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Christopher Lee was a direct descendant of Charlemagne, who, according to contemporary descriptions and an equestrian figurine, was corpulent, with a chubby face and blond hair; Lee, as everybody knows, was tall and lean, with a long sharp face and dark hair.

... when Varinia says farewell to Spartacus, a lady asked out loud: IS THIS WHERE THEY CRUCIFY CHRIST? As the introduction makes clear, Kubrick's movie is set in the 1st Century BC; I think, however, that the lady understood very well the message of the film since S is clearly represented as a Christ-like figure who dies so that all men and women may be free.

Isn't it annoying how space aliens all look alike, as if they were all children of the same father and the same mother??? In an scene of STAR TREK, there is a close up of Mr Spook. The camera recedes, and eventually a whole bunch of Vulcans are seen--AND ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE FEMALES, LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE SOUR FACED MR S! Could it be that the Vulcans and all other alien races procreate in the same manner as ants and bees?

Family love gone all twisted is a really tragic thing.

I think of someone more subtle: a manipulatress who uses her innocent looks and demure manner to maneuver others into doing her bidding, just like Iago taking advantage of the weaknesses of Othello.

The HISTORY CHANNEL and other similar networks are so obsessed with the 35th POTUS that every November they dedicate specials to the events of JFK, Oswald, and Ruby. 'tis almost as if Saint Cecilia's place as the saint of 22 Nov has been taken over by K.

I thought you referred to VALERIE JARRETT and her kin. Is it true that Ma Jarrett is based on Ma Barker?

Good. Do you think AH could have played a villainess--a Holly Golightly gone REALLY BAD, full of deviousness and malevolence?

Remember the post about Hepburn telling the production staff of MY FAIR LADY about his death? It certainly seems that AH recovered from that shock and moved on with her life. That is very hard to do; my grandmother never quite got over the death of one of her daughters, who was in frail health all her life and died at childbirth.

People like the Kims of N Korea, the Assads of Syria, the Gandhis of India, the Duvaliers of Haiti, the Trujillos of the Dominican Republic, and the Somozas of Nicaragua are proof that not all political dynasties are worthy of admiration.

My obsession is with the foolish people who believe the fantasies of Stoned-Out-Of-His-Gourd. There is a sequence in JFK where Donald Sutherland tells Kevin Costner about a huge conspiracy against the 35th POTUS--an accusation made out of whole cloth, because there is no proof of it. Speaking in legalese, Stoned-Out-Of-His-Gourd engaged there in suborning perjury=fabricating false evidence. Go and read RECLAIMING HISTORY by Vincent Bugliosi, which is a very enlightening book.

Because of lost souls like Oliver Stone, who are convinced that EVERYBODY IN THE PLANET conspired to get Kennedy dead, a delirium that no one has ever proven. My mother cried over the death of K, and her father lamented the death of FDR. Neither, however, obsessed over those deaths, and they moved on with their lives.

Would you rather I lie? The USA got over the deaths of WH Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding and FDR; why doesn't the USA do the same with JFK and RFK?

Why are the people of the USA frozen in 1963, as if the death of Kennedy were the end of history? Why does the Democratic Party keep nominating presidential candidates whose sole qualification is a totally nonexistent resemblance to JFK? In 1963 I was nine years old, and I have no memory of K; the succeeding Presidents weren't much more memorable. The first POTUS that really made an impression on me was Reagan, whose warm personality and eloquence truly resembled those attributed to K. You ever wondered what K would have looked like if he had reached old age? Just look at RR; he looks more like JFK than either of his brothers.

OK, here is the violence that really galls me: the abusive usage of the noble term FAMILY to describe subhuman sewage like the Gambinos and the Luccheses. As an aficionado of history and genealogy, I prefer to restrict FAMILY to refer to aristocratic dynasties like the Bourbons, and republican dynasties like the Roosevelts of New York state. People like that give honor to the term FAMILY, not opprobrium like the Corleones. From CRACKED's parody of THE ODDFATHER: Kay: Michael, are you in trouble with the law? M: No, the law is in trouble with us.

I love broccoli--all smothered in butterscotch.

BUTCHER A POOR INNOCENT HORSE--not like the Lufthansa heist crooks in GOODFELLAS, who should have known better than to live a life that was likely to get them killed.

The Broccolis are very influential, regardless of all the jokes about having the name of a vegetable.

A gig during which he was one of the 10 Top Earning Movie Stars.

Where is the REMEMBERING ROGER MOORE tribute? Everybody is waiting for the rain swept car front window!

'tis really a pity that AH never played a villainess. Just imagine her impish playful smile and eyes applied to a malevolent professional assassin similar to the one played by Ruby Rose in JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2!

The critics in PR--a very snobbish lot--made a very big deal about what a grand accomplishment it was for Coppola to depict these subhuman miscreants as ,,human beings''. After watching these ,,human beings'' butcher a poor innocent horse, I thought that I would be better off in the jungle, living with the jackals, the wolves and the hyennas.

That's just it: just about everybody in this trilogy is evil and corrupt, while the very few sympathetic characters, such as Troy Donahue, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire, are pitiful and ineffectual.

As someone for whom ethics and morals are very important, I cannot admire a movie in which the solemn holy occasion of a christening is juxtaposed with gory scenes of murderous violence.

007: Surely you cannot be inviting a nuclear war! What happens when the USA retaliates?! General Orlov: Against WHOM? 007: My God, of course: our early warning system will eliminate the possibility of that bomb having been launched from Russia, or anywhere else! Everyone will assume, incorrectly, that it was an American bomb detonated accidentally. General O: That would be the most plausible explanation. 007: Europe will insist on unilateral disarmament, leaving its borders undefended for you to run across at will. And it doesn't matter a damn to you, I suppose, that tens of thousands of innocent people will die in this nuclear accident of yours!