CaveGirl

Dargo, must you make it so easy for me to again show the superiority of females over males? Of course Jerry is loved in Canada. Why else would the esteemed Canadian landmark show, SCTV have spoofed him so many times with the Martin Short bits? I direct you to the following, which by the way is hilarious and if you want more just put in the names Martin Short as Jerry Lewis on Youtube and you will be shamed for your lack of knowledge as to the Canadian connection, and yes, I accept your apology:

Boy, oh boy oh boy, Dargo! You and I do think alike [scary I know!] because watching that film today I still would think Paul LeMat would be a big star. Now he was good in that film about Howard Hughes and the guy who said he picked him up out in Vegas. And Michael Parks was great, and still great in "Twin Peaks" but that was so much later. Maybe his nude scene as Adam in "The Bible" killed things for him? I never watched the whole film because we were forced to read the whole book in Catholic grade school so I knew the ending alas.

I love to read the credits on a movie. I have annoyed all my friends, dates and insignificant others over the years by not wanting to leave a theater unless I've seen all, and I mean ALL, the credits. This could take hours nowadays sadly. Now in the olden days, from what one can see on films on TCM, one did not have to sit through eight million names from the Hairdresser for Lassie to the guy who brought cream puffs to the set, to get to the end of the credits. I liked it better that way and go ahead and call me anti-worker but if I had to read a contract of everyone who made the new sink I am having put in by my plumber before he could begin the work, and everyone along the line who touched the porcelain throne or made the screws and the innards and sealants, just to give equal time to all, I would have to end things in my life right now. But I digress. Anyway what I do like to do is always read the credits before or after a movie, and I enjoy the big ones and the small ones, like when it says something like, Dog Double played by Spot Junior or Woman With Big Head played by Marion Morrison. But again I digress, since what this is really about is great names of people in the credits for things like art design or lighting or jewelry or whatever you like. So one of my favorite names to see is, Van Nest Polglase. I usually look up every person's bio that is of interest to me, but I kind of do not want to ruin my image of Van Nest since I have this amazing idea of what he could be like. Kind of a Clifton Webb meets Cole Porter meets the Duke of Windsor type. So what name always catches your eye if you are reading the credits, or what credit made you laugh the most when you saw it listed?

Really? I remember my cousin getting an "F" on a paper in high school about an artist, because the nun who was her teacher objected to her using the following term about the guy's career, that he "prostituted his art". My aunt went to the principal and reminded them that it was a word, and not offensive at all in the context in which my cousin used it. Nor would it really be offense in a defamation case in the court, if the one being discussed actually was one. Uh, now I forgot what we were talking about. That just makes me want to put on some Groucho tv show episodes with either the guy named Gonzalez Gonzalez or at least the one with Errol Flynn's girlfriend, Beverly Aadland.

Kingrat, here's the connection between "Finian's Rainbow" and "Viridiana" that you missed. Remember the beggar's din-din in the Bunuel movie, that becomes the sacreligious tableau of DaVinci's "Last Supper" painting in the refectory in Milan. I was there and trust me, if you look at the feet below the table, you will see that they really do resemble the type of feet without shoes that peasants or sharecroppers would be wearing. The same type of scene was filmed for "Finian's Rainbow" at a sharecroppers' dinner, but was excised by the Legion of Decency before release. It is in the newly rediscovered Coppola boxed set version of the film. Only $69.95 and can be ordered from a very large US film distribution unit from their order center in Costa Rica.

Jealous, jealous, jealous, Dargo! You wish you had the forethought to invent a device such as the WC. You would be rolling in the dough now and personally I think you are just anti-Canadian since its inventor was from there. Read the history of the now ninety-six year old product and weep!: "The whoopee cushion was invented in the 1920s by the JEM Rubber Co. of Toronto, Canada, by employees who were experimenting with scrap sheets of rubber. The owner of the company approached Samuel Sorenson Adams, the inventor of numerous practical jokes and owner of S.S. Adams Co., with the newly invented item. Adams said that the item was "too vulgar" and would never sell. JEM Rubber offered the idea to the Johnson Smith Company which sold it with great success. S.S. Adams Co. later released its own version, but called it the "Razzberry Cushion."[

From bent to really bent out of shape and twisted. Sort of like running the gamut from B to Z.

I had some great ideas for exciting threads but was told by one in the cognescenti here, that all of them would have gotten me banned, since it seems to be popular lately and happening a lot. Shoot, I only wrote in one of my recent posts, a word that signifies "a man who attacks sexually a woman" that starts with the letter "r" ends with "t" and has six letters and they bleeped that too. What's a girl to do? It's in the dictionary and even the courts use it and CNN. Sorry, Kid!

You think you got it bad, Debra but how about me? I wait years to see both "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard and the original French film that "Scarlet Street" was based on, "La Chienne" by Jean Renoir and TCM puts both of them on their schedule and then with no explanation just replaces them with other movies. I was crushed. Got out the Exacto blades and contemplated ending it all, but then thought better of it since they were showing a Robert Benchley short later that day. I feel your pain but unless you are packing heat, I would give up the vendetta. I do hope they show it again for you though, in earnest sincerity. I've seen the end of the film. Uh, don't get too excited about getting to see it.

Speedracer, you hate Jerry but like Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia, plus the Bradys and I like Jerry, and the Golden Girls but hate the Bradys. But I still think we could have lunch sometimes and discuss it, since two out of three common likes can cement a friendship. Game?

Don't be a tease, James. Tell us, tell us! I'm dying to know who you cast while reading the book.

I just noticed the similarity between these two actresses last nite while watching the Jerry Lewis marathon. Polly Bergen and Jane Wyatt look a lot alike in my estimation.

I simply can't imagine why you don't want to spend three or more hours daily researching and posting bits for us on TCM's board, TB! Actually I can imagine, since just writing the drivel I post right off the top of my head, sometimes takes me three hours daily that I can never get back. Geez! Movie stuff can be taxing and time consuming and I'm not even in the industry.

I really am so anticipating seeing "The Bellboy" again and of course Jerry is almost like Buddy Love reincarnated in "The King of Comedy". Thanks as usual for all the work you do keeping me and others informed, TB!

Love Ruth Warrick, TB. And in later years she was such a joy to watch on "All My Children" as Phoebe Wallingford.

Great cast and such great cinematography, Sepia! Makes me now want to check IMDB to find out who did film it. Thanks!

Ford does just play a guy in a truck with Debralee Scott [Mary Hartman's sister later] as his girlfriend. Haven't seen it in years but I still remember that she keeps looking at Ford [as Bob Falfa I think] saying "Ain't he neat?" or something like that. But even though the role was small, it was integral to the plotline about rumbles and drag racing, so his bit was memorable. I always thought Charlie Martin Smith was great as Ron Howard's friend, but his career never went anywhere much though this is not to deny his talent.

I'm thinking Downie, that since both the Stones and the Monkees have lost members that they should band up, and man up and join forces. Can't you just see Mick singing "Daydream Believer" and if the Hells Angels start mistreating woman fans in the first row yelling for Davey Jones, they can just rough them up a bit, and Mick can calm down the crowd with those entreaties of "Peepul, peepul!" like he did at Altamont. Mickey Dolenz [or Braddock as he was called in his "Circus Boy" days] can pretend to be Brian Jones and just put on a blond wig perhaps? And Keith Richards can combine riffs from "Satisfaction" with some from "Pleasant Valley Sunday Morning". Wonder why the Stones never had an anthem like "Hey Hey, We're the Stones". Saying "people say we stone around" might not have gone over on the Sullivan show?

I want to thank TCM for the interview with Jerry Lewis proceeding the films celebrating his 90th birthday. The conversation conducted by Ben Mankiewicz was revealing and introspective. Jerry's comments about Dean Martin were touching and moving. I then watched the first four films with Martin and Lewis, even though having seen them all before and thoroughly enjoyed all the antics no matter how formulaic. I was a big Jerry fan as a kid, then for a while thought I was above him, but later having come back down to earth I realize what I’ve been missing by seeing them, as only for kids. As the French critics from “Cahiers du Cinema” and “Positif” once observed, Jerry Lewis films reveal something profound about America and its inhabitants that many Americans themselves have a blind spot about. I’m glad the French have awarded him their highest honors but it is not surprising since it has often been said that a prophet is never revered in his own country. In France Jerry is known as Le Roi du Crazy and I look forward tonight to seeing more of that inspired and innovative craziness. If you don’t like Jerry or his films that’s fine and if you do like Jerry and his films that’s fine too since I would never try to influence anyone's taste, but for me, it was fun to just sit back and appreciate his iconic comedic style last night. Watching him made me realize that Adam Sandler has been robbing Jerry's schtick for years and years. Happy Birthday, Jerry and many more!

Limey, get this...I talk to you, I do nothing, I sign out for the seventh time and guess what...I'm out of servitude! Came back on and I was not signed in, yippee! Can I kiss the hem of your garment? I think you are the saint of impossible miracles and not Mother Teresa who I heard today is to be declared a saint just cuz of two minor ailment intercessions. Bah humbug. Getting things to work correctly on the internet is more of a miracle than any healing process. I think your picture of Donald Sutherland may have scared the Remember Robot thingie into submission. Thanks!

I highly doubt that, since I usually annoy more than engender love and affection, but thanks Laffite!

Hey, Limey! Get this, yes I've signed out like six times AND have even logged on to the site on another computer, hoping beyond hope that this will release me from my inservitude. Alas no such luck! On to the next missive of aid. I forgot to ask, how do I clear my cookies? It sounds so weird by the way.

Excuse me, Down but I like Junior Mints if I'm watching Doctor Kildare films!

Nope, not the Beatles' movie. How does one ever get signed out here? I keep trying to sign out for good, but it won't let me. I accidentally left the X in the box that says the thingie below, but no matter how many times I sign out and get rid of that X, it keeps me signed in: "Remember me This is not recommended for shared computers"

Hi, James! Yep, it's true that Dave Davies liked to say he played the guitar lead on the record, but many dispute that. Page played on so many other people's records and got no credit. As you say, not that hard to play but he did have a special sound that was difficult to imitate onstage by Davies. Cream always goes to the top!