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It's a long long way from North Africa to Georgia but for some reason you have made the journey.......................now back to posts about Casablanca......................I love the charm and wit of the great movie but then I love (adore) both Bogie and Bergman. They's angels!!!!!!!!!!!

No point in getting yourself into such a tizzy. Life is what it is. While Kim Novak certainly deserves respect from the movie-loving culture of a half century ago and as much as possible from our present vacuous entertainment culture, she certainly does not deserve respect and honor from society as a whole. She was a great beauty not a person who developed a vaccine or or invented something of economic significance/enhancement or created a better society. She did not better the world such as a Mother Teresa did. She will remain famous and glorious to a declining many but she is what she was: a great beauty not an earthshaking stateswomen such as Thatcher. Far better beauties and greater actresses are ill remembered. Such is life.

"All glory is fleeting" for both the great and the small. That is just a part of life. While I'm sorry Kim Novak is not more recognized for the great and beautiful actress she was that is just life. She can not escape it any more than the small such as myself or you and yours can. Fame and fortune is just as fleeting as a glorious sunset. Today's handsome and beautiful "greats" will suffer the same thing in the future. No sense in lamenting what is a natural progression of history and life. I'm just glad so many are captured forever on film and tape and modern electronics with modern preservation so that even in ignominy and death they still will live on. Don't be so sad about perceived slights to the "greats" as that is just life as it was meant to be and is: "All Glory is Fleeting".

Somehow I really don't think you are anywhere remotely close to evening things out. I don't "adore" the movie but it's a great, must-see film for everyone whom has never seen it. I certainly don't dislike any movie simply because others really really like it. That's kinda over-the-top. One either enjoys a movie or one doesn't. Liking or disliking any movie intensely based on what others think about the movie is not a good viewability index IMO.

With a little help from his friends..............................

Monument Valley, Professor Valley, New Mexico, San Juan River, Colorado River, Valley of the Gods, Arizona, Utah in general: John Wayne made these famous in various films. Only a Yankee fan would only think stage sets and and sidewalks in regards to Wayne and Ford.. I'm only a few hours from most of these epic Ford filming sites. They dwarf the concrete Manhattan and smell so much better.

Haley Mills is 68!! That makes me feel very old indeed. Wow!.

The WW2 camo was truly amazing.

YANKEES!!! What an obnoxious nasty 4 letter cuss word!! My condolences to your fanhood. The one thing I love most about Wayne movies (not a big Wayne fan) is the overall lack of sidewalks and the glorious outdoor scenery in so many of them. Sidewalks are highly overrated as scenic commodities.

Me too. THIS would be an excellent movie for TCM to bring to us all. I could view Gina all day and Quinn playing the hunchback sounds really interesting.

No I hadn't recognized Judy Parfitt from the great series Jewel in the Crown!! I will pay more attention. Call the Midwife is a terrific series both my wife and myself enjoy tho like you say some of the birthing scenes are very intense. I love Sunday nights on PBS.

This is the filmed Pride and Prejudice version I like best from 1995. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0112130%2F&ei=V6FNU_CaJ6qj8gHciYEw&usg=AFQjCNH7CNnBMbdNsE6URefOmaztCfI8DQ&sig2=VrFCLKBDGtqyHOFbq1IZMg&bvm=bv.64764171,d.b2U

I have never ever thought Leslie Howard was miscast in GWTW. My opinion is that he was brilliant in the role as the ever saddened ever lost ever not-sure-who-he-was Leslie.

I'm gonna watch CALL THE MIDWIFE and MR. SELFRIDGE on PBS and then want to watch the silent SPIONE (1928) which I have never seen before. I have seen all the listed classic Easter religious epics too many times to want to view them again. Also I will be watching my Colorado Rockies play some B-Ball and clobber the Phillies earlier on Easter Sunday.

You're killing me!! You're killing me!! My old bulging eyeballs, trembling limbs, and irregular heart beat from viewing these divine beauties will be the death of me!! Keep 'em coming!! Please!

THE HUMAN COMEDY (1943). A wonderful and moving movie just shown on TCM. I have seen this fine Rooney (and so many others) movie several times and it gets better and better each time I see it. A wonderful poignant movie with a great mixture of comedy, sadness, and All-American timelessness. One of Rooney's very best.

That picture is most definitely the last nail in the coffin of the ancient British Empire and Monarchy. Poor Queen Elizabeth.

A HIGHER CALL is a terrific book. An absolute MUST read IMO.

In a Gadda Da Vida!!!!!!! Yea, 46 years old this year!!! The greatest Rock song ever with the incredible drum solo. Love it. My Rock anthem from my college wildness!!! In a Gadda Da Vida.htm In a Gadda Da Vida.htm

THE CHOSEN is definitely a "lovely film". Great great performances by all in it. Evocative!!

My wife and I have kind of a standing joke when one of us leaves the house: "I'LL BE BACK" from The Terminator. I often tell her to quit threatening me. All in good fun.

Enjoyed Rooney in HIDE-OUT (1934) today as a wise cracking farm kid. I had never seen the movie before and had not even realized he was in it until I started watching the movie. Rooney certainly was charismatic from youth to oldster. He had the "it" factor for sure.

Mongo for president!!!!

There are a great many French films I have not seen but of what I have seen GRAND ILLUSION (1937) and LA PASSION de JEANNE d'ARC (1927) are my two favorites.

The Da Vinci Code was a great great read but the movie was very average. The Shining was an awesomely scary King novel that was rather tough to read alone and at night decades ago for me but the movie I thought was pretty average and sometimes silly compared to the mind-bending novel. The horror theater of the mind is very very often much more terrifying than the silver screen especially with a psycho mind like Stephen King. The terrific novels of Ann Rice that were adapted for the silver screen were much much better reads IMO. Silence of the Lambs was a terrifying novel that WAS equaled by the absolutely riveting movie.