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Ugalde, Rita -- Patricia Moran in *The Exterminating Angel* (1962)

*Body Heat* Hidden past: former war criminal.

*162* Theodore was beginning to lose faith in the methods of the Witness Protection Program.

> > -"The Pirate" is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is "Father of the Bride". > ?? > > Sixes, I traced this one down and found it, just to confirm my hunch. I'll leave it, for the time being because I'd like to have more users participating in this thread.

Yep. It's yours. B-)

Any additional info re plot points, release time, timeframe of story? (... and who are you, and what have you done with our buddy cagney?)

Johnson -- Lon Chaney Jr. in *Here Come the Co-eds* (1945)

Not him, although the officer who made the shoplifting bust may have been a Serpico-type undercover. After an ambush / cop-killing, with a threat of more to come, the Chief of Ds actually crosses paths with a couple of activists who are masquerading as policemen. He notes that these men do not have black-tape bands across the front of their badges. -- This is a customary gesture from all officers after a recent loss of one of their own. His attention now focused on these individuals, he's on the fast tract to catching them.

*Warmed up is the preference of some.*

*Born on the Fourth of July*

In other roles of his super-patriot period, his characters once saved the life of the US President, and once died heroically at the Alamo.

The following series had the same star (the Chief of Detectives), and used his name as the series title.

Fudd, Elmer -- voiced by Mel Blanc in Warner Bros. cartoons

*Johnny Belinda* Gambler discovered cheating.

This story is sourced from a novel by a former assistant to the police commissioner of NYC. Some inside glimpses. Cops covering for a fellow officer who had a drinking problem. The adaptation of female officers on patrol, male-&-female teams in the patrol cars, etc. An undercover cop observes a teen lad shoplifting in a drug store. The kid's dad, a clothing-store owner, appeals to the Chief of Detectives for a break. The Chief of Ds shows up at the store, gets new suits for himself and his son. Bargain completed.

162 ...but Larry and Shemp went to the wrong address, so they lost the gig.

BRIT: Chancer* AMER: Upstart, opportunist, carpetbagger *...In a BBC documentary aired on PBS, a term applied by many Victorians to Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

BRIT: Breeze blocks (bricks made from ashes of coal, coke, etc, held together by cement, and used in building walls not meant to bear weight.) AMER: Cinder block ..."a dirty thing of breeze blocks and strands of barbed wire... East and West of the Wall lay the unrestored parts of Berlin..." From John Le Carre's description of the Berlin Wall in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

Done at 79 Views. A Bio note: Herman J. Mankiewicz, in Hollywood, sent a telegram to Hect, in NYC: "Millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around." (Hecht moved.) mr6666's thread.

162 "Alfie & the Psychos" had the misfortune to make their debut the same weekend as the Kinks. The rest can hardly be called history, because no one bothered to record it.

162 The Daily Beast publishes a new theory about "The Fifth Beatle"

Or Verne Troyer, from the "Austin Powers" spoofs?

161 "Well, yeah, I can tell, but it's not bad. Just use a little mouthwash before we go in and join them."

(19,038) Respect reporter, novelist and playwrite before becoming a screenwriter.

(65,373) The star of this biopic made some off-the-lot news. A one-time leftist, in fact a Communist Party member, he did cooperate with the HUAC, did not get blacklisted. For some time, and it can hardly be called coincidence, his roles reflected heroic, conservative, straight-arrow patriotism. This film is one example. Later, in less uptight times, he took some roles that countered or even spoofed that image.