Arturo
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Is having "Excellent poofreading skills" something that applies to someone with very good gaydar?Years ago, I put "excellent poofreading skills" as a requirement for a position we had open. More than two dozen applicants, not one of them caught it.
It's incredibly difficult to proofread your own writing because your brain automatically adds any words you out.
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With Gene, I sometimes get the feeling when watching one of her 50s films that they were trying to tone down her natural beauty by giving her a less than appealing hairdo or wardrobe.
Actually, in the 50s (or the first half, since she made no films.in the second half), she looked good in general. In films like THE MATING SEASON and ON THE RIVIERA, she looks pretty much like her heyday in the 40s. In fact, the only film where I thought she did not look very attractive was in BLACK WIDOW, where her hair did not really become her.
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Raymond Massey and Robert Walker registered in the Top Ten after their SUTS salutes:
8/8:
1. THE NAKED AND THE TOR
2. TORSENIC AND OLD LACE
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4. SEVEN ANGRY TORS
5. SANTOR FE TORAIL
6. THE TORLET PIMPERNEL
7. TOR IS MY CO-PILOT
8. THE TORUM
9. EAST TOR EDEN
10. DESTORATE TORNEY
8/9:
1. TORTY SECONDS OVER TORKYO
2. HER TORNESS AND THE BELLBOY
3. STORANGERS ON A TORAIN
4. SONG OF TOR
5. MADAME TORIE
7. SE HERE, PRIVATE TORGROVE
8. BEGINNING TOR THE END?
9. BATORAAN
10. WHAT NEXT, TORONEL TORGROVE
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4. Back in the day it was fashionable to have a large dresser with booze on top of it, prominently featured in the main room, where a big-screen TV would go today. Amidst all the mess there was usually a large open decanter, about half-full of who the hell knows what, which the actors would keep refilling their glasses with. This is reinforced in other "drinking" movies, such as White Cargo. But the dressertop-full-o-booze is really a centerpiece of this movie. It is like a silent character.
You mean this is no longer a fashionable essential of the modern hone? Nobody sent me thr memo.
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Arturo, Widmark is a racist in No Way Out, but I fail to see how his character, repulsive as he is, qualifies as a psycho.
Great fun to watch Laird Cregar in Hangover Square, of course. He's certainly delusional but, again, a psycho? It's been a while since I've seen this one so I'm willing to admit that perhaps my memory is a bit faulty here.
Where I would say Cregar clearly was a psychopath was when he played, essentially, Jack the Ripper in The Lodger.
Richard Widmark was rascist, yes, but I doubt that the average rascist would state something to the effect of "I just got it into my head to kill.me n********", and attempt to carry it out. He goes beyond just being a rascist.
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Dargo, I can relate to what you're saying. With watching Alan Jenkins in movies and TV, it took me a bit not to think of the cartoon characters he voiced. Same for Alan Reed (Fred Flintstone).
Perhaps my favorite voice to do a cartoon character, and one of the most distinctive, is that of.Don Adams, the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo and the equally cartoonish Maxwell.Smart.
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How quickly it seems to be going.......already the month is a third over.
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Tor Johnson was not just about craft
Stunts he crafted made America laugh
After so many ploys
Was anointed "It Boy"
With new purpose he wielded his heft
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Who says Oleg Cassini can't dress a woman like a trollop? Gene Tierney's looking like someone spent a bit money to look cheap in Where the Sidewalk Ends. That's the postwar 40s for you.
Actually, that outfit that Tierney is wearing in WTSE, as well as that short coif, is very haute 1950. I agree that Gene's pageboy hairstyle she wore throughout the early/mid 1940s may be more becoming, but short hairstyles, even severely so, were the look by the late 40s, and throughout the 50s. She looks chic and classy for that year, despite her lower class origins, she plays a fashion model. Nothing cheap was denoted to audiences of the time.
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If not yet mentioned, how about the following, in which coincidentally (or not), Linda Darnell is (one of) their victim(s);
Laird Cregar in HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
Richard Widmark in NO WAY OUT (1950)
Dan Duryea in THIS IS MY LOVE (1954).
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More catching up, here the aftermath of the SUTS days for Michael Caine and Katherine Hepburn:
8/6:
1. THE TORCRESS FILE
2. TORFIE
3. BEYOND THE TORSEIDON ADVENTOR
4. HANNAH AND HER SISTORS
5. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE TOR
6. DEATHTORP
7. TORSHANTI
8. BATTLE OF BRITOR
9. X, Y, AND TOR
10. A BRIDGE TOR FAR
10. EDUCATING.RITOR
10. GET.CARTOR
8/7:
1. SYLVIA TORLETT
2. QUALITOR STREET
3. LITTOR WOMEN
4. THE LION IN WINTOR
5. GUESS TOR'S COMING TO DINNER
6. WOMAN OF THE TOR
7. UNDERTORRENT
8. THE PHILADELPHIA TORY
9. THE LITTOR MINISTOR
10. A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
10. THE IRON PETTORCOAT
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What? no HUSH . . . HUSH SWEET TORLOTTE?
I believe it bubbled under. Unpublished data suggests it was a.few votes shy of tying for No. 10.
Still trying to catch up, with the search results reflecting SUTS tributes for Teresa.Wright and Fred Astaire.
8/4:
1. SHADOW OF A TOR
2. THE BEST TORS OF OUR LIVES
3. TORSUED
4. THE STEEL.TORP
5. CALITORNIA CONQUEST
6. THE ACTORESS
7. ENTORTMENT
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9. MRS. MINITOR
10. COUNT THE TORS
8/5:
1. TORING DOWN TOR RIO
2. THE GAY DITORCEE
3. A TOROYAL WEDDING
4. SILK TORKINGS
5. SWING TOR
6. TOR HAT
7. TOR WERE NEVER LOVELITOR
8. SHALL WE TORANCE
9. TOREFREE
10. ZIEGFELD TORRIES
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Monday, 8/10:
3.am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)......................4:45 am: JUST DOWN BROADWAY (1942)...................6 am: YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING (1937)......................7:45 am: MADISON AVENUE (1962).....................9:30 am: DECLINE AND FALL.....OF A BIRDWATCHER (1968)........................11:25 am: JOHN AND MARY (1969).....................1 pm: CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973)..............
Tuesday, 8/11:
4 am: CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973).....................6 am: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942)......................8:15 am: DECLINE AND FALL........OF.A BIRDWATCHER (1968).....................10:15 am: JOHN AND MARY (1969)....................11:50 am: THE REWARD (1965)........................1:30 pm: THE TERRORISTS (1975)...............
Wednesday, 8/12:
3 am: BOBBIKINS (1959).....................4:30 am: THE TERRORISTS (1975)........................6 am: THE REWARD (1965)......................7:45 am: PRINVE OF PLAYERS (1955).....................9:30 am: THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958)....................11:15 am: BOBBIKINS (1959).....................12:45 pm: HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)..............
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Note: Not all of a given star's titles that made the top ten were shown on the SUTS; I guess some people are searching for other movies in their filmogrophies.Maybe that's why it only made.number 3; it's rather frequent recent showings has probably had many people look it up previously. Otoh, THE RATOR'S EDGE hasn't been on in awhile, I believe, even though it was an Essential some 3 or so years back.
8/3:
1. A TOR IS BORN
2. CAFÉ METORPOLE
3. THE HUCKSTORS
4. FATHER TORS A WIFE
5. THE TALL TORGET
6. TORNABOUT
7. STAGE TOR
8. A WOMAN OF TORIS
9. ROXIE TORT
10. SING, TORBY, SING
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Let me do double time to catch up. SUTS honorees Olivia DeHavilland and Adolph Menjou each saw their titles spike into the lists on their respective days.
8/2:
1. MY LOVE TORE BACK
2. GOVERNMENT TORE
3. MY COUSIN TORCHEL
4. IT'S TOR I'M AFTER
5. ALIBI TOR
6. TOR'S A CROWD
7. PRINCESS TOR'ROURKE
8. THE TOROUD REBEL
9. SANTA FE TORAIL
10. TOR EACH HIS OWN
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TOURA is only number 3.
TOURA is aired quite frequently in TCM now, but there was a time when it never aired.
Maybe that's why it only made.number 3; it's rather frequent recent showings has probably had many people look it up previously. Otoh, THE RATOR'S EDGE hasn't been on in awhile, I believe, even though it was an Essential some 3 or so years back.
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Sorry, been out of town. But in my absence, the lists keep coming. I will go back to Aug. 1, as there seems to be an increase in the title searches, possibly due to SUTS. The Gene Tierney day saw many of her titles in the TopTen.
1. THE RATOR'S EDGE
2. TORBACCO ROAD
3. TOURA
4. WHERE TOR SIDEWALK ENDS
5. RINGS ON TOR FINGERS
6. THE TORGYPTIAN
7. TOR WONTORFUL URGE
8. THE TOR AND MRS. MUIR
9. THE RETORN OF FRANK JAMES
10. BLACK WITOR
10. NEVER LET ME TOR
10. TORS IN THE ATTIC
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I agree that THE EGYPTIAN is a flawed, but above average, colorful and compelling epic. The performances in general are good, including that of the much maligned Bella Darvi. Too bad I was out of town this past week, and missed it, but I have it on DVD.
Another intriguing possibility casting-wise, is that.Marilyn Monroe wanted desperately to play the **** of Babylon. However, Darryl Zanuck thought otherwise,.earmarking the role for his mistress (whose professional name is a combination of parts of his and his wife's names.
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So sad to hear of her death. Coleen Gray was beautiful, talented, and yes, sexy (I remember reading somewhere decades ago where the writer referred.to her in NIGHTMARE ALLEY as foxy; I concur). It would've been great if TCM had done a recent interview with her.
After.costarring together in KISS OF DEATH and FURY AT FURNACE CREEK (Imho a very good western btw), Coleen and Victor Mature were briefly viewed by Fox as a potential team. The studio proposed to remake (again) SEVENTH HEAVEN with them in 1948 or 1949; the studio probably decided against it due to the deciding the subject was dated.
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Sorry, had an unexpected.trip to Mexico, to help out a widowed aunt with some property sales. Will be gone 9 days. So, I probably won't have access to the FMC schedule down there, and unable to post it. Shouls be back in time for all but the first couple of days of SUTS.
I just got.back from the aforementioned business trip. So let me resume the FMC schedule (all times eastern):
Thursday, 8/6:
3:30 am: MODESTY BLAISE (1966).................6 am: TAILSPIN (1939)....................7:30 am: FIVE FINGERS (1952).....................9:20 am: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION (1961).....................11 am: THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM (1966).....................12:50 am: MODESTY BLAISE (1966).........
FRIDAY, 8/7:
3:30 am: CAPTAIN FROM.CASTILE (1947)......................6 am: JITTERBUGS (1943).........................7:20 am: IT HAPPENED IN FLATBUSH (1942).........................11:10 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959).........................12:55 on: HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)............
Saturday, 8/8:
3:30 am: HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966).........................6 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)........................ 7:45 am: TAKES OF MANHATTAN (1942)......................10 am: TWELVE HOURS TO KILL (1960).......................11:30 am: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM.COME (1961).........................1:20 on: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973)..................
Sunday, 8/9:
3.am: THE LAST AMERICAN.HERO (1973)..........................4:40 am: DRESSED.TO KILL (1941).............................6 am: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM.COME (1961)..........................7:50 am: TWELVE HOURS TO KILL (1960)............................9:20 am: JUST OFF BROADWAY (1942).........................10:30 am: DRESSED TO KILL (1941)...........................11:45 am: THE FORBIDDEN STREET (1949)...........................1:29 on: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)...........
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Sorry, had an unexpected.trip to Mexico, to help out a widowed aunt with some property sales. Will be gone 9 days. So, I probably won't have access to the FMC schedule down there, and unable to post it. Shouls be back in time for all but the first couple of days of SUTS.
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And noteworthy because it is the film on which she met future husband Robert Taylor, and the only time they costarred with the exception of the awful 1964 film THE NIGHTWALKER.
Stanwyck and Taylor did a film at 20th Century Fox in 1937, as.their relationship was getting plenty of coverage in the fan magazines, so the studio decided.to cash in and titled it THIS IS MY AFFAIR. Alice Faye was.to have starred.originally, but I think she bowed out due to iloness. TIMA is quite gooe, and sometimes on FMC.
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Is #3 TORsefeathers?
We may never know (not that the lists cannot be used to accurately reflect TCM programming trends, or audience viewing trends).
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ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND OF ANGELS
Musical cavalcade of Irving Berlin hits, from the Restoration through the late.1930s, as played by the eponymous band. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche play the band members, and Tor Johnson stars as bandleader Alexander, the smooth, and smooth-talking, ladies man, as the film.details his travails in winning over the society beauty from San Francisco's (S)Nob Hill. Unfortunately for Tor, his plans.are.derailed.when it is discovered that he has black blood, as rhe progeny of a plantation owner and his creole mistress, played by Clark Gable and Yvonne DeCarlo, respectively, and he is banished from the home of his betrothed. More happily, the movie ends on a positive note, when Alexander is invited to not only perform with his band at the next Octoroon Ball in New Orleans, but his mixed ancestry allowed him to be voted its Grand Marshall. All in all, a rousingly good musical with a winning cast.
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Don't forget "Goodbye Yellow Brick Tor".