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It's fun to say Benecio Del Toro. Especially if you say it in a Ricardo Montalban impression - kinda like what Eugene Levy used to do on SCTV.

I don't read critics' reviews when a movie is first released. Not anymore. It's interesting to read what Noel Megahey says when reviewing the DVD 30 years later. Here are a couple of excerpts: Read more: http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/12493/rhinoceros.html#ixzz3TqEGFkG3 I remember the night I watched it on the late show - bemusedly shaking my head about it all. A couple nights later I was in a bar and a slightly older guy started talking about how he'd seen it and said that he thought the movie was scary - which made me laugh at the time. But he wasn't wrong - it's just that I attached so much ridiculousness to the movie that "scary" seemed inappropriate somehow. My library actually has this movie! Gonna have to watch it again after all these years, I think.

Wasn't anywhere near as waifish as Giulietta Masina, but I catch your drift.

To you maybe. Not to very many other people.

Most of her best performances were in Woody Allen-directed movies. And one really good one in a Roman Polanski movie. Seems she responds best to the nerdy little guy types. Up until she got "scorned" by one, that is.

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Who the hell cares what Mia Farrow thinks?

You tell 'im, missw! Woody Allen is probably my favorite director. Outstanding filmmaker, and not a bad actor either. I've never seen a Woody Allen movie I didn't like at least a little, and most of them I like a lot.

Just remembered this one - saw it just once (around '75) and found it to be pretty "different". 'Rhinoceros' (1974) Starred Gene Wilder and was about people turning into rhinoceroses.

mmm.......tentacles on toast

In this instance, they both read the same. Click on either of them above and you get 'Tentacles' playing at 4:30 am on Saturday's schedule.

Really? Yikes - how long has the full tcm schedule one can click on at the top of this page been wrong? Getting slack 'round here lately.

'Dr. Cook's Garden' was a pretty good movie, for a made-for-tv one. Good performance by Bing. I also liked his performance very much in 'Stagecoach' (1966). Too bad he retired - he was a much better actor in old age than he'd been in his youth.

He wasn't exactly mister rogers-ey to his daughters either.

classicfilmfan will be crestfallen. "at least let people get to know what you like a little bit before you start crushing their illusions", great grandma used to say.

order in the court room, here come da troll

I guess. Frankly, I consider the members here who so love ancient movies from the studio era to be a cult.

Typical for Sony. I used to purchase Sony products, but always ran into issues with them. Whether it was televisions or audio cassette recorders. Even Sony brand audio tape. Over the years, problem after problem. I'm sure it was just a run of personal bad luck and amounts to no evidence against Sony as a brand, but it's unlikely that I'll ever purchase another Sony product as long as I live. The worst DVD recorder in my experience is LG. However, the HDD section continues to work long after the disc recorder has died, so I continue to own 2 of them for use as DVR's. Pioneer DVD Recorders are the best in my experience. I own 2 of them - both with HDD sections - and they are solid, trouble-free and easy to use. Beautiful machines, beautiful quality recordings. After Pioneer, which enjoys a great reputation pretty much universally, Panasonic gets the next highest amount of praise for their DVD recorders - in my social experience. I've not owned a Panny recorder, but I've owned 2 Panny players and they were quite good. Magnavox gets some consumer love - but their players do not have variable-bit recording, so I've not gone with them for that reason.

Very common. All Catholic high schools were segregated by gender. In public schools there was a fair amount of "streaming" - with boys who had no intention of going on to a higher education generally streamed into "tech" courses, where - in addition to basic math, english and phys-ed - they would spend a good amount of time in "shops" (machine shop, auto mechanics, carpentry, sheet metal, drafting, electrical). I myself was in all-male classes from grades 10 through 12. There were girls in the school - and I was in a mixed class in grade 9 before I switched to Tech. And, there were 'remedial schools' for students who had a history of being un-teachable. They were pretty much all-male as well.

I'd be too, if I were his brother. As fellow Canadian David Wilcox wrote - My eyes keep me in trouble; I want every woman I see.

While looking at these photos, it struck me that Steve's looks are sometimes remindful of a cross between Robert Redford and Christopher Walken. No wonder Eydie fell for him. Really liked this as a 12-13 year old - sang it all the time. The definition of a smooth song.

The first one. It was because he was the one who got the chicks. My source on this is the book: Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo by Joe Adamson

You know too much. Watch your back.

I long for the old days of movie theaters - my "career" back in the mid 60's to early 70's. Many were the nights when only a couple of people would sit til the end of the credits, but we'd dutifully leave the lights down for them; we'd stand at the top of the aisle waiting for the complete end. At the very end, we'd play the national anthem over an on-screen visual of the Canadian flag - and some patrons would stand still (not all) but we, the staff, always would. This was the way - every night, 365 times a year. So much do I revere those days that I dream of them a couple of times a year. In those dreams I'm gloriously happy, and at the realization that I'm dreaming - as it ends - the sadness of loss is momentarily overwhelming. But if I could, I'd dream of it every night.

It's between Judy Holliday and Harvey Fierstein.