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A real life white hat.... where's Kathy? Right here, little darlin'! :-) And I could NOT agree with you more!! :-)

Woo HOO! The Oklahoma Kid is in the house!! :-) I am glad to see you here, little gal. And am glad you got a chance to see this one... I LOVE your "women in charge" angle... The one person (besides Juan) that I WISH had been on screen if only just a LITTLE longer was sweet little BEULAH... oh... but she made GOOD use of the time she had... ha. And re: Roland VS Corey.... If it was ONLY about looks.... ha. SIGH.. (and then there is the name... Roland... I do have a special love for that as well.... ha.) :-) Wow... from the responses so far from everybody... it is starting to look like I am in for some really INTERESTING commentary... YEE HAW! PS... April.... . OH ME OH MY.... that second shot of your cake... what is this??? Pay back to me for those Hot Fudge Brownie photos I posted last weekend?? ha. And PSS... NO cake for the Grey Guy... he only eats "Saw dust" (and likes it...ha) So you know... that just means more for the rest of us.

I even brought a peace offering... Woo hoo!!! CAKE!! You, my fair lass, may say ANYTHING you like!! ha (And PS... no peace offering needed.... but I like the way you think!!) Ha.

I'm gonna bury you! That is, if I can find my shovel tonight. Any last words? (PS... tip away Grey Guy... I need a good swim.... ha) Oh WAIT.... you said you were going to BURY me... ha. Even better... After all this latenight posting... I need a good REST!! ha. Message was edited by: rohanaka

Thanks April.... now I just need for you and the Grey Guy to come back in and tip my boat over... ha. And... PS... Chris (and JACKIE???) and any other interested parties: I look forward to the ramblin'!! This movie still has a LOT more that could be "chatted" on... but I have been blabbering TOO much... I will "pipe down" now and let some other folks get a word in edgewise...ha.

No, it's not FrankGrimes out for his morning swim HA!!!!!! (are you sure about that??????) Wow... thanks for the youtube link... I just watched parts 1-3.... and I am HOOKED... but also I am out of time. (BAH!) I will have to wait unitl LATER to finish this... but I am on the edge of my SEAT.... Oh my golly.... I just spent the last three nights up late goofing around on The Furies.... and NOW you go and do THIS to me... ha.. I may never get to sleep again!!! ha.

Duel In The Sun." July 5 - 3:30am and August 17 - 3:30am I have to earn my M&Ms. Woo HOO!! Thank you Mr. Secretary... I have put in my "reminder" request for TCM... now I will just need you to hit me over the head several dozen more times....ha. Here's a little more incentive:

Howdy, Piecemaker Howdy do there, Grey Guy.. And PS... I am STILL trying to figure out your spelling when you do that... ha. (just dont' call me the PEASmaker... I hate those malevolent little green POD creatures... ha. The poor QT and kidling.... they love those slimy things... I only fix them if I HAVE to... ha... PEAS are one of the FEW veggies I can't make PEACE with.. ha) Boy you and April have been raising some INTERESTING points I will address in a moment.. but first I want to go back to your earlier comments from last night... Don't get FURY-ous now... this will be a LONG post... (ha... when oh when have I ever been known to do that??) ha. The Spoilage Resumes: (read on at your own risk) I just recently watched The Furies and it immediately reminded me of There Will Be Blood. It almost felt like Anthony Mann's Citizen Kane. I was expecting the film to be more of a Stanwyck flick, so I was surprised, pleasantly so, to find out it was a Walter Huston film, and a good one. Interestingly, I find T.C. (Walter Huston) to more likeable than Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) and far more so than Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis I have never seen There Will Be Blood... it just NEVER seemed like a film for me (I think I was figuring it would be... too BLOODY. HA. I don't know WHERE I could have gotten THAT idea..ha) . As for CK... I can maybe see a few comparisons there... I was completely taken by Huston's ability to carry a film like The Furies and he did so with such verve. I cannot believe this was his final performance. He went out on a very high note. I have not seen any of the other films you mentioned (Tof SM ,etc,) and I have only maybe seen him in a few other roles that I can recall really well OTHER than TDADW... but I really do think he did a GREAT job w/ this one to be sure. Vance (Barbara Stanwyck) was definitely "Daddy's Little Girl." Although, her name lets you know she was more like a son to T.C. than a daughter.... She was always seeking his approval. And when he didn't give her this, she became angry. She is very much her father's daughter and I fully believe she would look to run the Furies just as her father did. I think Vance started out similar to the way you described... but she was also very determined to "stand up to him" in a lot of ways... (like wearing the mother's dress... or like when she danced w/ Rip after TC tried to "kick him out' of the wedding reception.) He more or less "created" her to be like him...smart (or maybe even cunning) brash, and very strong and independent. She was "daddy's little girl" but a part of that involved showing Daddy he was NOT going to push her around. But I think she also knew her "limit" with him and likely only pushed him as far as she thought she could... at least for a TIME. But later in the story... in the "PF" scenes... (that would be POST Flo... ha) Well... I think I mentioned this earlier... . I think TC found out he did TOO good of a job of raising her. She became TOO strong. (of course it took him more or less murdering her closest friend to push her into that) But I think all in all, she must have gotten the BEST parts of his character... she was in NO way as blood thirsty and cut throat as he was when trying to get what she wanted.... but I know you and April have been having a different conversation about that... I will address that all in a moment. I had warmed up to Vance and the story before Flo (Judith Anderson) had entered the scene. It was Juan (Gilbert Roland) and Rip (Wendell Corey) who had helped me to enjoy Vance more. I think Juan was the one TRUE person she ever knew while she was growing up. And he did NOT challenge her in the same way her father did. TC was always challenging her to be strong or making her "support her stand" (if she disagreed with him)... but I think Juan was her only real "challenge" to be "good". She was free to be as "wild" or as "tough" as she wanted to be with him and yet she was "reigned in" by his caring and his compassion. It might even be HIS influence in her life (and possibly also her mothers.... though the story never says) that created the more "HUMAN" behavior in her. (example...She had a measure of "sympathy" in her for the "so called" squatters that TC did not have... even the "non-Herreras") The trouble was that Juan loved her like a "puppy". He never would have stood up to her in a way that would have REALLY made her "his". And we would not have been able to TRULY keep her... He was too "willing" a "servant" to her. If she HAD loved him.. she COULD have trampled all over him if she wanted to... and Juan would have let her... because he loved her. So even though I think she did love him, I just dont' think she was ever able to LOVE him the way he loved her. She needed someone stronger in character and more "commanding" in the way he handled their relationship... she needed someone to "respect". (Someone who was not "trample-able"..ha.) And Corey's character was ANYTHING but "trample-able"... He was stronger than Juan in a way that mght not have necessarily made her "good" but more in a way that kept her accountable. (even if only to herself) Rip DID NOT let her stomp all over him or lead him around. He did not fall at her feet (though she TRIED to make him do all that and more) . Instead.... he told her he was HIS OWN man... he would do his OWN thinking... and he would set the terms for their relationship. And (though it might not have been this way at FIRST) eventually, I think he did this (at least in part) because HE loved her. So in THAT sense... he was the better man for her. (April... forgive me... ha) I still think he's a total jerk. You like your guys tough! Here's your man: Ha.. I like my guy(s) to be TRUE... :-) When he took that $50,000 from TC... I was ready to shoot him down like the dog I thought he was (and then I would have propped him back up.. and shot him again...ha). But over time.. he starts to show that he is NOT the guy you really THINK he is... Could this all be "experience talking? Yes.... He KNOWS what it means to be in love with hate"... because HE has hated TC even longer than she has. But... does he continue to love to hate TC? Hmmmmm... Ok.... here we go. Stick with me on all this. (ha... if you can) I will try to bring this all together eventually... (I TOLD you this was going to be a long one) Ha. :-) The Grey Guy says: I don't find either of them to be likeable. I believe both are terribly selfish and hateful, and that's an ugly combination to possess. Now I say this while also saying I was captivated by both characters. The Goddess says: I never really got to like either one. I feel like they were, in a way, lesser than T.C. in terms of likability. He was awful but he enjoyed his awfulness, enjoyed life, and so long as it didn't inconvenience him, he liked to see everyone around him enjoying his awfulness, too! The Grey Guy says: That's how I felt, too. I didn't dislike T.C. I actually found him to be amiable... most of the time. He was engaging. The Goddess says: I don't think Rip or Vance cared if anyone else was enjoying life or not. It is a very interesting, and in my opinion, accurate, depiction of the difference in the generations. "Vance" was her father's daughter, but without his love of life or ability to be with all kinds of people. TC was TC whether the room was full of ambassadors or ranch hands. He was himself, and Huston was the perfect actor to embody that. The Grey Guy says: That was wonderfully said. I definitely believe Huston's manner helped me to like T.C. Missy +and Corey had a very hard edge to them. They were both bitter people Oh... I am going to feel like SUCH a "boat rocker" here... ha. I DO agree with most of what you both are saying about TC.. but I DID have a VERY hard time actually "liking" him... Rather I more or less enjoyed "hating" him.. ha. (That is to Huston's credit... not TC's... he was "well played") Because he WAS played so well... I DO admit to enjoying the character... but that is not the same as "liking" him...ha I just more or less wanted to pop him upside the head about every other time he opened his mouth. (But I mean that in a GOOD way...ha) . He DID become more likeable toward the end of things... But in truth... he was a murderous, cut throat, opportunistic, self absorbed MONSTER for most of the movie.. ha. Let's face it.. he had a LONG way to go. I DID start to feel sorry for him.... as I saw him really begin to realize things might be over for him someday... (when he wrestled the bull... to prove he was still King of the Furies... I think if he had NOT succeeded... he'd have been even MORE sympathetic...) I think toward the end of the story.. he becomes a LOT more like a REAL person and less like a "character". And when it comes to your take on Vance and Rip... Oh... the boat is really tipping now... I really have to disagree.... Yes... she DID have a LOT of hate in her... I mean, come on... her dad killed her best friend, threw her "true love" for Rip in her face... tried to inflict the "stepmother from....... "San Francisco" (ha) upon her.... She had a LOT of hate going on for sure. And TRUE.... she was self absorbed and "haughty" and CERTAINLY spoiled at the beginning... but I LOVED the way she turned all this around later on and drew on the strengths TC had instilled in her instead. And... despite ALL the water flowing under the bridge between her and TC... once victory was in sight... she began to see it as hollow.... and it caught her quite by surprise. But it did NOT surprise RIP. His early motivations were "hate" as well.(TC killed his father and took their land, etc) But at some point... (I can't say for SURE when) he started to free himself from letting HATE be his motivating force. Did he still want to get back at the old man? Sure. Was he ever expecting to be "best buds" with TC? NO. But he DID start to show some strengths of character... and he showed that he wanted more than "revenge" and the Darrow Strip to go with it. He understood sooner than she did that "victory" over TC was NOT the thing that was going to make either of them happy. And when she realizes he is right, she takes a "fatalistic" approach. I don't think she is expecting "happiness" but rather marriage was the "easiest" way to handle things for them now. And HE steps up to the plate and shows her (for REAL this time) that he would NOT marry her on those terms. The first time they went down that road... I don't know if he loved her or not... but THIS time... finally... you get a sense that he IS in love with her... and he is not content to just "get the Darrow Strip"... OR "The Furies" for that matter. He wants HER... and he wants her to be HIS. And this changes it all for both of them. After TC finds out he?s been beat, this WOULD be a perfect chance for her to gloat (if she truly hated him) But she doesn?t anymore. And TC was quite the surprise as well... Rather than going off on a tirade... he actually PRAISES her. Instead of holding it against her, he is impressed. And somehow... they manage to both make peace. The hate is gone . And instead, TC brags on her and is more or less filled with ?fatherly pride? . If ANYONE else had beaten him, it would have gone a MUCH different way. But because it was HER, he saw it as a ?badge? of pride for himself (that HE was able to raise such a daughter) And then when TC addresses Rip and asks him what he was getting out of the deal, This WOULD be a perfect chance for Rip to gloat as well. And if you took his words out of context, it might SEEM that this is what he is doing. But I think both men realize EVERYTHING has changed now. And if anything, it was a way for Rip to reaffirm his love for Vance. And show TC that he REALLY was not the man he had been judged to be so much earlier in the story. (when he took the dowry money as a "payoff" I found myself really liking Rip by now... And then to just REALLY impress me, he goes and does THIS as well: Ha.... Now THAT's my man.. ha. So although it started out to be "revenge" for her to take the Furies from him.. it actually ends up be a form of "restoration" instead of a form of "retribution." And when the REAL retribution catches up w/ TC.... he now knows, in the end, that his daughter, and The Furies ( and its future) are in GOOD hands. No hate here at all: So.... ok... at the beginning... RE: Vance and Rip... I TOTALLY disliked them both. Somewhere in the middle... I REALLY started to sympathize and (grudgingly) like her... but still hated him... And then... FINALLY... I have to say... after sticking with these two... it took almost the whole movie, by the way... but.. by the end of it all... "I liked them". (I REALLY liked them.) :-) Thanks for putting up with this REALLY long ramblin' reply... (what's all that SNORING going on out there????) And Oh... PS: before I forget...ha The Furies, eh? What's next, Forty Guns BLECH... ha Oh my golly.. I tried watching that a couple of months ago... Now THAT is one pukey movie... ha... talk about "hate"... ha.) (I am sure I am going to live to regret THAT comment...ha) Message was edited by: rohanaka

Wow look at YOU Mr. Grey... WOO HOO... nice to see your rope-free rambling... ha. We must have been typing our little hearts out at the very same time. You have brought up some INTERESTING points here that I want to reply to... (one being the foreshadowing... I was actually JOKING about the mom leaving the scissors there for her... ha) Anyway... it's getting late... I think I am going to turn into a pumpkin... ha. So I will be getting back to you on all this... (maybe others will have had a chance to watch by now and will weigh in too) But before I call it a night.. I just HAVE to comment on THIS one thing, though... ha... He committed suicide for her, ala Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. HA.... JACKIE... where are you???? It really DOES somehow always come back to LIBERTY VALANCE... ha. Nice ramblin' sir... chat w/ you later!! :-)

MORE "Furious" Spoilage... I like TC's spirit and individualism, but he's clearly not the sort who ever should have married or had kids. HA!! That is the understatement of the century. :-) I saw him as a self loving, loud, overbearing, "self-governing" (as in ... he only lived by his OWN rules and was NOT bound by any others) kinda guy. He was the sort of person who... when he walked into a room... expected ALL conversation to cease (and it pretty much did) and ALL eyes to fall on HIM... just in case HE might have something to say. He "made an entrance" just about every time he entered a room. He was a LOT of flash and homemade cash... ha. I saw him as more or less a SHOWMAN... he knew everyone EXPECTED him to be bigger than life... because he'd spent his whole life SHOWING them he was... so in turn... he had to ACT bigger than life to keep up the image he'd made for himself. He felt NO guilt or remorse at saying something rude or outlandish about ANYONE if it drew attention to HIM while he was doing it. And he expected all the WOMEN to fall at his feet and the men to admire him wherever he went. (and they...more or less did... or at least they PRETENDED they did.) I imagine he only had just a FEW real friends... Scotty (loved that Wallace Ford again... ha) and Vance... and he drove HER completely away by pushing her more than a COUPLE of steps too far... RE: the mother... I think she was like Vance described her... a LADY... but not "woman" enough to make him happy. I think he must have loved her.. but maybe like you love a fine painting... not like you love a person... he certainly REVERED her... he may have even "idealized" her a bit. I think she was one of those "on a pedastal" kinda wives... but not so everyone could admire HER... more so they could admire HIM for having her as his wife. And I doubt she was anything like Flo... And as far as Flo is concerned... I think he DID care for her... and even possibly "love" her... but not in the same way he did (reverently) the first wife.. I think he liked her "guts"... and the way she looked on his arm... and her circle of friends. (She knew the PRESIDENT... etc) And she was a strong woman in her own right... so I believe he liked that about her as well. I think he was getting "weak" and he knew it... He had TOTALLY mismanaged his money and it was beginning to catch up with him... and I think it made him feel "vulnerable" in a way that made it easier for him to allow her to start "directing" his affairs. But did he end up marrying her????? Hmmmm..... I went back and looked at it all again... I still don't know. At one point.. the dialogue DOES seem to imply that he might have. After he asks her for money and she tells him no... he tells her if he gets any real money again... he'd bring her "back" to The Furies.. so that sort of implies that he saw it as her home now. But the other parts of the dialogue.... well... I just think it could go EITHER way..I think in the end... he WOULD have married her... but maybe she was glad when he brought up the money because it was a way for her to let them BOTH "off the hook". I don't know.... And PS... LOOK at what he says here.. . Ha... you and I both commented on how this was one of the rare moments when they were both just totally "HONEST". I guess he agress with us... ha. It really was a VERY sympathetic moment for BOTH of them... and that is saying a LOT because it was hard for me to find a lot of sympathy for EITHER of them overall... And then THIS part says SO much about how they felt about one another as well... I still can't say w/ any certainty if they married or not... I guess it will be one of life's little mysteries for me... ha. I think it could go either way... I keep thinking of Duel in the Sun myself That is one I have not seen... I keep "missing" it... ha....(OH Secretaries.... HA!) I read that Mann was raised on Greek and Shakespearean drama and apparently liked to sneak a lot of that into his films when he could. The Furies is definitely my idea of his most obvious attempt to do this (and too a lesser extent, Man of the West). The "pitch" is in a highly dramatic key, the characters sharply defined and the themes and stakes very much the terrain of classical tragedy. Now that explains a LOT... I am looking foward to catching Man of the West when it comes on at the end of the month... (did I mention OH SECRETARIES???? ha) I will watch for the similarities... Regarding "Juan" and his fate, I wonder if his character was originally somewhat more important before and cut back. And THAT would explain a lot too if it is true... I just felt he was one of those "underdevelopled" characters (like we had going on in TMFL) I would have liked seeing more of his story... but I have to confess... I liked the angle this took w/ Corey... so I guess the way he ended up was "necessary" to the plot... BUT... it COULD have gone a WHOLE other way... :-) After she threw the scissors, she goes and gets Juan, they ride off into the sunset... and live happily ever after. HA! (but then it would have been a MUCH shorter movie for sure... ha) Message was edited by: rohanaka

I'm still making my mind up about "T.C." I really love the way Huston played him and my favorite scenes, aside from those with Gilbertito ("Juan"), were those in which he sailed forth. I thought the one scene between him and his wife, after the "accident", was really extraordinary and honest. Thanks for the feedback little lady..... I am very interested in your thoughts on TC.... I think he was...(hmmm... how to say it...) the most "unusual" of all the several "cattle baron monster dads" we have discussed on here... ha. And now I have a question... DID he end up marrying her??I need to go back and rewatch THAT part again.... its been several weeks now since I watched this all the way through (and I had not gotten that far in my screencaps yet either) I don't remember them "following through" with the wedding plans... I need to jog my memory a bit, I guess... But I do agree w/ you... it was one of the most "REAL" and honest moments for BOTH of their characters.... the "facade" was gone for both of them so to speak.... It was another (among the many) of the unexpected tidbits here and there within this story that just made it all so intriguing... It is like I mentioned... it took me a WHILE to really get into this story... because I was so "fixed" on what I THOUGHT it was going to be all about... but my PREconceived notions sort of flew out the window about the time "Flo" flew in from San Francisco.... ha. I look forward to getting back to you in depth later, and hopefully others will have had a chance to watch it and weigh in, too. I am really looking forward to hearing more frome you... and I hope everyone else gets a chance to watch and chime in as well.... I am going to be pretty busy the next couple of days... but will check in from time to time... because... well... ha... Now I am on the edge of my seat... ha. :-) Lesson #1 of The Furies: Hide the scissors, ladies! HA!!!!!! Either that.. OR... learn to DODGE... ha.

He definitely was all about his ego and his preconcieved idea of what his "progeny" should be like---like HIM. A real "emporer" type. Boy oh boy... April.. I gotta say... I LOVED (to hate) Walter Huston in this film. Oh my golly... he was the MOST egocentric guy I have seen in a long while. Imagine the arrogance of printing up your own currency... and actually LIVING off of it in a GREAT big rich house with servants... meanwhile... MOST of the people you are giving it out to are all just regular working folks or honest businessmen trying to get by... Now I have to confess.. as much as I liked him in The Furies... I still have a soft spot for Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster too. (hah... imagine me... having "Sympathy" for the "Devil"... ha.) He REALLY did make that movie great... But I have to say the same about him in this film too. And well... he must have just about been BORN to play the Devil... because that TC Jeffords was about as close to the devil on earth as I have seen in any film lately to be sure... WHAT a piece of work... If TDADW is my FAVE role for Huston... I think THIS one would have to be a VERY close second... And the way he more or less CREATED Vance to be so much LIKE him... and yet NOTHING like him too (because he made her TOO strong and independent) . And for all his "creating".... he also had a hand in RE-Creating her... I am probably not explaining it right... but I just saw her more or less TRANSFORM at a certain point in the story (more on that in a moment) and it was more or less as a result of HIS actions... I have to say... when I first started watching this film... I was NOT too impressed (ESPECIALLY with Stanwyck's character) I really had a sense that this was just going to be one of those awful stories about an awful father and his awful kids.... hating and picking each other apart and tearing each other to pieces... and I sort of almost "rolled my eyes" at it... Because keeping it on THAT level... it was almost campy and overdone... But then... (HUGE spoiler alert)... the "ALMOST" stepmother arrived... and the entire story took a turn... in a REALLY huge way... (did you notice her "toying" with those scissors in the earlier screencaps I posted.... It was almost as if her mother left them there for her... but she never knew what to do with them... until... OH MY... THIS is when things REALLY started to "pick up" for me... and the story just went to a WHOLE other level after this... I liked how she ended up being MORE Like her father... or at least HER image of her father.... than even HE was in the end... And ultimately... she had to reach a point where she realized he WAS just that... an image she had created in her mind to love and worship... And when she met the REAL man... she HATED him. It took a LOT for her to FINALLY see him for who he REALLY was... and even more to realize SHE was really stronger... and better than she always thought HIM to be... So as all this played out... I went from being "bored" and sort of "annoyed" by her at the beginning of the film... to REALLY liking her a LOT by the end of the film... but it took a WHILE... And WHAT about that Wendell Corey?? This REALLY was a story that was about SO much more than first impressions.... I THOUGHT he was a TOTAL jerk... and well... my opinion of him changed a LOT by the end of things... This film was really a surprise for me... It is NOT so much a western as some of the other Mann "westerns" might be... Pretty much the only thing "westerny" about it are the horses, the cattle, and location. The story is VERY universal.... it could easily be "redone" and placed in a multitude of different settings.... I even think I recall you mentioning that it might be a Western "noir"... I think that CERTAINLY would fit... Spoiler Alert... But I dont' think I can get past this ramble without mentioning what happened to your poor sweet Gilberto... ha. Honestly... I have to say... THAT was a VERY dramatic moment (at the end for him) but I just did not "buy" into what happened to him as much as I wanted to... He more or less just DECIDED to die.I thought that whole thing played out a little too "politely". But it WAS a turning point for her character to be sure... so I guess they had to get rid of him somehow.... :-) And yes... It DID affect the way the movie ENDED as well.... but you KNEW something like that was going to happen SOONER or later... Poor Walter Huston was just TOO irritating to live... ha. Message was edited by: rohanaka

TC gravitated toward the daughter who was more "in his image"....what do you think? I think you have it right.... and even more... I think he "created" her in his image, so to speak...

Thanks little lady! And RE: the Elvis" hairdo It did not work so well for him as it must have worked for Elvis, poor guy...ha. And he DOES take a decidedly "less than front row" place in the rest of the story... Though I imagine his whole growing up years with TC were decidedly less than front row... ha. Message was edited by: rohanaka

Have you seen "The Violent Men"? No... I haven't seen that one... but I bet with a cast like that, it is a good "gritty" tale...

What time frame? Oh.... no "schedule" kind sir.... I was just a thinkin' we needed to continue on w/ another Mann film as we had not yet begun to plumb the depths... ha. HERE is a little taste of what is on my mind.... "MESSED UP Family"... thy name is Jeffords... Message was edited by: rohanaka

I love my new nickname! Woo hoo... the Oklahoma Kid is O.K.!! ha. (and ps... I have never seen this film either... but it DOES look like a lot of fun... I love how he blows the smoke from his gun barrel after he shoots...ha. James Cagney... who knew??? ha.)

Preview of coming "Ramble"...

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Sometimes I just feel so tight and cramped here. I really miss the wide open areas of my childhood, and westerns really appeal to me for the landscape value alone. It is nice to have a little space around you..... Ok.... you "Oklahoma Kid"... it's NOT Ben OR Duke.... not even a Fordie.... but here's a little Cagney.... and a song just for you... :-)

This is NOT Henry Fonda My gosh, my golly, gal... That's flat out amazing!! Good eye, kiddo.... And PS.. I am getting the biggest kick out of the way you've taken to westerns (and beloved Ben) like it was second nature... GO WEST Young Favell!! ha.

here's the link if you want a head start on setting up your "reminders Thanks little missy... and PS... I think after I send off for my TCM reminders, I need to copy and paste a list for you and my other two secretaries... I am sure I am going to need all the help I can get... ha... I TOTALLY missed the White Cliffs of Dover today...(after JUST mentioning it yesterday...ha... I am SO pathetic..) :-) (and OH... PS.... ABANDON SHIP! .... THIS was that film I watched the last half of a month or so ago that just about did me in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE to make sure I at least get it on tape this time.)

Did you ever see The Pursuit of Happyness You are not the first person to tell me that is a good movie... but I have not seen it yet... Though I do see that it has been showing on cable lately (I can' t remember which channel... but I have seen them advertising it) So maybe I can catch it soon. (sometimes reruns are a good thing...ha) PS... John... I dont' know if it is my MOST favorite Pixar... but it is VERY high on the list now...

I'm glad to hear about a positive movie experience at the theaters for a change. That does not seem to happen too often does it... But PS.. Thank you for indulging me, little lady...

Edward Asner... a "super hero"... who knew?? ha. Oh Jackie... I just bawled my eyes out for the first 10-15 minutes of the movie... it was SO emotional... I am such a "whooshie eyed" wimp... ha.