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Remember when she used to say "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" all the time on those commercials. Boy, did she p!ss a lot of women off!

Captain Morton?

Selfish, shmelfish! There's a lot to recommend being child-free in this day and age. People that criticize it with that whole "selfish" crap are just bitter from envy.

I read a novel in the early 70's by William Peter (The Exorcist) Blatty called 'Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane'. It was about a bunch of military men - soldiers, pilots - who'd gone off their rockers and were being kept in an insane asylum that was inside a kind of castle or something. In the late 70's Blatty revised the novel somewhat and renamed it 'The Ninth Configuration'. 'The Ninth Configuration' was then made into a movie in 1980. It starred Jason Miller, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson. Definitely, mental illness was very much the theme.

Yes, it's been on a couple of times. Best chance to see it is probably during a Joanne Woodward tribute.

I get a kick out of how the nuthouse doctors tried to cure Sean Connery of his anti-social behavior by operating on his brain in 'A Fine Madness' (1966). When he awakens in recovery he's all meek and mild and whispery - and then he bursts forth with strangling, demanding "give me back my book!" Good stuff.

Thank you for saying I'm right. Always nice to hear. I'm glad you liked it as much as I did.

Possibly the best movie I've ever seen about a mental disorder is 'A Beautiful Mind' (2001).

Studio PR and media have absolutely no influence on my enjoyment or lack thereof of Tom Hanks' acting. When he's in a good movie and does a good job in that movie - which has been often - I enjoy him. When it's a poor movie (in my opinion) I tend not to enjoy his acting so much. There is no one on this planet that is more immune to PR and media manipulation than myself. I reject your premise - including on behalf of others - in its entirety. Nobody likes Tom Hanks because of PR. If they like him, they like him for his movies - period.

Yep. Like you, I don't use the ignore feature - never have - so I see everything. Although one thing I can't see is private messaging that doesn't involve me - and I get the feeling there's been some doozies in the recent past for you.

ADDING to conversation has NEVER been one of her accoutrements, Dargs. Her chief device is merely to EXIST on these boards and to do so with as much aggravation and negativity as possible. As to why she's taken so recently to talking to herself, it's probably because so few people are bothering with her anymore.

Whenever I get a notice that says someone liked my post in a certain thread, I go to that thread to see which post it was that was liked by them. Twice only have I been unable to find the post that the notice was in reference to. In those cases I figured the "liker" had clicked "like this" in error and immediately realized the error and cancelled it.

Yeah, but are you one of them there "experts", Dargs?

There is no contest. I took your question as being sincere and so have answered sincerely.

Although I must have seen him first in 'Fast Times', the movie I first really noticed him in was 'Easy Money' in which he had a sizeable role. He plays the part of Julio, who lusts for a young Jennifer Jason Leigh and is forever trying to get her to give in and do it. She, however, is a good girl virgin because her father (Rodney Dangerfield) has always preached that to her. So poor Julio just suffers waiting for their wedding day, when he'll at last be able to go all the way with Jennifer. So what happens? She wears him out! She turns out to be positively nymphomanic once she's married. I remember cracking up at a scene where she finds him hiding from her in the back of a car and as she gets in and starts up with him we hear him moaning in anguish, "no-ooooo". His bit on Seinfeld where he tries to get the stink out of Elaine's hair is something I've seen many times now. Gonna miss him.

Very sad to hear of his passing. He was a unique and instantly recognizable actor - every comedy was made that much funnier if he was in it. News here: https://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com/news/taylor-negron-dies-friends-seinfeld-star-dead-57-143000891-us-weekly.html

Great movie. Tom Hanks is superb in it.

This is what a kewpie doll looks like - in HELL!!

I'm sure you'll enjoy it. While everyone is good in it, it's David Carradine's movie all the way. One of his best.

Old Yeller.

No question that Rod's "heyday" was the 1960's. He was the lead, usually the hero, in movie after movie - many of them quite high profile. And yet he remained one of the most peculiarly un-idolized of male stars. After 'The Time Machine' and 'The Birds' he should have been huge - and he did keep getting those lead roles - but something unquantifiable just seemed to prevent him from clicking at the Sean Connery / Michael Caine level one might have expected. The movie I most remember him in (my usher experience again) was this odd western called 'Chuka' (1967) where he plays a gunfighter trapped in a fort under siege by Indians. The movie has an over the top performance of John Mills as the fort commander and an even more over the top performance by Ernest Borgnine who appears to adore the commander (to put it mildly). It's almost a template for Borgnine's adoration of William Holden 2 years later in 'The Wild Bunch'. Boy, that Ernie can be a hoot to watch! Anyway, once the 70's rolled around Rod Taylor found that television was the venue where he'd find work most of the time and his "heyday" was at an end. But, while it lasted, I found him to be a most agreeable actor to watch.

Kevin Coughlin was a child actor (he played Cara Williams' son in 'The Defiant Ones'). In the 60's he was in a slew of youth dramas like 'The Young Runaways', 'Maryjane', 'The Gay Deceivers' and, most famously, as the young genius bass player in 'Wild in the Streets'. Not sure if he'd have made a comeback in movies at some point, but I liked him and he died very young - hit by a car in 1976.

Steve McQueen would've eventually won an award for best actor. Maybe in an Eastwood movie. Marilyn Monroe would've starred with Brando in a serious role and gotten a best actress nomination, setting her up for more respect from then on and bringing Brando's box-office losing streak to an end years sooner than 1972.

Been reading up on this. They weren't originally too racy. But in 1935 the Hays Office demanded they be excised if the movie was going to continue playing in theaters. Problem is, those 3 minutes are now lost.

Yeah, but I have no class. I write the way I speak and I don't say anything in a post that I wouldn't say in person. I'm kinda real that way.