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I always think of the love icosahedron in Love Finds Andy Hardy.

He should have dyed his hair like Kim Novak in Vertigo.

Intolerance (1916). Four stories from various eras that all purport to show the disastrous consequences of intolerance. Didactic slog that only gets praised because it's not Birth of a Nation. With the exception of the oversized Babylon sets, everything Intolerance did technically, Birth of a Nation did better a year earlier. But Birth has the wrong views, so critics have become loathe to praise it while because Intolerance was the response, it gets praised to high heaven. Three Ages and even Noah's Ark did the multiple eras thing better in terms of story-telling. 5/10.

Sea Devils (1953). Rock Hudson plays a smuggler in the Channel Islands in 1800 who is asked to transport a woman (Yvonne de Carlo) to France, a risky proposition since France and England are at war. The audience, but not Hudson, is told that de Carlo is going to France on a spy mission for England. Hudson sees de Carlo and gets the impression that she's a spy for France, and shanghais her back to the Channel Islands. All sorts of complications ensue. It's entertaining enough and competently made, but nothing special. 6/10. IMDb claims this is 91 minutes, but the TCM copy ran 87 minutes, for which I'm glad since the box guide had it in a two-hour slot but thanks to TCM's scheduling they had it in a 90-minute slot. I was worried I'd miss the last couple of minutes.

So did your daughter Wolfgang marry a boy named Sue?

To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, "I never trust a man unless I've got his peccary in my pocket."

I think I'll Take Sweden is on this week. [pauses to check the schedule] 4:00 PM Saturday. Terrible, terrible generation gap movie.

Black Christmas used that conceit earlier.

I find this funny considering the whole thing is acting.

I've always gotten a kick out of the romantic pairing in The First Traveling Saleslady between Carol Channing and... Clint Eastwood.

Why not?

Wolfgang Puck.

How about Notorious? After all it has Claude RAINS.

I don't know if there was really any bad guy in Zazie dans le métro, but that was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe some of the Shirley Temple movies. Baby Take a Bow for example?

So it could have a Kevin Spacey vibe instead. And you have an interesting definition of comedy if you consider The Bad Seed a comedy.

Actually it's on at 10, unless you think Jules et Jim is either entertaining or for general audiences.

Rose Marie, the child vaudeville star best known for her five years playing Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died aged 94.

Would you rather watch WC Fields as Poppy?

I like her in The Big Heat.

It's a comic western. Entertaining enough but not earth-shattering.

Didn't Bogdanovich host a season of The Essentials before it was Robert Osborne talking with somebody?

Four if you count What Price Hollywood.

What's Grand Theft Auto?

Somehow I don't expect to see a live version of Hair.