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Yes, do it, Hibi!

Are you talkin' about the newbie's nom DE plume, or the fact that she forgot Brandon DE Wilde's name? (...btw...allow me to express an big DE welcome to you, "Gladys"!)

Oh, okay. Thanks Hal. (...NOW you've been called...by name anyway)

Well sure. Little Jimmy WAS probably one of the top movie actors of all time, however when you used that phrase "not approaching" I just had to call you on that, that's all.

Really?! Well, considering he's won two Oscars and has starred in some the greatest films ever made since the 1970s(now now...don't pull a "FredCDobbs" on me here ol' buddy, LOL) I'd say he's AT LEAST "approached" little Jimmy in the pantheon of the great movie actors of all time, anyway. (...though sure, he certainly can't do that whole stiff lookin' tap dancin' thing Jimmy could muster, I'll grant ya THAT!!!)

LOL

And what a distinctive voice Charles Ruggles possessed. The instant you hear it you know who it belongs to, and which there was no doubt it was his voice-over work on Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" in those "Aesop and Son" segments. I wondered what kind of an accent that was he sported and so I just checked his Wiki bio, and it appears Charlie was a rare bird, as he was born in Los Angeles in 1886 when L.A. was pretty much just a one horse town, and his first theatrical work was done on an L.A. stage in the early 1900s.

I think that that's a great idea Hibi, and one of the better programming suggestions I've read around here lately. And yeah, I caught only the last half of Milk documentary last night, though I had seen it years ago, and what I saw of it reminded me of how well done it was.

Ya know bd, you might be right. Well, along with maybe Don Ameche(a pretty big star in his day) in the very funny and entertaining 1939 film MIDNIGHT, and where he plays a Paris taxi driver.

Well, seein' as how I voiced my opinion WAY back pages and pages ago about TopBilled's premise...just a reminder here...I thought he MIGHT have a point about the "TCM demographic" occasionally checking out what's on the MeTV and Movie! channels as some sort of an alternate viewing possibility, BUT then added that I thought the manner in which he presented his premise as factual "News" was an obvious effort to get people to respond in a negative manner and so he could THEN create some controversy in hopes of this thread becoming more responded to than what it might actually deserve(witness TopBilled's propensity to cite certain "statistics" lately such as the number of persons "viewing" and "posting" in any certain threads(and btw, THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL SLIGHT MR. TB...THIS IS A KNOWN FACT) ...well, as I was sayin' here, SEEIN' as how I've already voiced my opinion about THIS, I just wanna say...or I guess ask... Are we sure this Svengoolie dude isn't really adult film star Ron Jeremy??? (...'cause I'm tellin' ya here folks, he sure LOOKS like that ugly guy with the rather large you-know-what anyway!!!) LOL

And so have I, MissW. Good point. I've always felt(and I know I'm not alone here) that what Americans are often most uneasy talking about OR admitting is that there IS somewhat of a "Class System" in their own backyard. However, because of the idea that "everyone is free to be a success in this country", (an idea which downplays the effects of "happenstance of birth" and which very often IS a strong decider of who IS "successful" and who isn't) this societal phenomenon is seldom examined as much as it maybe should be, and with the issue of "Race" in America most often being more focused upon than is "Class". (...hey...wait a second...I'm gettin' MUCH too serious here...okay...now where can I go make a joke in another thread...now THAT'S more like me, HUH!) LOL

From this thought of yours here James, I wonder if you've ever had occasion to catch the British film ALL NIGHT LONG (1961)? It also features some notable Jazz musicians of this same era (Dave Brubeck and Charlie Mingus among them) as PARIS BLUES, and wrapped around a loose re-telling of OTHELLO. (...interesting film, I thought)

Hmmmm....so Rich. Question here: Do you think there could ALSO be some kind of button people could press that would tell the poster they're thinkin' somethin' such as: "I think you're basically just stating your same premise and/or opinion over and over again but just using a slightly different selection of words each time." ? (...yeah, I know...kind of a long and drawn-out thought for just one little button, huh)

That is what I've always taken from RORG also, Lorna. However, in examining the Anglo-American relationship in this film, it definitely is a comment upon the contrasting cultures of the British Class System of its time against that of the concept of the American Populism system, and of course with this film ultimately siding with the latter of these two precepts as being the superior social model. I've always loved these sorts of films which examine this relationship and contrasts between the U.S. and its "Mother Country", a few other examples of this being THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH(aka the American title of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN)

Hi Speedy! Glad to hear you've got IWUS comin' your way. Besides hoping you'll more appreciate Vic after seeing this film, I'm sure you'll also be quite impressed with Laird Cregar's stand-out performance as the police inspector who's certain that Vic is the perpetrator. The interaction between these two is really what makes this film. (...lookin' forward to hear what you think of the movie)

Yep Ham, but to get Alec to REALLY resemble Lou, you'd have to add a slight touch of George Tobias.

Yep, that's a good likeness also. But NOW I'm tryin' to figure out which actor ND's beloved water creature might resemble. (...any guesses out there?...and no..."Lloyd Bridges" isn't it!)

LOL OH yeah, I THOUGHT I had heard somewhere that Wyler had added a few extra scenes in that flick just for the south of the border market.

Ya know Rich, I think I have to agree with ya here. That DOES look even more like Griffith than it does EITHER of the Barrymore boys, doesn't it!

Yes, one is the British spelling and the other the American(thanks to one Mr. Noah Webster) spelling, James. It would be similar to how the Brits spell the word "center" as "centre", and pretty much a carryover from the Norman-French language. And yep...pretty much like that "superfluous letter 'U' they also use over there. And MY guess as to why some of us Yanks spell "theater" the British way, is 'cause in the back of their minds somewhere they STILL somehow think of Brits as bein' "more sophisticated" as as lowly 'Mericans, and so they think it's more highfalutin to spell it that way!!! LOL (...JUS' kiddin'...well, just a little anyway)

Wait now, Swithin! Are you sure that that's not REALLY Lionel Barrymore as Rasputin there? (...or maybe his brother John after an especially hard night of drinking???)

What, ND?! Ya know, SOME people can NEVER get enough of watchin' my old hometown gettin' periodically demolished??? (...in FACT, the way some people seem to constantly complain about the product which emanates from there and it's "negative effect upon their children", can you BLAME Tinseltown for givin' the people what they want to see???)

Hmmmm...well maybe if we try hard enough, we can replace Bacon with Bendix in the minds of people around the world in that whole "Seven Degrees of Separation" thing??? Okay, I'll start... Kim Kardashian (...and no...just because both William and Kim had/have rather large rear ends, ya can't use that!)

Glenn Langan ...and... Leif Erickson

Couldn't agree more on both counts. But then again, anytime I catch Cyd in ANYTHING is a special treat for me. (...'cause as I've said many times around here, Tony Martin was one lucky guy!)