Bronxgirl48
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Thanks. I'd LOVE to eat in bored silence, especially since it seems to me cell phones are all over the place and people are so inconsiderate!
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So this is my first Mann (and I'd love to explore his noir westerns) and my appetite is whetted for more! Would like to see RAW DEAL next.
I was never really involved emotionally in Brodie and his wife's plight but was drawn into the hyperbolic camera stylizations and also got "a kick" (boy, Anthony is rather sadistic, isn't he?) out of the hulking psychotic menace of Raymond Burr and his touching brotherly love.
I dug the masks in the van but wonder about the inclusion of the Czech wedding.
The kid with the toy machine gun in the opening was supposed to be, it seemed to me, a parody of foreshadowing.
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I haven't seen all his work. I like him as Big Ed in WHITE HEAT, and he's wonderfully slimy in CARNIVAL STORY.
He even manages to exude charisma and menace in his brief appearance in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.
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I've always liked Peter as an actor, but those eyebrows are SUCH a distraction, lol.
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Well, me too -- he just wouldn't have that Cochran je ne sai quoi without them! (and I prefer them to Peter's)
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"One doggie, two doggie, red doggie, blue doggie...."
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I was always trying to, er, see if Lassie was a boy or a girl.....
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Louise Brooks is terrific. LOVED those photos. She's so modern.
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I loved your story as well, coopsgirl. That's what moms are all about.
But I'll bet it wouldn't have helped the patient in GREEN FOR DANGER.
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I'm glad my conversations with Mom haven't quite reached the level of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, where Andrea Martin as one of Nia's aunts is explaining her "bib-bopsy" to the stunned Wasp parents of the groom and then calmly asks them right after, "More spanokopita?"
Did the checker ring up your great aunt's panties?
I should have come over to your house for a great holiday meal. That fudge recipe sounds killer; can't thank you enough for it. Yep, you sure do live in Chocolate Alley. And that's always right up mine.
Well, Mom cooked the turkey, which was delicious, moist and flavorful. I cooked most of the sides, including the green bean casserole and the brussel sprouts with bacon. Mom made a sweet potato casserole with marshmallow topping; however, the potatoes tasted like baby food, mushy beyond belief, and the marshmallows were solidified. But the piece de resistance was the stuffing. Normally, Mom makes it good from Pepperidge Farm; however, this time it tasted like dog kibble. Lest you think I'm being a cruel daughter, even Mom agreed with me. But she always likes to save face, so she said, "It's not so bad, sort of crunchy"
But I think I understood -- We lost beloved family members last year, her sister Mildred (my favorite aunt) and her husband, my Uncle Irving. So I don't think Mom's heart was in cooking this dinner, knowing these folks wouldn't be around.
Here's a recipe I'd like to share with you and everyone: Take a pint of Haagen-Daz ice cream.
Open it. Get a spoon. Eat it all in one sitting.
(well, like Rachel Ray, I don't bake. But, wish I did....)
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Light 'em if ya got 'em.
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I wouldn't get close to Jerry, either, even if (pehaps I should leave out the "even") he turned into Buddy Love, lol.
I noticed that Irene didn't have a suntan.
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Okay, here we go:
I took Mom to the Chinese restaurant the other day (our family always likes a bit of spicy Asian food after the comforting blandness of the Thanksgiving meal) and going home she looked up at the sky:
Mom: "Look at that full moon! And the clouds surrounding it look so scary, like they're going to SMOTHER THAT MOON!" Remember when we took you to see "The Ten Commandments"? The scene with the plague, and they showed the clouds covering the moon? You were so scared you wanted to hide under your seat"
Me: (horrified at the memory) "Mom, WHY do you have to bring THAT up? I was practically traumatized. Now I'm gonna have nightmares all over again."
Mom: "Oh, grow up, you're a big girl now".
Me: "Well, let's hurry up, I want to go home and watch GREEN FOR DANGER on TCM."
Mom: "Is that a good movie -- who's in it?"
Me: "A British murder mystery. I saw it years ago, but don't remember the killer. Alastair Sim is in it. I love him."
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Mom: "Who's he??"
Me: "You know -- Scrooge"
Mom: "Oh, yes, he's wonderful as Scrooge. Is he still alive?"
Me: "Mom, he's been dead for years".
Mom: "Well, he could be living".
Me: HE'S NOT, OKAY??"
Mom: "You don't have to shout at me".
Me: "Well, you ARE a lilttle hard of hearing."
Mom: "Maybe I'll watch it, I don't know. Maybe I'll just go to sleep."
Me: "Go to sleep, you need it."
Mom: "Are you being sarcastic?"
Me: "Why, no."
Mom: "Okay, well, good night, and don't have any nightmares now."
Me: "Are you being passive aggressive?"
Mom: "What??"
Me: "Never mind, GOOD NIGHT!"
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I always liked him.
I think his eyebrows, however, could have lived in Peter Gallagher's eyebrows.
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Miss G., if you're reading this, should Judge Welch in ANATOMY OF A MURDER tell me to "get off the panties, you've caused enough trouble"?
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Cine and ham, I've got to go now and save a farmer who fell down a well.
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Buffy has good taste.
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Mickey, being short, had a complex about it (according to his autobiography) so he of course made up for it in other ways. He was a cutie pie, and very talented, so a lot of older actresses must have found him adorable. And to Mickey's credit, he did champion (in a professional way) the up and coming starlets that got their first screen exposure in the Hardy series. (did you catch an impossibly young Janet Leigh in the one where he's on the train back to college? Forgot the title)
Norma Shearer discovered Janet.
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Whenever I walk into her apartment, I'm always expecting to see Harry Von Zell around.
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Thanks for the compliments -- yes, she CAN be charming in a strange way; I'm thinking of Jessica Tandy in the Goldie Hawn/Burt Reynolds BEST FRIENDS. (Tandy: "Snow kills")
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Actually, I'm not sure if I'd use the word charming.
Maybe "weird".
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She probably is -- I always feel like lighting a cigar whenever we talk.
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I love it when Woodstock takes out the violin.
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Hi, fellow Bronx! Thanks so much for touching base re: my mysterious creature, I really appreciate it, since I'm so darned BAFFLED.
No, absolutely NOTHING like that photo. (that's creepy - what is that??) My critter was round, like a Volkswagen, and looked like a crab (with grasshopper legs in the back) and very cute looking, sort of.
Barbara
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