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I watched Lou play for the Toronto Argonauts football team. They signed him as an offensive guard or tackle. I don't think he was particularly good and didn't last long. But I have to say this for him, he really is an A for effort guy who doesn't give up.

"Are there no prisons? "And the union workhouses ... are they still in operation?"

"That's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December" - Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1951)

W. would have been interesting with George W. Bush in it. But I somehow doubt he and Oliver Stone would have got along.

I see Jane is vacationing in B.C. at the moment. Can't keep a good woman down.

No one would ever believe this scenario, I'm afraid. The Leafs in a Stanley Cup final? Come on.

Agreed. Plus she looked too much like my dear Grandmother who was anything but primal.

This might bare repeating in the proper thread this time ... I would also recommend Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By to anyone interested in the silent film era. Brownlow as many of you know has been in the forefront of film restoration and preservation for quite some time and produced a marvellous series for television called Hollywood. This book is so well researched and fun to read and has some great photographs. His description of the in-camera effects that were done in the silents is worth the read alone. Sunrise is a particular highlight. He covers all the well known stars and directors and then some. I had no idea how popular Reginald Denny was in the silents. What a long career he had.

The Andrew Sisters in Buck Privates (1941) are terrific.

I thought Mary Astor practically stole the show in Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte.

I wonder if anyone owns the intellectual property rights to Tor Johnson's image? He's been the subject of several comic books.

Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) with Barbara Steele

Now here's a chap who reinvented himself a few times and had a long career in show biz ... Bing Crosby. He started out as a music hall crooner and hit record singer. Moved to films where he starred in a lot of hokey college romantic comedies. Then teamed with Hope to do the Road pictures and starred in other musical comedies such as White Christmas. Then launched a rather credible dramatic acting career alongside the road pictures with Going My Way (Oscar winner), The Country Girl and Stagecoach to name just a few. Then became the host of a successful television variety show and even leant his name to a golf tournament.

What is the quality like? I was thinking of springing for it myself.

Great voice work in Corpse Bride and Lee was probably the best thing about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Apologies if it has already been mentioned ... The Immortal (1969) with Christopher George, Ralph Bellamy, Carol Lynley, Barry Sullivan and Jessica Walter.

I liked seeing the version of Lost Horizon with the stills once. The second time I found it a tad annoying. So, now I don't mind watching the film knowing in the back of my mind what the missing material is/was. It's the same for Apocalypse Now Redux. I think I prefer the shorter version. And the added scenes (with the exception of the Lee Van Cleef material) in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly doesn't really do it for me either. It doesn't help that Eli Wallach's and Clint Eastwood's voice dubbing is now so-mismatched. Wallach was well over 80 when he dubbed the missing scenes. I saw the complete Leone copy of GBU at a screening in the first Toronto Film Festival. Its only full copy was in Italian. They never bothered to dub the entire film hence Wallach and Eastwood dubbing their parts years later for the extra scenes. Voice artist Burt Sharpe was a better match for Lee Van Cleef than the other two! Cleef had passed away by this time. I don't think I've seen the longer version of Greed with the stills. I will have to look out for it.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" - Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman, in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sunday, June 14 What’s left of von Stroheim’s Greed (1924) is on at midnight. This one has some great scenes in it and worth recording. Then starting at 2:15 TCM has another two Japanese films. This time the director is Yoshitaro Nomura. Zero Focus (1961) and The Castle of Sand (1974). I guess TCM must have a deal with Criterion for all of these Japanese titles.

Hard coded subtitles meaning they cannot be removed.

They are hard coded subs, are they not?

I loved the remark Peter Lorre made at Lugosi's funeral .. "do you think we should put a stake through his heart just to make sure?"

He wasn't a Cretan barber, was he?

Mi dispiace, il mio amico. I wonder if there would be a way to find out if Star Trek III: The Search For Spock has zero searches. If you searched for that wouldn't it then mean that it had at least one search and wouldn't qualify as a film that had the least number of searches? Capire?

Well if you searched for that title, then it has one hit and I'm sure that there are still some out there that have zero hits.