ValentineXavier

The movie doesn't have enough ants to be a proper picnic.

> {quote:title=johnm_001 wrote:}{quote}I hate it, but then, I hate all Kubrick's films. I just hate his films. I guess you're NOT Spartacus... Well, I am a Kubrick fan, and like *Spartacus*, as well as many of his films. I will admit that I don't care for *Barry Lyndon*.

I've got a worse one for you - years ago I read about some kind of pot-like object, lined with radium. You were supposed to stick your hands or feet in it, to heal joint ailments. YOW!

When I was about 6, I think I looked like Jackie Cooper at that age. When I was in my 30s, musician Bob Seeger is my age, and back then, in the late 70s, I was mistaken for him on the street, a few times. But, I didn't really see a great resemblance. Back about the time the second Harry Potter film came out, a board member for an arts org. I volunteer for told me I look like Hagrid. I think he meant it as a compliment, well, sort of...

Arsenic was also considered a cure for syphilis back then. Mercury was used in some medicines, and it is poisonous. Pharmacists still make compound prescriptions today, but nothing like they once did. Many pharmacies made their own compound remedies for various ailments. Also, remember that Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper were both created by pharmacists. Coca Cola had cocaine in it until 1937, and was originally intended to be a remedy, not a soft drink.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}No, but I caught a taxi last night. I wish I had. I caught a cold instead.

Another film in which the make and model of car was an important plot point was *The Italian Job*, both the 1969 original, and the 2003 remake. It's a caper film. They create a huge traffic jam, and escape using three Mini-Coopers, which are so small, they can get through it.

*The Hunger* 1983

I'll just say *Herbie*.

There's a string of Carradines, Quaids, Fondas and Bridges. But, my pick for the two most opposite - Jane Greer and Rosie Greer. Edited by: ValentineXavier on Oct 2, 2011 2:38 AM

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > > Another hot number for the pharmacist was to combine opiates with alcohol in a mixture known as "*laudanum*". This too, the hoods eagerly bought, as many addicts preferred such a delivery system. Patent medicines, to which many women got addicted for their "ailments", were none other than a form a laudanum. Laudanum also had uses by shady people as a "knock out" substance concealed as a "drink"- hence the infamous "*mickey finn*" that is jokingly referred to in Stooge films. Humphrey Bogart, as Sam Spade, was likely served such a mixture by the fat man in the *Maltese Falcon (1941),* which knocks him out. In the book version of *The Big Sleep (1946),* Carmen Sternwood is doped up on this mixture by blackmailer Geiger > Laudanum was certainly a popular recreational drug. Mary Todd Lincoln, and poet Samuel Coleridge were just two of the famous folks who used it. But, it was not the standard "Mickey Finn." That was chloral hydrate, discovered in 1836. It is fast-acting, and easily produces unconsciousness in non-lethal doses. Laudanum, on the other hand, is not fast-acting, as far as making one unconscious. If trying to produce quick unconsciousness,it would be dangerously near a lethal dose. It is more likely Kasper gave Sam chloral hydrate, than laudanum. Or, it could have been something else.

Mostly, I probably average about once a month. Most recent films I have seen: *Captain America*, *Tree of Life*, *Cave of Forgotten Dreams*, *True Grit*, and *Thor*. In March, I will spend six days at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, generally from about 1pm to 12 midnight each day. I'll then have a great experimental film buzz. But, I'll see lots of docs, and animation too.

Cutting open the eyeball in *Un Chien Andalou* The scene where Antoine Doinel makes it to the sea in *The 400 Blows* The "I am Spartacus" scene in *Spartacus* The scene in *The Emerald Forest* where the dam breaks, thus saving The Invisible People, and the other inhabitants of the rain forest.

There are two types of TCM viewers - elite and pica.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > William Morgan Clark in the "Babylon 5" series. If we're talkin' B5, I'd go for Morden, Bester, or Emperor Cartagia, over Clark. We see so little of Clark, and they are portrayed by better actors.

One British film I would like to see, that I haven't seen in years, is *Johnny Nobody*. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055030/

Well, if we are going into martial arts films, which I agree, are fight films, there are many great samurai films. Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, starring Toshiro Mifune, culminating with *Duel at Ganryu Island* is classic, as are many Mifune films, *Sanjuro* being a favorite of mine. The long running Japanese series of Zatoichi films from the 60s are a lot of fun, as is Takeshi Kitano's modern take on Zatoichi from 2002. David Carradine has done a lot, from *Cross of Iron* to *Kill Bill*.

Do we really need a third thread about Winona? Here's a link to the main one: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161840&tstart=0

I didn't forget them, I just listed my favorites, and figured the list was long enough. Unfortunately, I don't have a computer at home. Posting on web forums, between checking out books to patrons is fine, and doesn't interfere with my job. But I can't really watch a movie that way. Thanks for the link. Maybe some others will enjoy it. If it's on DVD, I might track it down.

One of my favorite Christmas films is Michael Curtiz' rarely shown 1955 film *We're No Angels*, Starring Humphrey Bogart, Leo G. Carrol, Joan Bennett, and lots of other fine actors we all know. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048801/

Danny was definitely manic, but to me, he wasn't a ham.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}That's what I'd like to see---- a woman subbing for RO coming off as a real femme fatale-----sort of like the Jane Greer character in OUT OF THE PAST. Perhaps Kathleen Turner would do? She would for me.

> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}It could be worse. They could've hired (shudder!) Rex Reed. I'm not big on Rex, either. But, I'd take him over Jeffry Lyons, or Michael Medved any day. I like Winona just fine, although she could punch up her delivery just a bit. I haven't seen Maltin on TCM yet. But, I don't hate him, I just disagree with him on occasion.

> {quote:title=thestick wrote:}{quote}Boris Karlof plays a great villain. When I think of a 'screen villain,' the first to come to mind is Boris in *The Mask of Fu Manchu*.

Geeze, would I like to see *Hell Drivers*. What a cast! Achilles, #6, Dr. Who, 007, Illya Kuryakin, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, and Annie from *Gun Crazy*. YOW!