slaytonf
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You can't go to home port again.
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A post by Swithin in the Barbara Stanwyck thread made me wonder about alternate dvd sources. When someone asks in a post where to find a dvd or other format, I search the title. A lot of times I come up with a number of sources, including ones like bonanza.com, and obscuretreasures.ecrater.com. But other than Amazon, I'm unsure of their reliability, and am hesitant to recommend them. Now I have to say, for the little I've bought online, I've never been ripped off, even for pricey items. But if anyone has recommendations, I'd be interested in knowing what they are.
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It's not exactly what you describe, but check out the opening of Born to Kill, starring Lawrence Tierney, and Claire Trevor:
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In other words, how does the lady walk off the pedestal, presumably into mid-air? I can't say definitively, but the simplest thing to do is, while the camera is close in on her, a platform is placed for her to walk on, and removed before the camera pulls back, all without being photographed.
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Aaaagh! You just beat me!
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Don't know the music, but the last shot is from We're No Angels, Starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray (the haloed ones), Joan Bennett, and Basil Rathbone:
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I think it's The Desperate Hours, with Humphrey Bogart and Frederic March:
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Is that Barbara Stanwyck?
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Hey, +I+ get to say who's right.
musicalnovelty, you are right.
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This is obvious, but a wonderful glamor shot:
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The terror, or fear Americans experience is generally irrational.
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Children are still being buried, and people are already back to riding their hobby horses about global warming. Are people so dominated by their pet obsessions that they can't see the inappropriateness of their posts? The title of this thread is "A moment of silence and prayer." It was meant to provide a forum for expression of grief, condolence, and compassion. It was bad enough it moved on to a discussion about guns, but there was at least some relevance. But the discussion now, with it's usual antagonistic tones shows the height of disrespect to the victims. One hopes for a certian amount of perspective, a certian decency, a certain respect for proprieties. I hope this is not a demonstration of the American character, that tragedy and horror are quickly turned away from, because they impose unpleasant awareness of difficult issues, in favor of personal preoccupations.
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Maybe that's why I never guess any of the others.
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Thanks, helenbaby, that's one less brainworm.
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I won't get into a debate about what's classic. But she does have relevance in a variety of ways. What I can't understand is how people figured it out. It looks nothing like her.
Oh, congrats, mockingbird13.
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516,423 to 46. Oh my.
Let's see if I can get this one right. This lady has topical significance:
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I don't think you're picking on me, and if I did, I hope I would have the character to overlook it. My reference to environmental laws was only to illustrate a point about how Americans can change their society, and their condition through concerted effort, and that the same can be achieved with gun violence.
All the discussion I hear in the wake of enormities such as the present one focus on guns and laws, and what to do, or what not to do with them. I wanted to draw attention to the equally important, but ignored subject of the message that is being, and has been sent for the past twenty or thirty years, that guns are a solution. The championing of guns, the imposition of guns on society, the campaign by gun advocates to normalize the presence of guns in the public sphere, has communicated to the populace a social sanction that it is appropriate to use a gun to address problems. And as I stated before, this message is not subtle or indirect.
Whatever is done about, or however one defines gun control, it won't be effective until there is in this country a strong, coordinated, and united effort to communicate a social sanction against guns, similar to the social sanction that is now forcing cigarettes and smoking from the public sphere. Guns are not the answer, they never were, and never will be. If it were so, you would think by now, with all the guns there are, and all the times they have been used, there wouldn't be any problems left.
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Man, yer good. Is anybody keeping score?
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It means two, but I got it wrong. The pic is not of who I meant. The gentleman died a long time ago, and here is the pic of him:
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How about this venerable gentleman? He died only a couple years ago, his career spanning the the majority of film history, even a little silents:
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I 'm getting no response in Information, Please!, so I'm going to try here. The picture below is from the Christmas promo. It's copied from YouTube, so the quality is poor. June Allyson? Vera Ellen? Movie?
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Americans can rethink and reshape their society, or aspects of it. It takes dedication, and persistence, and many years, decades. The best examples of how this has happened is with cigarettes and the environment. Many fewer people smoke today and those who do smoke less. We are just beginning to see the reduction in death and illness from that bane. Regardless of your opinion of the appropriateness of environmental laws, there is much less pollution in our air, water, and food than there was thirty and forty years ago, and we are healthier for it. We can do the same with guns and gun violence. It takes strong, consistent, and coordinated action from the populace and institutions to project a clear message: guns are not the answer.
Oh, that face, that fabulous face. Whose is it?
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Leonardo's model?: