SansFin

*C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America* (2004) is a great documentary of modern America after The South wins the war. I am sure many references did not register with me but I was yet overwhelmed by it even as I laughed.

I have not had TCM available for as many years as many of you but I have not noticed any change. There are many great movies. There are many movies which may not be called great but are wonderful to watch. There are also movies I do not understand why they are aired on TCM. This has been true for all time since I have been watching. I believe the best way I can express my feeling about TCM is by an expression which my grandmother said she stole from a Lett who stole it from a Swede and I do not know its origin before that. To those who say TCM is bad I will say: "If this is crap please let me move into the outhouse."

I believe Warren William is also excellent in his The Lone Wolf character.

> {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote} > > I also liked it more than the Kennel Murder Case where Philo takes over. I love both *The Case of the Howling Dog* and *The Kennel Murder Case* but they are structured very differently. Perry Mason movies are very linear and have a fast pace. Philo Vance movies are more sedate and you must like a character who loves to hear himself speak. I would like very much to see a thoughtful comparison of Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Philo Vance in *The Bishop Murder Case* and his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*

I thank you very much for that permission. I think it is the only way one will get done from us. I do not know that it will be half-and-half. I believe I may do 75% and Capuchin will do another 75%. I believe it may be much like the way it is a point between us that it must be one or the other who prepares a meal. The last time we did one together it is fortunate that were we able to invite new neighbors to join us. The recipe for each dish was only for two people but we had no difficulty feeding four adults and two children with all that we made. I am beginning to look forward to the schedule we might create. His schedules are very technical. I believe my schedules are all whimsy. I have to wonder if our collaboration will be fantastic or fantastically horrible. Perhaps there can be a prize for whoever can guess which parts are his and which are mine.

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I am very much looking forward to seeing the themes you chose. I am sure they will be as wonderful as the themes you use in your schedule. I very much wish I could enter but I do not believe I will have time. The first two weeks I will have schoolyear finals and the third week I will have other requirement tests. It is sad to say that Capuchin is overbooked for this month and next. Perhaps you might allow us to collaborate on one entry?

A Guilty Conscience (1921) Antonio Moreno, Betty Francisco, Lila Leslie If I Were King (1938) Ronald Colman, Frances Dee, Basil Rathbone Jewel Robbery (1932) William Powellm Kay Francis, Alan Mowbray Black Cat (1968) Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi A Tale of Five Cities (1951) Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon The Snow Queen (1957) Vladimir Gribkov, Mariya Babanova, Yanina Zhejmo Only Yesterday (1991) Hayao Miyazaki / Isao Takahata animation I have never found this as Region One DVD.

I wish to congratulate you CineMaven for the rollover on your post count. I also wish to note that it is not only the number of posts that is wonderful but also they are consistently of very high quality that makes it a magnificent achievement. I always enjoy reading your posts and I have learned much from them. I thank you for that.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > I hope you were able to be off to enjoy Audrey's day today, and enjoyed it!! > What did you think of THE MAN WITH TWO FACES? I missed most of *The Man With Two Faces* because power outages because of the storms knocked the timer off the DVR. I only saw when I came home from when a man lay dying to when a man is pulling off his beard in an office and then the power went out again. I have checked and I quite happily found that it will air again this month so I have another chance. From the tiny part I saw I believe I will like it very much as it has the mood I love. It also looks like it is an excellent print. I am sad to say I slept almost all day today. I am also very happy to say that because I needed sleep very badly. Capuchin checked and said I have not been outside of work or school for more than sixteen hours at a time since the middle of December. He made me take today, Thursday and Friday off from everything. He had planned a little trip for us after his out-patient surgery this afternoon but that will have to wait now because when it was over they choose to keep him overnight. He is liking very much that he has a new crop of nurses to harass. I have all the Audrey Hepburn movies being aired today on DVD. It was only a dream that I could have been able to really watch them as they were aired.

JackFavell - I am very happy you do not find my suggestion of Faye Dunaway is frivolous for a serious discussion of flawed women. It is very much knee-jerk that when I hear 'woman who made a bad decision' that my first thought is very powerfully that character. He staged a two million dollar bank heist because he was bored. She kidnaped a little boy so she could force information out of its father. How are they not perfect for one another? She is very much an anti-hero. She is a loose cannon with a fantastic wardrobe. She does not break rules only for the sake of breaking rules. It is as if she is incapable of understanding the concept of following someone else's rules. I very much love how her being less than perfect makes her sympathetic. The morning after their first night together she looks as something the cat dragged in while he is quite pert and perfect. She shows the common annoyance of being ignored at the breakfast table while he reads his newspaper. She feels hurt and betrayed when she learns he spent time with his old girlfriend. It is basic human nature to have a moment of pet when someone does not recognize our authority, taste or judgement. Her's is shown when she is reminded that she can not bribe her way into a numbered Swiss bank account. It is very much a 'how dare they' moment. It is unfortunate she choose to maintain her persona rather than abandoning herself to love. Their life together would have been very passionate. For most people the 'thrill of discovery' is only during brief sexual episodes but they would have had it as a continuous dance of trying to keep from being -metaphorically- stabbed in the back.

I understand very well how it is so nearly impossible to appreciate a song sung in a foreign language. I might feel the rhythm and admire the mastery of the singer but the song in itself remains a blank. When I was speaking of how a man's looks do not relate to how women relate to him I posted a link to a YouTube video of Vyacheslav Dobrynin. He clearly does not look like Tom Jones. Women and girls adore him like Tom Jones. I have tried to translate the first part of my favorite song that he sings into English. I do not translate anything into English well and songs are always very hard to translate because there are many idioms and cultural tropes for which word-for-word is nearly never appropriate. I have done my best: Who Told You Do you want to see in my eyes the look in your eyes? And remember all the words and repeat them? Who told you that? Well? Who told you? Who made it up that I do not love you? Every gesture of yours and every glimpse into your soul is part of me. Your voice rings in my heart. No. I can never stop loving you. As you once loved me, I will always love you. I do not want to believe and think I do not want What will come with separation and dreams. At night I cry. I cry in grief that you might dream that I do not love you. I can only hope that if you listen to his voice while you look at the words you might catch a glimpse of why an older and non-hunkalicious man can make me melt By the clock in the corner of the computer screen it is now Wednesday. I slept Monday. Or was it Sunday? I am not positive. We are preparing for final tests at school and I have been doing extra hours at work because two patients have come from Japan because the hospitals there are in such a mess their treatment would be delayed and I am the only one who can deal with them without using a phrase book or doing back-and-forth with their smatter of English. I understand them well but I am afraid that some of what I say is not what I mean. The woman gave me a very terrible look yesterday and I worry what I actually said when I told her she can now get up for the bathroom and she does not have to use the bedpan. Since she is Japanese she will not say if I offended her. Language is made worse as the man in the next room is German and I do not shift mental gears as quick as when I was so very much younger. He speaks English well but he likes very much to tell dirty jokes in German. He was afraid when I first began to attend to him because of my accent. Then I told him joke about Russians and we became friends. I have not asked if he was from East Germany or West Germany because he seems to not want to talk about his home. I do not know if that is because of bad memories or because he knows he will not be going back. He has perhaps two weeks more now. It is never nice to see an empty bed but that one will be worse for me than most. It is now time to wake Capuchin because his patch for pain must be taken off twelve hours before surgery. It is only to have ganglion cyst taken from his hand and he will only have a local but still I worry. I am taking all the rest of the week until Saturday away from school and work and we are going somewhere but he will not tell me where. With the mess and the threat levels I am sure we are not flying anywhere. I very much hope you all have as much fun as we will have.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > > I'm collecting - collecting women characters. who are different. Women who are not "upright", women who do not make the right decisions. I am looking for something, maybe a little humanity under the carefully orchestrated studio system rules of what a woman should and should not be. This woman I am looking for is not moral....or maybe she is too moral, slipping over into harridan territory... but she is still sympathetic in certain ways. I believe you may be thinking only of dramas but I wonder if Ninotchka in *Ninotchka* (1939) might apply? She is so very moral she is very nearly a harridan. Her great flaw is shown when it is revealed that she is human and can love. Another character I believe might fit is Faye Dunaway as Vicki Anderson in *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968). She is working on the side of the police but does not hold to their code of honor as shown by her disregard for serious laws and she does not hold to their code of morality as shown by her entering into "a sex **** for a couple of freaks on government funds". She is very much an example of righteous immorality: When first drawing him into her game of cat-and-mouse: Thomas Crown: What a funny ... dirty little mind. Vicki Anderson: It's a funny ... dirty little job. So shoot me in the leg. When confronted with evidence of her affair with the suspect: Detective Eddy Malone: You know what you are? Vicki Anderson: I know what I am. Don't put your labels on me, Eddy. When contronted with evidence that she stole a car, kidnapped a child and blackmailed his father: Vicki Anderson: All right, Eddy. I'm immoral. So is the world. I'm here for the money. Okay? Her great flaw is that she could not break her need to maintain her persona and so missed the opportunity to run away with Steve McQueen and millions of dollars in loot. She is definitely a woman who did not make the right decision.

Who needs Sham-Wow when we already have *Wonderful World of Tupperware* (1959) -28 minutes- which is airing again at 5:30 ET on this Saturday? I remember the crisis when TCM aired television programs which were interviews of stars and another crisis when the Jacques-Yves Cousteau documentaries were aired and another crisis when TCM dared to air a movie made in this century. I can not properly search the archives of this board but I believe TCM's imminent decline into utter debauchery has been a regular problem for more than a decade. I do hope someone is keeping a proper record of all the things which have led to TCM being what it is today.

I also find this week has many movies I would like to watch. I have heard many good things about Alice White in *Show Girl in Hollywood* (1930). It is sad to think some will not know it is airing since it is not to be found on daily, weekly or monthly schedule on this site. I do not understand spate of new movies on Monday night. I have seen *Innocence* (2000) and parts of *Trouble the Water* (2008) and I do not believe either will ever be thought a classic. I am looking forward to *The Man with Two Faces* (1934). Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor should make it interesting. I may have to make an excuse from work for Wednesday. I very much love Audrey Hepburn. I should watch the Thursday airings of settler/pioneer movies. Such things are far outside my background. Tuesday morning and Friday night are mysteries which I like very much.

I have read that restaurants are a good location because a target is likely to stay for a length of time. In any other place they might remember an appointment or suddenly decide they need to go see someone but it is general nature that a person picks an open time in their schedule to go to a restaurant and once they have placed their order they are unlikely to leave even if someone calls for them. Having the target on location for an extended time allows for last-minute scouting and preparation of weapons in an unhurried manner. It is also a good location because potential witnesses will be intent on their own meals and companions to the point of mentally blocking out all others around them until the shooting starts and when the shooting does start the normal reaction is to seek safety and to not come up until the danger has passed.

The back and partial stage-left wall of Papinoff's office in *The Saint in New York* (1938) is the same as is used in Duke Bates' office in *The Saint's Double Trouble* (1940). It bothers me because in the former the entry door is stage right and this is no door stage-left but in the latter the entry door is stage left and there is a back-room door stage right.

I have been told that if I like *Knight Without Armor* (1937) I should watch *New Moon* (1931). I am not a fan of Lawrence Tibbett but I only know his singing in the 1950's. Perhaps he was better when he was young. I am thinking a movie with Adolphe Menjou and Roland Young cannot be too terrible. Does anyone know if it is good or plan to watch it? I will have to record it and I suspect I will have to erase some thing else from the disk to make room for it.

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > AS my train hurtles through the night towards Chicago, I read the Message Board. > > SansFin, if Dobrynin has that effect on ladies underwear...I just had to Google him and see what he looks like! He's no Tom Jones ...but he's not bad. I hope you are having a happy trip. Vyacheslav Dobrynin is very much like your Tom Jones in his effect. Many of his songs are of lost love which make one yearn to console him. I have seen that he is now shaven. I do not think he looks better for it. You may find many of his songs on YouTube. You will not understand words. You may still like them. You should search for: "Вячеслав Добрынин" One of my favorites is: One I love very much although it is played up as schtick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aUoniAO6o&NR=1 I am a little heartsick now for I wish very much to hear his songs again but Capuchin is finally deeply sleeping and I do not want to wake him by turning on speakers. I know I will forget to find CD when I go to my apartment in the morning so I can listen to it on drive to school.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > Freds simple laws of life, learned after many decades of personal experiences: > It's simple: > Rich ugly old men can get young good looking dames, if the men are rich. I do not believe it is always simple as that. It is very hard to say a man is so ugly they must be rich to find a young lover. I am sure Jack Elam had many women wanting him even although he was not very rich and he did not conform to an objective standard of beauty. I am sorry I can not provide link to show him but I believe most people will agree that Vyacheslav Dobrynin is not most handsome man in the world and I believe he is not wealthy by American standard but he has always had his choice of lovers. I was fortunate to see him five years ago. I do not believe that at the end of the night there was a dry pair of panties in the house. Edited by: SansFin on Apr 23, 2011 3:05 AM - I have now switched mode on computer and can provide links so you can see Vyacheslav -- see later post for links to his music but note he had beard then and not now.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I wasn't too crazy about Karl Malden, ha! Claudette was blunt to admit to her own son that Karl's $20 million didn't hurt his romantic chances with her. Ya gotta respect that kind of mercenary honesty, lol. "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?" Lorelei Lee in *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1953) I have heard of women who are attracted only to men who are poor but I must think it is psychosis or a form of ****.

I have been told that if I like *Knight Without Armor* (1937) I should watch *New Moon* (1931). I am not a fan of Lawrence Tibbett but I only know his singing in the 1950's. Perhaps he was better when he was young. I am thinking a movie with Adolphe Menjou and Roland Young cannot be too terrible. Does anyone know if it is good or plan to watch it?

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I do not know where this is from but I find it applies many days: I decide to work on the car. I start to the garage and notice the mail on the table. OK, I'm going to work on the car ... but first I'm going to go through the mail. Lay car keys down on desk. After discarding the junk mail, I notice the trash can is full. OK, I'll just put the bills on my desk ... but first I'll take the trash out. Since I'm going to be near the mailbox, I'll address a few bills. Now where is the checkbook? Oops ... there's only one check left. Where did I put the extra checks? Oh, there is my empty plastic cup from last night on my desk. I'm going to look for those checks ... but first I need to put the cup back in the kitchen. I head for the kitchen, look out the window, notice the flowers need a drink of water. I put the cup on the counter and there's my extra pair of glasses on the kitchen counter. What are they doing here? I'll just put them away ... but first I need to water those plants. I head for the door and ... Aaagh! someone left the TV remote in the wrong spot. Okay, I'll put the remote away and water the plants ... but first I need to find those checks. END OF DAY: Oil in car is not changed, bills are still unpaid, cup is still in the sink, checkbook still has only one check left, I lost my car keys ... And, when I try to figure out how come nothing got done, I'm baffled because I know I was busy all day!

I hope you will please pardon an interruption but I have just found a matter of interest for those of you planning to visit in France. The BBC has an online course which is free to help you learn French. I do not know how long it will be available and it is never too early to begin to lay a base. Being able to understand even just a portion of what people are saying without using a phrase book will remove some of the stigma of being a tourist and I believe it will increase your enjoyment many times over. I do not believe you should try to learn to speak from such a course because there is no one to guide you or to correct you and a slight mispronunciation can mean a thing very embarrassing. I learned very quickly to use only simple words when I went to France after I had not spoken any French for more than twenty years. There is a video on the site named: 'Don't try this abroad!' which tells of some common gaffes and I can attest how easy it indeed is to mean 'I am warm' but to actually say 'I am randy'. I hope this is useful: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/