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*154* "Uh, 'scuse me, Gents, we have a call for a Mr. Dover...That's Dover, first name Ben. Telephone call for Mr. Ben Do...Oh, $*&9!"

(Brother) Ambrose -- Marty Feldman in *In God We Tru$t* (1980)

This is another case where I regret that I didn't start a Views count. But I'm not giving up on this one. More quotes: "Follow the money...that's all. Just follow the money." "All non-denials. They don't doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story is inaccurate." "You tell your publisher, tell Katie Graham she's gonna get her **** caught in a big wringer if that's published." "Cut the words 'her ****' and run it...This is a family newspaper."

need some more? (15,903) ♫ You are always trying to keep it real I'm in love with how you feel I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else But you...♪ ♫ We both have shiny happy fits of rage You want more fans, I want more stage I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else But you...♪

Early 1990s. Droll typecasting: Several of the ethnic gangsters have played similar roles in other movies. The cop has appeared as officers -- both local and Federal -- in other venues. The vampire who perished when the blinds opened is another cliche. Jewish, but a Mob lawyer. The performer has a sturdy reputation as a caustic comic. The sexy vampire, who has been doing this for generations, started on another continent. She has a (real) French accent.

Correct on *Far From The Madding Crowd* (1967). In that courtship, it was Terrence Stamp waving that phallic symbol around, and Julie Christe he was waving it at. In one sequence, she mentioned making a purchase in nearby Casterbridge. Another Oscar winner, Peter Finch, had an important support role. Alan Bates was the sturdy shepherd who waited it all out, and won her. Edy's thread.

In a scandal that brought down a number of heavyweights, the attorney quoted previously, is, uh, best described as a scrappy middleweight.

The spread of vampire abilities starts making changes in, uh, intra-Family differences. And another genre -- Police Procedural -- mixes in. The vampy vampire falls for a studly cop.

I wish I had kept a Views count on this one. Think English Lit. Think T.H.

*154* "Jim? This one's named Candy. Are you in when she calls?"

*153* It felt like he had friends now. Murray was flattered and proud that the local chapter of Goths & Gals allowed him to participate in initiations

Thanks, skipper. Next up: more contemporary, and I'm not hep enough to judge if it will be used out of original context. But I enjoy it. ♫ You're a part-time lover and a full-time friend, The monkey on your back is the latest trend I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else But you...♪ ♫ Here is the church and here is the steeple, We sure are cute for two ugly people I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else But you...♪ Film? Singers? And I have no idea if composer, etc, is Anybody in current Music...

"♫...far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm...♪" Irving Berlin's I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm) sung by Judy Garland in *Easter Parade*, according to Wikipedia. I don't remember hearing the song the one time I saw that movie, but I do remember a cartoon short, supposedly a lecture on Michigan, that made use of the song. At about age 10, that cartoon was funnier than Judy. ???

This actress was voted an Oscar for another performance, and was nominated three other times. The actor got a supporting-performance nomination in an earlier movie. This movie ends with the sergeant shot to death by another of her suitors. The slayer is hanged, and she ends up with with the man who has adored her for years. Sort of like Rhett Butler, he had to wait until she was between marriages.

*153* Bela, interior monologue: "Typecast for life, I guess. Oh, how I vish I could chase squealing broads and honk a little horn like Harpo."

Xuncax, Arturo -- Ernesto Gomez Cruz in *El Norte* (1983)

Correct on all counts. FranklinPanborn's thread

This film installs a new vampire "rule" I haven't seen in any other context. In addition to burning, sunlight, and stake through the heart, there is another vampire "kill". -- Blow apart the spine with a shotgun blast. A female vampire, who turns men in order to use them for sex, dispatches them this way when they've served their purpose.

Similar experience here, lavender. I saw little of that series. And I spent some time browsing through that "Father Dowling" material, and I don't think I ever watched that. Fifties domestic sitcom, couple of seasons, the usual: Two sets, amusing neighbors dropping in, etc. Among the neighbors were a middle-aged man and his elderly father. These were two actors with long, long support-role resumes. They seemed to have a family resemblance, both being tall, bald and thin. The younger man, seemingly in all his roles, wore horn-rimmed glasses. The series? The two support players?

Nearby quote: "I have a wife and a family and a dog and a cat."

*153* "Damnit, what's her type again? AB or O?"

Updyke, Murray -- Brandon Brooks in *Malibu CA* (1998)

Dick Van Dyke? Series *Highway to Heaven?* Episode Wally? Aired 14 June 1987?

People, bitten, don't know they're turning into vampires. They just react to their new cravings. They take steaks, frozen hamburger, etc, out of the freezer, hold it over a flame, suck it for the emerging blood as it thaws, slowly.

Takes place in the fictional county of Middlesex. Near Casterbridge.