darkblue
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It sure is easy for you to judge.
The Ignore button is a wonderful invention!
No way james would ever be so chickensh-- as to use the ignore button.
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Just because he was a working class man does not mean he was, by my classification, an average Joe. To me, an average Joe, is someone who has not only the occupation, but the personality and lifestyle of the man on the street. None of Cagney's characters met this test. Realism was never the strong suit of the large majority of '30s and '40s films.
A lot of movies are about average people who fall into extraordinary circumstances - unlike their usual lives. Movies about people who are "larger than life" aren't always as interesting, usually because they're harder to relate to. Some people do like losing themselves in those he-man or queen of the world fantasies, though. To each their own.
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However the more that I view these posts it appears that some commentators/observers should go back and read some history.
It'd probably just make them angrier.
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Hmmmm...well...I'm certainly glad Fred here added the qualifier "just" to his comment "about everyone" and thus by implication not meaning "everyone", 'cause it certainly seldom "seems" that way to ME that people are being "rude" when they disagree with me in text form. Well, at least around THIS place on the whole, anyway.
(...but then again, this certainly doesn't surprise me that he stated it often "seems" that way to HIM) LOL
Hey, he wasn't nicknamed "thinskin" in high school for nothin', Dargs.
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Complaints about it seem to be assumed, but where are they? Who complains?
Upon it's initial release, several ranking members of the NAACP were highly critical. The black press, such as Richard Dier in The Afro-American, wrote that he was "thoroughly disgusted" by the film for being "as vicious a piece of propaganda for white supremacy as Hollywood ever produced".
So, I guess there have been some complaints for real.
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We haven't seen any evidence that she has gained anything by putting those comments about Lawford and Boone into her autobiography. If anything, she may have lost points with people who do not wish to think of their favorite movie stars as bisexual or homosexual.
Evidence is often internal. It's not always about things a stranger can see. I know of many lies that have been told out of anger and vindictiveness. My Irish family experience again.
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I doubt O'Hara is making anything up-- she has nothing to gain by it.
Nothing you know about. But it's your privilege to doubt or not as you wish.
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The word loch is fixed. No idea how that made it on the censored word list!
How about fixing the word c h u n k? I used it in a sentence today and it was asterisked out.
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and NOW...oh when oh when will people STUCK in the freakin' past get over their old and outdated ideas
When they're dead, if not before.
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Speaking of "Tech Support lackeys", why is it that whenever I have to call a company for tech support, I get someone with a heavy foreign accent whom I can barely understand? The technical operation is difficult enough for me without me struggling to understand what the person is saying. I don't mean to sound xenophobic, but shouldn't those with heavy foreign accents have back room jobs?
Because they're in other countries. They're cheaper to employ.
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Or maybe O'Hara is a bald-faced liar. She is Irish, after all.
A large part of my own family is Irish (my grandmother is an O'Sullivan) and I know first-hand that they're capable of a great deal of lying - particularly if they're feeling resentful about something.
They laugh about their "blarney".
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Candy (1968)!
Richard Burton, Ringo Starr, Marlon Brando, John Astin, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, John Huston, Anita Pallenberg - and the nubile Ewa Aulin herself!
All partying their a$$es off!
As Tina Fey used to say, "I want to go to there".
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So any sort of comment about a gay theme or subject has to be "ghettoized" down in the LGBT section????. Sorry, I dont buy that. That's where the new George Brent thread ended up because the "powers that be" decided not to transfer the old one over here due to content as well (from the old boards).
james wasn't saying that at all. He was noting, as I did, that a specific member keeps objecting to the topic of "gayness" when it appears in a thread. This member was so combative whenever it would happen that the lgbt forum was created largely because of him.
Nobody wanted a ghettoization of "gay" topicing. Certainly not james.
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Thanks for the correction. But do you agree that using actor is more PC than using actress. That actor is similar to chair or fire fighter and mail carrier?
i.e. the all-inclusive term is PC. Finance implied that NON all-inclusive term actress was more PC. That was the point of my post.
Yes, "actor" is more politically correct. But it is a matter of degree. "Actress" is still an acceptable term - unless one is using it to describe a male performer. Then it's no doubt an insult.
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I believe you have the PC standpoint backwards; Isn't the typical PC POV that new terms have to be created for females of a profession. e.g. Fireman is NOT PC, but Fireperson is. Mailman is NOT PC but Mailperson is. Chairman etc...
So to me the PC POV would be that one has to use actress not the other way around like you imply.
The correct terms are not fireperson, mailperson, chairperson etc.
The correct terms are fire fighter, mail carrier, chair - although chair person had been used for a time and chairwoman is still sometimes used when the chair is female; chairman when the chair is male. But chair is the all-inclusive term and should be used if one wishes to be correct in the "political" sense.
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Any gay subtexts to this whole infamous murder mystery of well over a century?? Come on folks spit them out!! Inquiring minds want to know!!
It's like I noted previously - you really are attracted to the topic of "gayness", aren't you?
Now, you're actively encouraging people to introduce the topic - so you can what? Pretend you deplore it?
You're quite the scamp.
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I use both terms. But I prefer the term "actor". It feels more respectful.
Someone mentioned the word "starlet". That seems demeaning - a relic of a bygone era, and thankfully so.
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Well, viewership is probably down in Dec. due to the holidays, so they probably figure that into the equation when scheduling. I'll catch up with my reading.....
Don't people watch more TV on the winter holidays? Especially kids?
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If you can no longer smash the phone, I guess you'll have to seek out the person at the other end of the line and smash your fist through their face.
In Philly, that's known as a lovely thought.
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Lawford has become an object of ridicule and disrespect because he was diminished (for lack of a better word) by his Sinatra and Kennedy connections
He paid a big price. Marilyn Monroe haunted him while he was on his death bed.
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One of New Zealand band, Split Enz, most interesting tracks was on their album 'Time and Tide' (1982) - the track was called 'Giant Heartbeat'. Here's an excellent live version of it.
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This is the most uninspiring monthly schedule in some time. I'd give it a D at best.
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Growing up in the 50's, I remember that when someone phoned me and I answered, they could then prevent me from using my phone by simply not hanging up. It was set up so that the instigator of the call was in control of severing the connection. So they could leave their handset laying there, go away from their phone - and I would not be able to make any calls. Hanging up my own phone didn't work - if I picked it up 5 minutes later, I'd still be connected to the other person's phone. No dial tone.
This peculiarity of those days was used in a movie called 'No Time To Be Young' (1957) wherein a group planning to rob a supermarket phoned the store from a pay phone and when the store manager answered they left the handset uncradled (with an "out of order" sign to prevent anyoner else from attempting to use that pay phone). The store manager was then prevented from calling the police because his line was captured.
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THAT would be "MASTER Thespian" to you, SIR!
Yeah....that's the ticket.
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Great to see TCM showing 'The Story of Temple Drake' again tonight.
I hope Joseph Breen is kicking in his coffin.