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I should point out, Dargo, that he came up with that comment years later as an adult, and we were joking about that kind of stuff. But it DID, at the time, make me spit out my coffee! Sepiatone

Wow! Why all the hate for Monty? I'd rather have to deal with Mr. Wooley than ADOLPH MENJOU anyday! One of the best, if not THE best, beards in movie history. Sepiatone

It's hard to play this game. So much can happen between now and then. When the movie *Copland* came out, there was a LOT of Oscar "buzz" about Stallone getting a nod for nomination. And actually, it WAS an exceptionally fine performance from him. But come nomination time, his name was FAR from being on the list. Sepiatone

Ziggy, Regis Toomey was in EVERY episode of *Burke's Law* due to his being a regular member of the cast. I'm not sure of when Powell died, but he would have been good to see in some of those early TWIGHLIGHT ZONE episodes. And I'll go along with the Hitckock program ideas. Franchot Tone didn't seem to mind. Sepiatone

CON-L-RAD was the emergency radio frequency one had to tune into if there was an atomic incident. Radios(and yes, at the time MOST radios had tubes) were manufactured in this period of history with tiny "civil defense" icons on the radio dials letting you know where to set your dial to hear any emergency information( my sister still has my Mom's old radio with these icons on the dial). All broadcasting on the other frequencies would cease. Or at least that was the plan. Thankfully, it never needed to be truly tested. I also recall crudely animated PSA commercials on TV letting you know what to do in the event of nuclear fallout. All through my years of going to school, there were signs on the walls of the halls indicating which doorway led to the school's fallout shelter. Most likely the boiler room. There were also PSA type propaganda presentations on TV showing Kruschev pounding his shoe on a lectern declaring "We will BURY you!" to remind us foolish taxpayers NOT to fall for the tyranny of communism. AS IF! Wierd times back then in the prime of the Cold War. One major act of stupidity were the "air raid" sirens. THESE would be set off for testing every Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm. I remember a teacher laughing after I asked what was to keep the commies from finding this out and determining the best time to attack the U.S. with nuclear missles was any Saturday at one o'clock? My step brother, whose school did the "duck and cover" excersize, said if they sent the missles over at one o'clock Saturday, he probably wouldn't have enough time to run to his school and hide under his desk! He'd be DOOMED! Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Dec 3, 2012 3:44 AM

OK, so how many here are old enough to recall when table and car radios had those tiny civil defense symbols indicating where the CON-L-RAD frequencies were? Sepiatone

OK. So NOW, this is the KNOX thread! Sepiatone

If we're also going to mention PRETEND clerics; Humphry Bogart poses as a priest in *The Left Hand of God* . Harry Belefonte as a NOT so holy man in *Buck And the Preacher* . James Garner posing as a preacher in *The Skin Game* . Sepiatone

I have them both on DVD, so screw the telly! Sepiatone

Right now, I'm watching Ron Reagan take golf lessons! Must have been his first foray into politics... Sepiatone

I do wish that they'd make up their minds. Is it TSAR, or CZAR? Or are both acceptable? And why the two different spellings? Like I have recordings of music composed by TCHAIKOWSKY and TSAIKOVSKY. Either PETER and PETIOR. BOTH these cats wrote a "NUTCRACKER SUITE" that sound identical! Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Dec 1, 2012 4:32 PM

That's kinda part of my point, Dothery. Attenborough was 24 when he made this flick, but LOOKS somewhat younger than the 17 year old you say his character's supposed to be( must have missed that referrence in all the heavy British.). I also thought the ending was out of place. One can imagine the poor girl got around to placing a shilling or something to the tone arm of the phonograph and hear him call her a ****, but it left me a bit frustrated at that point. Don't "eww" too much folks. The 34th street remake wasn't TOO bad, and Rick did pretty well as Kris Kringle. As most of the people who worked on the original had a hand in the Mara Wilson/Attenborough remake, I'm not going to question their direction of plot line. Rick's "Kringle" isn't fully up to Edmund Gwenn's snuff, but still comes off as truly likeable. I'd say he lies somewhere between Gwenn and Sebastian Cabot. Sepiatone

*The Iron Petticoat* sucks! That's not only MY opinion, but also the opinion of many in these forums. But, there ARE those who just LOVE this film. I imagine. What I can't fathom is WHY TCM is heavily promoting it's availability on DVD. In the entire Hope OR Hepburn repitoire, it's of little consequence. Both a commercial and critical failure. To quote Rick Harrison of "PAWN STARS", "Just because something is old or rare doesn't mean it's valuble". Amen. But bear in mind, as one earlier stated, it's "value" might be in the fact there are those who look to collect everything either Hope or Hepburn have done REGARDLESS of how good or bad it is. Having said that, it seems to me that TCM can successfully promote this clunker WITHOUT cramming it down our throats. Sepiatone

The term "union democrats" makes sense around the Detroit area too, casablanca. I had two brother-in-laws( they've both passed) who for all the world sounded as if they'd be republicans; anti gay, anti abortion, pro gun, pro death penalty, yet every four years they'd vote for the DEMOCRAT. Why? Because they were GM workers, UAW members and the democrats always were percieved to be PRO LABOR. I really don't know just what it is you wish to discuss. Your reminiscing doesn't sound too out of line with what most of us "Boomers" went through, or are now going through. I only own a PC more for entertainment and information gathering than anything else. I keep better tabs on my bank account through it's use. But my wife and I spend more time playing CD-rom slot games and online poker on the thing than anything else. Oh, and my coming HERE to either bore and annoy you good folk. Can't see the sense in Facebook, other than communicating with those I used to keep contact with just e-mail. Many of THEM have succumbed to the Facebook craze, and seem to refuse ANY other kind of communication now. But we're obdurate in our resolve. Word is that our annual Christmas Eve gathering will take place at a nephew's house. WE didn't get a call about it, but my sister-in-law, the nephew mentioned's mother, informed us that the nephew's wife put out the invitations on Facebook, and is awaiting replies of whether or not others are going to come. Since we don't mess with Facebook, we've not RECIEVED any invitation, as far as we're concerned. Which means we may be no-shows unless we get a PHONE CALL extending the invite! We will NOT be forced over to the DARK SIDE. I'm constantly being asked, "When are you gonna get a SMART PHONE?" Or a TABLET of some kind. Hey, I barely use the CELL PHONE I now have. WHY should I pay so much more for a device that's able to do so much more stuff that I'll NEVER use it for? TABLET? What good are THOSE? I mean as far as how it would apply to my current lifestyle? I don't play video games, only watch YouTube clips sent TO me through e-mail, have a well stocked library even AFTER downsizing it from the move. Have no interest in taking photos I can warp and distort through some special "app". I pay FAR less than $79 for both my haircuts AND jeans. so THAT ploy doesn't work. So far, all people can tell me is that I'll be capable of doing ALL SORTS of things I really have no interest in doing. So far, it doesn't sound like a good investment to me. Or, here's MY favorite..."You can 'download' music, transfer it to your PC and burn it onto a CD". MUCH less involved then just going to a store and BUYING the CD to begin with! Now, I'll admit, one of the things I've done on my PC was to "rip" specific tracks from a variety of CDs and compile them onto ONE CD. And my daughter has some kind of "share ware" software she's used to download music I don't own and make compilations of THOSE for me. And in THAT case, I don't even have to pay for the blank CDs. SHE has a TON of them and refuses reimbursement. Take THAT, tablet worshipers! Hey! Sounds like there's more than ONE curmudgeon in here! Sepiatone

Dothery, I feel your pain. I get the same way when I hear people refer to "sherbert" instead of "Sherbet". Or those who call the dish "perogies" instead of "peirogi". "Peir", as in where you park your boat, soft "o" in "ogi" ONE dumpling is a "Peirog". Two or more are "Peirogi" Like in "Octopi". Except the "I" is pronounced "ee". "Peir-ahgee". Those who claim "I could care less" when I know they COULDN'T. But in spite of my fussiness in these matters, I'm STILL a bit befuddled at how to pronounce BOCA RATON. I assume I'm wrong when I say, "Boak-ah Rah-Tone". Am I? Sepiatone

Sounds like the title of some "British Invasion" movie doesn't it? I actually wanted to bring this up yesterday, but got too wrapped up in other threads. I've seen this movie before, and it made me snicker. Made me snicker the other night when I watched it again! It's not that the movie was so bad it made me laugh. It's actually quite good. It's RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH that makes me snicker. Rick's a fine actor. And he did quite well in this movie. It's just that he looked so YOUNG. He seemed to look like a 15 year old trying to be tough. NOT the menacing homicidal maniac he was portraying. More like British film's answer to ELISHA COOK JR. if you ask me. And he was SO small and slight, I fancy my five-year-old niece could put the "whoop-azz" on him. Giving his character the nickname "Pinky" didn't really help, either. My wife thought his visage then was a far cry from the guy who played Kris Kringle in the '90's remake of *Miracle on 34th Street.* Indeed, I have trouble with the connotation too. Sepiatone

The elementary school I went to didn't have lockers, our coats hung on hooks fastened to the hall walls. OUR drills had us shuffle into the hall, face those walls then crouch down where the wall meets the floor. In thinking back, it makes me wonder what they were thinking. It really wouldn't have made any difference if we did THAT, or just stayed seated. Sepiatone

Unless your given name IS "finance", you're going to have to be more specific. But Lori has a point about kids being cruel. I remember the crap one kid at my grade school went through simply because his MIDDLE name was "Maurice". The fact that he was bigger than most of us kept it from going on too long. But if a celebrity child is growing up in a community of OTHER celebrity children, their names as well give them no room for teasing. It's hard to tease some kid because their name is "Hashbag" if YOUR name is "Dweezil". I DID know a guy at work everyone called "Hash", but it was for some OTHER reason. Sepiatone

I was nine years old in 1960, but didn't see the movie until somewhere in BETWEEN then and '66. Didn't really think about how long I had to live, as by then I realized movies didn't really predict the future well. Funny, but one thing that DID run across my mind was, "Gee, the guy from MR. ED isn't really Scottish, is he?" And as with willbe, I wouldn't care to be a kid these days, either! Sepiatone

I didn't watch it last night, but I have noticed her before. You have to try not to blink. Sepiatone

Correction! That's DANA CARVEY, NOT Drew Carey in *Trapped In Paradise* . Brain went on a short vacation. Sepiatone

Tisane, an herbal tea, usually brews to a light brown or amber color. At least, the tisane I'VE tried did. I'd go along with absinthe on this one. Sepiatone

Yeah, the Russians jumped out of the pan and into the fire, didn't they? Too bad the Cubans ignored that lesson. Sepiatone

OK finance... how about Kris Kringle in *Miracle on 34th Street* ? Arturo, you're right. I misspoke about the holiday connection to TBW, and if we can consider *It's A Wonderful Life* a "Christmas" movie, when it wasn't intended to be, we can make room for this one as well. But then, we'd have to consider many MORE movies, NOT neccessarily "Christmas" movies to BE so, just because the story takes place during that holiday season. So our list would have to include: *Reindeer Games* : The Gary Sinise/Ben Affleck flick about a casino heist. *Trapped in Paradise* : Nicolas Cage, Drew Carey and John Lovitz play three brothers who rob a small town bank during the holiday season with hilarious results. But they also learn Christmas movie type lessons at the end! *Die Hard* : Bruce Willis finds himself in the middle of trouble when terrorists attack a high-powered Japanese based financial firm during it's Christmas party. Anyone else wish to add to this list? Sepiatone

Winning "hands down" with NO arm wrestling? How is that possible? Sepiatone