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Whaddya mean "we"? I prefer *The Maple Leaf Rag* myself. As far as Joplin goes. I usually leaned towards EUBIE BLAKE. Oh, and bOb? The fact you still read a newspaper indicates you're old! Sepiatone

You mean "soar-ee", don't you? Tell me "aboot" it. I wonder about sibling rivalry in the cases of James Arness and Peter Graves( and why the different last names). Or the Carradine brood. The Bottoms bros. or the Fiennes. Since we don't hear much about them in this light, they all must have been OK about it all. Anyway, none of it could have possibly been as scathing as the sibling rivalry that goes on between my wife and her FIVE SISTERS! It's kept things lively around my house for 25 years. Sepiatone

Considering what's assumed about most comic's personal histories, that room could have been considered the "Office of Homeland Insecurity"! Sepiatone

Sorry to disagree, willbe, but both the movie AND the song *Love Is a Many Splendored Thing* are hokey. Sepiatone

*UPDATE:* The television show *Shannon* starring George Nader as an insurance investigator ran from Sept. '61 to June '62 for only 36 episodes. I remember seeing it on late night in the summer of '63, so I was obviously seeing it in syndication. Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Apr 6, 2013 2:34 PM

Hibi, I don't know how long that show was on. It was the very early '60's when my stepbrother turned me on to it. I'll have to Wikify it. Sepiatone

I'm always tickled by the scene in *Monkey Business* when Groucho, responding to the young lady who stomps her foot in disgust with him, stomps his foot TWICE, grabs her and does an impromtu TANGO. In fact, it's done TWICE. But then, much of what's in that movie cracks me up. Sepiatone

There were a LOT of movies where people left the theater, seeing displays of social injustice, economic injustice, racial disparity and the like and thought, "SOMEBODY ought to DO something about that!", and that's as far as it ever went. Sure, the movies made more people AWARE, but rarely (if ever) spurred them on to action. Anyway, I never liked "Corn" that much. How that kid never bashed Bette's head with a poker showed more restraint than I think actually humanly possible. My preferrence goes to *How Green Was My Valley* which my Grandmother had me watch first when I was very young, explaining that it appealed to her personally as she grew up in a Pennsylvania coal mining town. I preferred the way the people were characterized, the performances, the story, and who would sit through two hours of Bette when Maureen O'Hara is available? Sepiatone

I kept wondering if they got Cher to sit with Robert Osborne in an effort to make HER look younger, or HIM? At any rate, I thought she did a fine job as co-host. You gotta admit, we've seen WORSE get a shot. Sepiatone

I'm reminded of a scene in a movie called *America's Sweethearts* where Stanley Tucci, brilliantly playing the archtypiclal studio head, claims, "The only genius in this business was *Senor Wences!* A little lipstick on the hand and bah, bah, bah,(while imitating the Wences puppeteering style) and he had a career for 85 years!" I wouldn't call Brooks a genius, but he IS extremely creative in his humor. His insticts are even better. He always manages to get the right people in the right places to get it all to work. With getting Richard Pryor to work on the *Blazing Saddles* screenplay, signing Wilder, Mars, Khan, Boyle, Deluise and Korman for their parts were major coups. With other people in those parts, none of them would have worked as well. Sepiatone

Dothery, it's been years since I've heard that "lumber" one! Always thought it was cute. You sound as if you don't appreciate Hallmark's "Maxine" that much. She reminded me of my Mom so much( in looks AND attitude) that I'd give Ma a Maxine card every birthday for years! She LOVED 'em! The world's oldest joke? *Adam*: Knock, Knock! Sepiatone

What Siskle and Ebert did for film criticism was to give it in a "movie viewer's" level of discussion. Too many critics over the years would critique movies as if they were conducting a college film class. S&E displayed it as would the guy on the street. Mostly Ebert, in my opinion. No, I didn't always agree with him, either. But I couldn't dismiss his critiques as being stupid. OR bloated. Thumbs down on this news... Sepiatone

Last night on PBS's "History Detectives", one investigation went into finding out if some guy owned an actual saddle once owned by movie stuntman and rodeo circuit extrordinaire *Yakima Canutt* . Turns out it did, but what I found interesting was this man's connection to old Hollywood. He did stunt work, mostly in westerns, in what must have been well over a hundred movies. He stood in often for John Wayne, even in *Stagecoach* . He did work in *Cat Ballou*. It was Yakima driving the wagon through a burning Atlanta in *Gone With The Wind*. Many of the safety proceedures still practiced in this line of work came out of his insistance. No big deal, mind you. But it was a reminder that in spite of our here pining and swooning over the contribution to old movies by the STARS, that many in the background make most of that magic happen. And Yakima was a top-notch magician. Sepiatone

Yes! Laurel and Hardy----At the end of *Helpmates* when Ollie tells Stan to make a fire in the fireplace while he goes to pick up his wife from the train station, only to return to find his house completely burned down with Stan holding a garden hose amid the charred ruins--- In *The Music Box* while attempting to clean up while the player piano plays, going back and forth dumping and picking up refuse and only managing to keep moving the SAME trash back and forth!--- In *Be Big* when trying to remove the boot from Ollie's foot, Ollie falls into the tub full of water and emerges with the sweater down to his knees! In another L&H, which title I forget, they are the owners of a food catering truck. The truck is closed with an "Out to Lunch" sign on the door. When they return and open the door, about 20 cats scatter out from any possible exit! In another movie, NOT L&H, *His Girl Friday* at one point in the background, there's a reporter who keeps looking out the window of the pressroom as ladies go up the staircase just outside the door. Clearly trying to get a good glimpse up their skirts. Sepiatone

*The Village* Most villages have only one idiot. THIS village only has one who isn't. SHE'S the lucky one because she's blind, and won't be able to see this swill! Sepiatone

Y'know Fred, most of us slept or asked for the bathroom pass when they tried cramming THE BARD down our thoats in high school. WHAT makes you think our interest is more piqued after all these years? Sepiatone

Not me. I went to sleep, perchance to dream... Sepiatone

I find it hard to believe that many people would still hold some kind of animosity to Heston because of his connection to the NRA and his stance on firearm ownership. I totally disagreed with it, but that didn't diminish my respect for Heston as an actor. His efforts in the civil rights struggle overshadows his gun stance by miles. Anyway, my brother was a member of the NRA, we had many heated discussions on the issue, but I didn't love him LESS because of it. In fact, I had and still have old and close friends who are on the polar opposite of my stances politically, but we still remain friends( with the exception of ONE). It has always been my understanding that here in AMERICA, we're allowed to make and hold opinions and choices freely, with no unwarranted repercussions. Someone's stance on guns, abortion, gay marriage or any other political claptrap is only one aspect of a person's entire make-up. Believe it or not, there are even some who would take exception to the opinions that Jim Carrey isn't funny! (DON'T look at ME!) Speaking of guns and Carrey...Addy, if those kids didn't force me to watch Carrey's "Grinch" by putting a gun to my head, I'd have told them to **** off! Sepiatone

The only thing I know about Nader was his TV show *Shannon* in which he was some kind of private eye. It was the first time I ever saw a "mobile" phone. I thought THAT was cool! Sepiatone

I think I know where Flyback is coming from, Jonas, and I disagree that just as many American films take the same apporoach to storytelling or the same style of presentation that Flyback calls "artsy" or "surreal". I too, think many foreign offerings tend to be too introspective and "full of themselves" ( a local film critic usually called them "multi-layered", which to me only meant "lacking coherent direction"). Many times to the point of being pretentious. But I DO agree with your "Judging the worth of anything based on how many people have heard of it is a poor way to approach culture" comment. But I've thought about this notion, forwarded by an earlier poster about NOT wishing to see any movie with "representations of animal abuse" and the like. How about WESTERNS, with their representations of PEOPLE being shot and killed? Or WAR movies, MURDER mysteries, SCI-FI movies with space invaders vaporizing whole cities? I'm an animal lover, too, but let's not get carried away...the most ridiculous statement I've heard was a man I know who once said, "I HATE people who abuse animals. If I EVER saw a man kick a dog, I'd KILL him!" Huh? Let's all try to remember we're watching MOVIES, NOT news footage. Sepiatone

TCM shows a lot of movies that I never see. I must be in HEAVEN!! Sepiatone

I think of that sort of thing often when it comes to famous people born in 1926, the year my Mother was born. I have trouble reconciling her being born the same year as CHUCK BERRY and MARYLIN MONROE. 1926 is the only thing the three of them have in common! Sepiatone

Who says there HAS to be a Father-son resemblance? Many sons favor their Mothers. That can be a good thing. Need another example? OK: ED BEGLEY ED BEGLEY JR. Don't know who Mom is in this case, but she HAD to be tall! And John Derek was a good lookin' ****, wasn't he? I often get mistaken for him. Sepiatone

If this movie were made today, the caper would involve so many people, so much weaponry, and so much high tech equipment that if they succeeded in stealing a million, they'd barely break even. It would probably star Shia Lebouf and some model-turned-actress or other people who would fall way short of being able to portray the elegance and class of O'Toole and Hepburn. Or they might go the opposite route and dust off Deniro and cast him with some young thing that would seem more suited to play his daughter rather than partner in crime. Ed Norton would likely be in there somewhere. They would possibly have to deal with, ala *The Italian Job* , the Russian mob in competition with them. If they get caught at all, it would be because they tried to sell the piece of priceless art on eBay. Sepiatone

I don't know about all day. There'd have to be some saturation point. But if they did, I'd prefer some of the not usual suspects. Or, they could have alternated between a Day movie and Brando movie. However bi-polar that would seem. Sepiatone