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I thought that Tor would be better cast.as the craggy heights.

Ca Kind of also looks like Caitlyn Jenner.

Wow,.Marlo Thomas looks uncannily like the way Lucia Mendez does now, the Mexican telenovela star/singer, who no longer looks like her beautiful former self, with all the plastic surgery SHE has had.

Ok now, now you're channeling the essence of Holly Hunter in BROADCAST NEWS.

There was a young girl who would dither Despite her attempts at come hither Levity is a sin Dropping names to fit in So she left to the strains of a zither

So was Brooke Shields' other early hit, the remake of THE BLUE LAGOON.

I've seen it before, on FMC. I'm a fan of Grable's and Fox musicals in general. But this is really bottom of the barrel stuff, done at the height of Grable's wartime pin-up popularity. I guess the studio thought they could turn out any old c r a p with Betty and they'd make a killing. They were right. Shame on them. PS.....I just realized that this is Pin-Up Girl month, as I tuned in at the end of this film, getting ready to watch GILDA. So I guess this is why TCM chose to show this weak movie, since it's an obvious opener for the theme.

I once saw Madonna in the audience.at.a movie on the westside. She and a flamboyant male friend giggled throughout the movie, which wasn't a comedy. I went to the snack bar/restroom a few times that evening. Unfortunately, she made.a beeline out if there before the credits were over.

Lee Remick was so incredibly sexy on THE LONG HOT SUMMER, another virtue of that very good film.

Wow. What a sad night. About four years ago, I was on a flight back from Mexico City with some friends. On that fight was Banda / Reality TV star, Jenny Rivera, and her new husband (or so my female friends said). As she sat in First Class, us peons could'ln't fawn over her or ask for her autograph or selfies until we were on our way to Customs at LAX. Jenny died last year in a plane crash, flying out of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, on her way to another tour stop.

Totally agree.with you there. June Allyson ruined more 50s remakes of 30s classics, as well as expose her to withering comparisons to the original actresses' sparkling performances. It seems to me that the film might have been halfway decent, and Lemmon would have had a more worthy costar, if Columbia's own Judy Holliday had done it; they had already proven their chemistry. or better yet, have William Holden reteam with Holliday.

Whither the zither doth dither........... Is that Orson Welles reciting Shakespeare?

Lol. Reminds me of the time in the late 70s, when my aunt, principal of an elementary school in East LA, invited me and several cousins go there for an event that promised to have a bunch of celebrities, the main one being Erik Estrada, then at the height of his CHIPS fame, as well as one of the few Latinos to be seen on English language tv. Well,.that jerk Estrada.was a no-show, and us kids were not happy with the biggest name there, Mr. Whipple of Charmin fame.

How could this one slip my mind....... About four or five years ago, our boss took all the supervisors to a restaurant in Marina Del Rey. Well, outside the picture window was a familiar face, we thought. It was left up to me to go out there and ask, "Aren't you the world's most exciting man from the Dos Equis commercials?" He said yes. To this day, I couldn't tell you his name if my life depended on it lol.

Unless the white writers, aware of this term used among blacks,.decided to use it to get it past the white censors.who, the writers rightly surmised, did not know the term. Offhand, to me it sounds like it could've been derived from b o s o m. There is a tall spindly, spiny tree-sized plant, found only in the central desert in Baja California, and one small patch across the Sea of Cortes around Puerto Libertad, Sonora (don't ask me how I know this), known in English as the Boojum Tree. In Spanish, it is called cirio, which means candle, which can roughly describe its appearance. It has also been described as looking like an upside down carrot. Anyway, I remember reading that early Yankees to the area knicknamed it Boojum Tree because it reminded.them of one such named in the writings of Lewis Carrol, I believe.

I think Welles intentionally did his best to deconstruct Rita's prevailing image of Love Goddess when he did THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Since.much of the cementing of that.image was the result of GILDA, it seems like his take on that film. And he did it to p i s s off Columbia mogul Harry Cohn, who viewed Rita only from the angle of his prize commodity. It worked, maybe too well, as the general public was turned off as well.

BERKELEY SQUARE DANCE, in which a group of idealistic and radical Berkeley students stage a sit-in, and find themselves transported to the Ozarks of the mid 20th Century, where the are forced to stand up and do nonstop square dancing. Tor Johnson is featured in both storylines, as the leader of the police force ready to break up the peaceful sit-in, bullhorn in hand; and in the other guise, as the caller of the different square dance.steps. Yvette Mimieux plays his radical hippie daughter in the Berkeley scenes, and his daughter/love interest.when in the Ozarks.

This is something like SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, where the aging screen beauty played by Geraldine Page, who was like 39, and the "younger" gigolo, Paul Newman, who was about 37.

One.time, back in the late 80s, I was with a friend at a boutique on Melrose, where my friend was.trying on outfits. In come Latoya and Janet Jackson, who proceeded to do the same. Well, it seemed that Latoya was craving some recognition,.while Janet just rummaged through the racks. Being a fan of the various Jackson family members, but mostly Janet, I walked up to them and said how much I loved their music, and how beautiful they looked, etc. I got both their autographs, and was able to talk a bit with Latoya, who was eating it up. Janet just mostly smiled.

On.FMC (all.times eastern): Wednesday, 6/3: 3:30 am: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942)..................6 am: DAYTIME WIFE (1939)................7:15 am: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1945)..............8:30 am: THIS IS MY AFFAIR (1937).................10:15 am: PRINCE OF PLAYERS (1955).................12 pm: 13 FIGHTING MEN (1960)...........1:10 pm: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME (1961)........... Thursday, 6/4: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)...............6 am: PRINCE OF PLAYERS (1955)...............7:45 am: 13 FIGHTING MEN (1960)...........9 am: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME (1961)..............10:50 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)...............1:15 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)............. Friday, 6/5: 3:30 am: HOW TO STEAL A.MILLION (1966)...............6 am: DO YOU LOVE ME (1945).................7:45 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)............9:30 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958)..................11:15 am: A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941)...............12:55 pm: HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)........

THE LONG HOT SUMMER LOVIN.......Alan Carr decided to remake the Faulkner based 1950s classic as a musical in the late 1970s, and hoped to reteam the winning costarring team from GREASE, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Unfortunately, Travolta, hot off the one-two punch of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and GREASE, turned this one down, choosing instead another surefire film MOMENT BY MOMENT. Anyway, the producer decided to.get.another big star, and who bigger than Tor Johnson. He happily chose to fill Travolta's dancing shoes, but was dismayed that in the interest of more dance numbers, his role became a combination of the parts played by Paul Newman and Orson Welles. So he had to sing songs of being a real man, and the only one worthy of being with Newton John, his daughter. After an incestuous summer of sex.and.mint juleps, not to mention big production numbers on the lawn of their grecian mansion, Olivia returns to school.breathlessly weaving stories set to music of her trysts. A more tangible manifestion became evident shortly after the new year, leading to the Busby Berkeley inspired finale.

I wouldn't consider them royalty, but I have met Mexican pop princess Thalia, and her sister Laura Zapata. Both parlayed roles in telenovelas into singing careers, except that Talia became a huge star, and her sister went back to soaps. Thalia has done little since.marry music megalominiac mogul Tommy Mottola, previously married to Mariah Carey. Anyway, I.met them.many years ago in Mexico City,.through one of my best friends. She is a cousin to them.

Unfortunately, some that should be in asylums are running around inflicting others with their delusions.

Well, Tracy and Tierney were the stars of PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE, so of they were billed that way, then the studio must've decided to list everyone alphabetically. I'm sure the adds, posters and other promotional materials clearly listed the star attractions correctly.

I liked the opening.credits from.FROM.THE TERRACE, the simple images and color.schemes, although in no way among.the best. Sort of reminded of two other films.from roughly that period, IMITATION OF LIFE and THE V.I.P.S, each denoting wealth in the opening cretids.