CaveGirl

Too bad Roky Erickson did not go further. There is some interesting thoughts about the 13th Floor Elevators in that book "Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll". Thanks, DGF!

You said a mouthful, Vautrin.

Oh, yeah Brando looked really good in the rain, Sepia! Excuse me, just reread your post and saw you wrote "Mr. Blandongs"! Sorry but I'm really surprised that typo did not get deleted. Could be a whole new movie starring Harry Reems.

Ya know, what Rose Kennedy said, Miss W.: "The birds still sing after the rain." I don't think that would have gotten me through all the tragedies but I guess it worked for her. But since you LIKE rain so much, for you the quote should be: "The birds still sing after a clear blue sky."

Wow, SR I'd totally forgotten about that scene in "Pleasantville" but you make a good point. Thanks for all your many submissions!

Dargo, Prince said he lived in Minneapolis because it was so cold that it kept "dangerous" people out. Uh, I guess your visits predated his comments!

But you could enter yourself in a wet tennis shoe contest, Dargo!

Yes, MissW that scene in BAT is a winner! I like rain too, but not so much that it blows my umbrella away. Just wondering, what's your favorite "rainy" movie? "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" or ???

Thanks, WG for such a beautifully expressed post. I certainly wish I had enjoyed the opportunity to read your sadly now defunct blog.

Hopefully no, since he's been dead since the late 1940's. By the way, I resent that during the competition for who is most boring at the TCM Message Board that my name was not entered into the contest. Surely I should receive the honor, being that I am often told how boring I am, when I inform people in the outside world that my favorite movie star is Don Defore, or when I try to show them the extended version of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", the director's cut. If a vote is taken, I beg all here to vote for me, since I have no other awards on my mantel, and would be most proud to be considered worthy of this title, especially from other film fanatics. Having just spent two hours writing down every movie directed by William Witney, and after organizing my photo tribute album to Grant Williams and putting my Roland Young collectibles in Rubbermaid containers for the garage, I certainly think I have proven that I am more boring than almost anyone alive.

I watched the entire Falcon film, since I wanted to see if Ricky or David would show up in Harriet Hilliard's office. No such luck! But it didn't matter because as usual, Tom Conway was a dapper and suave Falcon. In one scene, he was wearing a sartorially attractive cravat, formed from perhaps an ascot, under his white crew neck sweater, with maybe an alpaca sports coat in a light tone, and dark slacks. Impeccable! Sadly at the same time, Harriet was wearing the most horrid dress I've ever seen onscreen, with a pilgrimesque collar all decorated with white and dark rick rack. I have a horrible feeling that it might have been red rick rack which would make it all the worse. Nevertheless, the film still had staying power due to the many other people in it, which made it worthwhile like Edgar Kennedy, playing puppeteer to the Velma Dawson Puppets, and the movies most famous drunk, the great Jack Norton playing the 2nd tramp that wakes up the Falcon in his car in the woods. Another person enlivening the proceedings was Jane Randolph who must have dumped poor old Ollie from "Cat People" and realized he was a bore compared to the Falcon. Oh, we also had Cliff Edwards but no Jiminy Crickett sadly. The storyline was about fake bonds, rustic hotels named Pinecrest [which looked a lot like the one in "Twin Peaks", murder and unrequited love. All in all, another great Falcon programmer!

Boy, you have lived a really sheltered life and I guess never even attended an Italian wedding? At those I've seen lots of instances of where the women danced with each other while the men were off chewing the fat and standing around the open bar. Having been born back during the suffragette days I feel competent to answer all your questions. And let me assure you, that such instances of women doing things that you describe have absolutely nothing to do with being from the Island of Lesbos [not that there is anything wrong with that!]. Sure it was common in those days to have all the girls reined in together in a dorm or sorority house and they would dance with each other. This was also common also in all-girl Catholic colleges. Why I know someone who went to one, and the girls were not even allowed to wear shorts in their own dorm room, and this was in the early 1960's. At night they even had to be sure to wear robes over their pajamas or nightgowns if they needed to go to the little girls room. Now of course there were times when the girls were allowed out of the sorority house or dorm to attend formal dances that actually had men at them. But in the off times, when men were way off campus at their own colleges, the girls had to find someone to practice dancing with didn't they? So of course, they used their roommates or sorority sisters to play the men. Nothing so strange about this. Kind of the reverse of the Shakespearean habit of having all men in the cast of a play, pretending to be the women in all the scenes.

Great film with the great John Barrymore late tonite! Or maybe early tomorrow, if you are not a late night owl. Check it out: ARSENE LUPIN (1932) A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa. Dir: Jack Conway Cast: John Barrymore , Lionel Barrymore , Karen Morley . BW-84 mins, CC,

He's the "puppeteer"? They should put it on a double bill with "Being John Malkovich" maybe?

You guys are making me laugh! In a contest for who is most boring at the TCM site, I would say it has to be Charles Butterworth. I'm afraid posting facts about Robert Walker, Pere or Fils just doesn't make the grade.

I think I am going to have to agree wholeheartedly with everything in your post, CF! Love all the same choices that you have made. Oh, but I do have to warn you that spelling "favourite" with the extra "u" seems to get Dargo upset. Why, I don't know. I like to spell "glamour" that way too!

Miss Wonderly, I'm really glad you were not here the day I posted that my favorite sports movie was "The Bob Mathias Story" which stars Bob Mathias as Bob Mathias! Being redundant is one of my better qualities some say!

What always freaked me out about Robert Walker Junior, oh CFGPF [having trouble keeping up with your monikers!] was how exactly he resembled his daddy. Kind of spooky and I bet it unnerved Jennifer Jones since she basically dumped poor old Robert Senior for the love of a man who could do more for her career.

Okay, I forget where I read this but it seems that holier than thou Bing Crosby was noted for picking up women in each film he was in. What I read was, that if you want to know who he got involved with you should just look for any woman in the cast that goes on to the next film he is in. I also read concerning him with Grace Kelly, that she also was noted for taking up with any man in the cast who could help move her career on to the next spot up, and had an affair with Crosby and look what happened next. Of course, these all all unsubstantiated comments. It does seem though that Errol Flynn said basically the same thing about Crosby and said the studios would protect their sacred cows, and leave Flynn out there as the whipping boy and scapegoat for any scandalous behaviour. Great topic!

This immortal known as an actor, composer, songwriter and author, was educated at the Jesuit Academy in Italy. He was a playwright and actor in Rome, then created the radio programs "Art Linkletter's Party", "Stop That Villain", and the "Radio Hall of Fame". He appeared in the road production "Time of the Cuckoo". His brother was famed composer Otto Cesana. But his biggest claim to fame was inventing the character of "The Continental" which he used in a half hour show of the same name on tv in 1952-1953, which was the basis of the take-off as done by Christopher Walken on SNL. Sadly so far no known episodes of The Continental have shown up in archives, but if they do I will be first in line to buy one price unimportant! What's your favorite Renzo performance on film, since he was in many like "Stromboli", "The Naked Maja", "Francis of Assisi", and "A Lady Without Passport" among them?

My favorite Winwood song with Traffic is "Medicated Goo". Enjoyed reading your post, Miss Wonderly. I have immense respect for Winwood having seen him in concert, in which his opening act was Jimmy Cliff. After a long set, Cliff left the stage and Winwood actually came out ready to play and the audience was still standing on their feet for Cliff. Winwood, instead of acting the star and getting miffed, encouraged Cliff to come back out and play a couple encores, securing my belief that great talents appreciate and are not jealous of other great talents. I certainly can't imagine Kanye West doing the same, can you?

I've always liked Cliff Robertson and let's not forget the scandal that he went to the mats about in Hollywood, for which he was basically blacklisted in the 1980's for turning in David Begelman of Columbia, TB. Here's the short synopsis online which maybe some people are not aware of: "Columbia Pictures scandal In 1977, Robertson discovered that his signature had been forged on a $10,000 check payable to him, although it was for work he had not performed. He also learned that the forgery had been carried out by Columbia Pictures head David Begelman, and on reporting it he inadvertently triggered one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of the 1970s.[21] Begelman was charged with embezzlement, convicted, and later fired from Columbia. Despite the pressure to remain quiet Robertson and his wife Dina Merrill spoke to the press. As a result, Hollywood producers blacklisted him. He finally returned to film five years later, starring in Brainstorm (1983).[15][22] The story of the scandal is told in David McClintick's 1982 bestseller Indecent Exposure."

Bizarrely, there was an old Carson episode on last nite on that Antenna station, with Jackie Cooper as the guest. He talked about being a child star, going to the Academy Awards and falling asleep in Marie Dressler's lap, being in competition with Lionel Barrymore and other sundry things. He was very interesting and refuted the fact that as a child star he had a miserable life, when Carson mentioned that Robert Blake had talked about such on the show. Cooper apparently had a much more stable home life and must have enjoyed his star turn as a kiddie.

I have him in an episode from my boxed set of the tv show "Tales from Tomorrow" circa 1952. Ya almost wouldn't recognize him at all!: Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series) - Plague from Space

Exactly who IS on your radar, DGF? Enquiring minds are very curious!