wouldbestar
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My, what wonderful gifts the parents of these stars left with us during these last few days. And they're still giving today! Wating to see who comes next!
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{font:}{color:black}Jake: Thank you for the reminder of what most of us we are celebrating this week-end. It's got nothing to do with shopping lists and getting sauced at parties. That goes for those of you enjoying Hanukkah and those eight days of love and "little gifts". May all our candles of faith never go out. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}I will be off the Board next week as I am moving and the Electric Company here are already driven a bolt through my middle. I just called to arrange transfer of service and they are out until Tuesday. When I worked you got Friday off for a Saturday Christmas or Monday for a Sunday one-that's this year-but they have both days off. This from a "public service agency? I can't get my cable or internet up without it so I miss The Tudors next week. I get to redecorate my new place instead. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}Everybody, stay safe and well. I want all of you still here when I get back on line. That will be enough of a present for me. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}We just started getting MeTV which just quit the 30 minute *Gunsmoke* episodes so this is the chance to finally see them again after a long time. The others are welcome additions. The rest have run their course. We'll all adjust.{font}
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Lana had natural auburn hair which Warner Bros. wisely let her keep. She is naturally beautiful in the stills from that time. M-G-M made her a blonde which always came off as artificial to me.
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If it's Vince Edwards you want, also check out Rogue Cop from M-G-M in 1954.
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I caught it this morning and it was very beautiful and touching. That song was reverent and respectful. Thank you for putting in up for us to see again.
Elizabeth Taylor was the most famous person to leave us this year and I figured she would be the first. I think she was professional enough to not mind letting the others get their time and end with her. For some strange reason I've had a hard time accepting that she's died; this finally made it register.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}This morning I saw her on a *Highway Patrol* episode from the late 50's where she played the gun-toting perpetrator. I found her quite believable and loved her husky voice. {font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I really didn't see all that much of either parent in her face. Unlike her classically beautiful mother, what Judy had was all her own and it stood out-I'd take her face over Loretta's any time. I remember when she was *The Secret Storm* with Robert Loggia-what a team that was! {font}
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Well I've learned some interesting facts. I thought my brother being married for the only time in his 60's was a record but Mr. O'Brian beat him on that. And if Ms. Morehead was really married to Ramon Navarro and George Maharis that adds creedence to the rumors about her. I usually ignore them as I'm not really into sensational gossip which might or might not be true. It must have been difficult to have to hide being gay to save a career or be single and straight but fear being "outed" with the same result. A marriage of convenience only made a convoluted situation even more furtive and I'm certain more emotionally stressful for the parties involved.
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{font:Arial} The role of "Anne" is simply based on the early experiences of novelist Jacqueline Susann herself! {font}
{font:Arial}That entered my mind as well as a number of popular models who were doing cosmetic ads at the time. I also heard Princess Grace's name back then. {font}
{font:Arial}Like those Harold Robbins books I never paid it any mind as this was the author's take on real situations that might or might not be factual yet gulible readers would think they were getting the truth. A noted author used the trial of the daughter of people I know to write a novel that became a "black comedy" movie. I was incensed and have never seen the film even though the star won some awards for it. There's enough misinformation out there as it is. {font}
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I've been under the impression that because he was in so many of their early 50's films Henry/Harry Morgan was a contract player at U-I. It seemed that they couldn't make a film without John McIntire or him and often both. I think he deserves a tribute on both TCM and TV Land. I think MeTV is doing one all this week.
If it ever gets on the air the TCM Remembers piece is going to be a long one this year. Since the time between the classic period keeps getting longer we're going to keep losing the people whose work we love.
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*<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Highway Patrol*<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was never a network show but always syndicated. The stations that carried it chose when to broadcast it.
{font:Times New Roman} {font}<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This was not unusual. Most of the *ZIV* produced series were done this way and many are classics. *Sea Hunt* and *Tombstone Territory* were others although I think *Sea Hunt* might have graduated to a network. There were nearly as many shows made and sold directly to affiliates as there were network offerings and many just as good. I remember many fondly.
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Edited by: wouldbestar on Dec 11, 2011 1:42 PM
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I just reread my rum cake recipe and see that I wrote one cup butter for the glaze when I meant 1 stick or 1/2 cup. There's enough calories already without needing any more.
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I'm older than Teri Garr? I can feel the gray hairs pouring out of my head like Medusa's. Ouch! Seriously, I'm glad that Rita Moreno and she are both around to see how appreciated they are.
I loved the Una Merkel photo as I've never seen her as a young woman. Marie Windsor was more striking than classically beautiful but her face had character-I'd trade anytime. Richard Devin's photo is scaring me all by itself as he usually did on screen-one of the best of the bad.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Thank you for this information. It validates how I've been perceiving him since this incident.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I've been a fan of his since his days on The Doctors and later Knots Landing. That he has tremendous talent as an actor is obvious. Like many others he has not grasped the fact that this does not give him the right to be an arrogant, anti-social jerk. He has my hope that he one day gets it together but has lost my respect. {font}
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Lillian Gish, Virginia Grey, Hugh O'Brian, and Agnes Morehead unless I'm misinformed. I'm certain there are others. While for some it was their sexual orientation others might not have wanted to or never one a person they wanted to marry or could. With the difficulity keeping an show business marrige working they might have saved themselves a lot of heartache.
Yes, I know about Virginia Grey and Clark Gable.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}There are movies like *The Sea Hawk* that I wish were in color and wouldn't mind seeing in such. I understand there is a colorized version of *Colorado Territory* out there but have not been able to verify. If they were made in b&w for cost reasons that is one thing. If the producers deliberately did so or the genre lends itself to b&w it's another and I bow to their wishes. I did see a colorized *Postman Always Rings Twice* with Cora's white shorts, halter top, and turban in coral. She was deliberately in white in all but the after the funeral scenes to make her look more innocent so this was a corruption and I say foul. In short, I like the colorized movies but understand that some movie purists and filmmakers feel that they're compromised.{font}
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pturman: I thought you were exaggerating about AB tackling RO on screen. If it was really that violent why has RO continued to work with him on The Essentials? Could finance be right about RO's absense?
I was beginning to overlook his meltdown with daughter Ireland but no more. He's gone from TCM after this season so we should all let him go his merry way. Maybe he should get together with Mel Gibson and Tom Sizemore and start a misfits fraternity. I'm certain any political career he had a mind for is gone now; he'd never get my vote unless the election process really turned insane.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}Thank you for telling me where it was filmed. The narration hints at and it looks like most small towns across America did then and I always wondered where they were. The actors looked and sounded like real people and the stories dealt with positive things like rescues as well as capturing criminals. At various times the uniformed officers include Stuart Whitman, Gregg Palmer and Guy Williams and you can see Barbara Eden, Peter Breck and Leonard Nimoy early in their careers. Art Gilmore was a well-known voice and that gave it a sense of reality as well. {font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}For me it’s the cars; every make of the big 3 companies show up and back then they were all different. I can pick out the Buick from the Chevy, Olds or Pontiac; the Chrysler from the Dodge, Dodge or DeSoto or the Ford from the Mercury. Twenty years later each was putting the sane two or three covers on all their makes and you had to guess which was which.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}Did anyone ever see the *CHIPs* episode where Ponch stops Broderick Crawford for speeding and is so floored he can barely give him a ticket because the show made him want to be a patrolman? It’s a riot. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}Patty Duke was very good in the early scenes as the young Neely but not when she was supposed to be much older and a drug and alcohol addict. A critic said that in the "you look 36" scent she looked 16. {font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}When the movie came out the roles of Neely, Jennifer, and Helen were all thought to be thinly disguised versions of stars with the initials JG, MM, and EM (Barbara Parkins' Anne I'm not certain about). Patty even mentioned JG's name in an interview but the reporter didn't dare put it in print simply stating that "she named a famous singer". Since both women had/have had their share of substance abuse problems and Ann-Margret hasn’t perhaps the makers felt Patty could identify better with JG. Or Ann-Margret had the good sense not to get involved with the movie. I was surprised that Susan Hayward played the Helen/Em role as it was very unflattering to this person and, hey, would she want somebody else doing that to her? It's not really all that good a film; ironically, Sharon Tate got most of the positive press in what was her biggest role. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}In the early fifties my mother made that "you'll shoot your eye out" remark when the subject of BB guns came up and that's ten years after the movie takes place. Also instead of *Little Orphan Annie* on the radio hawking secret decoder rings from Ovaltine it was *Captain Midnight* on TV. We never got one because, according to Mom, Ovaltine was too expensive. My brothers played cowboys and outlaws with cap pistols the way Ralphie did and we all knew bullies like Scut Farkas. Underneath the sniping Dad and Mom Parker love each other and their sons. This movie has heart and Jean Shepherd's narration is the frosting on the cake. Thanks for a neat little movie without commercials every ten minutes.{font}
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I want to know who these authors are, what contact they had with the women, what documents they were able to access and how reliable the people they interviewed were-assuming they did any of this. Then I'll decide if I want to read it.
The fact that they're offering it and the James Garner book as a package at discount makes me wonder. According to all the reviews I've read the Garner book can stand on its own and doesn't need a promotion like this. Can it be the other one does?
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I saw it and am stunned by Wyman's performance. First, that a twice-married woman in her 30's was able to look like an innocent young girl and secondly, that she conveyed so much emotion with just her eyes, facial features and body. She was completely believable. Also, unlike Marlee Matlin, she was not hearing and speaking impaired but normal which made the performance even more amazing. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}With Harry Morgan just dying as well as several quality actors over the past few weeks, I wonder if it will stop long enough to put one together.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I've seen one early as December 1st but then folks complain about somebody just gone being left off the list. I too have been looking but want it done right. To all those who sadly make it, thank you for all the work that made us think, feel new emotions or brightened our days. You will not be forgotten. {font}
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Thanks to CineMaven, who had a change in plans and sold me her ticket, I was able to tour Warners in April. I would recommend it in a second. We wern't able to see an outdoor scene for The Mentalist be filmed as planned but did get to tour the indoor set of Harry's Law and see how a few pieces of wood and foam are turned into an office, how an elevator goes up or down without moving, and how they move the courtroom furniture for best effect when filming. We saw 70 year old sets that were easily recognizable from countless movies, got photographed then "blue screened" onto a background, toured the props department and the Museum which had costumes and correspondence worn and about stars we know and love. It was well worth it.
Universal is only a mile or so away and if you like the movies and TV series they currently/have produced you might want to go there. If anyone who's been there wants to tell all I'd be interested in hearing it. Paramount is close to downtown Hollywood and the same goes for that.
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Mitchum is looking in the wrong direction. There's a lot more of Terry Moore to see than Marilyn. This reminds me of that Jayne Mansfield/Sophia Loren photo. I'd be embarassed to wear something like that.