Vautrin

I hope Kay gave Holden a green lesson about air pollution. I haven't seen it in years, so I really can't comment on it. A guy dating a girl young enough to be his daughter has a bit of a creepy factor to it, even if his intentions are worthy. Whatever the reason, the public wasn't very interested.

Yes, Eastwood was the director. He blamed Universal's lack of promotion for the film's failure. I don't know about that. There just might not have been much of an audience for it. Straw Dogs was controversial, more for the violence than for the nudity, which wasn't that big a deal. Today neither would raise an eyebrow.

The sources don't really make it clear, but that was the original title. I don't know if Lolita was the reason for the change. Just about any name sounds better than Twinky. There are a number of films titled Lola. The only one I am familiar with is Fassbinder's, which is okay, but not one of his best.

For those into hairless dogs.

Speaking of Santa Rosa, here comes Uncle Charley. Pretty smooth and seemingly normal for a lunatic. If he hadn't wasted his time trying to kill his niece for no good reason, he could have gone merrily on his way and knocked off more rich widows.

One of his best. A number of characters in Bunuel's films did have a shoe or foot fetish. Maybe that was autobiographical. Luis would likely have substituted a crucifix for the lobster and those fancy red cardinal's slippers for Bruno's fancy wingtips.

I would guess it was a dud at the box office and wasn't shown on TV very much. It sounds a bit like that William Holden flick Breezy, where Bill falls for a teenybopper. I believe Kay Lenz played that part, though I'm not positive. Well at least Breezy is a slightly better title than Twinky. I'm Breezy/Twinky like Sunday morning. See.

Bruno Anthony. The only loony (or non-loony) with a lobster patterned tie.

It isn't clear if Twinky was the original title and then someone came to their senses and decided to change the title or it that was the U.S. title. It seems to be the former, though I'm not 100% sure. I think I'll stick with Joe Dellesandro and his limp bizkit.

I caught part of it on TV many years back. Charles Bronson plays the older man in love with the much younger woman, played by George. Since it was only rated PG or GP, I guess Susan kept her clothes on. How can you forget a movie titled Twinky?

She must have been good at hiding her accent when she wasn't playing a British character. When she was, as in Straw Dogs, it was very obvious.

And sometimes she can't quite keep it below the surface and it gets out, even if briefly and apologetically. Then she has to quickly reel it in again. I didn't mean it in that way. Right, sweetie. Of course her attractiveness makes the whole thing possible.

I've always thought Deborah Kerr was sexy. And the more she adopted that prim, ladylike, I wouldn't even think of such things manner, the sexier she was. She may not have been sending, but I was receiving. Beep beep, beep beep, yeah.

And not even an Oscar nomination. She was robbed. I heard that Audrey had her sights set on a remake of Pinky with Jim Brown and Rosey Grier. Pinky Toe: Watch your back, whitey.

Yeah, she had that 20 something naughty nymphet character locked up in the 1970s. I still get a laugh out of a movie she was in with Charles Bronson titled Twinky. Twinky? Okayyyy. Susan recently celebrated her 68th birthday. Many happy returns.

Vacuum cleaner attachments.

Susan George was one of those dedicated actresses who did not mind being nude if the character and plot required her to make that artistic move. I applaud her professionalism. I recall raptly watching her do so in Straw Dogs. And I'm sure she showed the same artistic sensibility in other films of the 1970s. Bravo.

I don't think there was anything little about Marjorie Main.

It started off somewhat annoying and then went full bore with repetition. The staging of his death was very appropriate. I couldn't remember if the John Mcintire character was crooked or if his eyesight was failing. I knew it was one or the other. I agree about the plot being confusing, especially as it seemed to simply be about finding the two guys who killed the cop. Took a lot of detours along the way.

I guess ESG liked lowlifes. The last episode was shown a few weeks ago. Now we're back to 1958. I don't know if there is any connection between the DVDs and the TV programming, especially as the TV ones are edited. I don't watch the two in the afternoon, just the two at night. And it's funny how often Lt. Tragg shows up at the scene of the crime and in other places just a minute or two after Perry does.

I guess Grammer is from the family values side of the conservative spectrum. Four marriages so far. One better than Trump, Gingrich, and Giuliani. And he certainly isn't out there in public like Woods. Of course Grammer still has a career left, unlike Mr. Woods.

Are you still hanging around, Sleeper? Well Curly called and he wants his nycuks nycuks back. The firefight at the end was pretty cool. The bad guys had an armor plated car, but what about the windows? The cops could have shot at them, though maybe they couldn't get a downward angle. All's well that ends well.

Well, combine the two into a new film. The kindly old black dude turns out to be a pedophile, he later forces the brother and sister to have sex with each other, and then he bumrushes their mother. Song, song of the south, put yer fiddle right in my mouth.

Another nosy cop being killed by public minded citizens who are just out for a good time. Great way to start a movie. I couldn't remember if I had seen this one before or not, but as the movie progressed I realized I had, though quite a while ago. Well done overall, though nothing very original or different. I thought Johnson was pretty believable as the cop, even a somewhat disillusioned one. Looks like the killers heard Norman Lloyd's yuck thing one time too many. Can't really blame them.

Do you mean politically? I got the impression that he was a rather conventional conservative without most of the nutty trimmings. The DirecTV channel that shows Perry Mason is now around the second season. They run four episodes a day, seven days a week, so it doesn't take long to get through it. The first couple of seasons are the most entertaining to me since they still have that 1950s vibe that the later seasons don't. Every other episode is like a miniature Peyton Place with adulteries, out of wedlock children, financial shenanigans, and of course murder. And Perry and Paul Drake were a little on the shady side on occasion. Raymond Burr was even on the thin side, at least compared to the end of the show when he looked like a human/tank hybrid. Huge.