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On 7/10/2021 at 5:12 PM, Janet0312 said:
When I saw this was on tonight, for a brief, fleeting moment I said that's a Joan Crawford flick. Then I wondered why I thought that. Is she even in it?
About 10 mins. LOL.
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10 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I corrected my post (not just the mixed-up spelling but changed it to "she could do worse")
Percy seemed much more "authentic" in terms of what you see is what you get. He would never unceremoniously whisk Linda off and automatically expect her to become nursemaid to a sick family member.
Yes! He doesn't even give her any say in the matter. It's an order!
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LOL! Joan is barely in it! The teen actors are so terrible.......I'll skip it.
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2 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Agree, plus I also find it hard to believe that no man would have offered marriage to Linda Darnell in FALLEN ANGEL. (although she probably couldn't have done worse if another smitten cafe owner, Percy Kilbride, woed urkp the courage to propose)
Yes, true.
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19 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
My God she looks like Mitch McConnell.
She doesn't have Mitch's TRIPLE chins though!
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17 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I can ID some of the cars in the pictures above. That cream-colored car is a Buick. The brown car is a 1970 Ford and the yellow-ish car to its right looks like a Plymouth. I've always liked "Land Yachts" . . . I used to own one: A 1967 Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors. I wished I didn't have to sell it, but I didn't drive it enough and it's hungry 'n' thirsty '462' needed to be driven.
Contrast that with the '170' in my '64 Falcon.
I'm a sucker for big ol' cars from the mid-60s through the late '70s.
Why were they called suicide doors? They were big in the 60s for some reason on some makes.
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3 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
You're right, Hibi, I'm wrong! It was John Simon, just looked it up.
Kael could be cruel, too, in her way........
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Wallace Beery. UGH. Even worse than Cecil Kellaway!
I think its fair game for Kellaway, though, as we are supposed to believe LANA TURNER would marry this guy??? GET REAL! I know it's not really LANA, but someone who looked like her would've never sold herself THAT short whatever the circumstances!
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11 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
You guys think I'm harsh on an actor's looks -- what about Pauline Kael, who famously (or infamously) once wrote that Cybill Shepherd looked like "Mussolini in drag".
For the record, I do not agree with her.
I thought it was John Simon? Either way a cruel thing to say and stupid. Like Kael was some prize? (Or Simon).
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26 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
It could be worse, though --
Hume Cronyn.
Kellaway, for me, would be worse! Guess Jessica Tandy, didn't mind! At least Cronyn was in shape.
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4 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Wally Cox was on Hollywood Squares. I was too young for Mr. Peepers (before my time and don't remember seeing repeats, like I Love Lucy). Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the father in Bye Bye Birdie) was hilarious in the center square. Charlie Weaver AKA Cliff Arquette. Great show to see some old-time veterans.
Last night, until it got to the ridiculous ending, I watched The Witches of Eastwick. I don't know whose idea it was to tamper with the plot. In the movie, they are portrayed as smart women who basically use their magical abilities for good. In the book (which I read - John Updike), there are lesbian overtones and the (spoilers ahead) women do something cruel to the daughter of one of the characters because they are jealous of Daryl's attention to her.
Yes, I read the book also and hated the film version.
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44 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
WHO and I mean WHO could POSSIBLY HAVE FORESEEN A MAJOR GAS CRISIS ON THE HORIZON WHEN NAVIGATING OUR GREAT HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS AND ROADS IN THESE 35-FOOT LONG CHARIOTS OF STEEL?
They look like small tanks to me!
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS ON THE SCHEDULE AGAIN:
THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
They showed it a long time ago on TCM and I recall thinking that it's a pretty simple story, but MITCHUM is great and he invests himself into playing a TOTAL LOSER with the same intensity that RICHARD WIDMARK did in NIGHT AND THE CITY.
Have wanted to see this also. Missed it last time was on TCM!
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13 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I hate Nick! Clueless, cheap, probably a dud in the sack, and not as amiable as he appears.
LOL
Could you imagine sleeping with that dork???? LOL.
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Just now, Swithin said:
1952-1955, my baby years. But I do have fond memories of it, albeit hazy ones!
OK. That explains why. I've heard of it.
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4 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I visited Marion Lorne-
(in the same cemetery Judy Garland was originally)
and Tony Randall-
Who is very near John Garfield's final resting place, just up the hill from the Gershwins.
Are they in the same cemeteries? Where was Garland moved to?
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10 hours ago, Swithin said:
Speaking of Marion Lorne, what about a real classic: Mr. Peepers?
That show was before my time. How long was it on?
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5 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
FETV runs Maude around 12 or 1 in the late evening/early morning slot. They are still on the first season of
Bewitched, which is still quite humorous. The Kravtizs are always good for a laugh. I know once Tabitha comes
along things are likely to get duller, though that was an obvious move at the time. I guess it was so successful
for a while they just kept it going and started repeating old plots. Paul Lynde played a nervous driving instructor
last week before getting the role of Arthur. I think the parody was called Broad. Maybe that was also what the
MAD magazine parody was called too.
Yeah, the loss of Marion Lorne and Alice Pearce hurt the show too. I didn't care much for Pearce's replacement. She wasn't as funny. Yeah, quite a few plots were recycled as time went on. I didn't care much for Larry's wife's replacement either. She wasn't as sharp as the original Louise.
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48 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I sometimes wish Maude's mother had gotten an abortion. I watched it occasionally when it was originally
on. It was fairly funny, but now I just find it just dull and too loud. And I'm guessing that 1970s Maude
would often be politically incorrect today. Now that The Wild wild West has been replaced by Matlock
I've started watching Bewitched. The early years remind me of my childhood and all those mid 1960s
ways and means. Today there was an episode where Larry thinks Darrin is having an affair. Instead of
criticizing him he gives him the Atta boy, you old devil you wink and nod response. Oops.
Like Maude? LOL.
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44 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I sometimes wish Maude's mother had gotten an abortion. I watched it occasionally when it was originally
on. It was fairly funny, but now I just find it just dull and too loud. And I'm guessing that 1970s Maude
would often be politically incorrect today. Now that The Wild wild West has been replaced by Matlock
I've started watching Bewitched. The early years remind me of my childhood and all those mid 1960s
ways and means. Today there was an episode where Larry thinks Darrin is having an affair. Instead of
criticizing him he gives him the Atta boy, you old devil you wink and nod response. Oops.
Yeah, for awhile MeTV was running Maude in the overnight wknd hrs and I watched a few episodes. It hasn't aged very well. The first few seasons were good. But it ran out of steam quickly. Wasn't as good as All in the Family. I did watch and enjoy it at the time. It did have some groundbreaking episodes (Maude getting an abortion etc.)
The first few seasons of Bewitched were great. But once Tabitha was born, it, too, got to be run of the mill. I stopped watching it after Dick York left. They should have called it quits then.
I did like that parody Carol Burnett did of Maude. I think it was called Broad? LOL.
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11 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
Taylor was over the top in Suddenly Last Summer but it works because the whole film is bizarrely over the top. Clift is like a cell phone dead zone in this movie.
As an aside, I wondered why TCM chose Psycho as "problematic" for its depiction of LBGTQ (it's not at all) when films like Suddenly Last Summer so clearly are.
Cheaper to broadcast probably. Why choose My Fair Lady in that other series (or was it the same one? ) Yes, Clift barely registers in SLS. Thankfully, it's not a part that calls for much acting.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
X, Y, AND ZEE is one I am *sorta* curious about.
but they don't tend to show many of LIZ's post VIRGINIA WOLFE films besides maybe NIGHT WATCH (which I can only remember airing a couple of times)
I think they've shown X, Y, and Zee a few times. Yes, nothing after Taming of the Shrew except lately for Night Watch!
3 I've never seen of Liz later films: Ash Wednesday: Identikit/The Drivers Seat; Hammersmith is Out. Ash is Paramount. Not sure of the other two. Have always wanted to see those. Only Ash Wednesday got much of a release, but it played out too quickly for me to see it. The Drivers Seat opened on a double bill in mass release in NY, but scarcely anywhere else in the U.S. Hammersmith only got booked in a smattering of cities and quickly disappeared.
Now that I think of it, they have shown The Only Game in Town, but only once or twice. (Fox)
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1 hour ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Remember the 1972 film HAMMERSMITH IS OUT with Liz, Dick and Beau Bridges? I wonder if TCM has ever aired it?
Never. I've never seen it either. One I've always wanted to see!
Could at least show it on Underground. It never even played in my area when released.
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7 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
That's what Liz said, I still remember reading it and being taken aback.
Wow.
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LMREO!!! They actually wanted K. Hepburn for the witch. She turned them down.