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Wider than a mile?

You should see A Little Romance (1979), then.

So did James Cagney.

Perhaps not Let's Make It Legal.

They probably wish they could forget you. /sarcasm

Worked for Ted Kennedy, more or less. And it's been a while since I've seen Mystery Street, but I was thinking about how you can get pregnant even if you only see a guy once. (By the same token, Betty Hutton in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek gets pregnant within hours of her wedding to a man she'd never met before.) Not having seen the movie in a while, I'm not certain how consistent that is with the rest of the plot.

Are you certain it's going to be on? My box guide has the four-hour version of Greed followed by Solaris, with the first picture of Monday morning being whatever's scheduled at 7:30.

X, Y, and Z, aka. Zee & Co. (1972) Zee Blakeley (Elizabeth Taylor) and her husband Robert (Michael Caine) are playing table tennis over the opening credits and making exaggerated facial expressions of joy, which should be a warning right off the bat that the movie is a disaster waiting to happen. It turns out that the Blakeley's marriage ought to be ending in divorce, so Robert decides to have an affair with a widow he met at a party, Stella (Susannah York). Zee finds out, and doesn't like it, so she decides to be catty in a whole bunch of ways, including attempting suicide and really coming between Robert and Stella. All the while the characters partake in fabulously tacky 70s style and (for the women) hairdos while delivering tawdry one-liners. Margaret Leighton, however, tops Taylor and York in the bad hair department: 5/10 for being so audaciously bad.

George Brent and Mary Astor in The Great Lie were only married for about a weekend, and that was enough to get her knocked up. And as much as I like Mystery Street, I don't think I'd call it a noir.

There was probably a good 2-hour version of Greed to be made, but Stroheim didn't let MGM do that. I just hope TCM is running the theatrical release and not the four-hour monstrosity they usually show. TCM's online schedule page and the box guides don't agree.

(Apologies for the double post; I went back a page to respond to something and it posted my response without updating the thread.)

I enjoyed it, and really enjoy the Dogville spoof The Dogway Melody. Apparently Warner Archive put out all the Dogville shorts in a set. Also, in The Broadway Melody, watch for James Gleason in the opening scene (the one I think most clearly has a silent pedigree).

The Life of a Korean Spammer.

Does it go well with regular wine? /ducking

Don't Lie (1942). Late-era "Our Gang" short in which Buckwheat claims to have seen an ape (he really did since one escaped from the circus) and none of the others believe him. No female Gang member in this one. The jokes are old hat and not very good. 5/10.

Is it the stuff dreams are made of?

MacLaine and Martin also wind up together in What a Way to Go!

Some years back there was a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire who got a question something like, "The novel As Time Goes By tells the hypothetical story of what happened to Rick and Ilsa after the end of what classic movie?" The contestant looked at the answers, said, "I know there was an Ilsa in The Sound of Music, so I'll say The Sound of Music, final answer." Oops.

I was under the impression that Cartoon Network/Boomerang had the rights to the MGM/WB cartoons. I'd assume the rights situations for shorts after the studio era are a dickens to take care of. Even more so for foreign shorts.

I just watched From the Terrace (1960), in which Loy plays an alcoholic (must have been all that drinking with William Powell) mother to Paul Newman, although her character disappears after about a third of the movie. It's one of those hilariously turgid melodramas that seem to have been common in the late 50s and early 60s. Not very good and laughable at times. And Elmer Bernstein's score is didactically intrusive, consistently swelling to ridiculous levels when the audience is expected to feel strong emotion. 5/10

Hell, there's even a lot more post-production in game shows these days.

You can pick your friends, And you can pick your nose, But you can't pick your friend's nose.

If memory serves, there's a severe jury-tampering climax, isn't there? Or am I getting it mixed up with another newspaper movie of the era? I think it also has Grace Hayle as the fat lady yet again.

Actually, it's the article that makes the claim for Hammondsport. I knew it was a town out there, but I couldn't remember which one. The Finger Lakes are lovely: my sister went to Ithaca College. Go further west (not in the Finger Lakes, of course), and you get to Jamestown, the home of Lucille Ball.

My local liquor store (can only get wine in liquor stores in New York, and they can't sell beer) has a tiny selection of boxes of stuff that you can also get in the moderately-priced magnums, and a whole wall full of Franzia and Almaden. No Taylor wine, however. And to get it back to movies, I didn't realize that Taylor Wines was founded in Hammondsport, NY, the same town that's often considered to be the Bedford Falls of It's a Wonderful Life.