CaveGirl

Excuse me, Dargo! Are you saying you think Wendell Corey was "good looking"? Sometimes men's opinions of other men's looks are fascinating to me. I always thought Wendell Corey's face looked like it was sculpted with a spatula which usually does not connote "good looking" but then that's me, so shallow and all. Sorry, other than that I do understand where you are coming from and he definitely was "sexless".

Speak for yourself, Miles Standish or should I say Dargo Standish! How dare you say I am not serious about Ozzy as a Noir Host. He's got more talent and humor than the typical noir host, and he has better hand gestures while verbalizing inanities. Okay, so he hasn't sweet talked Ann Savage into dating him yet like the typical noir wannabe, but still. Give the guy a chance. Ozzy surely as good as some who have been hosting such stuff at TCM, even if he does have the superfluous "u" in his name.

I am deadly serious. I can see it now. Ozzy hosting Noirfest on TCM and taking out all the retired noir vixens for dinner and drinks while the camera records his conversation. How hard would it be for Ozzy to ask the same questions they've heard a million times, like "What was Robert Mitchum like?" or "Did you enjoy working with Edgar Ulmer?" If Ozzy can remember song lyrics he could also memorize such questions and spew them out.

Uh, yeah but so are the self-proclaimed noir experts who host, James.

Only if you also place a vote for Fred Allen, Down.

But there are all those hidden meanings in McGuire Sister songs, for example we know that they weren't talking about donuts or coffeecakes in "Sugartime". Or maybe they were, considering that all bakery items are based on fertility symbols created in the Middle Ages. How's your cruller by the way?

Bogie, I just reread that book by the Parkland doctor, Charles Crenshaw and it was revealing. Haven't read the Meagher book so I will look for it. I sure wish Jada who worked at the Carousel would have written a book. I think Bugliosi should have stuck to the Manson trial stuff which he knew about and stayed away from JFK theorizing. I only own about twenty books on the crime but there's always room for more!

I'll start. I've always thought Robert Taylor was extremely handsome but totally sexless. Also rather boring, but that's a whole other thread. But certainly no Steve Cochran in terms of sex appeal on film. Next...???

I owe you one, Dargo. All these years I thought Miss Casswell was saying they looked like "Nappy rabbits". Thanks!

Haha! This reminds me of an interview they showed on Antenna with Dolly Parton on the Tonight Show. She told Johnny she found him very attractive. He was all bubbly and happy, then he asked her what other men she found attractive and she said "Don Knotts". Johnny then looked a bit downcast and nonplussed. To each his own, said the woman kissing her cow.

That's the exact description a friend of mine used for the movie "Short Cuts" by Robert Altman trying to dissuade me from seeing it. I then informed her that I liked those qualities in a film. Kind of like I'd watch a movie about Ted Bundy but I would not want to know him in person.

You mean there are people who actually like June Allyson? I thought they would have been committed to the Terminally Cute Asylum by now!

Why yes, you certainly may, Down! Thanks, since I kind of can see someone like Sarah being much more appealing in a physical way than Dolores Hart who looks a bit sterile and cold. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Oh, thanks since that was my question basically below. You just didn't "like" it. Uh, now I'm wondering, what did you not "like" about it particularly? Sorry for being so nosy!

Don' Lorna, does stating that you did not like a movie mean to you, that it is not a well made movie? Just curious.

You yearn for the urn, eh, Dargo?

How do you feel about Sarah Vaughn, Dargo? She's got some sex appeal but she also looks like she could give most men a Half-Nelson if they upset her.

I just spit out my Diet Coke! Actually I think Hermione is adorable and very cute looking but if she had a horrid personality, well maybe I'd not find her too attractive.

Anna Magnani? Not really "ugly" but she did have big circles under her eyes in "The Rose Tattoo" and looked a bit shopworn. But still was sexy!

Now remember, I didn't say Dolores would not appear "sexy" to another, just that she is "sexless". That means that she might be frigid while you are hoping to deflower the icy bloom. She's definitely no Gloria Grahame who projected a sex appeal even if she was playing ping pong onscreen.

Just like a Leonard Maltin review of "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" I can't see that Roger Ebert would have had much experience at singles bars which would make his review rather meaningless. One does have to know about the subject matter of anything one writes about to be worthwhile, doncha think? This would be like Mother Teresa reviewing the film "The Devil in Miss Jones".

I can't say that it is hard to understand why Castro might have wanted revenge on the Kennedy brothers since they had been out to get him by nefarious means for years. If we could only get Phyllis McGuire to spill the beans about what Sam said in bed, we'd have the assassination solved by now.

Bogie, you'd enjoy the book I mentioned since there are connections to Clay Shaw and the monkey virus stuff through David Ferrie. It's a really interesting book. Another one which is good rebuttal to Posner's is "Best Evidence" which discusses the surgical removal of Kennedy's brain after leaving Parkland Hospital and before he arrived at Bethesda Medical Base and how the Warren Commission basically ignored such facts. The most pathetic excuse for a book about the Kennedy assassination has to be the Bill O'Reilly one, which makes one believe that he used one of the Kardashian sisters to do his research, since it is so lame-o!

I always thought Dolores Hart was beautiful. But I also thought she was rather sexless, which of course is a good quality if one is to become a nun. Even Elvis didn't hit on her, which says a lot. That's why I don't see her as a Hitch heroine. Kelly was austere but icy on the outside and hot on the inside appearing. Hart seemed tepid in comparison.

You can do that, but just don't do it in public. This book is pretty far out and has interconnected bits about isolating a monkey virus that could have been the progenitor of aids, connections between Oswald and Ruby, CIA interventions in secret operative missions in Cuba and other locations.