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Yep, but ya know Tex. NOBODY will ever be as darn cute doin this as Shirley MacLaine was when she added that suffix to the word "cookie" in that Wilder flick.

That's because it was filmed in Arizona, Katie. In fact, right where I presently reside, in Sedona. The red rock formations you see in the background behind Hodiak and Scott here being Bell Rock on the left and Courthouse Butte on the right, and which are located less than a mile from where my house lies and from where I'm typing this response to you. (...many movies, though primarily westerns, were filmed here in Sedona dating from the 1930s to the 1970s, and there's a neighborhood in West Sedona where the residential street have been named for some of these films, and such as Station West Dr., Broken Arrow Way, Last Wagon Dr., Flaming Arrow Way, Johnny Guitar St., and Gun Fury Rd.)

So, his business specifically catered to the footwear needs of clowns and NBA players perhaps???

Well Tex, as they say about "great minds" here. At least when it comes to an appreciation of architectual styles, anyway. (...ya see, I had earlier thought of posting this NBNW house myself in this thread after LonesomePolecat posted the Queen Anne style home from MMISL)

Gotta say here Brian, your history with and your growing appreciation for this film somewhat mirrors mine, and evidenced by after a recent viewing of it on TCM, I found myself liking this movie much more than I remember having done in the past. Especially good point about that terrific Cyd Charisse number with all the boxers. (...btw, ever noticed that a very similar resolution of this storyline, the one of mobsters being unwittingly televised while disrupting a TV program, would later be used in the 1982 comedy My Favorite Year ?)

Oh, I dunno. Perhaps in The Best Years of Our Lives ? (...and maybe because it takes place in a time and a place in this country when the promise of better days to come and a brighter future was the general viewpoint held by more Americans than it seems it is today, unfortunately)

There are two prints of Champagne for Two presently on YouTube for anyone who might have missed it.

And of course the very reason Gone with the Wind didn't sweep all the major Oscars in '39. Because Robert Donat is so damn good in the titular role. (...to say nothing about how good Greer Garson is in her first Hollywood film)

AND speakin' of Junior here... Sometime back in the early-'70s, I once dined at his old Lobster Barrel restaurant located along what was and maybe still is called La Cienega's Restaurant Row... (...took a date there...wasn't too bad...the restaurant, not the date, that is)

Any idea if this might've been when Alan Jr. first used his signature phrase "Little Buddy" in anything??? (...naaah, probably not, huh...Cagney there probably wouldn't have liked that, huh...nope, Junior there probably would've gotten the very same reaction that you're seein' on Jimmy's face here, huh!) LOL

Yes, and so apparently is the idea of being: avuncular [əˈvəNGkyələr] ADJECTIVE relating to an uncle. kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person. "an avuncular manner" synonyms: paternal · fatherlike · protective · supportive · encouraging · vigilant · [more] anthropology relating to the relationship between men and their siblings' children. (...and which Bob Osborne was...and which none of the present TCM hosts are)

Yep, I heard that too the other day while listening to that radio network. In fact, I think I recall the exact commentary between the two young NPR announcers that were hawkin' their new line of wines. It went something like this: "So, NPR has a new line of wines." --"So, I heard this too." "So, what did you hear?" --"So, I heard we've got some good Cabs and some very good Pinots." "So, have you tasted any of them yet?" --"So, no, not yet, but I've heard through the grapevine, no pun intended here, that they're pretty tasty." "So, when will the people out there listening to us right now be able to get theirs?" --"So, I've heard in about a month or so." "So, thank you for this information." --"So, you're welcome." (...OR in others words, WHEN THE HELL ARE THE PEOPLE YOU HEAR ON NPR GOING TO FREAKIN' STOP PREFACING EVERY FREAKIN' SENTENCE THEY START WITH THE WORD "SO", I ASK???!!!...hey, jus' askin', and 'cause, well, as I'm SURE you can tell, I'M gettin' a little freakin' TIRED of this myself...AND even though I personally have NO direct experience or inclination to listen to those idiots on right wing-themed radio stations, word is at least THEY don't start EVERY freakin' sentence with that now OVERUSED damn word, anyway...I'll tell ya ONE thing here though...IF I ever get my hands on any of those young NPR announcers, I'm gonna grab 'em my their shoulders and shake 'em UNTIL they stop doin' this!!!) LOL

Beautifully written and insightful commentary here, Magoo. So true. R.I.P., Norm. (...just one thing though and re your "The are no 'cover' comics" comment...Rich Little and every other comic who specialized in impressions, might disagree with you on this)

Might just be me here, but somehow I'm now wondering if and when in the future some newbie might come on here and complain that TCM is showing The Birdman of Alcatraz way too much, if the conversation might somehow segue to the topic of billiards or pool sharks?! (...and NOT that I have anything against our avian friends out there or a conversation about 'em, I just think it'd be ironic, that's all...I LOVE irony, ya know)

Yep NS, I understand some of the best surfing can ALSO be done near the now deactivated "Dolly Parton by the Sea" here ...

LOL Yep, Bogie! Every time I hear that line from Kubrick's film AND the one about there then being ten women down in those mine shafts for every one man, I always think of the opening lyrics in that Jan & Dean song 'Surf City' about there being "two girls for every boy", and THEN think about how even BETTER the demographics would skew in a post-nuclear holocaust world for us men than apparently how it was in Huntington Beach California circa the 1960s! (...in admittedly a purely unenlightened sexist manner, of course!) LOL

Looks like when George C. Scott said, "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!", someone took it very very seriously here.

Kind'a sounds like it might be Strait-Jacket (1964) starring Joan Crawford.

Oh and btw...ANOTHER thing that would of course differentiate you from Sepia would be that YOU are not prone to uppercase the words in YOUR sentences that you wish to emphasize, and like Sepia does. (...and like some OTHER damn joker does all the time around here TOO, but who shall remain nameless here)

OOPS! Sorry sewhite! (...yep, must've been those generic avatars you and Sepia use that threw me here, alright)

What, didn't you have to take that class in high school like I did, Sepia? You know, "English Ligature"?! (...Chico Marx would sure be proud of me right now anyway, wouldn't he)

Good question, James. My only guess here would that because the noun "earth" is both a proper name of this entire planet and also in a general sense can also be used to describe the substance of the land surface of this planet, this might be the reason you would never hear "the Mars" or "the Venus". (...and besides, would it STILL have the same ring to it if Frankie Avalon had instead sang "THE Venus"?...nope, probably not, huh!...and yeah yeah, I know Frankie was actually singing to a Roman goddess and not a planet, but I just couldn't resist this one, that's all)

And then of course, there is always THIS notable example of a movie poster which isn't exactly truthful or accuate in how it depicted any scene actually shown in the movie... Of course I suppose this COULD have been another case of a scene left on the cutting room floor, and one where Gort here on his night off from guarding Klaatu's saucer, heads to some D.C. nightclub and picks up, both figuratively and literally, that hot blonde babe you see here?! (...but I kind'a doubt it)

You'll hear the tour guides and others around here say this, but I've always just thought of it as the tip of his nose. (...not that I have anything against Snoopy's little feathered friend here, you understand)

Pretty sure that that's Errol's third and final wife Patrice Wymore, Tom. (...married 1950-1959 and his death)