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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

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    "♫...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.

     

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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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    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?

     

     

  8. 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.

  9. "Radar reception has been impaired, but we were able to get these. And we estimate that it has a diameter of over 550 Kilometers and a mass roughly one quarter of the size of our moon"

     

    "What the hell is it? A meteor?"

     

    "No, sir."

     

    "No, definately not."

     

    "How do you know?"

     

    "Well, sir,...it's slowing down."

     

    "It's what?"

     

    "It's uh, it's slowing down sir."

     

    (picks up phone) "Get me the Secretary of Defense!"

     

    ...*Independence Day* (1998)

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    "I can't understand why I never win."

    "You don't play very well. Besides, you never cheat."

    "Do you? Cheat?"

    "I don't have to. I'm too good."

     

    ...Charles Swenson and Jason Robards as Dr. Goodfellow and Doc Holliday in *Hour of the Gun* (1967)

     

     

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