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Yes, Harmonie du Soir is the title of a Baudelaire poem. I'm guessing that this is Douglas' translation of that poem, perhaps a rather free translation. And funny that the Hardwicke's character's last name is Wilde. Next time let them pick on Verlaine.

Charley's really getting whacked, movie-wise. I presume that they were using actual translations from Baudelaire, but who knows. There is a dark, somewhat purple prose or rather poetry side to his work, but that is hardly the only thing in his poetry. There was an hilarious episode of the 1960s version of Dragnet where some high school kid reads Baudelaire and other French poets of that time and takes them too literally and goes out and commits crimes. Of course we learn that Sgt. Friday knows quite a bit about Baudelaire, though Gannon seems clueless.

The great French poet Charles Baudelaire playing second fiddle to a bunch of dull English Johnnies. Tres triste.

I think there was a little competition between Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman as to who could look more uninterested and bored.

Sounds good to me. Of course one could always record the ones that start very late, but that's just another hassle.

I don't really care that much about the hosts, but I wish they would move TCM Imports from its time slot after Silent Sundays to a more reasonable hour, maybe midnight on Friday or another week day.

Partial Irish independence . Nothing wrong with Irish themed films, as long as no one is forced to eat corned beef and cabbage.

79 minutes isn't that much time for a movie, so I didn't mind watching it. To me it's an average entry in the crazy wife upsets hubby's life but everything works out fine in the end plot. It has some nice comedy scenes but nothing that had me howling with laughter.

I found her very sexy in Medium Cool as the small town mom who moved to the crazy big city. A understated and quiet sexy, but still sexy.

Yeah, that guy really didn't like the Chili Peppers. Of course these things are subjective and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but GFY.

Yes they may change a bit, but most of the old Adam and Eve are still here.

I finally got around to watching Are Husbands Necessary? Yeah this move was not necessary. It has it moments, but it's just another average addition to the quirky wife and reasonable hubby plot, with nothing much to add to it. It's no surprise that it's an indirect ancestor to I Love Lucy.

I remember Verna Bloom best from Medium Cool, which also starred Marianna Hill. A few years later they were both in High Plains Drifter. Two very sexy dames. Marianna is still with us.

All things considered, I will stick with poteen.

I can't claim to be a big fan of Bierce as I haven't read much of his fiction, but I have enjoyed The Devil's Dictionary for many years. And much of DD can be applied to today's scene with minor changes in terminology. Not all of the definitions hit home but a large number do and tellingly so.

One of my favorite Bierce definitions is Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

If you can't make Casablanca into a noir your Bob Mitchum decoder ring should be confiscated.

Whatever one wants to call it, a fairly entertaining movie, if not exactly a tightly plotted one. I get a kick out of mini-Mengele with his German accent and shades. The close-ups of him trying to get the shutdown juice into poor Bob's arm was like a b&w version of similar ones in some Warhol flicks. And Bob topless looks like he should have spent a little more time at the gym and less knocking back brews.

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.

The scene where an imaginary spider pops up in the mind of a character in Ingmar Bergman flicks. I like Bergman, but chill on the spiders dude.

Slaveholders are rightfully offended at the inclusion of TR on Mount Rushmore.

Probably. I'm hoping that after that episode of Burke's Law was filmed, Gene Barry asked the producers to get rid of that ugly piece of crap...Burke's law.

I think Siren is one of the better know RM albums to Americans, though that is not the reason it's my favorite. As you likely know, Roxy Music never did very well in the U.S. as compared to the U.K.

Yeah, that was the last place I expected to see that painting. A total surprise.

They did tend to recycle sets and various props and at least the Joan Bennett portrait doesn't make you want to close your eyes on seeing it. Sorry Eddie, stick to your day (acting) job.