Dargo2

Yeah, well, I STILL say it's the weight of those big bushy fake EYEBROWS!!! (...though of course I suppose this DOES now beg the question..."But what about DOROTHY MALONE???")

Eeh! Easy explanation here...about the whole "eyesight" thing that is, MissW. Once they took off those fake eyebrows they had plastered on her face, the lack of weight of 'em allowed her to see MUCH better overall! (...uh huh...it's kinda the same thing as when they did the same thing to Donna Reed's face during the time in that other movie when Jimmy Stewart was never born and he chases after her in Pottersville...I mean SHE'S wearin' glasses there TOO, remember?!...and she sure isn't wearin' 'em while they're livin' in Bedford Falls, RIGHT?!) HERE! See what I MEAN?!.. Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 10, 2013 3:01 PM

Yeah Sans, and pretty much what I just told tracey there. (...BUT I gotta admit the "rabid llama" thing about yourself WAS a nice additional touch!) LOL

Well like I said Hibi, THAT'S just one o' those Vinny Price flicks that ya gotta go all "William Castle-esque" on or you'd be missin' out on the "complete experience"! And here I would've thought you'd know THAT! Yep, in FACT whenever I know beforehand that they're gonna show Vinny in "House on Haunted Hill", I always rig up in my living room and up above my TV set that glow-in-the-dark skeleton that I ALSO keep out there in my garage for just such an occasion.

HEY! Are they gonna show "The Tingler"??? 'Cause if they ARE, then I'll get my Lazyboy lounger all rigged up with that joy-buzzer I have somewhere out there in my garage and REALLY get into THAT one! Yep, like they say, "A Man's home IS his (William) Castle"!!!

Actually tracey, that IS the very thing that MAKES IT funny....that in this day and age there are STILL people, both men AND women, who think like that, AND who go to the polls in order to elect those very people to those governmental offices of which you speak. So don't go solely blamin' the people who get elected, my dear. (...and now after this slight "correction", I think we better move away from this tangent here)

>Jack Palance's character in The Silver Chalice is a sort of magician. I know after he once placed ads in the newspapers about this film, Paul Newman had hopes that this film would "magically disappear" anyway.

Okay, Tom...Mystery solved.... I mean, wouldn't YOU be appreciative and thus maybe a little more inclined to like somebody who'd pull an arrow out of YOUR shoulder after those pesky Indians put it there?!

Lavender, you probably remember me tellin' the folks around here that a few years before Vinny's death, he(and Art Linkletter) sat right behind me and my wife at the Director's Guild Theater in L.A. during a showing of this film. And then later on after the showing, we walked up to him in the lobby while he graciously sat and discussed the film and signed his autograph with his fans, and I told him how much I always enjoyed his over-the-top but perfect for the movie performance and how when I'd tell others about how funny he was in it, almost everyone I said that to would react in an astonished manner because they would never think of him being in a comedy. He laughed and told me how much he appreciated hearing my comment, and said one of the things he regretted in his life was that he didn't do more of that genre, as he really enjoyed doing that role. (...and ya know, as a spoof of "The vast wasteland of television", this film IS still quite fresh in some ways) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 10, 2013 10:51 AM

>And, of course, no matter how many low angle shots they have of Clift and no matter how relatively short the fight, Monty Clift hold his own in a fist fight with John Wayne? Gimme a break! Oh, I don't know, Tom. I mean if Jimmy CAGNEY could always beat up guys twice his size, then WHY couldn't Monty CLIFT??? LOL (...saaay, maybe THIS is why CAGNEY only ever made one Western too, HUH?!)

>Anyway, in a fiction story, there are many ways to get out of a bad marriage. Yep! According to Paul Simon there's about 50 of 'em!

Nicely done photo sequence of what I was talking about, Tom! And of course, you could do the very same thing with the other two gentlemen in question here, also. (...AND all three of 'em could summon those tears on command also, and yet is something we seldom actually recall remembering because of our primarily thinking of 'em as "tough guys") Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 10, 2013 9:23 AM

Actually Sepia, the whole cinematography in "Kane" was revolutionary, and thus probably the very reason why the argument COULD be made that to remake THIS film would be a very questionable endeavor to undertake for ANY latter day director, because while the story of ANY man told in flashback format has been successfully done many times since, the story of one Charles Foster Kane will ALWAYS be associated with how revolutionary the camera work was of Gregg Toland's.

You folks DO realize that all three of these giants of film acting had one thing in common, don't ya?! It's all "in their eyes". All three of 'em possessed that knack of being able to use those spherical bodies to project their characters' inner emotions like few actors ever have.

While "Red River" is my favorite "John Wayne movie" and right up there on my list of all-time favorite Westerns, I too have always felt that despite Clift's very good acting in this film, he did lack the "physical presences" for the role he plays in it. It's always seemed to me as if he's a "New York dandy" dressing up in cowboy attire. And so, yes, I know what you mean here, Tom. The only idea I can come up with as to why Dru's character might fall for him is that Clift through his good acting IS successful as coming across as the "cool and unflappable one", and so much like how Steve McQueen in his many roles created a similar persona on screen, many women(and men) find that to be an attractive trait.

THOUGH, isn't it true your favorite ROCK band is still Rush, MissW??? (...uh huh...and so why would THAT be, HUH..err..EH?!)

Yeah slayton, and not only all THAT, but maybe the second sexiest overbite in all of Hollywood after Gene Tierney's TOO!!!

LOL HEY now, lady! I TOLD ya already, EVERYBODY was wearin' those suckers back then!!! (...man, some things ya can NEVER live down, huh!)

Yep, except of course when it's TOO MUCH fun to kid people about their tendency to occasionally be presumptuous and/or pretentious! And THEN of course ALL bets are OFF, and there's NO "age limit" to mind! (...btw, I of course have SOLELY been referring to that mean old bitty of a character that Gladys Cooper played in this flick...uh huh)

>Do you know why everyone puts up with that mean old lady?? Now Fred, I'm SURE you know that it's just "good manners" to always be deferential to those in their senior years, and thus it would always "poor form" to, say, kid them about their tendency to sometimes be less than open to new possibilities?!!! (...and something of which I'm SURE you're still cognizant enough to have noticed that unfortunately I often fail to comprehend!!!!) **** here

>Well I do call the town Frisco. Anyone that would be offend with that, well, I put them in the same category as those that find remakes offensive! LOL Right on, Brother! Right on!!! (...his could mean I might need to purchase yet ANOTHER six-pack of that beer, ya know!)

>Okay, now that I've said my piece, any brickbats? Nope. Not from THIS quarter, anyway. (...but then again, what ELSE is new, EH?!) LOL

Oh c'mon, James! SAY it..."FRISCO"! It DOES trip off the tongue MUCH easier than sayin' "San Francisco", ya know. Uh huh...kinda like sayin' "L.A."!!! LOL (...oh, and btw...I DO have to admit that "Frisco" IS probably THE most beautiful city in all of these United States...just in case people think I have somethin' against the town, which I don't...I just have somethin' against pretentious folks no matter WHERE they reside, THAT'S all)

I was actually thinking this very same thing earlier myself, LP. Yep,there ARE many subtle and overt differences between the north and south portions of my old home state. Take for instance how movies made in and around "Frisco"(yeah, I know how much that upsets some of 'em up there when someone has the "audacity" to call their little city that, and so THAT'S why I LOVE to tweak their snobbish little noses by callin' it that...HAHAHA...ah, but I digress) differ from those movies made about my old home town of L.A. (...it IS perfectly acceptable to abbreviate the name of "Los Angeles", ya know!) LOL

Well, I DO hear that having a minimum of 7% body fat DOES help in keeping a body afloat, ol' buddy!!! (...saaaay, maybe if you'd start eatin' a MMMMmmmm FATBURGER now and then, you might find yourself a little more competitive in that 1/3rd of the Triathlon events you seem to have a little trouble in...oh wait, that's right...they don't have Fatburger stands back there in Philly, huh...sorry)