cascabel
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You're welcome. I wanted this game so badly when I was in grade-school, but my mother thought it was too ridiculous. What fun would it be, if it wasn't too ridiculous.
Found it on YouTube! Mystery Date
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Happy birthday, Carole Lombard.
looking for a book or something--from *No Man of Her Own* (1932) Carole Lombard, Clark Gable
hiccough cure--from *Hands Across the Table* (1935) Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray
tribute site--Lombard's Lair
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It's a good play with two fine movie adaptations. Just a by-the-way: *The Children's Hour* was closely based on a true-life incident from 1810 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"(Dashiell) Hammett suggested that 'The Great Drumsheugh Case' would make a good scenario for a play - the true story of a scandal at a Scottish boarding school where a malicious pupil accused two teachers of having a lesbian affair." / from Continental Detective Agency--Dashiell Hammett: Life, Works and More
http://www.transki.freeserve.co.uk/hellman.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=RNBOkuTfd1IC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=thegreatdrumsheugh+case&source=web&ots=is6I3PQu-6&sig=f9I-2Ooq4DBix3o1V8bcCGQlzoU#PPA32,M1
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FredCDobbs--I like your thread very much. Here's an odd collection of clips.
Experimental films:
UbuWeb Film & Video
including:
Man Ray
http://www.ubu.com/film/ray.html
Hans Richter
http://www.ubu.com/film/richter.html
from *Woman in the Moon* (1929) d: Fritz Lang Pt.1
from *Woman in the Moon* (1929) d: Fritz Lang Pt.2
Mexican actress Maria Felix:
from *Dona Barbara* (1943) Maria Felix, Julian Soler, M.Elena Marques
from *Amok* (1944) Maria Felix, Julian Soler
Peruvian singer Yma Sumac:
from *Secret of the Incas* (1954) Yma Sumac, Charlton Heston, Nicole Maurey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeFy9S0MKp4&mode=related&search=yma%20sumac%20omar%20khayyam
from *Omar Khayyam* (1957) Debra Paget, Yma Sumac, Margaret Hayes
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This might be the very last thing I forget:
"Mystery Date/ Are you ready for your Mystery Date?/ Don't be late, it could be great./ Open the door for your/ Mystery Date."
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"...why did she ever take the chance of playing the music?"
It's a puzzler. I sometimes wonder if there's a rule in Hollywoodland stating that no Internal Affairs police officer can be shown in a completely favorable light. They have to be bumblers?
redriver--About Alexander Hamilton: I'm still waiting for the long-promised movie based on Gore Vidal's *Burr*. That could be done as an politico-historical biopic film noir. Genre meshing is good.
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Gotta dance.
"Lucky Numbers"--from *The Black Network* (1936) The Nicholas Brothers
"Jumpin' Jive"--from *Stormy Weather* (1943) Cab Calloway and The Nicholas Brothers
"The Lady In Red"--from *In Caliente* (1935) Winifred Shaw, The DeMarcos, Canova & Horton
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CineSage jr---Thank you. That's good to know. Well, not quite. I hope TCM writers belong to some union or other--for their sake. Unions are good in principle and strikes are sometimes necessary.
I understand that, as a result of the writers' strike in the 1980s, many television viewers abandoned network TV for cable stations. If there's another strike, I would expect TCM's viewership to go up. That's great--as long as it doesn't mean questionable changes in programming to keep those new people.
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This has something to do with the compensation screenwriters want for their work which is shared on the Internet. The question is: What, if anything, will a strike mean to TCM?
"Hollywood screenwriters to vote on strike
Labor tensions in Hollywood heated up a notch this week as the union representing 12,000 screenwriters asked its members to authorize a strike if they fail to reach agreement on a new contract later this month."
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*Fatalism and moral reasoning are two of the biggest drawing cards for me in noir. Now what's that other one? Hmmmm.*
FrankGrimes----Ah, yes, THAT. Every movie on yesterday's schedule featured sexual longing, temptation and jealousy; the mingling of sex and violence; the struggle for power between people (Isn't that always sexual somehow?)--and this includes the very beautiful and reverent *King of Kings* and *Gandhi* (no surprise to those who actually attend church with all the other sinners). It seemed like programming genius to begin with *Lawman*, in which the three older men, each trying to come to terms with his past, continually explore the blurry line between criminal and law-enforcement violence. Then it all ended with *Becket*, where (IMHO) one of the points being argued is that intense friendship is not any nobler than intense sexual love, as foolish people assume when they compartmentalize their feelings. They both have the same source and are, ultimately, the same thing. It was such an exciting, exhausting schedule that I'm glad there wasn't anything on TCM today that I particularly wanted to see again. I can get some work done, catch up on the news. (I'm going by the online schedule. *Now Playing* has the day beginning with *The Asphalt Jungle* and ending with *Alexander Hamilton*, which I had to miss. BTW, I'm also glad most of these movies weren't the creations of modern filmmakers, who would have made nearly every scene too gory and explicit to watch.)
*The Narrow Margin* was completely new to me, and I like it so much now. As an avid train-rider, I loved the setting--although I know it could have been even more confining, the passengers ought to have staggered a lot more (especially the women in heels), and there's never just one annoying kid running around underfoot on a train. I've always liked Marie Windsor, but have become a Charles McGraw fan all of a sudden
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I had no idea that Mr. Osborne tapes more than 200 introductions and promos in about 2 days!! He always looks pleasant and gracious.
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World Mental Health Day isn't until the 10th, but I had to take mine today. Today's entire scheduling seems to be a stylish combined college course in the psychology of fatalism and intermediate to advanced moral reasoning.
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Hi. Since nobody's jumped in yet to tell you that the object in question is a skyscraper (upward view, a closer shot and darker than the similar one on the "coming up" screen), I'm starting to doubt my eyesight and assumptions. Maybe it's meant to be suggestive of several different things.
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Hi!
in Hot Topics
Dear Kelley---I'm very sorry you're going through this. I'll be thinking of you. When you can, please let us know how you are. Que Dios te bendiga.
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1. WHO: Barbara Stanwyck
2: WHY: Intelligent, courageous, completely likeable artist.
3: WHAT FAVORITE MOVIE: *The Lady Eve*
4: WHERE FIRST SEEN: On television--some Saturday afternoon in the '60s.
5: WHEN MADE: 1941
1. WHO: Ingrid Bergman
2. WHY: Gentle, brave, and warm.
3. WHAT FAVORITE MOVIE: *Casablanca*
4. WHERE FIRST SEEN: Oh, I'm sure I saw it on TV in the '60s, but I heard about it before that. It was my parents' movie, the first one they saw together when they were courting, shortly after it was released.
5. WHEN MADE: 1942
We can post more than one, right?
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I wish I knew what was preventing you from accessing your WATCHES. I can get at mine (and the menu box for SEARCH) easily enough. I checked NO on the WATCH PREFERENCES earlier this month when people were having surplus email problems.
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I think you mean *Good Morning, Miss Dove* with Jennifer Jones. It would be fun to see that again.
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CineSage jr----Thank you. I'm happy to learn that about the intriguingly complicated Mr. Price. I want to read Victoria Price's book now.
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CineSage jr----Mr. Price was, evidently, a very kind soul. He made a generous endowment to East Los Angeles College over fifty years ago.
Vincent Price Art Gallery--East Los Angeles College
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You're very welcome! I love this movie. Many people think it's simply grim, but it has one of the most spiritual endings. And you mustn't feel "stupid"; Ingrid Bergman was beautiful, but not Hollywood glamorous in this movie. Glad to be of help.
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Hi. That could be *Stromboli*, a very good movie with Ingrid Bergman. But--suicide? Are you sure?
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Glenn Ford was so good in this that I actually kept waiting for the bleakness and paranoia of *The Parallax View* right up until the last scene. But it was 1970, and this is clearly a made-for-TV movie. A conspiracy thriller with an optimistic ending.
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Thanks, Dobbs! Too funny. Before I go back to watch all the clips, I'll make a fervent wish for a bizarre Bohemian Grove scene. Wish, wish.
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
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Hello. I'm guessing the movie you want is *Topper Returns* (1941):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034303/
or maybe it was--*Behold My Wife!* (1934)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026107/
I can't find a clip of Mr. Anderson in either movie, but here's one from *Star-Spangled Rhythm* (1942):
"Sharp As A Tack"--Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLBBZh5X6c
Other inspirations for Jackson's moonwalk:
Bill Bailey--credited as the inventor--this is probably from Ed Sullivan's *Toast of the Town* (1948)
Bob Fosse--"Snake in the Grass" from *The Little Prince* (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8mJsgPj1iU