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They were afraid other kids would call them "Marian".

Jeff Bridges is so cute in this one. Playing a writer - and something of a rube - as he's being carried out, wounded, on a stretcher, he's reciting "the room lit up with gunfire", already writing about it out loud. I've always found Jeff to be a likeable actor. Very much enjoyed watching his work right from the very beginning of his career.

For about the past 6 weeks or so, TCM as carried by Rogers Cable here in Cambridge, Ontario has had numerous quirks of momentary pixellations and what I can only describe as partial screen outages (like a couple of inches here and there popping up at any location on the screen). I record movies for my collection - have been doing so for years without this sort of thing. Now, many recordings I consider to be ruined because of these recent flaws in the cable feed. With about 10 of the channels now record-blocking (started in May), there's becoming less and less reason to keep cable. But I will really feel the loss of TCM if I do cut the cord - some of what they show is very hard to come by (or very expensive comparatively-speaking).

Hmm. On that one they remind me of Barclay James Harvest.

'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' - what an inviting title to a thoroughly tedious movie. Shoulda been sued for misleading advertising.

http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/53172-movie-autobiographies/?hl=brando 7th post in the thread, June 16th.

What a day! Even though we in Canada do not get the excellent 'Cooperstown' (1993) - I can't believe TCM is not able to show that little-known entry up here - there are no less than 9 titles I'm set to record - and that doesn't include 'Wait Until Dark' or 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter', his greatest (probably) performances being those, because I already have them. With Alan Arkin, Michael Caine, Warren Oates and George C. Scott honoured this year, it's been one of my favorite SUTS years - SUTS being something I'm not usually all that hepped-up about.

Unlikely, since it isn't 4:00 am yet. But thanks for the spoiler.

That 'Maid in Heaven' single was a very Raspberries-like power pop item. Good thing it didn't become a hit or Eric Carmen would've been right p!ssed off. The Raspberries couldn't get the album-buying public to pay any attention to them in spite of a few top-40 placements.

Drive-ins ruled!!

Makes sense to me that they would. Luana is a nice name.

Sounds like the name of an A&P checkout clerk to "Lorna" - and, apparently, the most shockingly inappropriate name for a "movie star" ever. Luana Patten. Still trying to figure where such an extreme reaction to her name like that would come from. Little mysteries of human behavior like that fascinate me.

Not a damn thing wrong with her name, either.

Some of the things you say are just plain weird, dude.

I watched 'Home from the Hill' several times back in the early 60's - played frequently on the ABC affiliate in Buffalo as their late movie. I thought it was pretty good - but I was a young person, about 13,14 years old. Also, I always saw it in black and white as that's the tv we had then. When I started watching it recently and saw that it was in colour, I was disappointed. Felt wrong. And I grew tired of it very quickly - thinking "geez, I thought this was pretty good?"

George Peppard's first film feature was 'The Strange One' (1957). George Hamilton's was 'Crime and Punishment USA' (1959).

Might be fun to guess. I'd think independent product like 'Easy Rider' might be good guesses.

Religious nut. Funny how often psychos come with religious "attachments". Not funny ha-ha, though.

My favorite O'Toole movie!

Sociopath is a word that is falling from use in psychiatric/psychologic circles. It's a term that is relatively modern, as compared to psychopath - but for the most part the terms have been used interchangeably, as a definitive enough difference has not been presented to universally validate the alternative word. In the United States it was introduced in 1930 by educational psychologist George E. Partridge, as an alternative to the concept of psychopathy. It was used to indicate that the defining feature is violation of social norms, or antisocial behavior, and has often also been associated with postulating social as well as biological causation. Robert Hare claimed in a 1999 popular science book that "sociopathy" and "psychopathy" are often used interchangeably, but in some cases the term "sociopathy" is preferred because it is less likely than is "psychopathy" to be confused with psychosis (psychosis being a break - to a lesser or greater degree - from reality, or the "norm"). I take from Hare's differentiation that a sociopath, then - is a person who's lack of empathy for others - accompanied by a willingness to actually do bad things to others - feels normal to them. In their psyches, there is no other way of being. In the Showtime series 'Dexter', the central character is this precisely. He cannot love, or be sorrowful, or remorseful, or elated - but he also does not suffer from uncontrolled urges like rage or jealousy. His reality is consistent. Certainly his appetite for killing is at least classically psychopathic, but his emotionlessness about what he does - in whatever he does - and his resulting control of himself because of that emotionlessness, differentiates him from a raging, or laughing, uncontrolled psycho. Psychopathy, on the other hand, would seem to be something that any one of us, if given enough cause, could experience. Temporarily. What makes for a psychopath would be that this is a frequent state of being - a habit - with minimal experiential causation - and can be accompanied by lots of emotion: anger, glee, resentment, excitement. Chemical causation - both internal and externally sourced - could be a factor in inducing psychopathic incidents, in addition to the psychological state usually built through poor social learning and adaptation. Anyway, here's a definitive psychopath from a movie - his name was Frank Booth.

Whaddaya call 172 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!

If memory serves, I believe this was the first single that Paul put out after the breakup with Artie. I love this song - as I do so many of Paul's songs.

I was thinking more of their home addresses. Sending cards to where they might work is so impersonal.

Now if we could just find out where to send the Christmas cards.

It's because there's nothing to be gained. No answers will be coming forth.