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May I direct you to the Off-Topic Forums, where there are daily instances of this, with entire threads devoted to missing the point on virtually every subject.
Of course, not all of us who participate on those threads regularly miss the point. I, for one, am virtually always precisely on target.
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I don't find either Mae West or Greta Garbo very enjoyable.
..and I find Eve Arden to be really annoying.
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This young man co-wrote or wrote a few scripts of a well-known TV sitcom circa 1953. He later became very famous in another area of show business. Who? What was the sitcom?
Hint: The TV sitcom was based on a novel, and the novel had already given rise to more than one film.
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I'm not sure, but I do know that CRAWFORD signed (along with a dozen or so other stars) an industry ad lauding JOAN FONTAINE for her work in LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN in 1948 as part of an unsuccessful campaign to get a nomination for her. i also want to say i recall some other detail about FONTAINE and CRAWFORD being friendly.
(glean from that what you will)
I know ARLENE DAHL tells a story where she claims CRAWFORD threw wine at her at a dinner party and was called a "rhymeswith" by FONTAINE, But i think Arlene is a sad, tired old liar.
Whatsmore, she's probably not even a redhead anymore.
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It IS JOVOVICH, and it was LOLITA DAVIDOVICH that was in "Gods and Monsters". And HER most recent film appearance was in THE LONG RIDE(2015)
MILLA (two "l's") JOVOVICH will show up in this year's SHOCK AND AWE.
I get it. Keeping those names straight can sometimes be a SONOVOVICH.
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Both Jovovich and Davidovich had brief affairs with Peter Bogdanovich. The affairs ended because their friends were getting tongue-tied.
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This young man co-wrote or wrote a few scripts of a well-known TV sitcom circa 1953. He later became very famous in another area of show business. Who? What was the sitcom?
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Being something of a firebug, I miss the smell of just about burning
anything. We didn't burn our leaves, which would have been the
only reward for all the time spent raking them. I had a summer job
one year at the old W.T. Grant. At the back of the store by the loading
dock was the incineration room where they burned all their cardboard
and paper stuff. Sometimes I got to go in there and burn stuff for
half an hour or so. I wish that would have been my permanent part
time job. I remember going on papers drives while a Cub/Boy Scout.
It was fun throwing all those bundles of paper around in the big truck.
Every once in a while a Jehovah's Witness will knock on the door,
though they haven't been around in the last few years. They always
seemed to come in pairs--one middle age woman and one hot
young thing. Whatever.
It wasn't your "permanent" part time job because, firebug that you are, you once started a fire in the incineration room, which burned down the store.
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By pretending Humbert only paints Lolita's toe-nails.
One of the more disgusting images in film history.
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Has it really been that long since they were big stars? One YouTube comment for Frankie Avalon's "Venus" is "My grandmother loved that song". And Shutoo, you had to look up Jimmy Clanton? Why, one of his movies, "Go, Johnny, Go" was shown on TCM not long ago. I guarantee that some of our veteran posters remember those songs. Here is Frankie with Dick Clark in 1959. Does everyone remember Dick Clark?
Jimmy Clanton had this hit in 1962.
Here is Shocking Blue from 1968.
Apparently musical styles had changed in just a few years. OK, Shutoo, now that everyone is feeling very old, you get to go next.
I think that's GO JIMMY GO.
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There are several old ALBERT KAHN designed apartment, office and theater buildings still in existence in Detroit and surrounding cities.
The Society Of Commercial Archeology applauds you for noticing!
There's a guy named Kahn that did the same thing in Philly.
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If somebody asked me about Star Wars I would say isn't that the movie with Debbie Reynolds' daughter that they copied from the Kurosawa movie?
But it was a youth phenomenon just like Harry Potter. The national and local news would always cover the openings of these movies and you'd see lines and lines at movie theaters in major cities all over the world.
I thought that was nice seeing that young people had something safe and harmless to do.
But I never missed the Star Trek movies-- I even watched the one that Spock directed.
"Darn-it Shatner, I'm an outer-space Vulcan, not a Hollywood director."
You could always get into a fight trying to get in to see Star Wars.
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I have NEVER, NEVER gone along with the crowd.
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And thank you Lav for that good question.
Next:
He was a Hollywood director from Europe who is not very well known. However, he directed some good movies, both westerns and dramas, with top Hollywood stars.
She was the iconic Hollywood star of an era.
Louise Brooks and A. Edward Sutherland?
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Lorna, be prepared to drop your drawers-- I've never even seen Star Wars once.
And I can only wish in my wildest dreams that I was born after 1980.LMREO
In the late seventies, I was so involved in tap dancing that probably the only films I went to see were Fred Astaire movies in Revival movie theaters.
Neither have I. I wouldn't know Princess Leila from Princess of Tap.
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ESPN Profit Plummets As Network Turns Left
Not surprisingly, ESPN's ratings are tanking. Ratings for opinion shows the Monday after the Super Bowl this year, a day that is generally one of the most viewed in the country, were down a whopping 33% on average for PTI, Around the Horn, SportsCenter and others.
Turns out that alienating a large segment of your audience is bad for business.
It used to be that sports was an escape from the real world. Now, increasingly, ESPN has made sports and politics inextricably intertwined. How else to explain the network's fixation on Tom Brady's friendship with Donald Trump? Did any athlete have to explain his or her friendship with Barack Obama?
ESPN realizes its business is broken and it's desperately floundering for a successful strategy. Only that strategy, becoming a left wing network, is actually hastening its own demise.
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This is why you don't have political people hosting your shows.
The discussions on ESPN about Colin Kaepernick's protests were ridiculously excessive.
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Funny. Of course politics are discussed at this thread given the topic. The only thing I'm surprised about is that the moderator hasn't moved the thread to the Chit-Chat forum.
The moderator would rather have this thread die. Moving the thread may give it renewed vitality.
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" Okay, gang, who's all in favour of my getting a permanent gig at TCM?"
"If I do get one, I promise to show everyone who asks the proper way to floss. Ohhhh, the excitement!"
I'd like to hear it. Every time I floss, the piece of floss breaks in half. I usually have to use two pieces. Well, Dental Dave?
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Ben was born in high places. LOL
As far as David Karger is concerned --
I would have to quote President Kennedy:
" We can do better."At least you are not quoting President Trump---"He is a disaster".
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The way Burns talks about the making of THE SUNSHINE BOYS gives the impression he might have thought WALTER MATTHAU should have at least been nominated. Burns was impressed with Matthau's ability to get into character. I'm parphrasing but.....
"Walter had to play a man of about 80-85 years old. He was about 50 or so at the time and in good physical health and condition. But once they got the old man make-up on him he aged considerably. I even had to help him into his chair..."
IMHO one of the biggest robberies committed by the Academy was the passing over of FREDERIC MARCH for INHERIT THE WIND
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Matthau in good physical health and condition? He had a serious heart attack circa 1966 and had been a 3 pack a day man.
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Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you.
I'll tell you, the Upper Midwestern accents that the characters were using in FARGO were hilarious.
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"Peanut butter days"?
Don't tell me you're one of those gleeps who attach arbitrary periods to particular likes and dislikes. I still like peanut butter, and had a PB&J sandwich for lunch just yesterday. It always has been and always will be my favorite sandwich. And I still read the "funny papers", and occasionally view my "Rocky and Bullwinkle" tapes. And IMHO....
The most IMMATURE individual I can think of is ANY guy who loudly proclaims that he's "A GROWN A S S MAN!".
I'm never certain if he's trying to convince ME or himself.
As for FARGO, I think it's an OK movie. In fact, I think ANY movie with WILLIAM H. MACY and STEVE BUSCEMI is worth a look.
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Once, circa 1971, I ate a whole jar of peanut butter at one sitting. That was pretty much the end of my peanut butter days. I'm still burping from that.
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What happened to the Dave Karger thread? Poofed?
I asked the same question this morning. Apparently nobody gives a ****.
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It may also be called a pointless, condescending, elitist bit of completely overrated claptrap with one of the most underwhelming, one-note and undeserving Oscar wins in a lead category ever.
One of the most? Why not go all the way to "the most"?
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I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate FARGO.
It's "interesting" viewing, and I chose that word carefully. It may be called a jet black comedy.
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Another hint?