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We've been through it before, but "oily" is how I'd describe Jack Carson's performances long before Van Johnson's. (I mean that in a good way regarding Carson.)

Haven't seen the movie, although I knew the basic story before the movie came out.

So did Florence Foster Jenkins.

I thought the thread was going to be about ****.

I'd have guessed the first four stories are all police blotter stories, with the mug shots released by the police to try to embarrass the arrestees. (Except on the rare occasion a cop gets arrested.)

I was hoping for The Sorcerers, too.

Ooh, rock me, Dr. Zaius!

I just watched Running on Empty a couple of weekends ago, in which Hill played the father of Christine Lahti's character. He only had the one scene, but he sure made the most of it.

And Power would go back to another trifle, making Day-Time Wife in 1939 with a very young Linda Darnell.

Café Metropole (1937) Adolphe Menjou plays a Paris restaurant/nightclub owner who has been embezzling from the firm, and needs to replace FFR 960,000 before the auditors go over the books. He wins the money at baccarat, except that the last person to play against him (Tyrone Power) writes a bad check. So, Menjou comes up with a plan: have Power pretend to be one of the Russian nobility émigrés in Paris in that era, and woo the daughter (Loretta Young) of an American businessman (Charles Winninger) who frequents the place every time he's in Paris. Complications ensue, everybody turns out OK, more or less. It's really a little trifle, but it entertains you while it runs, and I'm sure audiences of the day loved the opulent sets. You'll probably forget most of it not long after it's over. To be honest, I prefer Love Is News of the Power/Young pairings, but I'll still give Café Metropole a 7/10.

Shouldn't they have remade Ocean's 11 with members of the Brat Pack?

Why not pick something off the wall? Especially considering how much some people complain about the "same old stuff" being run. When they can get a chance to run something that's in the "so bad it's fun" genre, go for it! If, for example, you've seen all those old George Raft gangster movies, why not jump at the chance to catch Skidoo, even if he's only got a small part? It's hilariously awful. Ditto for those all-star disasters of the 70s, like The Swarm. Poor Olivia made a lot of better movies, but The Swarm is fun.

So Vertigo minus the tedious psychological garbage.

No. I didn't know about it; I wouldn't have had the vacation time to take off work if I had known about it; and, I've got an elderly father to look after.

Not to be confused with the Brazilian footballer Kaká:

I listened to Beyonce. I have no desire to listen to Beytwice. Turhan Beyoncé, however, might be interesting....

She remade Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away, and did Evita, too.

Calvert was a magician by training who lived to be 102. When he was about 98 (and still performing) his son did a documentary on him covering a very interesting life: Calvert was also a pilot who survived a weather-related crash of his own plane. He captained a yacht across the Pacific to perform in Asia, which is where he met his wife, and supposedly escaped from pirates (I'd guess in the Strait of Malacca). He was the technical advisor for the tricks Jack Palance performed in The Silver Chalice. After the film flopped at the box office, Calvert offered star Paul Newman his condolences. When Newman became a star after Somebody Up There Likes Me, Newman playfully reminded Calvert of this.

They never should have remade Satan Met a Lady.

You can see it in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here. Nitpick: John Garrick in Just Imagine becomes an astronaut, not an astronomer, something which makes a bit of sense considering that his character was a pilot doing the transatlantic route. I think the original real-life astronauts and cosmonauts were all fighter pilots. It's Frank Albertson joining him that's the surprise. El Brendel of course is just a stowaway.

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.

It's easier to deal with the TSA's ineffective rapescans and the rest of the security theater if you're dressed casually. Regarding classic movies, I love the scene in The High and the Mighty when the guy shoots off his gun in the plane and then, after he calms down, they give the gun back to him.

I never knew Dargo was a stewardess.

So you're not old enough to be hit legally by the sixth martini.