ChristineHoard

It's ESPN The Magazine that does the Body Issue. Great photographs of male and female athletes. They're nude but artfully photographed.

Just like Angela Lansbury when it comes to Emmy nominations and wins. I like that TCM is selling DVDs of some of Elizabeth's TV movies.

LawrenceA, That avatar has got to go - right after Christmas!

THE LITTLE FOXES is one of those movies I try to never miss when it comes on. It definitely stands up to repeat viewings. Yes, Herbert Marshall suffered due to Bette in this and THE LETTER. But Herbert had two women who had the hots for him in TROUBLE IN PARADISE and had a lengthy scene as the lover in the original 1929 THE LETTER. He went from being a babe magnet to cuckolded husband to sage (THE RAZOR'S EDGE) over his lengthy career.

Not much sunshine in those mine shafts. Maybe the new song for the sequel could be "Ain't No Sunshine When We're Gone" (with apologies to Bill Withers) or some variation ("Ain't No Sunshine Where We're Going").

What's your title for this imaginative sequel, Dargo? And are any people going to have time to get to those mine shafts with greenhouses and animals before the big one drops? If not, it'll be a short sequel - sort of like "Bambi Meets Godzilla."

I chose CROSSFIRE because it has several noir elements like the cinematography (camera angles, shadows) and the story takes place at night plus, of course, there's a murder. It's got the three Roberts, two of whom are Great Men of Noir and, as you so aptly point out, there's Gloria Grahame, a Great Woman of Noir. Anyway, lots of great movies on these lists.

Here's my Top Ten Essential Noir List in alphabetical order: ASPHALT JUNGLE, CROSSFIRE, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, GUN CRAZY, THE KILLING, LAURA, THE MALTESE FALCON, OUT OF THE PAST, SCARLET STREET, THE STRANGLE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS.

LOL! I will work on my other 8 titles and submit it and wait for holes to be dutifully poked.

Bela Lugosi's surgery on Boris Karloff in THE RAVEN and Charles Laughton's weird experiments in ISLAND OF LOST SOULS.

No problem; no misconceptions.

The movie you don't want to revisit got Minnelli an Oscar nomination. LOL! Can't do a sequel for DR. STRANGELOVE for obvious reasons.

I think ROCKY should have stopped at one. This is probably an unpopular opinion. I saw ROCKY and I liked it but I don't like Stallone and I'm glad he didn't win the Best Supporting Oscar last year.

I can't turn you in when I agree with everything you said about Holden. Gloria was 53 (according to HALLIWELL'S FILMGOER'S COMPANION). I think she looked fine and I felt that way at pre-50 years old and post-50 years old. As Bill Holden tells her, "There's nothing wrong with being 50." A great movie and one of my all-time favorites. 1950 was an excellent year for films with three of my favorites: SUNSET BLVD., ALL ABOUT EVE and ASPHALT JUNGLE. Maybe even better than 1939!

You can't have a Noir List without including ASPHALT JUNGLE or GUN CRAZY.

It is a good film. TCM ran it last year or the year before. Thanks for writing about it.

Me, too. I've never seen it but I want to. Price and Sanders may be somewhat "hammy" at times but they're so much fun to watch I don't mind.

As much as I like ALIENS, I still prefer the smaller scale of the original with one monster and we aren't prepared for what's going to happen. But it is a good sequel. As for Indiana Jones, I liked the first one but Kate Capshaw's obnoxious screaming and the little boy drove me crazy in the second one.

Let's face it: most sequels/prequels suck and are money grabs for ticket sales and marketing toys. Notable exceptions are THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE GODFATHER. (I'm sorry these obviously weren't decades apart. They're still great sequels, though)

Some favorite movie bits of mine: I love the scenes in WHITE HEAT already mentioned and I also love the "need a little air?" scene which also shows how cold blooded Cody is. I love the scene in PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES where John Candy is driving crazy and Steve Martin wakes up from a nap, notices the car is down to its shell and envisions Candy as the devil. Another good Steve Martin scene is his drunk driving test in THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS. The test involves near-impossible tasks like walking in a handstand in a straight line. "Damn, your drunk tests are hard," Steve says. One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies: when Addison Dewitt tells Eve Harrington exactly how it's going to be and he's on to her in ALL ABOUT EVE. There's so many. These are just a few that come to mind.

A nice full-bodied red like a Cabernet or Chianti.

I caught "Lost in America" and it is very funny.

Yes. It's based on a stage play and it's the kind of play that's hard to open up for the big screen.

I watched this again and I have to say I love Ann Sheridan's top - especially the hands in the front. She's very funny in this as is Jimmy Durante. Lots of references to famous people in the 1940's; I wonder how many go over the heads of today's audience.

Quite true but as you said these were Gable's earliest films where he's clean shaven.