Dargo2

Twink, unless I'm missin' somethin' here, where are you seeing "Art Deco" in that house? It's a "Spanish Colonial Revival" style.

While not strictly about "cats", but "cathouses", this opening title sequence by graphic designer/film maker Saul Bass and accompanied with a memorable tune composed by the great film scorer Elmer Bernstein, is still one of the best in all of cinema for my money... (...and probably better done than the rest of the movie...well, at least the cat is a better actor than Laurence Harvey is, anyway!!!) LOL

Yeah, yeah, I know Twink, and I get it. Ya see I get that some people just have a certain "somethin'" about 'em that many people will find "attractive", though not necessarily based upon a "classic sense of aesthetics".

>I don't know what men think is handsome. Maybe you look for feminine looking guys because you are wired to look at women? Uh huh...suuuuure. THAT must be it, alright. Which of course must explain why I always thought THIS guy was about as handsome a guy as they come, 'cause just LOOK as how pretty he was as a woman!... LOL

>...you probably just talk about the "u" business as a running joke here.) U are exactly right here, my dear. It's always just offered up as lighthearted banter, of course.

Oh, okay. I get that I suppose. (...I guess it's kinda like how I've always had a little thing for Una Merkel, and even though she was never a raving beauty)

>So the farther west you go, the wilder it gets? Dude! I thought you said you lived out there in L.A. for a while! (...so need you ASK this?!!!) LOL

No argument here. McQueen was great as 'The Cooler King' in that exceptionally well done WWII film, though I think his best work was in "The Sand Pebbles" and "Papillon". The only argument I'll give ya is that while I really like McQueen is just about everything he ever did, for the life of me I will never figure out why some women think he's "quite good looking". (...'cause to tell ya the truth, this straight male here has pretty much always thought his looks were about average at best)

>and I AM WOMAN LOL (and a housewife, so I guess I fall into that 2nd category, not the first Sans Fin mentions) Well of COURSE, Lavender! 'Cause IF you fell into that FIRST category, you'd probably be more inclined to be talkin' about who was sexier: Ava Gardner or Rita Hayworth!!! (...well, I suppose that would be if you were one of those "Lipstick" kinds of the "first category" anyway, huh!) LOL

Sans, after readin' this earler post of yours here... >Lilac/lavender was noted as being used predominately on personal websites of male homosexuals. It was a close second to be on websites of recipes and decorating tips of non-professionals. I must wonder if it was the intent of the site designers to have the schedules associated with gays and housewives. ...I gotta ask ya the following here: Because I think Louis Jourdan is prettier than Tyrone Power, does this mean my new favorite color should be Lilac/Lavender??? LOL (...you'd had have to have read the "Joan Fontaine is British" thread to get this one!)

When my wife and I still lived and worked there, as soon as each new segment of the Metro Line would open, we'd hop on the terminus of the "Green Line", which was a few miles from our home in the South Bay(beach) area of L.A County(and is still to this day known as "The rail line that goes nowhere", because it STILL doesn't go all the way into LAX as it was originally planned to do so), and we'd ride that new section of the Metro Line just for kicks. And, I remember being very impressed how they "themed" the Hollywood Red Line subway stations of which you speak, though as you said, the cars on that line weren't very crowded at all...THOUGH this has now probably been almost 20 years ago now, and so maybe they're being used much more by the public. What I always thought was 'real justice' however, is that for years "The Westside" fought tooth and nail to keep the Metro Line from their area("It would bring all that riff-raff east of us here to our little neighborhoods" was their battle cry...you know, the whole "Nimby" mentality) but NOW the Westside has THE worse traffic in all of L.A.! (...serves 'em right!!!)

Well, tell ya what. So it won't seem too much of hijacking of this thread, I'll frame my reply to you using Joe Gillis as the imaginary protagonist here. Ya see, after G.I. Joe(Gillis)returned from the battlefields of WWII, the metropolitan area of Los Angeles grew like wildfire and with new housing developments springing up ever further from any of the rail transit system lines which the Pacific Electric Company could provide. And thus, returning G.I.Joe found that purchasing an automobile would be the most convenient manner in which to get to his new place of employment...most likely a defense plant OR if he had any talent, possibly as a screenwriter at one of the Hollywood film studios (clever, aren't I?! ) And so by the early 1950's, the Pacific Electric Company(aka "The Red Cars") found they had an ever decreasing ridership and began losing money, which made their acquisition by General Motors(remember: "What's good for General Motors is good for America") seem like a no-brainer. And so, yes, GM felt it could make even MORE money by selling off the assets of the P.E. Co. and replacing all those Red Cars with nice diesel fume-spewing and road congesting buses. (...and because the voters of Los Angeles county voted down a 1966 bond measure to create a whole new and modern rail system, which would delay the construction of a new and modern rail system for almost two decades before another bond measure for mass transit would finally meet with voter approval and now known as the "Metro Line", because it would finally become apparent to these LA area voters that any large city worth its salt SHOULD have a mass transit system in place, and because said voters probably finally got tired of sitting still for hours on the L.A. Freeway system while attempting to get to their destinations)

>....Sprocket Man is alive and well. LOL (...though not now living in Argentina, I presume!)

Thanks for the added info here, Gorch. I have to admit I was previously unaware of that. Very interesting stuff, indeed! And speakin' of Ekins, you probably also know that he did a lot of the driving in that granddaddy of car chase scenes in "Bullitt", and is the guy who drops his Triumph motorcycle and slides along the highway as the Green Mustang and black Charger are coming his way. (...btw, I met Bud a few times at some of the motorcycle shows and swap meets in SoCal over the years, and a few of my buddies and I attended the memorial service they held a few months after his death in '07 at the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank...I've always thought that was nice of the WB people to do that)

LOL Nah, not really, Hibi. I just couldn't resist usin' your misspelling to play off my earlier and now seemingly ubiquitous "British/French superfluous 'u'" thing, that's all.

AND, he really wanted to do the barbed wire motorcycle jump in "The Great Escape" TOO as you probably know and COULD have done it also, but the producers of the film told him, no way Harvey Mushman(his motorcycle racing pseudonym), and so he called his racing buddy and stunt rider Bud Ekins and asked him to do it...which he did. (...this is mentioned just in case there might be some folks around here who still think it was Steve that did that famous motorcycle jump)

Btw, all this talk of Ty reminds me of one of the things I found a bit odd in last night's showing of "This Above All", and that would be his accent, his American Midwestern accent to be precise. I mean IF the guy was supposed to a British soldier, then couldn't they have at least added somethin' into the plot where they explain his lack of a British accent because he was maybe brought up in Canada or somethin'? 'Cause his "R"s were definitely pronounced MUCH too hard for him to be a British subject all his life, and among(st) the many other of his pronunciations throughout this film. (...I mean Fontaine, California bred girl that she was, could conjure up a Brit sounding accent in movies as we all know)

Well, didn't I just admit that he was "cute"??? (...especially like I said with that cute little turned up nose o' his!!!) LOL

Hey now, MissW! Don't go blamin' ME here, lady. Ya see it was YOU who brought the whole "Canadian" thing into this baby! I just brought it into the conversion 'cause we couldn't figure out if Joan is more BRITISH than she is American, and so I offered up a little plan to see if we could settle this little conundrum once and for all...REMEMBER?! I mean just 'cause you folks up there north of the 49th could never totally break away from some of the silliness associated with the BRITISH Crown(and language), that's none of us good ol' 'Mericans' fault, ya know! LOL (...btw...I forgot to add...and while this is comin' to ya courtesy of a straight male's viewpoint, I think Jourdan was every bit as "pretty" as Power was if not more so, 'cause Jourdan had a more classically defined nose than Power's little turned up number...which I suppose I might concede makes Power more "cute" but definitely NOT "prettier"!!!!) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 7, 2013 1:41 PM

Aah...Tom Hatten. And what a excellent host he was for that program. (...sorry folks, but Arturo just brought back some pleasant childhood memories of my own here)

>I don't know anyone who likes it, except it seems to be very popular among native Hawaiians, who seem to love it. That's 'cause they know how to make it edible. Ya just slice up the stuff in 1/2" thick strips, fry it up in a pan, and add a pineapple ring to it on a hamburger bun, and it ain't half bad! (...I used to hate the stuff myself ya see, but then they opened a Hawaiian fast food restaurant near my old place of employment of LAX, and after a while I got hooked on it for lunch)

>In honor of Fred MacMurray day we should all drink a toast to him , Jose Ferrer style. LOL Sooooo, word got over to you guys on the Reluctant about all that, huh?!

>And I agree about Louis Jordan. Prettier than many of his female co-stars! Ahem, excuse me here Hibi, but I'm pretty sure Louis the pretty Frenchman's last name is spelled with one o' those superfluous letter 'u''s...as in "Jourdan". (...which btw and in case you didn't know, is where I'm pretty sure the Brits got THEIR use of the superfluous letter 'u'...from the French!) LOL

Actually, I DID notice those similarities in the two films last night, MissW. However, what I think I noticed MORE was that while I thought Joan never looked prettier than her role in "Letter from an Unknown Woman", Louis Jourdan was probably THE "prettiest" man EVER in films...and not a bad actor, either. Though I guess when you're THAT pretty, somehow you can't seem to remember the faces of others...WHICH of course is my way of sayin', Now c'mon, HOW could he not remember who Joan was at the opera??? I mean, I know he played the ultimate playboy there and had women up the wazoo(both literally AND figuratively I would guess LOL), but to be totally clueless about the ONE women in his life who would be his lost "muse"? (...though I still have to admit the acting, Ophuls' direction, the dialogue, the sets and the cinematography had me impressed with this film)

Well ya know folks, we COULD settle this once and for all IF we could just find Joan's email address and ask her how if she spells the following words: "color", "labor", "favorite" and say "neighbor". (...'cause of course IF she spells 'em with that there superfluous letter 'u', then I THINK we'll know if she's more Brit than Yank!!!)