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Someone must think that thing is an "essential". Just not Sally, I guess.

I'm not sure what this means. Were some of your posts altered? Removed?

Never heard it until Eric Cartman started saying "that's totally t!ts" in an episode of South Park - to which Stan, Kyle and Kenny didn't have a clue. Are you sure you're not thinking about that South Park episode and confusing it with something in real life?

So you've somehow missed all those "white means good" (white knight, virgin white, hospital white, etc.) allusions scattered throughout our entire human history, have you? When people say "that's mighty white of you" in old movies (or new), they're saying "that's mighty good of you" - although they may be saying it sincerely or sarcastically, depending on the intent.

"White" is "good". Has always had that association, as far as I can tell. Angels and saints are always surrounded by white light. Virgin brides dress in white. First-communion girls dress in white. Good cowboys wear white hats. Nothing cleans better than a white tornado. The Man from Glad dresses in white - and so does Mr. Clean. You don't get much gooder than those two.

A certain herb helps one to enjoy that trip quite a bit more than does an herbless viewing. Watching Jane peel off that spacesuit - I wanted to marry her in 1968. Watching it again this week, I want to marry her again.

The theatre I worked at in 1968 had no problem showing it to the kids at the Saturday matinee showing. It's only a little pink nip for heaven's sake, and they are on screen very briefly. But, oh my, what a babe!! Seeing her in 'Barbarella' and 'Spirits of the Dead' in the same year cemented Jane in my mind as one of cinema's hottest women ever.

The slang form of "teats" has always been frowned upon in civil company. But it's still one of my favorites (it's the word that immediately pops into my head when I see an admirable pair) and I still hear it from guys all the time. They just tend to not say it too much when there's women around.

I see that 'Brainstorm' is listed in my public library's DVD catalogue. Maybe I'll take it out and see what goes on with the picture. I've not yet seen a DVD that came out windowboxed on my widescreen tv. Incidentally, 'Kaleidescope', shown earlier in the day was also windowboxed on TCM. That's 2 movies recently that have been windowboxed on TCM up here on Canadian cable. To my knowledge this has never happened before, and now it's happened twice in one day - and in the case of 'Brainstorm', twice consecutively.

Ennio Morricone's scoring of 'Once Upon a Time in the West' is similarly glorious for just a western. Not as rousing as Elmer's main theme, but huge just the same - with three distinct themes recurring throughout the film.

All the songs within the movie are songs of '62 or previous. 'All Summer Long', from 1964, was chosen to play over the closing credits - and immediately following the coda that informs us of what happened to each main character later in life. 'All Summer Long', a song that perfectly represents both the era and the end of the movie's narrative as well, was the best possible choice to play at the end of the movie. The song itself is about nostalgia, just as the movie was telling us of an earlier time rather than being in "the present", as is revealed by the coda.

I think John Barry's score for 'The Chase' (1966) elevates that movie's status. Lambasted by critics at the time - and still seen as an overacted mess by many - the movie is enough of a mix of flaws and choice moments that its rating has improved as new audiences have re-discovered it. John Barry's score is at the forefront of that rise in appreciation, I think.

For some reason, the brain that was contained within the giant fly head - or at least, the mind, if there's a difference - was human. Human enough to know what needed to be done ("need fly"). The fly with the little human head, on the other hand, was capable of voicing its emotions in human language ("help me"). The only logical conclusion is that most of the brain material was retained by the scientist - locked within the fly head, but at least a little of that brain material made it into the human head of the fly. Cronenberg's movie was a lot more sophisticated than the comic-bookish original.

Apparently, any publication at all is permitted to put on its cover, "A True Story", whether it is or isn't. That's what happened with the novel that the movie was based upon. I guess most of our weekly trash publications - "The National Midnite Star Enquirer" - couldn't exist without that allowability.

'Griffin and Phoenix' (1976). One of the best performances ever by Peter Falk. Jill Clayburgh as well.

'Dr. Cook's Garden' (1971). A movie that was in some ways ahead of its time. Bing Crosby, Blythe Danner, Barnard Hughes. Just excellent.

Wallach is simply outstanding. It's like he's giving Gable and Clift an acting lesson. His performance is flawless throughout the film.

Not to worry, Dargs. You're a shoe-in.

Don't sell yourself short, mockingbird. You have plenty of wit. What DGF usually says more or less rhymes with wit.

Love that song!

We didn't use the word "hoser" back then. That was Bob & Doug McKenzie creation, started in the early 80's - a derivative of the term "hose bag", most of us assumed.. So, most often we'd say things like "what are you, a gearbox?" or "that guy's a gearbox" or just sometimes "effin gearbox" to each other, good-natured put-down like. I remember once when I was watching 'Reflections in a Golden Eye' in the theatre and Brando was puting cold cream on his face, I heard someone behind me say "gearbox". Funny how some terms get really popular for a while. But as we got older, the f word just seemed to overwhelm society to the point where those more fun epithets just kinda faded from use. And the first time I heard the term "yeppers" was late in 1983. It lasted approximately the rest of the decade and people got tired of it. There was an episode of 'The Office' where Michael used it when talking to Jan on the phone and she barked at him "what did I say about saying yeppers!". Smart girl - as a habit, it gets real annoying, real quick.

I miss the days when Kathleen Turner was hot.

There were many! TV movies were her main occupation. My own personal favorite was 'Belle Starr' (1980). She was tough in that. She was always pretty good in everything she did.

When I was in grade school (50's, early 60's) the most common term in my neighborhood was "fruit". High school - after 1964 - is when my favorite expression ever became most popular in my area of town. It still makes me smile. It was "gearbox". Handed down from older brothers, I remember. Only old boomers like me, from my area of Toronto, seem to remember it. Don't know if it was said anywhere else, but that was the term through my teens.