CineMaven
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"I'm wiping the flop sweat off my brow. I was worried that you were a big fan of DZ. I just had to get that out of my system."
No no dear girl. Don't sweat for me, Argentina. (No one else here does). You like what you like and you vent what you hate. I enjoyed your review b'cuz it's honest and not catty and mean and "Oh look at how clever I am."
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Miss G. writes: I know. It's very hard for her to project happiness, contentment or softer emotions. She's best at playing misery, anger and resentment. She's the Robert Ryan of actresses!
l love that!! WoW! What a comparison and such high praise for Susan Hayward.
Grimesy writes: "Even Ryan's villains have a sympathetic feel to them. Look at his "Ben" from The Naked Spur. He's charming. I've yet to see Susan Hayward be charming. I've only seen her bark and 'slap'."
Susan's a tough one. She's not warmy and fuzzy. There are so many who are warm that I love. I love Susan's strength and toughness.
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"They get together because Julie Christie has the lighter, more beautiful house and looks great in sweaters."
OMG!! Your vitriol has just turned "DR. ZHIVAGO" into a comedy. My mother took us with her to see this when it was released way back then. I didn't understand what was going on as a 13 year old. What a scintillatingly scathing review. Oh wow!
You've finally helped me understand the movie."Omar has chemistry with everyone else! I don't know what happened. My god, when he makes his entrance in (well in any movie really) Lawrence, I about keel over! I wish he were in the movie far more than he is.... what happened?"
Could it be that Lean went to the well twice? He already used Omar in the heat of the desert. Now in the cold of Siberia...didn't quite work. Loved your review, Jackaaaaaaaaay!
Edited by: CineMaven on Jan 30, 2011 11:35 PM
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"Don't miss PANDORA'S BOX and the little-seen THREE PENNY OPERA tonight."
Louise Brooks? Oh yeah...I?m there. She is eerily ahead of her time.
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"These college girls -- ONE STEP FROM THE STREET!"
HA! Why waste a step by going to college and saddling yourself with a student loan?
"Would you believe I'm still paying mine off? But, not THAT way...."
Girl...you can?t lob me those straight lines. Please!
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"I'm not crazy about BASIC INSTINCT as a movie, but it's definitely hard to ignore Sharon as Catherine. I love Michael Douglas when he's victimized by strong, crazy women, lol."
Yeah...me too. He was a poster boy of sorts...Demi Moore, Glenn Close.
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"I like Capucine very much. Elegant, sleek, sophisticated, yet vulnerable."
Elegant, sleek, sophisticated: "The Pink Panther."
Yet vulnerable: "Walk on the Wild Side."
"She was both in NORTH TO ALASKA."
Mmmmmmmm.
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"I tried to emulate Joey's sensual, slutty lip, but in the mirror looked like I was chewing my cud."
"Didn't remember how noisy LUST FOR LIFE was, lol. Each tortuous chord of Miklos's score pounds home Vincent's emotional agony, and I got a migraine."
And with these two quips of yours...I am now cackling like a hyena. Thanx a heap!
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"I just remembered -- 1947's SMASH UP, THE STORY OF A WOMAN. Susan is an up-and-coming singer whose career is overshadowed when hubby Lee skyrockets to fame as a crooner, leaving her insecure, frustrated, and angry. So she hits the bottle."
"I'd drink too if I was married to Lee Bowman.I don't care! He's one of my least favorite actors. I always groan when I find out he's the leading man,? says Jack Favell.
She should have hit him with the bottle. I really don?t like that actor...AT ALL[/u]!! To see him with Doris Day in ?MY DREAM IS YOURS? is yucky!!! How did HE ever make it? he?s the least charismatic actor I know. Was it wartime? Were men overseas?
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"Ooh, I'll have to find a photo...
Here is a photo of Errol John: http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsJ/38372.gif
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"But you like them intense, no? The imdb board lists his height as 5'8", which is tall for me, lol."
I do. But Conrad seems like the kind of guy who sucks the air out of a room and you can?t laugh. Nobody laughs.
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"Time seems to be flying for me these days. All the supporting players in DR. ZHIVAGO are so much more interesting than Yuri and Lara. I don't think Omar and Julie have any chemistry at all between them."
Maybe...but I think Omar melts the snow.
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"Did Bob star in MEDICAL CENTER? Losing my memory track. I had a roommate back in the 70's who palpitated whenever that show came on. However, at that time I was still swooning over Bela Lugosi, and Paul Muni. I was, however, already over Moe Howard."
"That was Chad Everett. Kind of similar acting style but not nearly as intense as Bob could be and probably still is,? lzcutter.
(Moe Howard. You're killing me, Bronxie!) Yes, Chad Everett. I remember him walking down the hallways in "Medical Center" with leather jacket and tight pants. He was the talk of my high school cafeteria table.
Ooooh, look at Conrad, below. Bake-off? He looks like he'd punch you in the jaw.
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Hi Jackaaaaaaay - I had a thought that Gomez "might" have known. But then that would mean he willingly put Ella in danger. I don't think he knew. But I'm sure glad he came busting in on time. Franchot was really off-putting in this movie.
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She was in the last scene in "Portrait of Jennie" as one of the school girls, too. I'm still kinda sad at the loss.
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I'd be ever ready with Robert Conrad. And he wouldn't even have to dare me.
Ha! He's too intense for me. (And short...)
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Never heard of Errol John before. I don't know why, but the name sounds kind of biblical. "And Errol John begat 10,000 children...."
I'd be the mother to a couple of hundred of his children.
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What was the movie she did with Lee Bowman, based roughly on Bing Crosby and his alcoholic first wife Dixie Lee? This I think was the start of boozy Hayward in film.
Hmmmmm....did she play singer Jane Froman and needed AA?
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Anthony Hopkins is phenomenal as Hannibal; I'm not a fan of grown-up Jodie, though. I just can't get past the scene with the girl in that disgusting house, in the hole with her doggie, and the psychotic guy who is keeping her a prisoner. That just freaks me out completely.
I hear ya Bronxie. It is brutal and bizarre.
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Connors was one of those actors who were born for the small screen. Joey Heatherton has this very mobile bottom lip I find fascinating.
< Spit take! >
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I like Capucine very much. Elegant, sleek, sophisticated, yet vulnerable.
Elegant, sleek, sophisticated: "The Pink Panther."
Yet vulnerable: "Walk on the Wild Side."
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I'd like to see Sharon Stone in a really GOOD film.
For me, that would be "BASIC INSTINCT." Her strength and confidence and arrogance was astounding. She gave a very male performance for all her beauty at the time. I showed that
movie at my favorite Friday night bar a while ago. Sharon Stone gave an amazing performance.
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"These college girls -- ONE STEP FROM THE STREET!"
HA! Why waste a step by going to college and saddling yourself with a student loan?
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B-Girl: Bronxgirl writes:I wonder where this child "actor" is now. Probably selling cars somewhere.
C-Mave: I am not buying an SUV from Dondi.
B-Girl: How about a Toyota from David Janssen?
C-Mave: Not even batteries from Robert Conrad.
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B-Girl: I usually can't work myself up to see Frank's ring-a-ding-ding RP buddy movies, but ASSAULT ON A QUEEN sounds a bit better than most of them.
C-Mave: I hope you get to see ?Assault...? it?s not one of Frankie?s Rat Packin? movies at all. It's quiet.
B-Girl: My interest is growing.
C-Mave: You're a tough cookie, but I found it enjoyable and hopeful you might. Errol John is very good as Ol' Blue Eyes' friend.
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B-Girl: Susan sees double while driving home from a party -- I just thought she was drunk.
C-Mave: As usual...you crack me up B-girl!
B-Girl: Because NOBODY plays blotto better than Susan.
C-Mave: The Blotto Queen, Hayward is.
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B-Girl: Stephanie Powers, now you're talking -- that would have been a bit more inspired casting, although I'm sure the script would have defeated even Powers. I've never been able to sit through SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
C-Mave: It's a fantastic film. Violent, brutal, crazy but Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster were unbelievable. Push yourself...unless you think the movie is just plain bad.
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B-Girl: Who is it in WHERE LOVE HAS GONE who says about Hayward, "You're not a woman, you're a disease!" Probably "Touch" Connors.
C-Mave: No one had a higher pompadour than Touch. But I loved the tawdry Joey Heatherton in the movie.
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B-Girl: However, I was impressed with Romy Schneider.
C-Mave: Always loved Romy!
B-Girl: I don't think I've seen her in anything else, but now I want to.
C-Mave: She and Capucine are among my favorite European actresses.
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C-Mave: I'm watching Sharon Stone now in "SLIVER."
B-Girl:Sounds painful.
C-Mave: Naaaah...that'd be "Basic Instinct 2."
B-Girl: I'm watching MARTY.
C-Mave: Sounds classic. And for a Saturday night.
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Bronxgirl writes:I wonder where this child "actor" is now. Probably selling cars somewhere.
I am not buying an SUV from Dondi.
I usually can't work myself up to see Frank's ring-a-ding-ding RP buddy movies, but ASSAULT ON A QUEEN sounds a bit better than most of them.
I hope you get to see ?Assault...? it?s not one of Frankie?s Rat Packin? movies at all. It's quiet.
So I'm watching STOLEN HOURS never realizing it's a remake of DARK VICTORY.
Oh yeah...it?s a remake.
Susan sees double while driving home from a party -- I just thought she was drunk.
As usual...you crack me up B-girl!
Poor Diane Baker is stuck in the hapless role of Hayward's younger sister. "Oh, no! You mean----?" is about all she's required to express.
They should have at lest picked Stephanie Powers...she?s a redhead. I?ve always liked Diane Baker. ?Marnie? ?The Best of Eveything? and was especially happy to see her cameo in ?Silence of the Lambs.? No one around me recognized her!
She plays it pretty understated throughout, which kind of disappointed me. I was expecting one of her great sarcastic emotional confrontational outbursts, but, nothing.
No one is more fiery than Susan Hayward when she?s mad in the movies. She?s among the top five fiery actresses in The Movies. "Where Love Has Gone" is one of the great sarcastic emotional confrontational fiery outbursts Susan Hayward films.
However, I was impressed with Romy Schneider.
Always loved Romy!
Diane Baker is good in MARNIE as Sean's spoiled sister-in-law, Lil. She really adds a lot to the plot I think. So what's with her career? Hits and misses... She could play sweet and/or devious with some success, but her films aren't high on the radar screen for me.
I'm watching Sharon Stone now in "SLIVER."
Jackaaaay writes: I want to disintegrate Diane Baker, but only in Stolen Hours...she was terrible. I really like her , I was hoping she would be the one who got me through the movie. Ah, I still like her, even with that performance. I won't disintegrate her.... oops! too late.
Awwwwww a disintegrated Baker? Awwwwwww.
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I love the pix you posted of Anne Francis. I love "Great Glam Shot #2"
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YOU GO GIRL!! Hobnobbing with the stars. This year, I'm going to get YOUR autograph! :-)
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Hi there Baby T. Thanx for the compliment. I'm flattered and honored that TCM stills runs my "Fan Perspective." I still feel that way about movies. I just love 'em!
I didn't watch "The Doctor and the Girl" the other day. I am s'posed to be expanding the horizons of my Mavenhood by watching movies I hadn't seen before but it's taking my lazy butt a bit longer to get that area of my movie knowledge expansion in gear. Ugh!
Glenn Ford has had an interesting film career with such a wide variety of parts. I think Gloria DeHaven is a cutie pie. Unwed pregnancy? Yep...I blew it again. Thanxx for the review. Take
good care.
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I agree with you re: us baby boomers being targeted for their fundraising efforts. That doesn't sound cynical to me. The program touched me on an emotional level seeing all those actors interviewed who I literally remember as a little girl.
See, with all these classic films we love and talk about here on the Board from the 30's, 40's & (most of the) 50's..these are not movies from my youth. These are films from my parents' youth. My real memory starts in the 60's with "Bye Bye Birdie" and "King Kong vs. Godzilla." If something on tv targets us baby boomers, I have a very visceral reaction to seeing those stars. "Sky King" "Hopalong Cassidy" "Fury" "My Friend Flicka." I don't know, what can I tell ya.
Sure there could be a deeper more in-depth study of the western genre on tv, but I hope you enjoy what you see.
As for (yep), ex-Mouseketeer Johnny Crawford...be still my heart.
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I agree with you about Peter Graves' voice too. Just close your eyes and let them both read you the telephone book. And I think you're right about Clint Walker's health as well.
MovieMan...thank you for correcting me about Ed Ames' character's name. I've noted the correction below. And now for something completely...funny. Classic Johnny Carson. Gosh! I miss him so:
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OMG! ***** ******* - I have to call you by your real name and not your cyber nom de plume. I have to call you by your real name here ***** b'cuz the realness of your writing of "PHANTOM LADY" mixed with your screen caps has once again dropped my jaw. (Your Wyler post is still my all-time favorite).
"I say that as a movie lover, a former actress, and a migraine sufferer..." Please add Writer/ Essayist to your list of "credits." You have covered all the points of this great noir with your own economy of words and metaphoric aplomb ("drum into her" ??? Genius!) By the by...it was such
a subtle gesture that look of disgust on Ella's face after Elisha Cook Jr's kiss, that went by in a moment, but said sooo much. Hell, he made me wipe my mouth. You've covered it all...it all. So
let me just shut up and say I love your review...and the line that killed me, that stopped me dead
in my tracks, that succinctly wrapped up your entire review?????
"Is obsession much different in a murderer than it is in an avenging angel?"
Girl, I'm telling you...THAT is a line for the ages. Thanks for telling us what you found so awesome about "PHANTOM LADY" and you did it in a pretty awesome way, Virna. (And if you don't look like Virna, you write like Virna looks). Kitten...with a pen?
Oh MovieMan? Uhm...MovieMan...get thee to "PHANTOM LADY" asap. A.S.A.P.!
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Hi there Rey...hope the job search is going okay, though I know it's frustrating.
The other nite I watched WNET's airing of "Pioneers of Television: THE WESTERN" and I enjoyed it very much. When I saw the interviews of many of those old western tv stars, there was this (dumb, perhaps) wonderment in my little girl heart that caused me to murmur throughout: "WOW!"over and over.
* I was loving Ed Ames, his rich voice brought Jose Ferrer to mind and he sounded like he was made for Shakespeare. Here was a Native American character --(Mongo?)-- Mingo...who didn't say "UGH!"
* Seeing Johnny Crawford gave me heart palpitations 'cuz Iloved him so, when I was little. He was handsome and didn't have a squeaky boy's voice. As I've watched "The Rifleman" in my more "grown-up" years (ha! when you ask??) I've really come to appreciate Chuck Connors. Handomse like a comic book hero, tall, unafraid (I love watching him jerk his rifle and give us that withering side long glance that says "Yeah? And what are YOU gonna do about it?!) He really embodied a maternal/paternal sensibility in "The Rifleman with his love for his Mark. He wouldn't be embarassed to hug and kiss his son as well as shoot anything that came within 100 yards of them. He's ma and pa in one tall, lean, mean package). I wonder why his Hollywood career wasn't bigger. He had all the attributes of a commanding hero. (Aside: He played the Randolph Scott in the Doris re-make of Irene Dunne's "My Favorite Wife"). I always watched him in "Branded."
* In love with James Garner. Tall, dark, handsome, square jawed, easy breezy...he was a candidate to take over the mantle of (Cary Grant-ish) romantic leading man, but apparently didn't want that title. He was very masculine. He holds a special place in my heart becuz I met him..yep, got his autograph in high school. I wrote on the school paper (The Ben Jay Flash) where I did <...guess... > movie reviews. Now after the heartbreak of a boy I liked cancelling out on going with me to review (the re-re-release of "The African Queen") my very understanding English teacher sent me to see the new movie "SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF." A whole bunch of NYC schools sent reporters for this screening and there was actually a press conference. Us kids and a big movie star. < Sigh! > James Garner. I was never going to wash my right hand again.
* Yeah, I was a "Bonanza" fan and loved all the rough and tough guys. I liked cutie pie "Little Joe" but had not yet understood feelings for the dark and brooding Adam (played by Pernell Roberts). I watched it on Sunday nights like the rest of you who are actually baby boomers. But it was kind of never the same for me once the man in Black left. I think William Marshall ("Blacula" "Demetrius & the Gladiator" appeared in an episode of an opera singer mistaken to be a runaway slave). I laughed with glee seeing my old kid show host Chuck McCann speaking and was over the moon at seeing Patricia Crowley (whateverhappenedtoher?) who I loved in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."
* Wow! Big ol' Fess Parker. I thought he was soooo sincere. I believed whatever Daniel/Davy said. I always thought he was handsome in the Gregory Peck/Royal Dano family of handsome Black Irish looks. I remember wanting...but not getting a coonskin cap. (Those were for boys and the gender roles were pretty strict in the Maven household of the 50's/60's. But I did get to wear cowboy hats and with my two pigtails back then (even with the cat-eye glasses I was told I looked like tv's "Annie Oakley." That was good enuf.
* But the segment I enjoyed the best featured my very favorite, Linda Evans, talking about my favorite show at the time "THE BIG VALLEY." I was touched by her emotions when she spoke of Barbara Stanwyck and how Missy took her under her wing and revealed what a marshmallow softie she was inside. I loved hearing about Stanwyck's professionalism. Barbara Stanwyck is one of my two favorite actresses. I believed her as Victoria Barkley. I loved her directness and unwavering voice and resolve. (Did you see the clip of the shoot-out between her and Colleen Dewhurst, anothre of my no-nonsense faves!) And I just loved that outta that little lady, Stanwyck produced these big old sons. I love seeing women with sons (and fathers with daughters). This combination brings out the strength and getleness in both sexes.
It was great and sad to see Robert Culp, James Arness, Peter Graves, Robert Conrad and Fess Parker. All these handsome virile men, now seniors and frail looking; gave me a little lump in my throat to see my guys...now. And again, I was over the moon at seeing Stephanie Powers, Patricia Crowley and Angie...Angie...Angie!!! Yes you cowboys and cowgirls are right...the program didn't show all the great Westerns or go into details about the genre and its rise and fall and impact on society. But something about this show touched the part of me inside that's still a little kid, believing in heroes and bad guys getting theirs! Seeing how people act when they're not afraid and have convictions (which I'd try to emulate when faced with lunchroom situations.
I didn't know exactly what to expect, but I hadn't expected an encyclopedic study of this tv genre. The show hit me on an emotional level "oohing and aahing at clips of old shows I remember, and not on a scholarly cerebral level. The next section of this show will cover the detective genre, and I hope I get to watch it.
What can I tell you guys...I'm easy. As long as they show (the late) Anne Francis talking about "HONEY WEST" I'll be happy.
Edited by: CineMaven on Jan 27, 2011 3:53 PM- Oh...by the by, I have washed my hands since meeting James Garner.
Edited by: CineMaven on Jan 27, 2011 11:37 PM
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WHEW!!! I'm so glad you liked it. I think Ella Raines is just a peach. For me, she's the IT Girl in noir (you know...on the good girl side o' things). She's so pretty and determined...focused. She plays a B-girl to Elisha Cook Jr.'s hopped up drummer, and foolishly kind of puts herself in dangerous situations. All for the man she loves. She's the girl a fella wants on his side. (See: "IMPACT"). Love the cinemtography...And it was a taut little story. But when Franchot Tone shows up...it's rough to see him by Ella's side. But for me, it's Ella Raines. She carries the movie.
What made the movie awesome for you?
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Love the small shout-out to my favorite, Margaret Lindsay, in "There's Always That Woman."
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"Does he ever! He'd really flip out if he knew the dames on this board."
Ha! I see your wings are singed. You know you boys love us!
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Miss G. was on fire yesterday with her comebacks. I couldn't compete so I wimped out. So you think Ann-Margret is more attainable, ey? I think Andrew's cover-ups are cute; he gives himself away. At least he doesn't say you look like Marjorie Main. < Yikes! > (I know, I get that a lot). But
if he has to ogle surreptitiously...I think you've got him well-trained.
Me...I'm not so crazy about the guys that don't get the girls. I usually am not attracted to those guys in real/reel life. (Though my heart bled for Ernest Borgnine in "MARTY"). My sympathies usually go to those girls who don't get the guy. (I know, I get that a lot). Celeste Holm or Eve Arden or Gail Patrick or Gale Sondergaard, gals of that ilk; tall and arch and smarter than the average guy. That says more about the guys than it does about those actresses, no? I feel for them. Gable, Cary or Dana...three dream boats right there all in a row. Who would stand a chance? I just watched Dana in "My Foolish Heart" yesterday morning. Maybe a tad long in the tooth for that role, but he was such a roguish guy. I love his smile and dimpled chin and his gravelly baritone. I'm wondering if he couldn't have done more (well-written) comedies...and gotten the girl.
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WHEW! Tough crowd. I guess you can call me a c0cKeYed sentimentalist but I thoroughly enjoyed last night's foray into the Television western. Right now, I've got to go into the breech...the womb of Mother Nature now and face a snowy winter's day here in NYC. But when I come back later..I'd like to let you know how I felt about the documentary.
More...more...more??? I found it a tasty little meal. But remember...I'm no western gourmand like the rest of you.
Gimme a PB & J, sarsaparilla on the side. And don' be stingeeee baby!
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HA!!!!!!!!!! Well there were no pumpkins, 'cuz he ate 'em, silly!
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very true...and he did get anne bancroft in "THE PUMPKIN EATER" too.
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"She's a kitten with a whip!"
Really? Let me ask her. Virna...HEY VIRNA...do you look like Ann-Margret?
"You never saw it? I think you might like it, with a huge suspension of disbelief, which I know you're good at. It's an indispensable quality for us classic movie watchers. Anyway, I really go for Peter Finch. Once again, gravitating to the guy who doesn't get the girl."
I've seen some of it many many years ago. Angie, right? I suspend my disbelief at the drop of a hat for the classics. Peter not getting the girl. Yeah. I really enjoyed him "NETWORK." He didn't get the girl in that one either.
You've finally helped me understand the movie.
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Damn the defiant! (That was a movie, I think).
Here's your girl Louise Brooks in "Pandora's Box." Some acting already. She's sitting on a troll's lap, hugging him.
I know...I know. Wrong thread. I'll find a better place.