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I think topless Andrews is the least creepy thing in that scene. And the movie really goes downhill in the third act. It's not quite a nude scene, but I'd suggest Andy Devine doing a cannonball into a swimming pool in Island in the Sky.

I don't remember exactly when in the movie it comes, but Tracy and Bennett are talking, and tracy (if memory serves) brings up having seen a strange movie called Strange Innertube, which is of course a play on the then-recent movie Strange Interlude. The conceit of Strange Interlude was that we could hear the characters' thoughts in voiceover, so we get a similar scene where they talk to each other while we also get to hear their real thoughts, which are not what they're saying to each other.

As for Me and My Gal, I like the Strange Innertube scene. The father who can only make eye gestures makes for a ridiculous climax.

I think the first movie I saw Faith Domergue in was The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. [pauses to look of Domergue filmography] No; it must have been It Came from Beneath the Sea.

Since I have to edit out a bunch of multiple posts and can't delete them, here's some more Mancini not covered by Andy Williams:

I was copying something from Page 2 to respond to, and when I hit submit post, it didn't take me to Page 3 to show my reply. Hence the multiple posts. Here's some Henry Mancini not covered by Andy Williams:

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Well, I was having a little Dargo-style fun.

Cover or not? (I'd say they're arrangements, not covers.)

Not always: Actually, quite a few clips of Mercer singing appeared in the documentary TCM ran on him several years back.

I'm always reminded of the scene in Day for Night where they're trying to get the cat to drink the milk that's been left outside the door.

I hated the book. Jon Krakauer came across as self-indulgent by including his tedious psychodrama into it, with the main character being not much better. I also much preferred Anatoly Boukreev's book about the ill-fated Everest climbs that Krakauer wrote about in Into Thin Air.

My uncle and grandfather were both projectionists. When Tootsie came up to our neck of the woods to film the "upstate" scenes, my uncle met Jessica Lange. Grandma didn't know who Jessica Lange was.

I think it is a TCM premiere. And a darn good movie to boot, regardless of whether it's in 2D or 3D. Or Rhonda Fleming in 34D.

Dick Clark and a bunch of other people played themselves in The Phynx.

Watch Key Largo for Edward G. Robinson's bathtub scene. or Island in the Sky for Andy Devine doing a cannonball into a swimming pool.

So they only show six of the disciples instead of all twelve?

The bit about 57 card-carrying Communists, for one.

Debbie Reynolds wasn't the actress from hell?

The Sheik is actually on at 12:15, I believe. The Bad and the Beautiful won't fit in a two-hour slot, especially with Annette Bening and Eddie Muller talking about it.

I'm more amused by the newspaper headline about the hurricane striking the Midwest.

I assume those billboards were put up by Burma Shave?

Doll Face (1945). Vivian Blaine plays a character based on Gypsy Rose Lee (who gets a story credit under her real name Louise Hovick), who wants to perform on Broadway but isn't considered cultured enough. So her boyfriend (Dennis O'Keefe) gets the idea to have an author (Stephen Dunne credited as Michael Dunne) ghost-write Blaine's autobiography. Said boyfriend then gets the mistaken impression that she's falling in love with the author. Carmen Miranda plays Chita Chula in an Eve Arden role as the wisecracking female sidekick who actually has a lot of common sense; Miranda gets just one musical number at the end. Competent, but nothing special. It's amazing that they only gave Miranda one song, and gave a substantial role to the ultra-bland Perry Como. Miranda, however, gets the movie's best scene when O'Keefe tells Chita that she'd be a hit on Broadway and become the next Carmen Miranda. Chita gets rather offended by the idea. 6/10