misswonderly3

I 'm surprised this hasn't taken off. I know there are a lot of civil war buffs out there (Doesn't seem appropriate to say "fans".) Maybe abbreviating the thread title and putting it in block caps will help.

I 'd never heard of *Hand's Up !*. I just looked it up, and it does look as though it would have been an interesting addition to the Civil War theme this month. Maybe it was a "rights" thing again. Although TCM does show *The General* relatively often ( ie, w or 3 times a year or so), for some reason I've never seen it all the way through, except years and years ago in a film class. This time I'll have to make a point of catching it from the beginning. I agree with those who said they liked the Ken Burns documentary about the Civil War. I love it, I think it's incredibly well done. I too had videotaped it back in the 80s (! ) No wonder I couldn't find the tapes when I wanted to watch it again. I ended up purchasing it at a local DVD shop - it was not inexpensive, but I figure it was well worth it. Plus, I love the music from that series. I have the CD. They're showing *Gettysburg* (1993) on Monday April 25th, at 10:15. This is a great film about the Civil War, very detailed, great actors, and very well scripted, showing how complex and emotional the feelings around the war were. It has some very thoughtful and moving speeches from characters on both sides of the war. Edited by: misswonderly on Apr 1, 2011 7:22 PM

I am a non-American who is absolutely fascinated by the American Civil War. It's a huge topic, it had such a profound and enduring effect on the United States as a country, a culture, a concept. It's one of the most powerful and intriguing aspects of American history. And now TCM is featuring an entire month of movies about it. Step up, folks...any favourite films about the Civil War, any comments about this iconoclastic event in your nation's history? ( by the way, I specified American Civil War because there are several other famous civil wars in history, the Spanish Civil War (1930s) and the English Civil War ( 1640s) among others.) Edited by: misswonderly on Apr 1, 2011 8:12 PM

? finance, you're just too esoteric for me sometimes. What's the story on Burton Cummings and Abbott and Costello? Does Burt look like one of them, ? I'm missing something here...

Thanks for that, casablancalover,baby (actually, I'm afraid adding that particular epithet to your name doesn't altogether "work".) I say The Guess Who can rock with the best of them, and that video just proved it.

Right, they're doing a switcheroo. Although Mr. Osborne still wants to pursue that "spirit quest" thing at some point.

> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} > Misswonderly, looks like I'll be heading north of the border (up your way) sometime in May. First time I'll be using my passport (never needed it before for my many trips to Canada). Burton Cummings has a number of shows in Ontario, not sure which one I'll get to, not so much the location but the date is the issue for me. He may tour in the states later this year, but I can't take the chance, for years he's been saying he wants to do a U.S. tour but it never happens. mrroberts, how nice that you'll be travelling soon to this fair country. You probably know this, but anyway - you don't so much need a passport to get into Canada, as you need one to get back into the United States. It wasn't so long ago that no passport was required either way. Dommage. If you go in May, I hope it will be after May 2nd. There is a federal election in full swing right now, and I wouldn't want you to see and hear all the silliness that goes on. Election Day is May 2nd, so you'll be all right after that. Glad you know about Burton Cummings and the Guess Who. He had quite a voice, one of those manly, meaty, kind of voices. Here is a hit of theirs' from 1968, from the album "Wheatfield Soul". And this song does have a soul vibe to it: These Eyes . I selected the one with Spanish subtitles so we can multi-task and learn another language while watching the Guess Who.

It's just been announced - Robert Osborne is retiring and passing the TCM hosting torch to none other than the notorious Charlie Sheen. Said Osborne, "I feel this will give the confused Mr. Sheen a new lease on life, settle him down. Once he starts hosting Turner Classic Movies, he'll become a new man." The decision was reached quite suddenly, after Mr. Osborne decided he wanted to spend the rest of his golden years on a "spirit quest". "Who knows, I may even explore the treasures of the Sierra Madres", he was quoted as saying. Charlie Sheen will take over Robert Osborne's duties on April 15, allowing himself some training time. "We want a smooth, winning, transition on this" his new agent stated. Mr. Sheen has been quoted as saying that the first things he plans to do are fire Ben Mankiewicz and make Alec Baldwin his research assistant. Asked what will be the first classic movie he plans to introduce, Charlie Sheen replied, "Endless re-runs of Two and a Half Men. And tiger movies." Edited by: misswonderly on Apr 1, 2011 9:29 AM

Fred, I also wrote in the same post, Sans rancune? , which basically means "no hard feelings?" ( I thought putting it in French was kind of in keeping with the topic. )

Well, at the risk of some obvious punning, I did have my tongue in my cheek when I spoke of my suppressed desire to converse with the dental hygienist while they were in the middle of hygienating. George Thoroughly Good, I always want to call him. He looks like Mick Jagger to me. Although I don't have any of his albums, I always enjoy hearing his music. Nothing like some crunching guitar riffs and snakey sax playing for your basic rockin' it out good time. I did not do my research properly...Deborah Harry is neither Henry Morgan the actor nor Harry Morgan the liquor product. Turns out she's really Harry Belafonte incognito.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY

> {quote:title=nitratefiend wrote:}{quote} > Just to take this further off-topic, I'm guessing you and Finance are both Canadian? I am Canadian. finance is a hard core sports fan (hence the knowledge about Canadian hockey goalie Ken Dryden.) Now, how to come back to irritating actors? Someone mentioned Jim Carrey as being insufferably irritating -guess what? Canadian ! (Actually from the same part of Toronto as myself.) Another Canadian actor I'm guessing many would find irritating as hell: Mike Meyers (you know, *Wayne's World* and the *Austin Powers* movies. ) Some might think William Shatner is irritating. He's Canadian. But there's lots of Canuck talent that is not irritating. Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 31, 2011 11:30 AM

No, you're thinking of the duet of the song, performed by Martha Reeves and Harry Morgan (aka Deborah Harry.)

Another fine star from the classic era, gone. He was perfect as the young fugitive in *They Live by Night*. And he was in one of the best Hitchcock's ever, *Strangers on a Train* .

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > Why didn't you watch it when it was on TCM? You are making such a big deal out of it now, so why didn't you watch it when it was on TCM? Oh, Fred, baby, I just like to argue with you. Apart from that, I was moved to post on this thread not out of an interest in that specific film (although it was the title that caught my interest in the first place) but from an almost compulsive need to defend the French film industry, which you seemed bent upon trashing. Sans rancune? Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 31, 2011 9:48 AM

So I was at the dentist's the other day, getting my teeth cleaned (don't you love it when we "share" ? ) The radio was on, and while I was cringing under the merciless hygienist's sonic zapper device, I heard a familiar tune...it was Hank Williams' I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry . But someone else was singing it, not Hank. Don't know who the cover artist was (and I'm sure it's been covered many times) but it just wasn't the same. I wanted to communicate this to the dental hygienist, try to get a Hank Williams discussion going, maybe while she was getting out the polisher thing they all use. But it didn't seem like the best time to talk. Anyway, it made me want to hear the original, one of his best. So here's sad old Hank with his beautiful plangent song, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry :

Thank you, ChorusGirl. I like Louis Malle, but I'd never heard of this one. Unfortunately, I don't "do" Netflix at the moment. I'm too low-tech to be bothered to get the gadget I need to "stream" Netflix movies to my television screen (is that how it works? ) However, so many people have recommended it to me (Netflix, that is), that perhaps I will re-think my position on this and become "middle-tech." Or maybe I'll just bite the bullet and buy the Criterion dvd. I already have a few Criterion films in my collection; they're very expensive but usually worth the money, because they're almost always really good and often rare films, plus you get all those extras. ps -If Miles Davis was involved with the score for *Elevator to the Gallows* , that's an added motivation for me to see it. I am a huge fan of his. Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 30, 2011 4:28 PM

BRIEF ENCOUNTER THE LONG GOODBYE

He's in danger of becoming irritating...he's gone from hockey goalie to lawyer to politician. Becoming more irritating with every career change (no offense against lawyers, of course.)

I can bring it back...Debbie Reynolds was not cute but very irritating in *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* . But it's not really her fault, it was an incredibly irritating movie all round. (She was cute in, say, The Mating Game. And of course, SitR.)

For sure. And maybe Teresa Wright.

OUT OF THE PAST BACK TO THE FUTURE

And yet she was never in an "oater".

Actually, it's a well-kept secret that Deborah Martha Matta Harry was in fact Harry Morgan.

No, she was not "pretty". "Pretty" is someone like Carole Lombard. Katharine Hepburn certainly was not plain-looking, but definitely not traditionally pretty either. The high cheek bones were a bit too high, she had a " horsey" look. Maybe that's not fair. I'd say she was "handsome" (and I do not mean she looked like a man, she didn't). "Cute" : Ginger Rogers, Shirley MacLaine "Pretty": Carole Lombard, Gloria Graham "Beautiful": Hedy Lamarr, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Tierney "Handsome": (in a feminine way) : Katherine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell Actresses whose looks stand out but are just in their own category: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck. They made you believe they were beautiful. I realize this has little to do with the irritation topic.