slaytonf
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It's only been a week, and already we have forgot the horror and moved on to global warming. Perhaps we simply don't want to be burdened with contemplation of the enormity of the slaughter and the profound rethinking of American society necessary to cope with it.
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Name that mug:
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Whozis cutie?
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I just stumbled onto her on fanpix. It's Jean Arthur. And I was going to use one of her other early pics.
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Loretta Young.
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In the montage of the December Christmas movies, there is a shot of what looks like June Allyson, or Vera Ellen in a short vivid green dress making a leap in a dance number. Can anyone say who it is, and what picture it's from?
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There is one glaring omission in the discussion about guns. Along with the gun advocates' campaign to promote guns and impose them on American society through activities such as liberal concealed carry, and stand-your-ground laws, is the strong message that if you have a problem, use a gun to solve it. Nor is this message transmitted subtly or indirectly, but openly stated that the more guns there are, and the more people that have them, the better off America will be.
Certainly there need to be better gun laws. But along with that is the necessity to send a different message about guns, along the lines that the message about tobacco is now being sent. Smoking used to be portrayed as cool and sophisticated, as a natural part of everyday life. Now it is being restricted, eliminated from public life. The same campaigning should be done with guns, depicting them as something that should never be turned to as an answer, or ever resorted to.
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But I wondered whether it wasn't Myrna Loy?
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Haven't we seen this pic before? Wasn't it Myrna Loy?
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TCM lists these alternate titles: Affairs of Adelaide, Britannia Mews, Impulse
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I'm sorry, LonesomePolecat, but there is no room for fictitious presidents in this thread. You will have to start up your own thread about whether all the fictitious presidents have been portrayed in film.
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Sigh, but no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
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Agreed, but he made some good movies, including, of course, Mary Poppins. Also: What a Way to Go!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and that great forgotten classic, Cold Turkey.
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What was commonly held among the T. Rex were legs of other animals.
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Next to the Sims movie, this is my favorite rendering of A Christman Carol.
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Kendall: I oughta throw you into the hoosegow on general principals.
Scraps: General who? I never heard of him.
Policeman: It's going ta be a cold winter old beau, maybe you'll wish you were back in that hoosegow.
Scraps: Say, I can always get in if I change my mind. Where I'm goin', there ain't no winter. No snow, no ice. Nothin' but palm trees, an' pineapples, and beautiful gals, singin' love songs. . . .
David Landau, Guy Kibbee, Robert Homans
Union Depot
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Did any film before this try to push a product like they do the duck in this one? I can't think of any.
It always amuses me to hear stories that periodically surface about the "novel" phenomenon of product placement in movies.
By-the-way, it just occurred to me, might Miss Rogers have proved the baby wasn't hers? That is, aren't there physical changes to the body after pregnancy? And, of course, if she was a good girl. . .
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Then you are the one human being I know of who doesn't.
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It is, indeed, L'Atalante. But it is not a silent picture. But, being French, it is subtitled. You may have thought it was silent because it aired just after the Sunday Silent feature.
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Far as I know, though I haven't taken the trouble to look back through the whole thread. So as far as I'm concerned, you're the one.
Zero Dark Thirty doesn't count, jakeem, because if it did, I'd have to take back my earlier post, and it was a really good one, so I don't want to.
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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
---The World
Scientists have been wrong before. Science hasn't.
There have been dozens, hundreds, thousands of predictions of the end of the world. Not one of them has come true. What will happen on the 21st will be that everyone will wonder what all the fuss was about. But, if you feel the need to obsess about something, go ahead. You only have a few more hours left to do so, however, but don't worry, another prediction will come along soon enough so you can get your fix on that.
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About time, too.
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Congratulations, Mike00! You win! This was acutally a trick thread! I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point out the obvious example.
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Sigh, still looking.
>Capuchin tells of being in the woods after a heavy rain. Deer tracks were deep in the soft ground. He followed them until they began down a hill where they were soon wiped out by a deer's-rear-end wide smear in the mud leading to the bottom of the hill.
A good point, demonstrating the ability of an intelligent, capable human being to descend a slope under control, knowing where to stop.
>Cigarettes were so very popular that they were promoted by the government. Then a select few began to vilify them. They were soon subject to separate tax. Then they were regulated. It is now that it is illegal in some areas to smoke in your own home.
And a good thing, too. Only it was not a slippery slope, it was a long hard slog uphill against strong well-funded opposition from tobacco companies that distributed misinformation about them leading to massive horrors and death. The only legal killer in America today still deadlier than guns.
>There was a very much more important slow erosion of rights and freedoms which took the people from freedom from the Tsar by revolution to the tyranny of the Soviet one small step at a time.
Lenin and the Communists did not promise freedom, nor did they institute it at any time. All they promised was Peace, Land, Bread. In fact it was the Tsarist regime, aware of its increasing untenability that introduced democratic reforms and liberties, all to no avail.
Oh, that face, that fabulous face. Whose is it?
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