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Here's the trailer for ODE TO BILLY JOE: Seems like nothing no good ever comes up on Choctaw Ridge . . .

I love this trailer.

Thanks for sharing this bit of trivia, LHF.

I suspect # 6 is TORA LAS VEGAS

******SPOILER ALERT****** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rosebud is a sled.

I've never seen IT's TOUGH TO BE FAMOUS. That one intrigued me so I recorded it to watch later.

"I'm a pretty girl, Mama." I love that moment.

Yes, LHF, they are Mom Jeans indeed. Not very flattering. The ones in the photo below are better. ONE ON ONE is scheduled to air on TCM on September 9.

How wonder how many takes it took for Eleanor Parker to say the line in HOME FROM THE HILL about the other woman "mewing" without cracking up.

Here are Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor on the Tallahatchee Bridge.

While Lucille Ball is primarily known for her work on television, beginning with her iconic role of Lucy Ricardo on I LOVE LUCY , she made a number of films prior to becoming a television legend, as well as some after she became loved around the world as "Lucy." I admit that I have only seen a few of her films. In BEST FOOT FORWARD she plays a divaesque version of herself (her character is a movie star named Lucille Ball). In THE BIG STREET, she plays a selfish nightclub singer who treats the doting Henry Fonda like dirt. For those who have seen many of Lucille Ball's movies, how do feel that her work in film compares to her work on television?

I saw ODE TO BILLY JOE on VHS in the 1990s I think. My mother loved Robby Benson. And my grandmother liked that he was Jewish.

I have stated this before but Joan Fontaine has such a spontaneous-sounding delivery in REBECCA that is truly remarkable.

I caught some of HOME FROM THE HILL today. The Southern accents were pretty bad generally but there were moments here and there with some authentic sound. The scene where the mother (I think it was Eleanor Parker) tells her son (George Hamilton) about his father's philandering and reveals that the father has an illegitimate son was very strange indeed. Although generally the scene struck me as comical (especially the mother's Hollywood-Southern accent and melodramatic delivery and the son's equally melodramatic reactions) there was something about it that was genuinely moving. The part about the mother's discovery of the "mewing" other woman shortly after her marriage was very odd.

Here's a new international TV spot for STAR WARS:THE FORECE AWKENS that is currently airing:

Tomorrow's Summer Under The Stars honoree is New Trier alum, Ann-Margret.

Max Baer Jr wrote and produced the drama Macon County Line (1974), in which he played Deputy Reed Morgan. It was the highest-grossing movie per dollar invested at the time. Made for just $110,000, it earned almost $25 million at the box office. This record lasted until The Blair Witch Project broke it in 1999.

Here are the weekly schedule links again. http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-01 1. Gene Tierney 2. Olivia de Havilland 3. Adolphe Menjou 4.Teresa Wright 5. Fred Astaire 6. Michael Caine 7. Katharine Hepburn http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-08 8. Raymond Massey 9. Robert Walker 10. Joan Crawford 11. Rex Ingram 12. Robert Mitchum 13. Ann-Margaret 14. Groucho Marx http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-15 15. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr 16. Patricia Neal 17. Lee J. Cobb 18. Vivien Leigh 19. John Wayne 20. Mae Clarke 21. Alan Arkin http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-22 22. Marlene Dietrich 23. Debbie Reynolds 24. Warren Oates 25. Virginia Bruce 26. Greta Garbo 27. Monty Woolley 28. Ingrid Bergman http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-29 29. George C. Scott 30. Gary Cooper 31. Shelley Winters

The final scene in THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US: There are no words to describe the power of it. I wonder what direction De Sica gave to Luciano De Ambrosis.

"Put ze candle back." Teri Garr in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

From The Grammarphobia Blog "In stir on the Jersey Shore" September 29th, 2010 Q: Why have I never found anybody from outside New Jersey who knows what “in stir” means? We of NJ have a soft spot for those in the slammer or merely busted, like Snooki and Ronnie on “Jersey Shore.” A: As we’re sure you realize, New Jersey doesn’t have a monopoly on the phrase “in stir.” In fact, it doesn’t even come from New Jersey. The phrase was first recorded in England. Here’s the story. The word “stir” has been used as a noun for a prison since the mid-19th century, according to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang. That much we can be sure about. The word was sometimes spelled “stur” and originated in the Romany words sturiben (a prison) and staripen (to imprison), Cassell’s says. A 19th-century source, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, first published in London in 1889, says “stir” comes from staripen, adding that “stardo in gypsy means ‘imprisoned.’ ” This dictionary, edited by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland, calls “stir” an abbreviation of a longer slang word for a prison, spelled “sturbin” in the US and “sturiben” in Britain. The Oxford English Dictionary, however, seems to disagree, saying the origin of the slang term “stir” is unknown. The OED doesn’t say why it rejects the Romany origin. But the modern verb “stir,” from the Old English verb styrian, has also had negative meanings over the years: to make a disturbance, to cause trouble, to revolt, to provoke, and so on. Such activities could of course land a person in jail (or “in chokey,” as P. G. Wodehouse liked to say). But those old meanings are now rare or obscure for the most part, except in the sense of “stir things up,” which isn’t always a bad thing to do. In the journal Modern Language Notes in 1934, J. Louis Kuethe argued in favor of the Romany etymology. “Staripen, steripen, and stiraben have all been given as spellings of the Romani word for ’prison,’ ” he writes. “When these variations are taken into account, the Gypsy origin of stir is quite acceptable phonetically.” Since the slang term originated in the mid-19th century, Kuethe says, “it seems much more plausible that the word should have originated from a contemporary source such as the Romani, rather than from the Old English styr which disappeared centuries ago.” Wherever it came from, everyone agrees that the word first showed up in print in 1851. That’s the year of the OED’s first citation, which comes from a collection of articles and interviews by Henry Mayhew entitled London Labour and the London Poor. The quotation: “I was in Brummagem, and was seven days in the new ‘stir’ (prison).” The term “Brummagem” was a local nickname for the English city of Birmingham. Soon, however, the phrase “in stir” (without the article) was the usual slang term for “in prison.” This OED citation is from A Child of the Jago, Arthur Morrison’s 1896 novel about the slums of London: “A man has time to think things out, in stir.” And as we all know, someone sitting in prison is likely to go “stir crazy,” a term the OED traces back to 1908. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/09/in-stir.html

I'm still trying to figure out "Uh-lah-kay."

I've never seen SUMMER OF '42, but I am looking forward to it.

It accentuated her turtleneck oh so chicly.