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This seems true of most old Hollywood films ... 4. Newspaper hawkers are required by federal law to be just entering puberty with obnoxious nasally voices.

Brando did a pretty cool "On the Good Ship Lollipop" in Last Tango In Paris.

6. The average 10 year old kid knows the address and exact directions to the city's most influential and intelligent scientist.

Wednesday, July 8 12:45 p.m. The River (1951) I’m recording this one. I missed the start the last time for some strange reason. Toronto Cinematheque happens to be showing a lot of these films this summer as part of its Technicolor tribute. The two strip technicolor looks a lot like hand tinted prints I must say.

Bumping up your link, Dargo. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/board/nest/173979773?ref_=tt_bd_6 Some very funny stuff. I liked number 2 ... 2. Its okay to let some stranger watch your kid and take him around town for awhile while there is a global panic and hunt for an escaped alien.

The Death of Adolf Hitler (1975) with Frank Finlay and Caroline Mortimer.

Her 'greatest' role had to be in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Bedazzled (1967) as Lillian Lust, the Babe with the Bust.

"If you fly with the crows, you're going to get shot at"

I should have added that Lassie Come Home is a Canadian replacement for The Garden of Allah.

Man on a Tightrope (1953). A Twentieth Century Fox Elia Kazan film shot in Bavaria with Fredric March and Gloria Grahame. It was really good and as usual, Kazan gets the best performances out of people in this small budgeted film. Some great touches like the cigarette ash on Adolphe Menjou's lapels. Richard Boone, Cameron Mitchell, March, Menjou and Graham were all excellent. I particularly liked Alexander D'Arcy who played the rather cowardly lion tamer. Some may recall his comical role in The Awful Truth.

This does sound rather insane .. Animal crackers in my soup monkies and rabbits loop the loop, Gosh, oh gee, but I have fun, swallowin' animals one by one. In every bowl of soup I see, lions and tigers watching me, I make 'em jump right thru a hoop, those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the 'Big bad wolf' I just push him under to drown. Than I bite him in a million bits and I gobble him right down. When they're inside me where its dark, I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop with animal crackers in my soup

Tuesday, July 7 6 a.m. Toll of the Sea (1922) An Anna May Wong silent that I have yet to see. 1 p.m. A Star Is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor, Fredric March and Adolphe Menjou. I’m curious to see what this copy is going to be like. Mine happens to be quite dark with tons of contrast. 8 p.m. Lassie Come Home *SPOILERS* Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester are so poor they cannot feed their own family let alone the useless mutt. So, they sell it and are able to eat once again. But Lassie keeps escaping from its new owner and turns up like a bad penny again and again, embarrassing Crisp and continually upsetting poor Roddy just when he seems to be getting over things.

This one was quite good as I recall ... Reflections of Murder (1974) with Joan Hackett, Tuesday Weld and Sam Waterston. It's a remake of Cluzot's Les Diaboliques (1955). Joan Hackett, a quite underrated actress was very good in this Relections. Some may recall her from The Last of Sheila and Will Penny.

Jane was in Toronto yesterday to join a climate change march. Quite a girl, that 77 year-old.

Yes it is. Do you not get the option to look at the Canadian schedule as well? Just above the Daily/Weekly Schedule options there is 'Print/the U.S. flag/the Canadian flag"

"I guess all these dogs are very well trained. Probably went to obedience school. I went to obedience school once. But I didn't like the hot candlestick wax on my private parts." - Fred Willard doing the colour commentating for Best In Show

No I haven't.

The Missiles of October (1974) with William Devane and Martin Sheen as the Kennedy brothers.

Did the coupons for the X-ray glasses that were in comic books precede the film do you think? Or did they come out about the same time? I never tried them myself so I don't know if you could in fact see through ladies' dresses as advertised.

But not in Canada.

No one today talks like they did in Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet but I wouldn't write them off as good entertainment. I reiterate, that to enjoy entertainment from a different age you have to look at it with an attitude that does not compare it with the traditions of today.

Monday, July 6 7 a.m. The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) with Janet Leigh’s film debut. This may have played when she was star of the month recently ? but I missed it. Shirley Temple night. I haven’t seen most of these since I was a small kid so the recorder will be working overtime. 8 p.m. Little Miss Marker (1934) 9:30 p.m. Now and Forever (1934) 11 p.m. Bright Eyes (1934) 12:30 a.m. Curly Top (1935) 2 a.m. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

I enjoy silent films too. You have to put yourself into a different frame of mind to enjoy the style of film and acting from the silent period. If you are able to do that, then you will enjoy them too. Comparing the different ages and using today's values as a yardstick is a fool's game.

It's Good to be Alive (1974) with Paul Winfield as Roy Campanella. Ruby Dee is special in this one too.

I'm glad to see two Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward pictures on TCM September 3/4 ... Canyon Passage and My Foolish Heart