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Justin Trudeau sane? I think I stated in another discussion here that my Canadian friends refer to him as PM Zoolander. But thank you for your virtue signalling.

The NSA is surveilling everybody. Why should anybody think that Trump is immune from this? (And as I've said in other threads, Leni Riefenstahl shouldn't have been blacklisted either.)

I'd rather watch him kill Judy Garland.

His hair never went gray.

When I saw the thread title, I was wondering whether somebody was giving Osborne a four-star review, or whether it was a "naughty" word. TCM Message Boards: Uncut-and commercial-free. (And I get the heebie-jeebies thinking of Dargo's posts panned-and-scanned.)

Alternatively, we could go here.

I was hoping this would be about the Fred MacMurray movie....

She was also Billy Crystal's ex-wife in Throw Momma From the Train.

A whitelist is the opposite of a blacklist. Blacklisted addresses would go straight to the bit bucket. Whitelisted addresses would go to whatever folder you designate, regardless of what other spam rule they might violate.

The War Wagon (1967) John Wayne plays a man who comes into the town of Emmett, NM, after having been in prison for three years. Apparently he was framed by town boss Bruce Cabot, who took Wayne's ranch. In the meantime, Cabot struck gold on what had been Wayne's land. So Wayne plans to steal a shipment of that gold. The only thing is, it's transported in an armored covered wagon. To carry off the heist, Wayne assembles gunman/safecracker Kirk Douglas; inside man Keenan Wynn; explosives expert Robert Walker Jr., and Kiowa tribesman Howard Keel. (OK, stop laughing.) Douglas doesn't like that Walker is an inveterate drunk; Wynn doesn't like that Walker has the hots for his young bartered bride. There's nothing new here, but it's more than entertaining enough. Wayne and Douglas have a lot of dry humor back and forth; there's lovely photography; and the climactic heist is more than exciting enough. Bruce Dern has a bit part, although he gets shot early on. 8/10. Worth watching, and apparently on some low-cost DVDs.

Somebody doesn't remember there's such a thing as TCM Underground.

Speedracer: If you have FXM, they're showing The Street With No Name next week. (Monday, I think; I'd have to check the schedule again.)

I could be wrong, but haven't they been using it for all the guest hosts?

If man is still alive.

And Stella Stevens was a nun in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows.

Why am I not surprised that LHF doesn't like the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon? And before the Humphrey Bogart version (which I tend to think of more as a straight mystery than noir) there was Stranger on the Third Floor and even before that the French Le jour se lève (aka Daybreak and remade in Hollywood as The Long Night).

Prince of Players has shown up on FXM Retro from time to time. Ditto Sea Wife later in the evening, with Burton on a lifeboat at sea romantically attracted to Joan Collins, not realizing she's a nun.

I never would have thought of George Sanders or Tyrone Power as balletic.

The Salzburg Connection (1972). Barry Newman plays a publishing-house lawyer on vacation in Austria who does a bit of work in meeting with an author who got an advance for a book on Austrian lakes that was never written. It turns out that the would-be author has already been killed, and his now-widow (Anna Karina) and her brother (Klaus Maria Brandauer) know stuff they're not letting on. It all turns out to be part of a plot to find a crate full of names of Nazis that had been dumped in the lake, and secret agents from every country under the sun, as well as various Nazis, want that crate. It's muddled and the print is terrible, although there's one good scene where Newman saves Karina from captors by causing a traffic jam until the police can show up. The crappy print is a shame since the movie was filmed on location and there should be a lot of great location shooting. 5/10. I'm feeling generous.

I for one would like to see a Memorial Day weekend with no war movies. I disagree with the notion that dishing out violence on behalf of the state is both necessary and sufficient to be heroic.

I remember some interesting nights dancing in the outdoor discos of Yalta in the spring of '92. Too bad Russia owns the place now; it would be a nice place to go back to.

Why couldn't the Richard Barthelmess character just write a second song?

Fill the teapot with water and then dump the water into a graduated cylinder.