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The last time I was in church, Dick Nixon was in the White House. No connection though. I served my sentence honorably.

Yes, just for future reference.

Lots of men must be thankful for DNA nowadays. When the guy found that skeleton hand sticking out of the sand, I thought William Castle might be somewhere around. Yeah, I saw this on YT maybe five of six months ago. Always nice to see it on a TV. I didn't notice Jan's nipples showing. Could be, kind of hard to tell without looking for them, though the dress was somewhat sheer or maybe I'm just getting old. There is also an actress named Jan Shepard who appeared on a lot of TV shows. They do look a little alike. (Funny, they allow nipples but not the four letter shortened version. Okayyy.)

I would say much less, as no one thinks Kennedy plotted to kill her. Some of the details might have been left out of the movie. How they met, how long they have been seeing each other, etc. I don't think it's too hard to just fill in the blanks without any damage to the plot. Good movie, but as others have said, more of a police procedural than a "straight" noir, though there are definitely noirish elements.

Forget the abortion angle. I'm surprised the anatomically correct woman on the tattooist's arm passed the censors. I wasn't bothered by the connection between the rich geezer and Jan Sterling. I just figured they knew each other for a while, didn't want to make it public and so kept it on the down low. Now, if I were the rich geezer I would have knocked Sterling out, put her in the car and let it slide into the pond, drowning her. But nooooo...

True. No doubt there are some actors and directors whose political views or personal lives people would find disagreeable, but that doesn't change the fact that they are talented and entertaining. I never thought much of Frank Sinatra as a person, but I admire his singing and acting abilities.

Not a pass, just a recognition that a great writer can have flaws that do not diminish his talent. Just as Balzac was a conservative monarchist and Orwell a socialist snitch.

Wonderful and unique style with a satirical and black humorish bent...Of course he was in a bad place after WWII, due to his collaboration with the Germans and his prior anti-Semitic writings...but he has been recognized as a great writer, whatever his political sins...Celine died around the same time as Hemingway, so his death did not warrant much attention here ...though I doubt it would have been given much attention even without the Hemingway coincidence.

It was probably on at some inopportune time for me. Maybe it will show up on YT one of these days. I've always been curious to see how accurate it is and how much if the usually Hollywood make believe history.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, the 20th century French novelist. Since Celine had a rather active non-literary life one wouldn't be stuck with some guy sitting at a desk, schmoozing in the local cafe, and arguing with his publisher. OTOH, they might mess up the biopic, which would be a shame. I've always wanted to see Voltaire an early 1930s pic starring George Arliss as the title character, but it's very hard to find.

Maybe Frankie should have knocked off that annoying junior G-Man kid at the beginning, but then he would have lost a lot of his leverage. Yes, it was kind of strange that he had this well-oiled plan to knock off the president, yet he didn't seem to notice the TV repairman making a connection to the table or good old pops spilling that water all over the floor so as to complete the portable electric table. The problem was he was too busy running his yap to pay attention to what was going on pretty much in front of him. Bad form in a professional hit man. Anyway, U.S. history shows that when it comes to president assassinations, the loser smuck gets the job done.

I often watch it again because it's a good flick plus it's only 77 minutes long. Wearing that hat, I almost expect Frankie to break into Witchcraft between rifle sightings.

For piquancy and an aroma of fine chocolate the 2015 Yoo-hoo can't be beat.

I had forgotten about the accents, but I sure remember the annoyance. Glad she, or rather the characters she so often played, wasn't my mother.

I remember Louise Latham from her many TV roles. She seemed to specialize in mothers who were, for different reasons, disappointed in their children or who were overbearing. Hey, maybe the one was connected to the other. Frank Burns was a Republican. I'm pretty sure he mentioned that in a few episodes.

I might have seen a little bit on it when it was on PBS, but not the whole thing. It's been pledge time for the last few weeks, so they are showing some of their musical shows. Not bad if you don't mind those ten minute send money breaks.

I was wondering if he would sing that line or an appropriate variation on it, but he just left it out.

Maybe the Prince should have used a large, extra long drumstick. One of the local PBS stations showed The Concert for George a few days ago. Pre-Sir Ringo did a good job on Photograph and Honey Don't.

In a movie about a multiple murderer psychopath, the "man" is the strangest character in the whole thing. The actor who played him is one of those character actors you recognize even though you might not be sure of their names, Paul Kelly in this case. Kelly had his own troubles with the man, as he spent some time in the clink on a manslaughter charge. Gloria is her usual sexy self, though somewhat on the hard edged side. Not surprising, considering her occupation and environment.

I'm her husband, but I couldn't get in the service. I had a flat foot. One flat foot, one non-flat foot. Hurt like heck. After that happened, she wasn't interested in me anymore...I'm not really her husband, pal. I saw her one night at the dance joint and couldn't help myself. So I come up to her apartment every week, but she wouldn't give me a tumble. She likes to go out with other fellas. That's okay. Sooner and later she'll come back to me...That's really not the truth, buddy. I was very poor as a kid. My parents didn't have enough dough for food, not to mention dance lessons, so I go to the dance place and watch her to try to learn to dance for nothing. Then I stated coming up here to mess us her coffee maker once a week. That really made her mad...Okay, who am I fooling pal. Ever since I was a little boy I felt that I was really a woman trapped inside a man's body. So I come up here, slip her five and she shows me how to walk like a woman and get used to all those little female doodads. You know guy, you're not bad looking. Come back in a couple of years and maybe we'll see what happens...But to be perfectly honest with you...

Happy St. Patrick's Day. All the way...

The commercials on Sundance don't seem that intrusive. They do one after the first act, one after the second, and that's about it. I think MTM did originally run for 24 or 25 minutes. I'll have to use the stopwatch function on my calculator to see how much is being taken out. I notice that quite often the channels that run Andy Griffith will just skip the short finale that runs for two or three minutes and go right to the credits. I remember when I was a kid and my parents went out for the night they said they had something that could tell them if the TV had been on or not. That thing was just them checking to see if the top of the TV was still warm. Shame on them.

I have DirecTV and none of those classic TV channels are offered. Sundance runs the show for 35 minutes, but who knows if that's just to jam in more commercials. So far if there are cuts, they are pretty well hidden.

Could be. I remember seeing ads for those tiny TVs back in the day. The tiny TV was where one might expect the second speaker to be placed. You really do notice something new on occasion. I really enjoyed seeing the show again as I haven't seen it in ages. Looking forward to late night next Thursday.