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AS IF filmmakers haven't cut, pasted and otherwise obliterated literary works while adapting them to the screen! Disney easily could have -- SHOULD HAVE -- omitted the killing of Bambi's mother. You know that. I've been published in over 100 magazines and newspapers worldwide; lord knows I've come to realize once someone pays you for your creation, they can chop it up anyway they please!

You all know exactly what I mean. The murder of Bambi's mother? Like he had to do that? Lots of other disturbing scenes in Disney's productions. I say the man was a sadist.

The show you're talking about was from a time when ALL humor was ethnic, everybody got roughed-up equally, and everybody laughed! Showing Jewish stereotypes in this dull, politically-correct age? Ain't gonna happen. WITH ONE EXCEPTION: Arabs are allowed to be ridiculed and stereotyped. In fact, there was a book around a few years ago wherein the author looked at EVERY movie Hollywood ever made depicting Arabs...there was not ONE example of an Arab with a job and a family (which is the reality). They were ALL thieves, oil sheiks, harem whores, camel jockies...

Not so much the Stars, but I've always wondered what kind of money contract players such as Eve Arden, Rags Ragland, William Demerest, Leo Gorcey (!) were paid? What kind of house could they afford or couldn't they make it to a Beverly Hills address.

I shall always wonder if Hitchcock considered Robert Walker for Dall's part in "Rope." As Bruno in "Strangers on a Train" he certainly reminds me of one-half of the killing team in "Rope."

How John Wayne could make all those war movies when in reality he spent the war partying in Hollywood...! I heard he tried to make an appearance at a vet's hospital where guys were shot up and dying, and they all yelled "F**k you, John Wayne!" and he left quickly. If you ask most Americans, "Did John Wayne really serve in WW2?" most people, who remember him, think he actually did.

I would think this really irritates you (it does me): Harrison Ford's face has been seen BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ANYONE IN HISTORY!

No wonder Sinatra called them "$2 hookers." Liz Taylor dies, and these humanoids are all over the TV with these "inside stories" about her personal life that are nothing but theories, lies and conjecture. How do they know what went on behind closed doors? They act like they were personal friends with celebrities, when the truth is, they've never been in the same room!

AGREEMENT(s) to you and Wonderly. Allyson and Hepburn...both sexless nags with irritating voices. Why the Academy loved Hepburn to the end of time will always be a puzzlement. She was arrogant, plain-looking and her acting was overrated and underpowered. What Spencer saw in her...maybe that contributed to his confused sexual preferences.

Perhaps it's this endless winter (I reside in Bismarck, ND: "The Place Custer Died Trying To Escape") or maybe because my R hip is killing me, but there are those whose performances or SOMETHING I can't stand! 1) Frank Morgan (although he was perfect in "The Great Sinner"). Those silly, stammering goofy gags of his makes me, well, gag. 2) Edward Everett Horton. His work in "The Gay Divorcee" was quite repellent and his voice is sheer fingernails on the chalkboard. 3) Eve Arden and her EVERYTIME wisecracking delivery is corny and boring. 4) ANYBODY who plays drunk comically, especially Van Heflin (even though it somehow earned him an Oscar nod, once). 5) She is NOT an actress, but (sigh) Cher...giving her a Best Actress Oscar was a crime. I'll think of others. Tell me how wrong I am. But I know you have yours!

"Gun Crazy" aired today and it reminded me of how great, how riveting, this man was! Who can forget him in "Rope!"? When Dall is on screen, I don't think the audience was looking at anyone else. His speech, his expressions...you simply don't get that from anyone else I can think of.

That woman LIVED! In all my years of talking movies, I've never encountered anyone who didn't like her. The camera loved her.

Pacino recently said he hasn't made a good movie since "Godfather" but he is wrong. "Panic..." is in the TCM library, but never aired. This is a fantastic film, stark, ultra-realistic, depicting the absolute hell heroin addicts face every minute. Strangely, when addiction movies are discussed, this film is seldom mentioned.

I believe I've heard Osborne talking about Barrymore "before and after his accident." But Barrymore was crippled due to arthritis. Louis B. Mayer supplied the actor with cocaine, for which Barrymore was eternally grateful. "I don't know where he got it," the MGM fixture stated, "but I shall always be thankful."

I guess he became so obsessed with mowing his lawn(s) he started cutting all the neighbors' lawns, though they wished he wouldn't, and wouldn't stop even after he nearly chopped off his hand. His best? "Night and the City." How I wish TCM would schedule it!

Watching it NOW on community access TV in Bismarck, ND (the place Custer died trying to escape). Ken Curtis ("Festus") is credited as producer of this gem. He also is the star of "The Killer Shrews" in June on TCM, the greatest company in television history!

Always thought of them as polar-opposites (make that bipolar, in her case) but it is said they could really rip it up, romantically. She had Coop so crazy in love with her bedroom antics, he lost 40 pounds, his skin was shedding and he nearly suffered a nervous breakdown. Hey, I had a girlfriend like that in college! Anyone attend Pepperdine? Anyway, Lupe's death was iconic...if you're a devotee of "Hollywood Babylon."

Loop cuts of James Cagney saying "woik." With Randolph Scott pronouncing "woik." Now Leo Gorcey shouts "Woik?!?%*#?*@!" (this is stolen from RF). And Oliver Hardy repeats "woik." Now...MORE! Again! Everybody work...er, woik.

Cheryl Crane killed Stomp. You knew that. Lupe Velez: may or may not have been partially eaten by her DOG, and may or may not have died with her head in her toilet. She had a sexual specialty, it is said.

Callgirls for Red and his wife... Good! People should do more of that.

Johnny gets gutted by a little girl with a kitchen blade. Wot a wimp. Total drugstore mafia.

Red bragged of a "conquest" in her studio dressing room...I DO NOT BELIEVE IT! Say it ain't true, Lana...please. The mere thought is too disturbing.

No, he wasn't married to Keyes. But Wilder must have seen it a hundred times before it was printed. So why was the most famous faux pas in cinema allowed to happen? Mine: Billy was telling the audience, "Compared to cultured Europeans (like me) you Amerikans are simple."

Just heard/saw it for the first time...hope it's the last time! Who wrote that!? Narrator sounds like he's talking to first-graders. Really bad.

Wonder what Walker would have done with the John Dall part. Farley G. There for both.