Dargo2

Yeah, I suppose you're right here. I seemed to have jumped from "boyish looks"" to "baby faced" here, huh. Alan Ladd also had those same "boyish looks" before the Demon Rum took it's toll on him...with coincidentally both Ladd and Redford once attempting to portray Jay Gatsby in film, and which now that I think of it, the latest film portrayal of that character being the "boyish looking" Leonardo DiCaprio.

Hmmm...I never thought of Redford as having a "baby face"...not with that jawline of his. I've always though him more the epitome of "WASP Preppy-ness"...and which of course served him especially well in "The Way We Were".

In the prison flick I'd say you're right, finance. However, in "Slander" I'd say her screen time is probably on a par with Johnson's or Cochran's. And to be frank myself here, before her SUTS day, I might have agreed with you about her 'deserving' this tribute, but after watching or re-watching a few of her films that day, I had a slight change of heart after noticing she did seem to carry enough of the load in many of the movies she was in and enough to maybe 'deserve' her day in the TCM spotlight....and even though I was never the biggest fan of hers.

>...I've always liked "boyish looking" men ! Big fan of Audie Murphy movies, are ya Twink???!!! LOL

Yeah maybe, and even with that "boy-next-door" face o' his, he could have possibly concentrated on playing tough guy or seedy character roles. (...I mean spendin' time in the L.A. County Jail didn't do Mitchum's career any harm, RIGHT?!)

Whaddaya mean, "SECOND Childhood", Twink? The wife keeps tellin' me I've never completely gone through the FIRST one yet! (...though truth be told, I'm pretty sure it was my "boyish charm" which enticed her to me in the first place, and so I've just always chalked up her frustrations in this regard about me under the heading, "Thou doth protest too much"!)

Yeah, we've HEARD about that time you were on the Bozo Show! (...now tell us, was it REALLY necessary to tell him to "Cram it clown!"???) LOL

Well, ironically, and if my own dearly departed father is any sort of indication in these matters, the older you'll get, the more vividly "Romper Room" will become a crystal clear memory of yours, BUT it'll become harder and harder to remember what you had for dinner just the night before!!! LOL (...yep, by the time the old guy was 80, he could probably tell ya PRECISELY what he did August 19th, 1928, BUT ask him if he'd eaten anything today, and he'd give ya the answer, "Yeah, I THINK so!"...and he was a pretty sharp cookie all the way to the end!!!)

Yeah..."Kiddie Crack"! LOL Though as I recall, the whole 'Do-Bee/Don't-Bee' thing was from the program "Romper Room".

LOL You definitely have a couple of funny takes on the film here, John. However, maybe you're too young to remember how successful the "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", "Howdy Doody", and the pre-cartoon version of "Beanie and Cecil" programs were with the young Boomer audiences of the 1950s, eh?! And even though the latter of those would soon become popular viewing for the parents of these Boomers, primarily because of the great comic wit of Bob Clampett, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler. And thus of course, those were the programs of that era which Van's character was supposed to have been patterned after. Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 19, 2013 12:40 PM

LOL Yeah, you're probably right! (...maybe my cynicism hasn't yet reached the "Glass Half Empty" level, huh!)

To answer your initial question here Hibi, Bob's interview with Miss Blyth about her experience on the "Mildred Pierce" set and her interplay with Joan Crawford was pretty much a reiteration of what she says on the TCM Original Joan Crawford Tribute short in which Miss Blyth supplies the narrative. Nope, I don't recall any new revelations made during the interview. (...gotta say though that Bob was right about Ann's appearance...she looked GREAT for an 84 y/o) Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 19, 2013 9:24 AM

Every once in a while I'll click on some Yahoo News item that seems as if it might be of interesting to me as I go online, Sepia. However, I no longer even bother to read the 'Comments' section below the article because I would eventually discover all it did by doing that was make me even more cynical about the present state of the public's ability to state an opinion in a reasonable and intelligent manner. Yep, I started noticing that on average it seemed one or maybe two at most out of ten of the comments posted read as if it came from someone with at least an 8th grade education or better. (...maybe you've noticed this too, eh?!)

Yes James, in many regards society has progressed for the better since the 1950s, however I'm still of the mind that at least in regard to the news business, there was been a slow and steady slide downhill in the quality and proportion of "real news" being broadcast(especially) since the days of Edward R. Murrow signing off with his signature tagline, "Good night and good luck".

Yeah, Flyback...think again, dude. Next time suggest remaking a movie set in 1959 or earlier. (...'cause as we all know, all movies made after that date are inferior to any that predated 'em!!!) LOL

Ya know Tom, while I watched this film last night, I started thinking about the relatively recently coined phrase, "50 is the new 40"(or "60 is the new 50", etc). And the reason I started thinking of this phrase is because maybe it IS true. 'Cause I gotta say, all those stars in this thing, and not ONLY JB, looked to me to be at least 10 to 15 years older than their years by today's standards. (..well, all of 'em except maybe Billie Burke...now SHE at 49 y/o at the time, still looked fairly youthful)

Well in THAT case, how about re-making ANOTHER "astronaut themed" flick from around that same era, "Capricorn One"...but THIS time they make it a little more true to life. (...in the remake, O.J. somehow escapes with his life!!!) LOL

And the dialogue, for the most part, is first rate and delivered expertly by all those stars. Watching it again last night also reminded me of how eerily close to real life JB was cast in it, with the phrase "The Great Profile" even being said by Lee Tracy's character to describe John Barrymore's has-been character.

>I think this was the time period in films. Preachy about the evils going on in society at that time. Too bad that more attention in reality wasn't paid about those gossip tabloids and their destructiveness. Darn right, Lavender, because this film depicted an era and actually presents scenes where and when those in the legitimate news business would scorn those such as the Cochran character who's business was tabloid journalism, and in contrast to today and how many if not most of the "legitimate" news sources often actually quote and reference many of the stories propagated by the tabloids, such as those from the Cochran character's modern day equivalent...the smarmy Harvey Levin and his "TMZ" brand of crap "journalism".

I dunno heuriger, but it's kinda soundin' to ME a little more as if our friend browne here is sayin' we should all be developing..ahem..suspicious minds! Uh-huh, 'cause apparently we're all caught in a trap, and we can't go on, 'cause he loves the directors' cuts too much, baby! (...I knew you'd especially appreciate this one)

So Joe, then Diane and Michael were the products of a later marriage, RIGHT?! (...sorry, couldn't resist)

De nada, Se?orita.

Hey browne! And...now...I'm...going...to...make...the...following...question...for... YOU...really...simple...and...easy...to...answer: While you typed all that out, which song was goin' through your head at the time? (a) "Rule Britannia" or ( "God Save The Queen" ???? (...questions with multiple choice answers ALWAYS being MUCH more simple to answer than those requiring essays, ya see!!!) LOL

Yes, you're correct about English being the international standard for air travel communication, but regarding the spelling of copyrighted intellectual properties, I would guess that that would all depend upon which English-speaking country said product had had its original copyrights established.

Probably not the reason John spelled the title of the British group Pink Floyd's song that way, Twink, and in the same vein as why Fleetwood Mac's hit album "Rumours" is also spelled in the British manner. (...and despite the fact that "Rumours" was recorded in California and Florida...I guess maybe in THIS case, when it came to decide the spelling of that album's title, the British Fleetwood/McVie/McVie contingent probably just out-voted the Yankee Nicks/Buckingham contingent, 3 to 2) ***I see John has answered your question while I was typing mine out*** Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 17, 2013 4:09 PM