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I've quit popping corn on the stove since the invention of the "air popper" and the advent of the microwave oven. But---- Bacon grease? Be still my heart!( and that bacon grease will certainly help that along ) . It's easy to see why you picked SYDNEY GREENSTREET for your avatar! Sepiatone

And let's not forget; The same questions have been asked before about television. That's one of the reasons for CINEMASCOPE coming about. And that concern was nearly 70 years ago. And despite the advent of television, and with one or more in every home, movie theaters survived through all of that. And it's the demise of DRIVE-IN theaters that saddens me. But despite that loss too, young love will survive.... Sepiatone

RIP Charles Sepiatone

I didn't read Malamaud's book until after I saw the movie. But I'm with ya on this. Malamaud's Hobbs was a self centered jerk, compared to Towne and Dusenberry's adaptation making him a likable and all around nice guy but not one to be reckoned with. A favorite movie of mine too, Ed. And SHEAR... I remember that game. Happened at my home team's house! Sepiatone

Wow. At first I thought the idea might be movie theaters will start offering movie ownership via DVDs sold in their lobbies. But I don't think streaming will totally replace theaters as: Not EVERYBODY in this country streams. And there's no such thing as "theater quality" popcorn you can make at home. Believe me, I've tried 'em all. And even the largest LED/plasma screen you can find at Sam's Club or Costco, as impressive they look in the store or in anybody with the room in their house and has one can compare(IMHO) to how a movie looks on a theater's screen. Sepiatone

True that. A friend of mine had a girlfriend back in the mid '70's, that later became his ex wife, and whom I'd always call "Ginny" or "Virginia" due to her close resemblance to actress VIRGINIA MAYO. She didn't get it 'cause she had no idea who that was, and there was no such thing as renting movies for home video viewing in '77. But mentioning it to my buddy's Mom, SHE told the girl she had always thought so too. She was kind of insulted to hear some people though she looked like some actress from the "old times" until the '80's and then I showed her a rented copy of WHITE HEAT and then sometime later THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and then she felt more complimented. But at that time, Ms. Mayo was still with us. And I'll add a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ms. Olsen, who I first came familiar with(not in THAT way, Dargo! ) from THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR. Sepiatone

Seems a stretch to me, but some might take it that way. Sepiatone

And not really a stretch for Rupert. Sepiatone

And Moe has YET to clear up his claim that government bureaucrats are involved with classifying automobiles. And as far as the "personal" and "personal luxury" classing,, those would likely be only manufacturer's classifications, likely for pricing and attracting a specific demographic. Insurance companies would consider something like the Lincoln Mark IV AND the Lincoln Continental as "luxury cars", and insure them both at the same rate. Possibly the same when it comes to DMV's and other states' licensing bureaus, which have usually charged for plates and tags according to weight. or ie; the plates for a Cadillac CTS and a less expensive(to a Cadillac owner ) Chrysler 300 would cost about the same. Sepiatone

But he WASN'T the killer in PSYCHO. His character Norman Bates was! Remember(and remind Tiki Kid) it's called ACTING, in a MOVIE!!!! But I get your daughter being enamored. And the odd coincidence... I've known several women drawn to actors who had marginal good looks, but they seemed adorable to them. Like your daughter's attraction to the gay Perkins, Or an aunt of mine's adoration of FARLEY GRANGER( also gay) or my own wife's infatuation more recently to RUPERT EVERETT(yep. Gay) It's like some intuitive female GAY-dar that attracts them to the men, but blinds them to the sexual orientation. And yes... My wife's attraction to ME, with the Everett thing in mind, was a cause for pause. Sepiatone

You find the CIGARETTE placement more unfortunate than the GUN? And please clear something else up for me.... What makes you reckon a CIGARETTE image on a movie poster indicates the movie might be about COCAINE? Sepiatone

This was probably already posted, but I'm not sure and have no time to glom over all 10 pages, so----------------------- Sepiatone

There's the 1923 flick THE SILENT PARTNER, starring Leatrice Joy and Owen Moore which was no doubt a different story than 1978's Canadian production starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer. Sepiatone (who started a similar thread but in a music forum but titled "same name, different song" which so far yielded nine pages of entries.)

"Acting" in this case too, being the operative word. Sepiatone

Go back. At about the 30 to 33 second mark the narrator refers to Lincoln's Mark IV as a "personal luxury" car. And it wouldn't be surprising to hear the words "personal luxury" in a Cadillac or Lincoln TV ad. Except to you, who on the 11th of this month claimed we're, "Not likely to find these terms in any advertising." But I don't get your "bureaucratic pigeonholing" remark. Which bureaucrats are doing the "pigeonholing" and for what possible reason? Sepiatone

That's kind of apples and oranges. I was once the owner of two( but not at the same time) Oldsmobile Silhouettes. But while GM classified them as "mini-vans", Michigan's Secretary of State office(our version of the DMV) put them in the "Station Wagon" classification. So did my car insurance co. And was probably the same with the Ford and Chrysler vehicles of that fashion. And BTW; I've often heard on TV car ads of certain models being "Personal luxury" cars. Like listen to this :30-33 seconds in. Sepiatone

It was different for me. Shortly after turning 40 my arms were too LONG and I had to pull what I was reading closer, and SQUINT hard to make it out. My wife certainly didn't prepare me for that. But her eyesight issues had nothing to do with age as much as with her diabetes. And they were more complex due to it. But frankly..... I've always thought, in the HAGEN /HAYDEN scenario that it was HAYDEN who was the "dumb cluck" The Hagen character seemed to truly love Dix to pieces and would have done anything to make his life a happy one. But which path did he choose? Maybe he figured HE was no good for HER, but really, it wasn't HIS decision to make. And also... My Mom, who in retrospect seemed to be a "feminist" before the word became a catchphrase and the concept became a hot button topic once quipped about George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM---- "As long as MEN are running this world, Orwell hit the nail by having PIGS running things in his book!" And of course, we all know that famous last sentence. Sepiatone

It turned out OK. What grabbed me was her son's lame idiot claim the culprit was a "Latino burglar wearing a ninja mask" . Unless said burglar was chattering in Spanish, how would he really know the man was Latino? Kinda strikes me as the Susan Harris"A black man did it." defense. Sepiatone

As most y'all know,my wife was 10 years my senior. And we found PLENTY to talk about. And while several of her interests and mine were the same, it was the other interests that we could introduce and interest each other in that made our lives enjoyable. ie; In my past life(1st marriage) I could never get much into decorating for Christmas. And she showed me the joy of turning our home into "Christmas central". And before she never gave a second thought to classical music, but wound up enjoying going to DSO concerts and Beethoven's 9th symphony became her favorite. And her being Mexican got me to learn there's more to Mexican cuisine than tacos, burritos and guacamole. So, you see? It's not the AGE that really matters. It's the PEOPLE involved. Sepiatone

Maybe nobody could get to "Play It Again" sports before it closed! And Catherine O'Hara wore them in SCTV's spoof on HUMORESQUE . And was hilarious. Sepiatone

Seems most "sports" cars were more or less "personal". And it could be too, that since other European "sports" cars of the times, like the Jaguar XK-E, The MG, Morgan , and other French and Italian two seater "high performance" cars could also be considered "personal" cars. But them being two-seaters and called "sports" cars is probably why the media and people in general gave the Thunderbird and Corvette two seat high performance cars the "sports" car tag. But anyway, it's about time for---- Sepiatone

Can't recall the title, but that much newer cartoon in which they spoofed a "Body Snatcher's" plot wasn't too bad. First time I saw that one. So was the one about the oil baron(Called "Oily Hare" I believe) wanting to drill for crude in Bugs' rabbit hole. Dug that mile long limo with the telephone switchboard in the middle. Sepiatone

I recall many years ago, my ex(not the ex yet) wife and I talking about this sort of thing. I mentioned there were a couple women teachers at the high school( we both attended the same high school, graduating in the same class) that I wouldn't have minded getting it on with. She said it wasn't fair since she couldn't recall ANY man teacher at that school worth hopping into the sack with. Well, to my delight, 12 years after graduation, ONE of those teachers(of the couple I mentioned) transferred to my kid's school and became my older daughter's fifth grade teacher! Sepiatone

She always claimed to be a Virgo, but in looking up astrological charts, the source I got said a different date. No matter anyway since I never followed or believed in astrology. Sepiatone

That's like my Polish grandfathers. From a village so far East that they were born in Poland one year, and a few years later(without moving) they were living in Russia. Well, vice-versa for one of them. But when each left home for this country, they were back in Poland again. Sepiatone