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Thanks again for the heads-up on that film, lavender. But alas, as we would come to find, my DirectTV package doesn't presently include the Sundance channel. (...hope "The Player" turns out to be as good as we both remember it)

Yeah, pretty much, Twink.

Now don't get carried away here, Twink! (...that little "complimentary preamble" down there of mine was primarily in service to set up that joke about my dearly departed Pop and his ideas about haircuts back in the day!!!) LOL

Yeah...well...as Billy Crystal says in that movie(made after 1969, I might add)... "Have fun stormin' the castle!" LOL

Oh BOY! Here we go AGAIN, folks! (...where's Tootsie when ya really need her..err..him, HUH?!)

>Lets see a remake with Iraq the new setting. I thought 1999's "Three Kings" was a very well done film which spotlighted the "absurdist" viewpoint of that war and in a similar manner to how Coppola presented his view of the Vietnam War. >How come Hollywood stopped making war movies anyway? What about "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty" ? They're both fairly recent films...and GOOD ones, I might add.

True, and good points all. However, in a screwball comedy such as "My Favorite Wife", I've always thought these sorts of plot points to be much more acceptable to overlook than in dramas. In fact, you're almost forced to accept them in screwball comedies in order to appreciate the films at all.

Randolph Mantooth(what a name, HUH?!) played 'Gage', sfpcc. Hmmmm..."Superior Donuts" was the play's title you saw him in, huh?! (...obvious joke to follow) Sooooo, he's gone from playin' Firemen to playin' Cops now, eh?!

Okay Mr.R, now MacMurray I can see...but Jack Carson??? Sorry, but Jack always seemed to me to look like the kind of guy who's idea of exercise was moving his head from left to right while watching the horses race at Hollywood Park. (...'cause if he WAS into exercising, sorry, but his pudgy body showed little results of it...especially as he aged)

Good try, Mr.R, BUT word has it that Gage and Desoto have been retired and drawing a healthy pension from the L.A. City(or was it County?) Fire Department since 1994. (...and with Gage now living comfortably up in Lake Arrowhead with his 3rd wife, and with Desoto still residing in his Encino residence with his first wife...though there's talk that HIS wife has been spending WAY too much time lately at Freddy's Bar and Grill on Ventura Blvd while imbibing WAY too many dirty martinis by herself on this one particular barstool)

Wait ham! I've just thought of another possible cause for Dick's car becoming this fiery infernal....and from which if I haven't mentioned before here yet that I'm VERY glad to hear Dick was able to escape. Ya see, MAYBE this wasn't Jaguar's fault at ALL! Now, you know how they often have those incidences of extreme "road rage" out there in La La Land?!(well, at least THIS old ex-Angeleno knows of 'em, anyway) And soooooo, MAYBE these sorts of incidences out there have NOW progressed to the point that they're usin' incendiary RPGs INSTEAD of just your garden variety 9mm handguns when someone feels overly insulted by another motorist's actions?! AND, maybe Dick was just in the wrong place at the wrong time??? (...just a theory here, of course...as always, your mileage may vary)

I would think that it would have had to have started as an electrical short circuit somewhere under the hood(wait...it's a Jaguar, isn't it...I mean under the "bonnet") or under the instrument panel. (...though WHEREVER it started, it might be time for Jaguar to update that there "Jaguar Safety" webpage you linked and by adding a disclaimer or two, EH?!) LOL

Wow, you guys and gals are good! (...now MY guess wouldn't been that what all those boys had in common was that my father would've said they all needed haircuts!!!) LOL

>Rob Petrie in a car? Why, SURE FlyBack! Doncha remember when he bought that shiny new 1964 "Tarantula" sports car??? (...and much to Laura's consternation...though NOT as much to her consternation as that time he bought that little "Geronimo" motorcycle, of course!)

Hmmmm...Jaguar, eh?! And here I thought Jags didn't use Lucas("The Prince of Darkness") electrics in their cars anymore!!!) LOL

Btw Dothery, I couldn't agree more with your take on "Our Very Own". Being adopted as an infant myself 61 years ago now, one of my earliest recollections was of my parents telling me of my adoption, and the manner in which they explained it to me. The way they did it was to almost make it sound as if I was 'extra special' and wanted by them to such a great degree that it instilled a lifelong 'pride'(for want of a better word) in the circumstances of my becoming a member of the family. (...and thus I TOO remember thinking the very same thing as you the first time I watched this flick when I was about 14 or 15 y/o on some movie matinee TV program in L.A....yep, I remember thinkin' somethin' along the lines of: "WHAT the hell is wrong with this Blyth chick? Hey you spoiled brat, get OVER IT already and be PROUD of your parents!")

Yeah, and let us not forget how the fortunes of Hostess Twinkies seemed to take a decided downturn after Ann stopped hawking them on TV, TOO!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_2P1anN658 (...coincidence?...YOU be the judge!)

Whaddaya talkin' about..."back on topic"? Heck, I "slandered" the poor guy what with all that talk of "Collagen injections" here, now didn't I?!!! LOL

>Had you been vain, you would have worn sunscreen and taken better care not to have lines LOL Now finance on the other hand......LOL Oh, so you've also heard about all those collagen injections he gets at that "doctor's" office next door to that gym of his too, have ya?! (...yeah, evidently everybody already knows about that!) LOL

Hmmmm....sounds like somethin' browne1 should immediately be notified of, if ya ask me! All complaint in these regards should of course be directed to him/her for further review. (...but sorry calvinnme, I'm unfortunately much too busy at the moment to take care of this for ya, so you'll have to do it yourself)

Hmmmm...and here I would've thought TCM would've held this one back for August 32nd's George Nader SUTS day...and when the classic "Robot Monster" will be shown starting at 8pm EST...okay...8:04pm EST and after Bob Osborne tell us the story of how the idea of the gorilla suit and the diving helmet would all come together!!! (...which btw word is they're ALSO gonna show his cousin Ralph's "Unsafe At Any Speed" short subject film right afterward...though word ALSO is that all members of the Corvair Car Club of America are gonna boycott TCM for the day because of it!)

Sooooo...in essence you're sayin' Redford isn't NEARLY as vain as I am, HUH?! LOL

Can't disagree with anything you just wrote, James. It's just that in these sorts of "close calls", I think "erring" on the side of the star's behalf isn't such a bad thing in almost all cases, and especially if these second tier stars did actually headline some lesser known or little remembered films during their careers. (...and in fact, some of those "lesser known or little remembered films" are sometimes what puts the "fun" in this whole SUTS thing, because those tend to be the films which are a little less shown on TCM, and occasionally they turn out to be a "pleasant surprise" to discover or rediscover)

I think I know what you're talkin' about here, Lavender. Just last week my wife purchased one of those enlarging lighted mirrors for our bathroom counter. And so I've stated using it to shave. And, ooooh-WEEE! How that baby shows every little crease in MY face now makes me think of how I should have DEFINITELY started using sunblock YEARS before I did and before hittin' the ol' tennis courts under all that SoCal sun back in the day!!! LOL

>The school building and yard look like the one in The Blackboard Jungle. They were both M-G-M films and done just a few years apart. THAT'S why it looked so familiar! Good catch there, John. I'll bet you're right!