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Good song, but I always liked Randy's "Political Science" song a little better. (...you remember..."Let's drop the Big One and see what happens"?)

So was that the episode in which those lines were used...the "Soup Nazi" episode?

SAY now, dark! Whaddaya mean "silly"??? Why, I've have you know that I thought it SUCH a great idea that I TOOK Fred's little suggestion here, right-clicked and copied it and placed in my "Favorites" file, and will NOW paste it(another right-click thing, ya know) whenever I happen to disagree with what somebody says around here! THOUGH as I said earlier here, I'll add that little "Kind Sir" and/or "Snookums" AND/OR "ol' buddy" thing at the end of it depending upon the situation and who I'm replyin' to. (...it's never too late to learn to be nice, ya know)

Yeah, I'd pretty much agree with all that Arturo, but tell here...When Connie and Sandra and Stella all fell into this here "continuum", which one broke their fall first and who landed on who when it was all over??? (...sorry)

LOL Good one!!!

Wasn't there the opposite of that once used on "Seinfeld", and where somebody keeps pronouncing the name "Superman" as "SUPERman" and not "SuperMAN", and then Jerry makes the comment to whoever it was who kept saying it that way that they were "making it sound like "The Man of Steel is Jewish"? (...or maybe it was on "Friends"...sounds like a "Chandler-ism" maybe too)

OH! And btw MissW... REALLY?! "a HACK MAN"???!!! (...ya know I'm thinkin' it MIGHT just be best if you place me on your ignore function TOO for a while...'cause it appears I've become a very VERY bad influence upon you around here these days!!!)

And which reminds me... What's the deal with "suede" ANYWAY? Is it "Leather"? Is it "Velour "? OR, some kinda weird hybrid of BOTH???

Hmmmmm...now I COULD be wrong here, but I'm thinkin' Fred here just MIGHT have a "little hidden meaning" and some "point to make" with this one. (...but other than maybe implying that he hasn't liked any movie Kevin McCarthy was in since '56, I don't know WHAT it could be...can anyone help me out here?!!!)

Yeah James. And maybe add a little endearing name to the end of Fred's suggestion here too, like maybe, 'Kind Sir" or even "Snookums" if you think that might be more fitting. Yeah, I hear this REALLY wins over EVEN the most "thin skinned" among us out there on the internet, ol' buddy. (...sorry James, but I don't think of you as a "Snookums" but more an "ol' buddy"...I certainly hope this doesn't upset you!) LOL

Oh, okay. Then I won't go "baak" to him here then.

Now, did "BLOW-UP" REALLY fall out of the lineup, or is there just some "other reality" that we're just not seeing here??? (...OR, like the movie itself, was this list just not completed???!!!) LOL

Well, sonnava gun! I guess I wasn't as "off-topic" as I THOUGHT I was here then, huh! (...I'll try harder next time) LOL

OH yeah, Mr.R. Mancini was at the top of his game during the era of this film's production. His theme for TV's "Peter Gunn" still resonates. In fact, a few years back I even downloaded that theme as my cellphone ring for a while. (...not that I thought I was Craig Stevens or anything, you understand) Btw, speakin' o' which...listen to the "cool jazz" Mancini-esque score in this Flintstones parody of that TV series here and I think one can see(or I guess listen to) how Mancini would become a driving force in scoring jazz into Noir type films and make it almost synonymous with that genre...

Oh yeah, Mr.R. No..ahem..question(mark) about it. I remember shedding..ahem.."96 Tears" the first time I watched that Japanese flick! (...sorry)

Actually Ham, the name 'MeTV" isn't referring to some "first-person obsession syndrome", but is an abbreviation of "Memorable Entertainment Television".

Well, I HOPE I'm not goin' "way off topic here", but regarding Paul Winchell...I just want to say what a shame it is that the producers of his "Winchell-Mahoney Time" children's TV program of the 1960s would end up destroying most the tapes of that show and thus denying many of us Boomers the pleasure of watching in later years this very talented man do his act.

Yeah, YOU know, Hibi. That big lug who somehow got enough Californians to vote for him that he ended up in Sacramento for a while! (...man, it's tough when ya gotta explain 'em!)

So Arturo. Seein' as how you seem to be up on this whole women's hat thing here, tell me...what's with those things all those British babes are wearin' on their heads over there that they call "Fascinators", HUH?! (...man, I'm tellin' ya, now THOSE things are REALLY odd, wouldn't ya say?!)

Hey, speakin' o' "maids" and "romances"....anybody know what Arnold's up to lately??? (...sorry...jus' couldn't resist)

LOL

I think you can thank director Robert Wise for most of that of course, Lorna. He really did an excellent job with this film, in my opinion. LOL Funny post here...and yeah, I can see what you mean. She was absolutely great in that role and it really added a lot to the film. In the same vein, let us not forget the wonderful contribution that Walter Slezak as the sleazy but somehow still lovable private Investigator made to this film. I thought the final scene where he's reading the newspaper about the whole thing and with an expression of "well, that's life" and then walking down that San Francisco street was one of the best endings of a movie I've seen in some time.

Yeah, I'm watchin' it right now, clore. And yeah, MY guess is that it's not that "2009 restored print from UCLA", either! LOL

Phillip Terry ...and... Lyle Talbot

Lawrence Tierney: George Raft with a body weight and height increase of approximately 20%, with approximately 15% better line-reading ability, and with overall approximately 10% better acting ability than Raft. (...well, at least those are MY 'figures" anyway...though as usual, yours may vary) Funny thing is that even with those modest increased "figures", I can usually believe Tierney in his roles, but whereas I could NEVER believe Raft in almost anything he was ever in...though once again with the exception of his turn in "Some Like It Hot", and where he was basically just parodying himself.