the early 50s. MGM made It's a Big Country which is interesting at times but has typical MGM problems (Gene Kelly is cast as a Greek ice-cream shop owner!). Over in the UK there were Quartet, Trio, and Encore, all three of which were based on stories by Somerset Maugham. Maugham appears in the first; I don't think he's in the other two. The Brits also made Easy Money about how winning the lottery changes people.

And Glenda gets to deliver another of her great pre-Code one-liners.

There's a two-reel silent version of Ben-Hur.

Since I have the schedules going back to mid-2007 I did a search. TCM ran it March 13, 2013 as part of a night of films directed by Lionel Rogosin. I'm pretty certain TCM has shown Rogosin's Come Back, Africa since; I don't think On the Bowery has re-aired. (I have the schedules as Microsoft Word documents, so I had to search on both the title On the Bowery and Rogosin to see which schedule had both. I think only one did.)

Vickie Lester There's also F. Hugh Herbert, who is not the character actor we all know and love, but a screenwriter.

Herman Wouk, who wrote The Winds of War (and, if memory serves, The Caine Mutiny) is still alive at 100.

They should do a double bill of Lust for Life and Death Wish.

It's a remake of 1933's Goodbye Again, starring Warren William and Joan Blondell. I never cared for the character Warren William plays in this one, and haven't seen Honeymoon for Three as a result.

Mahogany (1975). Diana Ross plays Tracy, a secretary to a department-store manager (Nina Foch!) who dreams of becoming a fashion designer and getting out of the Chicago ghetto. She meets community activist Brian (Billy Dee Williams) and falls in love with him, but it's fashion photographer Sean (Anthony Perkins) who could help make her a successful designer and model even though she doesn't love him. So far, so good, but then Sean convinces Tracy to follow him to Rome, where she does become famous, but where the movie also goes completely around the bend as Ross has to wear a series of increasingly outrageous outfits as she and the rest of the cast deliver terrible dialog and ham it up. For overall value I'd give it a 6/10; for the camp value I'd give it a 10/10. Oh, and there's the memorable theme song.