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That's hilarious, SCSU!

I watched too, Mr.6666 and it was dopey. But that Tony Franciosa sure was a cutie in his little Goya outfits! Shelley Winters must have had something as she sure had some attractive husbands and boyfriends like Tony and Vittorio Gassman and Farley Granger and Burt Lancaster.

As Churchill once said, we are two nations divided by one language!

Sorry won't be happening, Nipper. The Long Island Medium has just predicted that Harrison and Stevie will be residing at Forest Lawn by that time!

One of my favorite movies that started so many careers, even of dubious fame like the Thigh Master is George Lucas' "American Graffiti". Starring Richard Dreyfuss, who of course just like co-star Ron Howard had been in things as a juvenile, but also starring Cindy Williams, Mackensie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, Harrison Ford [small part as Bob Falfa!], Suzanne Somers. Kathleen Quinlan, Susan Richardson, Kay Lenz, Joe Spano and Debralee Scott. Sure some of the careers were in things like "Mary Hartman" and "Eight is Enough" or cheapie B-pictures but still. They all had fairly decent careers afterward on tv and in films, and besides that AG is just a wonderful trip down memory lane. What movie can you think of that started off some careers?

Though I like songs by the Beatles, the Stones, the Monkees, the Hermits, going from the sublime to the ridiculous I might still accord a group that can achieve the same spectral heights of sound, without having to resort to having the London Symphony backing them. I guess I will still love a song like "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, even if I know deep down that they cannot recreate it live due to the fact that on the recording it is probably Jimmy Page playing the amazing guitar licks. This is the same reason I would rather hear Brenda Lee sing live, than Olivia Newton-John. On the other hand, the fact the Beach Boys could not recreate "Good Vibrations" live does not take away from its recorded quality. But if you can do something all by yourself and your little band unit, I'm more impressed.

Frank Buck and footage from his "Bring'em Back Alive" stints.'' I decided to wear Max Factor Jungle Red lipstick and nail polish while watching as it seemed so appropriate. It was a walk on the wild side to be sure!

But TB, surely Lassie would not have swayed the attention of Louis B. Mayer for future production roles, like Jeanette competing with another human female would, of Janet Blair's pulchritude. Personally though I do find Lassie very attractive knowing full well she was a he. On the other hand, the model dog for Tramp in "Lady and the Tramp" was a female. Go figure!

It was great, at least what I saw of it! Here's the sad part though. I missed the beginning which doesn't really matter since I've read the book and seen every screen version made of it, even though some change the story in places, so I know the outcome, but still. So I decide to watch on Day 2 all the way to the end of part 2, but fell asleep. And then I wake up and have again missed the beginning but got to watch scenes I also missed the first time. Then I don't think they are reshowing it, but apparently they did and I go to sleep again and wake up at like 3am and now they are showing the beginning but now I'm too tired to watch at all. So I hope they show both parts again soon because from what I saw it was excellent! I forgot to mention that the snotty little rich boy who gets bumped off first, who was running people down with his car [or should I say roadster] looked and acted just like Shep, who is real and stars in the Bravo reality show, "Southern Charm".

"Ulysses"! So much better than the book by James Joyce. Doesn't need footnotes or the Cliff Notes explanation and Milo O'Shea is so cute. Great topic, Sepia and excuse my facetiousness as I could not resist.

Trust me, Sepia she WAS serious. That was why my friend, who had been born in Japan and who had brought this grandmother over to the US of A, thought that it was so funny. Grandma had lived through WWII in Japan so one would think she knew what occurred at Pearl Harbor and would not even need to see "TTT". Love the tv stories about your dad. I remember hearing of elderly relatives in my family who would dress up to see "Ed Sullivan" in the early 1950's, as if he could see them in the audience.

Sepia, you know I love you but I never use a thesaurus. That would be cheating and the nuns told us that was against one of the commandments. If the word does not come off the top of my head naturally, I do not type it. I also don't use any spell checking device since I think I can spell well. Now don't consider this bragging because I have many bad qualities that I will not be discussing here sadly except for money.

It's been some time since I've seen that monstrosity and I don't mean Godzilla himself, but I do remember Raymond Burr looking a mite embarrassed what with all the shenanigans in the way they basically incorporated two films into one with all the Japanese acting mixed with American stars. Thanks, Sepia!

Just kidding, I know it is spelled "Dolby" but did that for Spinal Tap fans here. What I really want to know is which film to you has the absolute worst dubbing? This theme came to my mind last night while watching the film on El Greco with Mel Ferrer. At times he would sound like it was really being recorded in situ, but the other actors would sound like they were being dubbed off the sound stage. I guess that everyone could have been being dubbed, due to wanting the sound to be pristine with no external sound but who knows. My vote for worst dubbing is the film "Shock" [beyond the Door II"] directed by Mario Bava, with Daria Nicolodi as the mother of a rather horrid child. Either that or I just think he is horrid since the English dubbing for his voice was so atrocious that it made my skin crawl. He would screech all his lines and could beat out Ella Fitzgerald for making glass break. Next?

I love Janet Blair, TB and just yesterday ordered the dvd of her most off the wall and outre film, "Burn, Witch, Burn" or as it is also called "The Night of the Eagle". In this film, she uses shall we say some potent spells and incantations to assist her hubby's professorial career and is fabulous in the role. It is one that I doubt most people would have ever thought to cast her in, since she is normally so bubbly and sweet. This film also stars the Mad Nun from "Black Narcissus" so I highly recommend it!

Stephan, your story reminds me of the time I was in Manhattan and had just bought a big jar of pickles and some bagels to take back to the hotel, and then my friend decides we should go see an afternoon flick. So guess what we snacked on in the theatre?

Great topic! Well, to begin with I think Sonja Henie was slenderized a lot, since she looked a bit chubby to Hollywood's impresarios. Good old Tyrone Power was beautiful but almost had a unibrow, and after that was fixed he was gorgeous. Even lovely women like Rhonda Fleming had their nose fixed if you really look at her beginning films, as did Barbara Bel Geddes and even Marilyn Monroe had some work done. I think.

So glad you asked, GPF and it is my pleasure to explain. I would say that Hemmings' appeal began firstly, in "Blow-Up" due to his very arty looks, with the face of a fox [as some reviewer back then described it] and his artfully arranged blonde hair, and the very cute and Carnaby Street type togs he was wearing in the film. Plus to women viewers at the time, a male looking a bit feminine like the Beatles and other British Invasion groups was an "in" thing. If you really looked at Redgrave and Hemmings in the film, she was the more masculine and he the more feminine. I think he was also fetching to the ladies in "Barbarella" and did have a unique style and humor expressed on film, and I liked him in "Deep Red" too. Now after his cutesy British mod looks had faded, and he just had to rely on his incipient talent, I think he still had something unique. Perhaps not for everyone, like the very mainstream Gregory Peck, but to a specialized audience. If one likes British films and men who are British, then Hemmings would have been the cat's meow. I am not implying by this that he did not have acting prowess by the way, just saying at first I think his appeal was more viscerally connected to his outer facade. And by the way, Gayle Hunnicutt was married to him was she not, and she must have seen something attractive about him.

My choice would be "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Once is surely enuf. I have a funny story [at least to me] about this film. A friend of mine who was born in Osaka, but has lived in the US for years was watching this film with her at the time 85-year old grandmother in California, who had lived through World War II. The family decide to go out for dinner and want to turn the movie off, but grandma does not want to go. They ask her why and she says "I can't leave without seeing what happens at Pearl Harbor."

I was thumbing through my old book "Who's Who in Hollywood" last nite and was reading up on actress Nancy Kelly, who I always liked so much after seeing her in "The Bad Seed" and it mentioned that she had been married to Edmond O'Brien which I never knew and found interesting. As usual, thanks so much for all the work you do posting these daily write-ups, TB!

As Capote once said, being intelligent for an actor, gets in the way of reaching those emotional sturm und drang moments that are so electric on film. I remember Capote being challenged on this by someone saying "But what about Laurence Olivier?" and Capote said not at all bemused and I may be a bit paraphrasing "I know Larry and he's not that bright and he would agree with me."

While watching "The Lodger" last night I reflected upon one of my dashed dreams, that of having Laird Cregar and Raymond Burr [in his less that svelte days] playing brothers in a film. Cregar died so young that obviously this was an impossible casting coup, but if he'd lived I think they could have been a most diabolical pair in a crime film, sort of like the Cray brothers. What dream casting will never occur and just breaks your heart?

Well, Mr. Gorman I've never heard of this film but just checked it on IMDB and thought I'd see what else the cameraman had done and it was...nothing! But one of the ladies in it was in "Count Yorga, Vampire" so that's something and it sounds like a fun, cult movie so thanks for adding it to the list.

I say no. She was a real pain in the **** and even Donald Sutherland could not stand her by the movie's end plus she was still mad about the blood left in the grout in the bathroom from the son's suicide attempt, remember?

Boston Baked Beans were the best, along with Non-Pareils and Milk Duds. You probably could break a tooth on those BBB's though.