CaveGirl

No, Nip and if I hear you singing "One Tin Soldier" I might have to get out my personal Billy Club and end that aural monstrosity.

I am definitely going to have to go with your choice, Beth as my favorite over the Lange/Nicholson version. Now not because I did not enjoy the 1981 take, because I did, and in some ways it was nearer to the book by James M. Cain. And sex scenes in general don't deter me, since I've seen "Salo" and after that anything looks tame. But since I love breadmaking and enjoy trying many fine varieties in restaurants, I can never forget Frank and Cora's behaviour on that well floured bread board and it has affected my enjoyment of Le Pain in many fine restaurants to this day. I just don't want a baked good that had Jack Nicholson's backside touching it before cooking, as a delicacy if you know what I mean.

Well, you know Monty Wooley would not be interested in The Oomph Girl, since he was more attracted to people like Cole Porter, SCSU!

Uh, since I have little respect for film critics, I totally ignore their beliefs about films, in the sense of the saying "Those who can do, those who can't become film critics." Now there is one that posts here that I highly respect and think does a fabulous job, but I digress. Really now, who cares what the majority of so-called "film critics" say. Many people here know more about films than a lot who are writing film criticism online or for newspapers. Now there are some film critics whose opinion I hold dearly...but they are mostly dead! I trust my own judgment and would never not watch a film based on another's ideas about its worth. I remember once a person who wrote film criticism for a local paper, said a Robert Altman film was not probably worth seeing because it was "very dark". I said to him "I like very dark films so thanks for the encouragement in seeing it."

For those who think decorating one's refrigerator is a high art, do not miss the late tonight or early tomorrow morning repeat of the classic self-help short below. Personally I don't think enough people worry about the effect that their fridge might have on visitors to their kitchens, and could learn some things from this instructional from Westinghouse! Gotta say I really love seeing these old promotional bits on TCM. Any favorites that you have viewed?: MATCH YOUR MOOD ( 1968) Westinghouse shows women how to improve their lives by decorating their refrigerators in this short film. C- 6 mins,

Now now, Dargo...I think all know that your youth filled days were more in the early 20th century when you dated Florence Lawrence, the Biograph girl. And if they'd had the "Me, Too" movement back in the 1920's, poor little Mary Miles Minter who was underaged, would be putting your name on the Internet. You know you were seeing her way before she took up with William Desmond Taylor, who later was murdered probably for his indiscretions with the ladies.

"Mulan",eh? Talk to Dargo cuz he saw the original silent version with Mae Marsh and Richard Barthelmess in 1919. He was dating Mae Busch at the time because he really dug her Bee-Stung Lip Look!

Too bad you weren't dancing on a table, like Norma Desmond, Lawrence!

Clara Bow said of all the men she dated, including John Wayne and the entire UCLA football team, Dargo, that you were her favorite!!! What's the truth about you and William Boyd though, inquiring minds want to know...

Boy, I would have loved to have seen "The Kid" when it came out and Jackie was just a mere lad. Of course that would make me about 112 years old which could be a problem. Always loved Jackie, even as a drug dealer in films or Uncle Fester.

Do you still have your William S. Hart Fan Club kit, Dargo? By the way, I heard that Milton Sills and Constance Talmadge left you money in their wills for your undying devotion during their careers in silents. And you danced the tango with Theda Bara once at a party at Valentino's Wolfhead Lair in Beverly Hills once it's been said. Any photos you'd like to post?

Used to love getting those Non Pareils and Milk Duds at the kiddie matinees. Thanks, Gerald!

No, I'm Sepiatone! A Jerry Lewis film as one's first could really warp one's psyche by the way.

Frankly I'm shocked, Dargo that your first memory is of a C.B. DeMille film because I would have guessed it would be "Lady of Burlesque" or maybe "The G-String Murders". I agree though that imminent tragedy on a large scale can imbed itself into one's childlike memory and remain there for eons. I only know of "Inner Sanctum" from my books on radio shows and tv ones, but it looks like it was a winner and a bit like "Lights Out" possibly? Thanks for your thoughts.

As a child, it would be hard to pick between the 1940's film, "One Million B.C." with Carole Landis and Victor Mature or "One Million Years B.C. with Raquel Welch. But if one wanted to choose the one with the largest mammary battle between Victor or Raquel I would probably have to go with Groucho's choice. You were a lucky boy to have parents to take you to such historically accurate a film, James!

Nothing like going to the drive-in as a kid for one's first movie experience!

I'm going to count the revival of "Twin Peaks" as a film since the boxed set is combining things in a film type manner. Not having Showtime, I was looking forward to a release of the entire series and it has not failed to satisfy. Having only watched Parts One and Two, I can simply say that it has been a bit of a Proustian type of experience, akin to his denouement where people from the past seemingly appear, but all is not what it seems. The premise concerning Agent Cooper is intriquing and the reappearance of characters like Ben Horne, Lucy, Andy, Leland and Sarah Palmer, the Log Lady, Shelly and James Hurley, tests one's ability to recognize people who seem like old friends, friends though who live in a very strange place with mysterious murders and doppelgangers abounding. I look forward to savouring it slowly and haltingly to make the Lynch fix last longer.

Loved the movie "The Collector" and also the original book by John Fowles. Any conversation about the movie with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar is appreciated. No conversation about the movie "Billy Jack" with Tom Laughlin will be admissible though.

Speaking of "Tora Tora Tora" I had a friend from Kyoto, who brought her aunt [who had lived through the entire years of WWII in her home in Japan] to the United States in the 1980's. One day they were showing the film, "Tora Tora Tora" on tv, and my friend told the aunt to turn the tv off, since she was wanting to take the aunt to dinner. At that, the aunt got upset and said "I can't leave now; I want to see how this movie ends!"

All the stuff put out by the Stax studio was mega hitworthy! I think Redding's hit, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" has as a session artist, Steve Cropper who with Duck Dunn made all those songs of Booker T, so great. The boxed set of the Monterey Pop festival on dvd, is so worth seeing just for the performance of Otis Redding. It was a great loss to the music world when he met his demise.

Any film with both David Lean at the helm and Terrence Rattigan involved, like "The Sound Barrier' is superior entertainment! All I can think of when I hear the title "The Sorrow and the Pity" is the film "Annie Hall" and Woody's predilection to keep seeing it over and over. Thanks for the update on February viewing!

I just love, love, love hearing her say "The calla lilies are in bloom again. What wonderful flowers they are.." or whatever that line is that she murders continually in "Stage Door".

Yeah, but you have to bring your own barrel, Dargo.

Oh, yes I would have put the whole title but didn't think there was room in the header. But I actually love "Il Postino" and the Hollywood version with the "schmo" gives me heartburn that no amount of Tums can help.

My mother would let us have our Mogen David with a jigger of Seven-Up, because I'm sure she did not want her grade schoolers to be inebriated. What a good mom! A lot of Catholic girls I knew also liked to serve Communion after school, probably due to being mad about not having the same rights to be a priest and say Mass. They would cut out circles from white bread, with a cookie cutter and flatten them with water, and serve Communion. My girl cousins obviously had not any bottles of Mogen David one day and tried to simulate the wine bit, by using a bottle of cranberry juice, which they promptly spilled all over a white rug. What a mess! Hey, if drinking wine was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for me and we both know it was not grape juice, because why would he go to a wedding at Cana and try to turn grape juice, uh...INTO GRAPE JUICE ANYWAY!