Bronxgirl48
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Molo, you are always GOOD MOLO! Thanks, my friend. It goes w/o saying by me that no apologies/explanations are needed, certainly not by kindred spirits.
That looks just like the alligator of my nightmares who I imagine lives in my pond and crawls out at night looking for small dogs and renegade cats. I think I'll call him "Harry" as it makes him less scary to me.
Thankfully Mom remembered my birthday so that's all I could wish for. I brought her an apple pie since they are her favorite fruit, and I washed my (very small) slice down with seltzer. We spent the time reminiscing through memory lane to back in the Bronx. It was all very bittersweet, and then I had to leave for dinner with my friend. My mother loves Chinese food but as she gets older her digestive tract isn't what it used to be, so she went down to their dining room and had meat loaf, mashed potatoes, peas, and ice cream. Not too shabby.
I always stay up too late, usually watching those ridiculous shopping channels if I'm not otherwise on TCM. It'll be a party of one this evening, if you don't count the occasional gecko or chameleon slipping through the door and frolicking in my living room.
Yes, that's me with my long gloves. I always wear them when I'm waterskiing on the Cote D'Azur.
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Ro, my K.C. twin, thank you so much! Hey, life happens, as we all know too well, so, please, no apologies needed. I'm just grateful to know and count you as a friend.
Gozilla looks more like he was watching a particular eleven hour event on all the news channels yesterday, lol. Oy!
Well, the Lord Alps those who Alp themselves (I think that's an old Groucho Marx saying) so if I keep on the ball and try to save some money, maybe my Gallic dreams will come true!
Hope the weather is treating you and the family well. It must be lovely there this time of year with the ghosts and goblins right around the corner. (most of them already live in my building....)
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Thank you kindly, Scottie! Yikes, another year older but of course, what's the alternative, lol.
Spent the morning with Mom at the assisted living faciity. Her legs are a bit swollen and giving her trouble, so unfortunately she couldn't go out to dinner with me, but I had a lovely visit with lots of hugs and kisses.
A friend treated me to P. F. Chang's. I loaded up on dumplings, sweet and sour soup, orange peel chicken, and a few cocktails. My fortune cookie read: "You will move to the mountains". Unless they're in the French Alps at Le Mont-Blanc Chamonix, I guess I'll pass.
For dessert I had chocolate cake which she had baked the night before.
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Chris, I'm a Richard Boone fan from way back; loved everything he ever did on the big and small screen.
I don't wonder about your affinity for Paladin because you already had all his great qualities to begin with!
Hope you had a terrific birthday; you deserve all the good things in life.
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Happy Birthday, Chris!
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Sounds like my kind of film, Swithin, even if it's about that other borough, lol. People always think Brooklyn is more "glamorous" or something, than the Bronx, ha! That's interesting about Ronan, she's one of "us". Thanks for giving a heads-up to this movie; frankly I'd never heard of it before! I have a feeling I'll really like it.
People interested in seeing CROSSING DELANCEY for the first time should record it, as there will be heavy competition Tuesday evening with Hillary, Bernie, etc.. Oy!
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Happy Columbus Day.
(boy does this movie take me back....)
!As long as I'm feeling nostalgically New Yawk, may I recommend CROSSING DELANCEY, which airs on TCM October 13th:! -
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Happy Birthday twinnie and fellow Libra! Have a fabulous and blessed day!
Watch out for the Headless Horseman!
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LOL, moi aussi.
One last Disco video. This is not a dead parrot:
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Disco the parakeet -- "bird to your mother"
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Can't stop watching him.
Lots of movie references, too!
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Happy Birthday, Scottie! Hope you live forever!
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molo, hope you had a fabulous birthday!
(did sis call from Jolly Old England?)
Here's your puppy:
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Boo Radley appreciates that you like his gifts. Jem and Scout have their own boxes.
I wonder what THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET is. Maybe it's William Shatner on the wing.
Mom told me she was spending the day with Groucho, Chico, and Harpo. She didn't remember Zeppo but then again, who does?
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Hope you receive some good presents today, molo.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Thanks, Chris! I've never seen FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX.
Dan, though, looks uncomfortably like Henry Fonda's "old poop" in ON GOLDEN POND, lol.
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Happy birthday, molo! It's always a wonderful life with you in it!
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Hey, guys! Thanks for the kind words, Grey Dude and MadHat.
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I'll be dropping by soon to throw in my two cents about some of the movies listed.
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Thanks, Jackie, re: D.O.A. And I love Laurette Luez's performance as Marla Rakubian. She just smolders with contempt for Edmond O'Brien's character, lol.
Yes, you know me and my affection for the Dudley Do-right guys, but guess what? Barry Sullivan really turned me on in THE GANGSTER! He's never appealed to me before playing disgruntled husbands and similiar parts. I actually don't care for him straitlaced. A very unusual turnaround for me, ha!
I'd love to see Dan Duryea as a teacher, wearing horn-rimmed glasses and being disheveled but in an absent-minded professor kind of way. He might even smoke a pipe. Man, I'd be all over that character in my mind like white on rice.
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Hey, MadHat!
Isn't that the most adorable wee gecko? Much cuter than any old Ray Milland slimy movie frog, lol.
TCM ran TWO ON A GUILLOTINE in the last week of July, the very day my vacation started! -- I almost did cartwheels when I saw it on the schedule.
Needless to say, I'm enjoying the time off away from all the critters and softballs. But summer in Florida is no picnic, what with the afternoon thunderstorms and intense humidity. I'm basically squirreled away (oops, shouldn't use that word, lol) in my apartment chilling out with Mr. Air Conditioner.
My mother falls asleep in the early evening more often than not these days and has been missing some crucial prime-time viewing. However, Mom did manage a bit of Katherine Hepburn yesterday, and asked me if she was still alive and living in Hartford, Connecticut.
She sometimes asks me if Jimmy Stewart is not only still around, but making movies.
Likewise Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, and Robert Taylor.
Hopefully Mom will be able to stay awake long enough to give us one of her inimitable reviews, and I will duly post them.
Apparently some segments of that 1977 t.v. movie have not shown up on YouTube, so I'll need to check again.
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Welcome, Gordon!
Do you hang out in Twin Peaks or are you Mr. DeMille's assistant who wants to rent Norma Desmond's Isotta-Fraschini for the Bob Hope movie, lol?
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It's nice to know Ray was advancing social consciousness, lol, but perhaps the experience was similiar to Don Birnham's hallucinations in THE LOST WEEKEND.
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Ha!
I want to eat EVERYTHING!
Maybe I'll substitute nalyvka for the vodka. I love homemade fruit wine!
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Came home from shopping, switched on TCM without really knowing the Summer of Darkness schedule for today, then headed to my kitchen to unload groceries. Just then I heard a familiar sounding yell coming from my living room television set and concluded this bellowing could only be Lee J. Cobb. And sure enough, it was. (PARTY GIRL)
RAMBLES Part II
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Oh Kathy, I'm so sorry for the passing of your grandma Ruth. After every loss in my own family, aunts and uncles on both sides since moving down to Florida, with my mother the last remaining sibling at 94, it seemed pieces of my childhood were being torn apart. But the memories never fade, and now with some sort of "adult" perspective I hold all of them in my heart with a greater love and intensity than frankly I ever did when they were still with me. So glad you had Ruth as long as you did.
As for Maureen, I didn't know she left us until reading your post. Just the other day I was watching THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and thinking she was one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, and an underrated actress.