CaveGirl
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Okay, I'll try...
So then you're sayin' when Moss told Kitty about those "Thursday night poker games" over at George's house, it never dawned on her that MAYBE a card table wasn't necessarily involved in the action?!
Now, top THAT one, LAY-DEE!!!
(...I threw that "LAY-DEE" in here 'cause of course of all your recently mentioned affinity for Mr. Lewis)
LOL
Uh, maybe they were playing two-card stud?
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Ya know, CG. It's times like THESE when I begin to think you can get as confused about things as I often do.
I think John Wayne said that in the excised scenes from "The Searchers" when that squaw thought she was married to Jeffrey Hunter.
It always ends with Wayne, Dargo!
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Yeah, maybe.
BUT, no more interesting than when years ago I discovered that regular "To Tell the Truth" panelist Kitty Carlisle was the very SAME woman(but much younger, of course) who Groucho, Chico and Harpo helped bring her boyfriend Alan Jones from Italy to the New York Metropolitan so they could sing duets!!!
Yeah, but a bit more interesting was that Kitty's hubby Moss Hart might have liked his collaborator, George S. Kaufman more than he did her. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Top that, Dargo!
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Nah...Catherine hasn't nearly the overbite Joanne Dru had, CG.
(...Dru's was more "Gene Tierney-esque")
Uh, okay Dargo but did you know that Joanna Cameron was related to John Cameron Swayze and John Wayne always used to wear a Timex watch, cuz it takes a licking and keeps on ticking!
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Well YEAH! I do!
It's part of the reason this pair here made the "Indian Love Call" such a big hit recording in the 1930s!...
(..."when I'm calling YOOOOU, oooh OOOH oooh, oooh OOOH oooh...")
Uh, I thought it was Ricky Nelson without David Nelson.
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If you have a mac, to clear cookies, go to the Preferences option in the drop-daown menu under the browser name (e. g. Safari, Firefox, or whatever). In the privacy section, click on the little tab 'details' about the cookies on your computer. You will see the option to remove any selection, or all of them. If you have a pc, I imagine there is a similar place to go, though there is usually a different name.
One possible way to get signed out is to shut your computer down, and also your internet connection. I find that when I reboot, and reconnect, I have to sign in again to my accounts. Though I've never opted to stay signed in anywhere.
If you're trying to sign out for good, maybe you can simply delete your account.
No way, Slayton! You'll all just love for me to simply delete my account, would you not?
I refuse, just like I refuse to commit suicide since it would make too many people happy. Thanks for the "cookie" advice though!
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It was once pointed out to me, that in THE WOMEN, there are the totally wrong.credits for D arkie No.1, D arkie No.2, etc. totaling 4.actresses. It must.ve been politically incorrect.even in 1939, but apparently not.
Edit. I guess the autocensor is pc.
I guess we won't be hearing Bing sing the lyrics to "Mississippi Mud" as background music on TCM anytime soon, Arturo.
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They say one should ask for what they want, so I want a month on TCM that concentrates on jazz and big band stuff in the films.
There are so many wonderful films from the war years that had bits where there were bands like Benny Goodman's with incredible performances. I want to see "Hollywood Hotel" which has Gene Krupa doing all that fab drumming on "Sing, Sing, Sing" and so many other jazz legends appeared in bands that were featured in films from that time. You've got the Dorseys and Glenn Miller and so many others that did stuff in night club scenes that it would be fun to see. For me, just getting to see Carmen Cavallaro play the piano in one of those Hollywood Canteen things would be marvy.
In between the films they could show some of those Soundie films, like ones with the Paul Whiteman band and with Bix and Tram. I know there is at least one soundie with them before Leon croaked sadly.
Give me what I want, TCM!
What do you want, and make it squeak so loudly you get your wish too.
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I know that Frank Sinatra was considered for one of the two leads in SOME LIKE IT HOT, but this is the first I hear that Jerry Lewis was offered the Lemmon role.
Jer said last night that he did not want to be in a dress for the whole picture, Down.
Makes sense. I heard Jack enjoyed being in the dress.
Ya know, by the way I never really noticed before last nite that Jerry Lewis in his prime was a very attractive and handsome man. Quite fetcing actually and I have very high standards as you all know.
Unlike Dean Martin who had to have a nose job, and I remember reading that Shelley Winters said she knew him when he had acne and a big schnooz, Jerry was really handsome when he was not making faces, talking like Walter Denton, and making pratfalls. He looked great in clothes, had really nice hair and teeth, a very masculine chin, and was quite toothsome when in repose and not acting like a ten-year old. I think he could have given Dean a run for his money in impressing chicks if he had wanted to.
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JoAnna Cameron, primarily known for her short-lived '70s Saturday morning children's TV series "The Secret of Isis"...
...and...
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(...good catch here, Lawrence)
Catherine looks a lot like Joanne Dru who was in that great John Wayne movie, Dargo.
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Rupert Pupkin is one of the great character names ever. I almost selected it as my user name.
It hit me the last time I watched this movie, is the name "Pupkin" the same as the name used by Jimmy Stewart in "The Shop Around the Corner" for Margaret Sullavan's penpal that Jimmy said was overweight and unemployed, Downie?
If it wasn't Pupkin, what was it?
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Watching the 1953 movie "So This Is Love" with Kathryn Grayson and Merv Griffin, I was really impressed with the dancing couple who were listed in the credits as The Zsonys. . Unfortunately, I've been unable to find any other information on this group. Any suggestions?
Welcome also, Mcgan!
I was watching but then went to sleep. Did Merv sing "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts" in this film?
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She was great as "Dumb" Dora in the MGM, "David Copperfield" film.
Didn't she also play the grandmother of Kathleen Turner in "Peggy Sue Got Married" with Leon Ames as the grandpa?
It was so great to see them both again on film. Thanks, TB!
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No way!
I always thought he had a really nice voice and enjoyed his vocal stylings.
Now Nancy sounded tone deaf, but Frank Junior was very good.
I will miss him; thanks for the posting.
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Heh!
If THAT'S the case, then Play-Doh and Modelling clay should get the "star treatment", too!
And, they DIDN'T!
I'll try it with something else....
Audiophile
Nope IT passed, too. Must've been what the "phile" was attatched to or something......
Sepiatone
Interesting experiment, Sepia.
I wonder if cinephile gets bleeped. Or cinebuns, you know those yummy things you buy at the mall, to accompany your watching of men in movies that have cute derrieres.
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Sorry CG, but I CAN'T "go to my room".
There are STILL so many OTHER people occupying it at the moment that THIS is what it looked like the last time I went in there...
Naturally you would be in the front holding on to the manicurist for dear life!
There's a joke possibly about that, using the word "nail" but I shall not go there.
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Hello, I own the DVD of the Henry Fonda version of 12 Angry Men
I have found that when I am watching 12 Angry Men, the anger of the characters as portrayed by actors such a s Lee J. Cobb, and Ed Begley Jr. are so compelling that I find myself getting angry even if I disagree with them. The portrayals are that compelling.
What movies and performances of people who have lost their temper do you find so compelling that that you find yourself carried away, even when you disagree with their viewpoint?
Watching Jack Lemmon in "The Out-of-Towners" always makes me feisty!
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Yeah, I DO hear there are people out there who seem inclined to find the humor in even the most reverential of things in the world.
(...although I just can't imagine what their thinking is about this, as I personally would NEVER stoop to such a level, of course)
Last night on the Lewis interviews, Jerry basically expressed the same thing saying that when you see the joke possibilities, you have to go there and never be "embarrassed". And you and Jerry are so alike, Dargo and I mean that in the nicest way!
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My mother and grandmother used to talk about the guy from Dogpatch in the comic. "L'il Abner" named Joe Btfsplk and how he always had a black cloud over his head. This being such a depressing sight it made me think of how occasionally it is fun to wallow in a depressing film.
I think of how Woody Allen would always want to go see "The Sorrow and the Pity" by Marcel Ophuls, in I think "Annie Hall".
What movie is so full of depressing things that you can only watch it every ten years or more? It can be a really good movie or a horrid one, but bereft of any uplifting moments.
I'll vote first and pick "Who Will Love My Children" with Ann-Margret which is a wonderful movie [made for tv] but so incredibly depressing you might want to have Life Support friends on stand-by.
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Nipper, you're welcome to come over to our party which will be showing "Easter Parade" and "Harvey" about that really big rabbit!
There will be food, snacks and none of that BYOB stuff as we have a well-supplied bar.
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Yep Princess, I've known about Jerry's own self-described "miscalculation" for quite some time now.
Word is he's had the only copy of it sealed in his private safe for years now and has stated nobody will ever see it.
(...btw...what made you think of Hitler here?...might it have been some reference I made earlier???)
LOL
What made her think of Hitler???
Have you noticed the similarity of his nasty mustache to the one of Groucho's that you have as your thumbnail photo?
Accept all the blame for that, Dargo. You are a bad boy; go to your room!
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Okay, maybe I'm slow-witted or just out of the loop but why is p-h-i-l-e censored in my previous post?
In another post, the last name of Nightmare on Elm Street bad guy Freddy K-r-u-e-g-e-r is also censored. Why?
Uh, I heard from the grapevine that someone who shall remain nameless and can't spell well, thought "phile" was akin to phyllo dough, which can be formed into rather salacious forms which resemble body parts, and that it why it was bleeped in your post.
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The upcoming celebration prompted this thread. It takes place over two nights, coordinated with his birthday. Night one, Jerry with Dean. Night two, Jerry without Dean--hm, two nights? I know people say he has a big ego, but to have a birthday cover two days. . . .No, I didn't start this thread to dis him. But from past experience, I know so many people are so avid to, I figured I might as well recognize that fact in the title. And maybe draw in a few more eyes in the hopes of converting, or convincing them of my views. And they are this, that despite the fact most of what movies Jerry Lewis made were dreadful, he nevertheless made a couple of great films (The Bellboy (1960) and The Errand Boy (1961)), and had some great moments in others (The Ladies Man (1961)). Like some other comics, like Danny Kaye, a lot of his routine was based on exaggerated and wacky verbal and physical comedy. No matter how it may be viewed today, it had tremendous popular appeal in its day (and not being familiar with today's gross-out movie comedies, I can't say if some of the same schtick still schticks around). In his best work (The Bellboy, and to a little lesser extent The Errand Boy) he has a wonderful way of playing with our expectations about time, space, and physical objects--even violating them--to create his comedy. Here's a small example from The Bellboy:
With a simple cut, he inverts the order of the universe, giving the flash from a camera the power to change night to day. I don't know if he did these things just as part of making his gags, but looking at this movie especially, it's hard to deny they were intentional. There are lots of other examples, but I won't spoil them by discussing them.
We get only The Bellboy, but that's good enough.
I would like to echo your sentiments, Slayton!
I think Jerry is very underrated and misunderstood by Americans. Sure he might have an ego but at least he has oodles of talent unlike so many entertainers today with ego and no discernible talents.
The night unto day thing was a lot like clever stuff done by Keaton in films, and also reminded me of the art of Rene Magritte:
http://pandras.cgsociety.org/art/lightwave-3d-photoshop-homage-rene-magritte-empire-lights-1017895
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Watched Part Two of the Jerry Lewis celebration and had to laugh while reading the beginning credits of "The Bellboy", when I saw the name Joe Levitch! So I guess Jerry got two credits.
Other performers who made the film special were B.S. Pulley as the head gangster, Joe E. Ross and of course Uncle Miltie!
The film was an obvious influence on and precursor to Jacques Tati's movie "Playtime" and some of the bits made me laugh out loud like the man with the netting tan.
The film being set in the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami was a testament to Googie style architecture and was very enjoyable.
All the interview segments with Ben were interesting, particularly about Jerry working with DeNiro. Obviously Jerry had some input with the script, since he had Rupert Pupkin using the old Lewis gag, of showing the photo of his "Pride and Joy" with the two bottled products instead of progeny.
Jerry rightfully got a British nod for best actor for this role, and he was superb as Jerry Langford, showing his dramatic thespian abilities.
I watched the other flicks also and enjoyed them, but not quite as much as I was getting a bit sleepy.
Thanks again TCM for two great nights of Lewis mayhem and entertainment!
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They bleeped my retort, Dargo???
Do ya think they put four asterisks on the TCM schedule when they show the movie "5 Card Stud" with Dean Martin and Mitchum?