CaveGirl

I'm sorry to hear Mr. Osborne will not be there but I do wish him best of health and hope he will return soon to the TCM fold.

Let's face it. CF just like Tennessee Williams, who would use a female character to portray a heterosexual attitude to a man, that was really based on a male attraction vis a vis, I think Truman liked to create male characters who seem to be heterosexual but are not. Like George Peppard in BAT. So...you really didn't like Mickey Rooney as an Asian, eh? I can't believe Fellini did not hire him to play an Italian in "La Dolce Vita" since the Mick could have been the Rossano Brazzi of America for sure! And we know the Mick could sing just as well as Mario Lanza and was a much better dancer.

Hey, Hamradio, it's fine that you didn't care for "Mockery" since your tutorial was super!

Yep, thanks, Limey Yep, thanks, Limey! I am going to have to depart. If I wanted to be part of a mockumentary on posting or other oddities, I would pick being an extra in the "Spinal Tap Reunited" movie. The TCM Message Board has become Hal, Junior. Bye, all!

I want to interview for the Space Cadet Programming position, Nip. I am suitably qualified, have a space suit and many references. I promise to immediately put the Caltiki movie on the schedule on my month of Bava festival!

Good lord, what is go Good lord, what is going on here? I hit the post button just once. I feel like I am under the auspices of the team from the "Outer Limits" and they are controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the post button.

Having never seen the Lon Chaney film "Mockery" I awaited it with anticipation last evening. It was worth the effort, and Chaney gave a performance worthy of a Dostoevsky novel's lead character. As the peasant, Sergei who saves the life of Countess Tatiana, his ability to change slowly into the more cynical adversary for her love was masterfully conveyed. Chaney acts internally and performs with his whole body, but in very subtle gestures which would not be out of tune with even an actor today. One can feel his emotions even when only watching him from the back. The downtrodden nature of his innocent peasant character comes through the screen magnificently due to Chaney's visual mannerisms which probably are heightened due to his silent screen experience. I also enjoyed seeing a very young Ricardo Cortez and Mack Swain. The only thing I did not like was the title, since "Mockery" did not seem to really typify the plot. Anyone else watch?

Me either! I am totally looking forward to seeing "Mockery" also, Bogie.

I don't think they have gotten to that season being released yet, Janet. I think they are only up to Season 4 maybe?

I saw her interviewed by I think Larry King. She seemed like a very naive and confused woman. I believe she admitted that the agent perhaps had encouraged the marriage and that she and Rock went to counselling, because, uh...Rock seemed to prefer going out at night to bars without her. The therapist later counselled them both separately and said that she had no marriage in reality and that Rock had the mentality of a ten year old boy. She said she still wanted to "save" the marriage.. I think she was a bit deluded.

So sorry, Janet from now on I will keep you apprised of all such special TCM showings!

Oh, how wonderful, Eugenia! I think that the juggling routine in "The Old Fashioned Way" by Fields is absolutely boffo! The other films are all so wonderfully Fieldsian too.

I own "The Psychotronic Video Guide" too, Lawrence. It is the movie buff's bible to be sure.

Thanks so much Lawrence for the visuals. Yes, Dick is a joy to behold in any film for sure!

I've been buying up those seasonal boxed set of AHP for the last few years and was thrilled to finally get the one with the Arthur episode as the season opener. It is truly black comedy at its best. "LTTS" is also such a favorite and reading the tale is fun too!

Much appreciation WG, for your most enlightening post. Your input was devoured by me and I'm sure others.

In honor of Alfred Steele, I shall be drinking Pepsi with some cognac added. Waiting to hear what drink others will be downing.

Mentioning the name, Katy Jurado always reminds me of this story. I think it might have been Jack Paar who said he was walking past some stores and at one, there was a sign on the window offering classes in "Judo Karate" and he said the person with him commented, "Wasn't that who was married to Ernest Borgnine at one time?" I thought you might enjoy that one, Columbo Fan!

Oh, honey it was not the loss of Tracy's arm that made me laugh at his attempts to off Borgnine! It was his general sense of malaise and out of shape appearance. Let's face it, Tracy looked by that point in his career like he'd been sitting at a desk for many years or the local pub. He was no magnificent specimen. Look how Robert Cummings looked years younger than his age, whereas Tracy looked years older. I agree, I'm sure a one-armed man can do karate and down a big guy like Borgnine, just not Tracy. The stunt man who was doing all the karate chops was easy to see in the clips. That was what got me to laughing out loud at the implication that old man Tracy could pull it off. Thanks!

I enjoyed watching TCM's broadcast of Corman's "Bucket of Blood" for the opportunity to see the great Dick Miller. We are lucky this stalwart of Corman films is still alive. He graced many films like "BOB" and "Little Shop of Horrors" and later in his career, he played the Walter Paisley role again in "The Howling" and "Twilight Zone: The Movie" as an homage, well to himself! He was born as a Christmas gift in 1928, to all fans of B-films particularly the more offbeat ones. With 177 credits to his name on IMDB, he has had a full career and is still kicking! He always makes me laugh in any role he essays and I'd love to meet him and thank him. I wish he would be a guest host on TCM! What's your favorite Dick Miller role? "IMDB Mini Bio A native of the Bronx, New York, Richard "Dick" Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, usually playing unlikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Not of This Earth (1957). His most memorable role would have to be that of the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist Walter Paisley, whose clay sculptures are suspiciously lifelike in A Bucket of Blood (1959) (a rare starring role for him), and he is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Vurson Fouch in Corman's legendary The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). Miller spent the next 20 years working in Corman productions, and starting in the late 1970s was often cast in films by director Joe Dante, appearing in credited and uncredited walk-on bits as quirky chatterboxes, and stole every scene he appeared in. He has played many variations on his famous Walter Paisley role, such as a diner owner (Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)) or a janitor (Chopping Mall (1986)). One of his best bits is the funny occult-bookshop owner in The Howling (1981). Being short (so he never played a romantic lead or a threatening villain) with wavy hair, long sideburns, a pointed nose and a face as trustworthy as a used-car dealer's, he was, and is to this day, an immediately recognizable character actor whose one-scene appearances in countless movies and TV shows guarantee audience applause."

Least favorite of the week would be "The Nun's Story" not because it is a bad movie but because I was having flashbacks of when the nuns at our school made us watch it hoping that many of the girls would have a vocation. Most favorite of course, "Bucket of Blood"! I just love movies about art inspirations.

I own HSH but an even better J.D. film is "Teenage Doll" from 1957 which pits one girl gang against the other. The Black Widows versus the Vandals and any movie with Fay Spain you just know is gonna be GREAT! Here's the IMDB synopsis: Teenage Doll (1957) A delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.

Thanks, Holden and yes the play is more explicit as you say. There is the scene in the film though where Blanche is obviously hitting on that very young man who comes to the door, if all recall.

That's so funny that you mention that, Miss Wonderly because I was going to add in my original post that one could also pick men who had "satyriasis" and after I was bleeped I was wondering if that word would have been relegated to the "four-asterisk" heap also. But you have proven that the similar condition in men, is not apparently an objectionable word here. Who knew!?