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Also regarding bad weather, there's an autumn thunderstorm in Saboteur.

Who would want to get plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart?

See, I'm a touch typist so I never have this problem. Well, not in English. When I try to type anything in Russian I have to remember where the layout designer put the letters that don't correspond to similar sounds in English. And some of the accent marks can be a pain, too.

Nobody's mentioned Kings Row. And then there's The Brain that Wouldn't Die.

A bunch of expletive-deleted whining about how the movies don't have the political view the critic wants. Artists like to say that art should be "challenging" and "transgressive", but they hate when another artist creates work that challenges them, like Truffaut did to Godard with Day for Night.

"Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, December the Eleventh". Not that anybody in Psycho is celebrating Christmas. There's also snow in Spellbound when they get to the professor's house in Rochester and then to Gabriel Valley. How else is Gregory Peck going to see those lines on white? Why does Marnie go psycho every time she hears thunder?

How about The Postman Rings a Third Time? Then there's the idea that they could make Scream Blacula Scream after the ending of Blacula.

Did I embarrass you?

Despite?

To be fair, Jews' becoming able to partake in mainstream entertainment/vacationing had a lot to do with. That, and the coming of cheap air travel; that I think also has a lot to do with why Atlantic City started going by the wayside. I live on the northern side of the Catskills, so probably a good hour from the old Borscht Belt places. But there's a summer camp here that used to be a Girl Scouts day camp, then got bought by the Boys' and Girls' Clubs of NYC as a place to send poor city kids to get some fresh air for a couple of weeks in the summer. Now it's a summer camp yeshiva for the ultra-orthodox Jews of Crown Heights, who have rather more niche tastes than the sort of Jews who would have gone to the Borscht Belt.

So did I:

Price wasn't a villain in Laura or The Whales of August.

I always used the old-style format, with /reference on the end of the links. In the past few days, that seems to have gone for people pages, although not yet for movie pages. And it's been years since they got rid of the one long list for everybody born on a certain day of the year. Now you're stuck with 50 on a page and having to click through.

In Day for Night, when Jacqueline Bisset's character is giving her press conference, she makes mention about being in "that movie with the car chase", an obvious reference to Bullitt.

Sissi. The romantic plot is insipid and silly, but damn if it isn't a gorgeous movie to watch.

Please don't take my comfits away from me!

For a minute, I thought Dan Aykroyd must have had a bit part in Hot Spell.

How about Timothy Hutton and Mary Tyler Moore screaming at each other while he and Donald Sutherland are putting up a Christmas tree in Ordinary People?

A Lion Is in the Streets (1953). Somebody decided to turn All the King's Men into a comedy. That's not a good thing. James Cagney is hilariously miscast with a bad southern accent, playing a backwoods demagogue. I suppose you could compare this character to Cagney's gangsters, but something about this one seems totally wrong. Then there's the ridiculous courtroom scene and the judge letting Cagney continue his tirade after citing him for contempt. Wouldn't the bailiffs just remove him from the courtroom? And then there's Anne Francis and Barbara Hale fighting an alligator. A hilarious mess. 5/10

Shouldn't it be Miracle on 69th Street? Edit: Apparently there was a direct-to-vieo made back in the 90s. (That's an IMDb link, so there's nothing dirty as far as I can tell.)

I've never actually seen Elvira Madigan.

At least he had a better voice for the part than Marlon Brando.

He wasn't happy about having to ditch it for Mutiny on the Bounty, was he?

The Passions of Carol

A slightly different type of sign: