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Perhaps the politicians should try having some respect for us the people. They claim they're "public servants", but they act like they want to be our masters.

Oh, they're bigoted, all right; they just have a different set of bigotries.

If you can hear the dog whistle, you must be the dog.

The other major candidate wants to take us back to the early 60s, with the worthless Camelot garbage and everything being compared to the civil rights struggle of that era. As a non-boomer (born 1972), I'd like to advance beyond that era, thank you very much.

It depends on what keyboard layout you've got. I'm on Linux, and have a layout that allows me to use the right Alt key to type a bunch of foreign characters, pretty much everything in European languages using the Latin alphabet except for the Polish L with a slash through it. And then I've got a second layout so I can switch to Cyrillic, добрый день! If I needed to type in Spanish all the time, I'd go to system settings and set up a Spanish layout that put the ñ wherever it is on a Spanish keyboard. You just have to remember where all the foreign characters are. The French ç, for example, isn't on the C key; that give you the © symbol. Thankfully, you can bring up a representation of the keyboard layout so you can find anything.

I'm curious to see the house behind the car in the first picture. I'm reminded of the beach house in A Summer Place where Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire go to live. There's some 50s style!

Sally (1929). Marilyn Miller plays Sally, a waitress who stupidly thinks it's a good idea to practice her dance moves while she works. This gets her fired from her job, where rich playboy stalker Blair (Alexander Gray) has been watching her through a mirror. She gets a job at a place on Long Island, where Blair runs into her again. Meanwhile, dethroned Slavic nobleman Connie (Joe E. Brown) keeps up the ruse, getting himself invited to the society party where Blair's engagement (not to Sally, of course) is going to be announced, while a promoter hires Sally to play a Russian émigrée who was supposed to dance at the party. Complications ensue. The best part of the movie is the surviving two-filter Technicolor elements. The rest of the story is forgettable, interchangeable with a whole bunch of other pre-42nd Street musicals. Well, I suppose the other highlight is "Look for the Silver Lining". And Joe E. Brown gets to do some of his shtick. 5/10.

Swiss actor Marc Michel had died aged 83 Movie buffs on this side of the Atlantic will probably best remember Michel as Roland, the diamond dealer whom Mom Anne Vernon wants her daughter Catherine Deneuve to marry in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg after daughter's boyfriend has gone missing in action in the civil war in Algeria. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg will be on TCM next Sunday (November 13) at 6:00 AM ET.

Better or worse than Mazes and Monsters?

Paging Joan Burfield

I knew about Burr from Perry Mason and Ironside first, so seeing him as a bad guy (probably starting with Rear Window) was a revelation.

You mean Gojira isn't the good guy?

The Cheaters got a TCM airing five or six years ago on Christmas Eve (or maybe Christmas night).

Lana Turner reprised that number on The Ed Sullivan Show. Turner's version has showed up, without any opening or closing credits, as a TCM Extra/One Reel Wonder. (It's also on Youtube.)

Didn't Burr also play a creepy PI stalking a pretty woman in Pitfall? Did Burr ever play a good guy before Perry Mason?

Joe Garagiola. And Kitty Carlisle Hart with those frightening pearls.

Ah yes. From Around the World in California: "Los Angle-less has a population of several thousand Mexicans." (And there's no traffic in Beverly Hills, either.)

Lohss Ang-a-leeze.

In The Palm Beach Story, Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor get Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea's twin siblings, respectively.

I'm not going to touch this one with a 10-foot pole.

I did give just my zip code. It said Channel 6 should be the strongest signal, and that's the one I can't get at all.

Gets my location completely wrong.

Directed by Nancy Walker. Yes, that Nancy Walker:

Only if you live in an area where those are among the digital sub-channels. I've got an antenna a good 20 feet above the roof, and still can't get the local CBS affiliate because it's on Channel 6. Something about those frequencies needing lower power to broadcast, so the signal doesn't reach quite as far.

I thought with six you got eggroll.