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  1. EugeniaH
    Remember the scene (I'm sure you do), where Bugs opens a door and he unexpectedly sees the kid, who says, "I wanna easta egg, I wanna easta egg.." and Bugs leaps in fright and says, "OH, NO!!!!!!!!!!!" I can even remember the inflection in his voice! Lol.....
  2. EugeniaH
    Like many people here, I grew up on Bugs Bunny, and can recite lines by heart. One of my favorite episodes is "Easter Yeggs", a laugh from start to finish. Bugs takes over egg delivery duties from the hilariously morose Easter Bunny ("Remember... keep smiling!") and soon comes to regret it when he meets up with a red-headed kid. Every year, at Easter, my sister and I would mimic lines from this cartoon, so it also has a deep sentimental memory for me. I no longer see my sister, but every Easter I still remember the Looney Tunes short and laugh! Trivia note: Mel Blanc's voicing style of the Easter Bunny was also used during the Burns and Allen radio shows, where he played a postman character. He also used the line, "Remember... keep smiling!"
  3. EugeniaH
    There is a story in Harpo Marx's autobiography where he tells of pretending to be Chico when they were kids; if you see photos of them from that time they do look like twins! Harpo's book is my favorite on this team. He led a really interesting life.
  4. EugeniaH
    Yeah, and she gave as good as she got, too. She had some real fat joke zingers that made you burst out laughing. (And he never made fun of her looks.)
  5. EugeniaH
    In the books I've read about Gleason and Carney I'm not remembering that they acknowledged the similarities to Laurel and Hardy outright... It's interesting about these two actors: In real life, Carney was intensely shy and struggled with alcoholism and marital troubles (a contrast to Ed Norton, a role he found refuge in), and Gleason in real life had a lot of anger and bitterness. You can see the anger in Ralph Kramden, but Gleason knew how to make it funny, so that you laughed at it rather than shied away... I'd also read that Gleason was very careful not to have Ralph act too overly abusive toward Alice, and lose the audience.
  6. EugeniaH
    I think it was in a book I have called "The Official Honeymooners Treasury". Audrey Meadows said a fan sent a curtain rod and a little money toward curtains, saying that the apartment should be more like the Nortons' (the fan was either sweetly innocent or a little wacky).
  7. EugeniaH
    It's said that Gleason wanted the apartment to look specifically this way, because this is how he himself lived growing up. Audrey Meadows tells the story of Honeymooners fans who would actually send things that would brighten up the apartment.
  8. EugeniaH
    Yeah, and poor E.G.'s character. But that was definitely a highlight of the film - in fact that's the only part I remember.
  9. EugeniaH
    Thanks! "Annie Oakley" is entertaining (though not memorable), "Union Pacific" much less so (Stanwyck's "Irish" accent is horrible), and "The Violent Men" had its moments...
  10. EugeniaH
    I don't go out to movies anymore so I don't watch the Oscars. Once in a while if I hear that a current movie has been nominated for or has won Academy Awards, I might do some more research online to see if it's worth watching on DVD, but I don't 'follow through' that often...
  11. EugeniaH
    As I was watching Borgnine's acting particular I did think to myself, "It's been a downward slide from Marty..."
  12. EugeniaH
    On this they were great. They could do disaster, but they had trouble showing a seasick person!
  13. EugeniaH
    [ Talking about "The Poseidon Adventure"... ] It did get a little better, and the special effects were good. But among other things, I couldn't believe it when, at the beginning when Rogo's wife Nonnie is shown sick in bed, you can actually see white pancake makeup all over her face! (I noticed this on my friend's 42" TV, not to mention what people must have seen on a movie screen...) Everyone, including the reverend, also swore an awful lot - which I didn't care about in and of itself - but it sounded so contrived, like they were 'packing all the words in' for effect, because the censor board said they now could.
  14. EugeniaH
    "The Poseidon Adventure" - it's so bad, it's good.
  15. EugeniaH
    I can only watch that movie once in a very great while - it's very, very intense for me. But it's powerful on the spiritual and psychological level. It's more mind/emotion horror than gore horror... I just ordered the DVD.
  16. EugeniaH
    Shifting back to Gregory Peck, I'm thinking of ordering "The Omen" on DVD. Hope I don't get struck by lightning...!
  17. EugeniaH
    Thanks, film lover! Yep, "The Furies" is exceptional and I have yet to see "Pursued". Love both Mitchum and Judith Anderson.
  18. EugeniaH
    Lol! My buddy. Believe it or not, the only Stanwyck western I truly like is "The Furies". This one is miles ahead of the rest in terms of writing, direction and acting. For me, the hook in "Furies" is not so much the genre but the storyline and the acting among the leads. It's a drama that happens to be set in the West. I'm not too much of the fan of the other ones she's done. (Though "The Great Man's Lady" and "Trooper Hook" are okay and I like the chemistry between Stanwyck and Milland in "California", I don't bother watching most of the others and could barely get through "Forty Guns" once.)
  19. EugeniaH
    I haven't watched "The Big Country" before. My friend recommended it for the gorgeous color and scenery, and he was spot on about that. With westerns or any genre, when something isn't your thing it helps when your favorite actor/actress is in it, because then you're compelled to watch and maybe you end up expanding your horizons. I do like "True Grit" a lot, because the story is great, but otherwise I don't see many westerns for that genre's sake. Aside from this, of course, I saw "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Gentleman's Agreement", among others, and liked them very much. "The Omen" is my favorite horror movie, and I don't like horror movies! (Lol...)
  20. EugeniaH
    GPF, the other night I re-watched "Cape Fear" - it had been a while, and I think I had forgotten how sinister and deeply disturbing the film is. Peck did a great job here, trying to remain centered and hyper-vigilant / "logical" while this madman was threatening his wife and daughter. It is interesting to consider these two extremes - Mitchum playing a sociopath with a deviant mind, against Peck who is supremely logical and controlled. He is a lawyer with strong roots in the community and Mitchum is a mentally ill drifter. I think it was when the two of them were in a restaurant when Peck stood up and said something to the effect of, "I can't relate to how you think". And yet here they were in a "battle" of sorts. Peck was perfect for the movie and it made the tension that much more interesting. A few weeks ago I tried watching "The Big Country" but I couldn't get into it as well; Westerns are not my thing and I was feeling sad for Peck's character, being an "outsider" and getting picked on by the bad guys...
  21. EugeniaH
    Yikes...........!!
  22. EugeniaH
    I remember walking out of a movie in the theater once, for "Down Periscope" with Kelsey Grammer. It was so awfully unfunny, our whole group left without an argument. I can't remember anything about it at this point, only that we left in a hurry.
  23. EugeniaH
    I did think of that, Tom. I'd vaguely touched on it, but since there was already an entire thread done on this movie, I didn't want to be repetitive.
  24. EugeniaH
    Coincidentally, I saw "Sense and Sensibility" last night for the first time. What a beautifully-made film; I was kicking myself for not getting it on Blu-ray. Rickman was great playing someone with a lot of inner torment. He was also fine in "A Little Chaos."
  25. EugeniaH
    Lol, thanks, my friend. What I really wanted to say about "Abandon Ship" is this: watch it because Tyrone Power is so good looking.
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