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I thought it was kinda cool -- that little Gary ring-thingy is from his paramount dressing room.

Yep, it's Fay Wray -- it's from "Legion of the Condemned"

Such an amazing video, Angie (as always, dear sister )! Had me in tears at the end. **Sigh** It's such an amazing movie -- people all over the world should be forced to watch this movie -- and they'll come to find they love it, too.

Fantastic eye candy! Been digging through ebay again? I swear, that is the best doggone place to find pictures!

"I see that you were out partying in another part of town tonight. It's a part of town where good girls go to be bad," said Mr. Grimes regarding Noirville. lol, We seem to have a 'Noir Town', 'Noir City' and a 'Noirville.' If I remember correctly...isn't Noirville the name of the man who invented popcorn?

You're in ButterscotchGreer country with sweet words like that. I learn from the best.

Did Gary ever publicly or privately name a favorite leading lady? I enjoy watching him with Stanwyck most, and I'd like to think it was she. I haven't read anything about that, Lucky, sorry. It'd be very interesting to know! But John would be able to answer that -- I'm sure he knows.

Mrs C(urtains)---you were really on a roll last night, your quick retorts and comments had me breaking up. I wish I could think of witty things to say as quickly as you do. They only seem to come to me at 3 o'clock in the morning when I sit up and exclaim, "That's what I should have said!" I haven't visited the Noir thread yet but I'm happy to hear you've started to visit there! Oh, I'm just an idiot humorist. I type what comes to mind because I see it so vividely in my head. That's what started the adventures, you know! LOL I have a feeling I'll be visiting the noir threads quite often! It's a whole new world on that side of town -- and it's exciting. I hope to see you around there sometime, April!! Us girls could really turn a place like that upside down

I would never delete that post, nor the one in Noir City. Just like you, I tease the people I like. And you, Mr. Grimes, I've taken a special liking to. Make fun of me all you'd like, but that compliment is staying there for a very long time.

P.S. If you're referring to the noir board then yes, I was there.

You're riding very close to the edge, Mr. Grimes. I'm tempted to delete the post entirely.

Care to bring it down to 25%, Mr. SmartyPants?

Did you take notice of the guy she likes on that reality show? That bearded fella? Interesting. Compliment update: We only appreciate HALF the comments Mr. Grimes contributes to this thread.

Okay, I have to set the record straight, for any of those passerbyers. I don't idolize Simon. I have become absolutely addicted to this show: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1309592375126136503&q=solitary+2.0&total=15&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 We'll get back on topic when I regain my full mental capacity (don't wait on it, folks.)

Ohh, and I will. So Simon rocks your world, Mrs. C.? Interesting. I may reconstruct that compliment I gave you earlier, Mr. Grimes. Watch it You and my grandma would get along... until you strangled each other over who's curtain eye is "right." Curtain eye? Sounds just as funny -- if not funnier -- than Golden Eye. (These idiots who name these movies should be tickled to death. I hear some of them are very sensitive). I bet his house is full of gold curtains, too. His mother's nickname was Periwinkle Eye and his grandfather...Wandering Eye. Ba-da-CH! ...I am so tired right now.

Well now that I have completly embarrassed myself by crossing the line and revealing too much on my sad personal life, I will now state that this will be my last post to you all for a long while. It has been great talking to you all about Gary Cooper and other classic movies and I wish you all the best in what life has to offer you. May the Lord grant you all the desires of your heart. If you can't share your hurts and troubles with your friends, Dan, who can you share them with? These kinds of feelings aren't meant to be pent up and stored away to be ignored. It'd be pretty shallow of us if all we talked about day in and day out was of Gary and never got to know the people we're conversing with. We care about you, Dan, and I don't think you should be embarrassed by what you said. If you keep all your feelings locked up then don't expect any prayer from people -- you'll just fade into the background. You shared your feelings about your dog and we tried to help as best we could. We were glad you shared a little something about your troubles -- we want to help you. If you leave, Dan, I'll be very upset and disappointed in you for retreating into your shell and not sticking here with us. You're a tough guy, and I'm shocked to see that you'd give up so easily on us! Thinking we'd laugh at you because you shared your feelings! Your hero is Gary Cooper -- put up a fight, man!

That's about as high a compliment one can pay me, Mrs. Cooper. That was beautifully said and I truly thank you for that. I take pride in everything you said to me. I wouldn't say it if you didn't deserve it, Mr. Grimes. It's my sad attempt of a compliment to show my appreciation. My grandma (yes, that one again) is an old-fashioned housewife who takes great pride in how clean her house is and she loves curtains. My grandpa used to tease her about her curtains quite a bit. He would tell her that she'd have a house with nothing but windows and that he couldn't ever open them or even look out them. He was right. Wow, I used to have a very small bedroom when I was younger and I used to put curtains up all over the place! People would walk in and think my whole room was made of glass. It was fun but not very safe. If I would have ever had a fire I'd burst into flames and disappear within milliseconds. Come to think of it...mother should have shaved the dog, too. Man, I was a flammable-prone child.

I suppose this is due to the fact that I know that no women could ever feel my Joan Leslie ideal picture of a woman. It just hit me. We're so in love with people who are no longer living...we forgot how to live (Quote from Deeds, perhaps?) What I mean to say is that I'd been in love with Gary for so long that any man who I'd see...just never interested me. Could it have been because I've saturated my life around all these classic stars -- entranced by their charm, ellegance, grace and gentlemanly (it's 2:30am, I'll make up words if I want) manners that I figured no such person exists? Who could I possibly find that isn't repulsively perverted? He's out there someplace -- just as the girl for you is, Dan. I had a 'crush' on a fella from a reality show, you can tease me later on that, Frank , but I looked at my friend in amazement and gasped. "I like a guy...who's living? Creepiest thing to ever say outloud; and not the safest, lemme tell ya'.

I do truely believe from my biology days that women see twice as many colors as men and thus see all the less pleasing elements of shades of colors in these colorized movies that many men including myself can not see. I assume that the people that do the colorization of movies are more than likely men like me and don't see the less pleasing fake shades of colors. If I ever marry...I swear, I will walk around the house and go, "Hey, do you like this soft-pink-lightly-dusted-with-periwinkle-orange-tones-that-have-a-little-hint-of-merigold-sunshine curtains? Or look at this mocha-chocolate-darker-hued-cr--" "It's pink and brown, you freaky, overly color-sensitive broad! I should have seen this coming when you switched my WHITE suit with the cotton-clouded-daisy-pedal-with-flecks-of-white-snowpuffs-covered-in-off-white-dandruff-flakes suit minutes before our wedding."

I am way to set in my ways at this point to ever get married and don't have and never wanted any children. I have two dogs that fill that bill. Hopefully not too close to the bill, Dan.

Well, I have decided that I probably won't be able to leave the boards any time soon and all my Gary Cooper friends. I'll probably be addicted to posting on these boards when I am 80 years old. Yippeee! You can't get away from us, Dan. You've tried before but it was all in vain. Besides, you are an amazing contributor to this thread. You can't leave too easily without a (sarcastic) FEW people protesting! Yer' stuck fer' life, pardner. Might as well face yer' destiny. I do truely believe from my biology days that women see twice as many colors as men and thus see all the less pleasing elements of shades of colors in these colorized movies that many men including myself can not see. I assume that the people that do the colorization of movies are more than likely men like me and don't see the less pleasing fake shades of colors. This just proves my theory that men don't make good interior decorators. If we can bring this before the high-ups on the Designers channel, Dan...we can run Christopher Llowell right out of business! That's a very important goal in my life...

I think that Gary Cooper even in his harsher parts such as Man of the West, The Hanging Tree and others still conveyed a goodness about him that was inescapable for him because these were parts of his real life person that simply could not be eliminated. If there was ever a weakness to Gary Cooper as an actor, he could not play a character that was a complainer or cranky or just plain mean or bad very good. There were parts of his supreme goodness as a person in real life that limited his range as an actor. He could not be a villian in a movie ever in my opinion. This was not just a very wise decision by the movie studios not to cast him in such a part but I think that if he would have tried to play a true cut-throat villian in a movie that audiances would have still rooted for him and liked him. After all he was the most liked person in real life as a person that ever came out of hollywood. There are no stories floating around on him that came out after his death about him being anything other than the most liked person ever. It would seem that he was so well liked that women could not resist him, which goes so much futher than just his good looks but by his inward character. I think many women may have been initually attacted to him by his looks but chose to have affairs with him because of who he was as person, which was an irresistible force for any actress that worked with him on any movie. It takes more than good looks in most cases to have someone fall in love with you and this is exactly what these women were doing. He was perhaps more beautiful on the inside than on the out to them and they could not help themselves but to fall hopelessly in love with him. Rightly said, Dan -- all of it. I agree on what you said about women being -- first -- drawn to him by his looks and charm, then reeled in and captivated by his personality and character. As I've said many, many, many...few more times around the wagon: I find what's most attractive about him: his personality; caring, gentle and shy, yet strong, bold and tenacious to see that justice and honor prevails in the end. It's what made him such an amazing actor -- it's what made him even more an amazing man.

I'm a single guy in his 30s Little by little the image of you forms together in my mind -- like somewhat of a puzzle, Mr. Grimes. I could have sworn you were at least 50. Now before you gasp and take a double take at that little comment, I want to add: it's because of your strong intellect and sharp sense of humor that makes me think so highly of you and what you say. You voice your opinions well, yet you abstain from making harsh judgements toward others on their opinions. Your willingness to actually listen and take what's being said to heart only makes me want to listen to your views all the more. You hear all sides and hold up for fascinating and very exciting debates. I always look forward to reading from you, Mr. Grimes. And I appreciate all of your posts here in the Gary thread -- as I'm sure many others do as well.

Even those old women by the stairs are giggling and swooning over Gary like a bunch of giddy schoolgirls. I tell you, every woman -- at any age -- can love Gary. He's just that kind of a man. Exciting, sexy, strong and romantic -- for the young girls. And charming, dashing, sweet, courageous and handsome for the older women. Nope, there aren't any age limits on this man. I feel like doing one of those master card commercials: "Turning around for a quick glimpse of Gary Cooper once he steps into your nursing home: Two dislocated disks and a slight concussion from whiplash. Getting new denture pads because you soaked the glue right off a box of 20 after drooling over him while he fixed your broken tv set: $30. The bill for 35 elderly women staying at a hospital for fainting at the sight of his bare chest when he took his shirt off during one of the senior activities: $200. Getting a call from your only teenage granddaughter who said she'd fallen in love with Gary Cooper after seeing Mr. Deeds: Ageless. There's a lot of hot actors out there; but for the women -- old and young -- who have loved a man 70 years in the past: there's Gary Cooper."