Vautrin
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
Good to know! LOL.
Yes, just for future reference.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes, that would've been the smarter option. If it had been a one night stand he would have never given her his phone number. So it was obvious (to me) they had been seeing each other from time to time.....and since Sterling was so sure he was the father, probably the only man she had been seeing for the last couple months.
I thought Sterling looked really beautiful in this film. And I thought I saw her nipples showing in that one dress. (which I hadnt noticed before, I've seen the film a few times...)
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.)
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5 hours ago, Fedya said:
Worked for Ted Kennedy, more or less.
And it's been a while since I've seen Mystery Street, but I was thinking about how you can get pregnant even if you only see a guy once. (By the same token, Betty Hutton in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek gets pregnant within hours of her wedding to a man she'd never met before.) Not having seen the movie in a while, I'm not certain how consistent that is with the rest of the plot.
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.
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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...
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1 hour ago, SunAndMoon said:
This. Art =/= the artist.
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.
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4 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
so celine gets a pass despite collaborating with the nazis and anti-semitism?
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.
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18 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
I can see where Celine would appeal to you.
It seems as though in the last 25 or 30 years he's had of Rehabilitation in French literature.
In the late 90s Fabrice Luchini fashioned a one man show around a lot of Celine's works. And when I saw this show I was surprised and yet same time people were saying they were at this time ready to readmit Celine into the respectability of authors.
But he's never left the literary textbook cannons, yet he's considered to be so controversial that some of his Publications have been canceled.
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.
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5 hours ago, Stephan55 said:
Ah yes, the great George Arliss (1868-1946).
From throughout the British Empire to the U.S., a well traveled actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker. Married once at the age of 31, and remained so from 1899-1946.
Now that would be a very interesting biopic I'd like to see.
George was master at playing many famous others (both on stage and screen) i.e. Benjamin Disraeli (twice, in 1921 & again in 1929), Alexander Hamilton, Voltaire, Arthur Wellesley (aka the 1st Duke of Wellington), Mayer & Nathan Rothschild, Cardinal Richelieu, ...I've recorded several of his films from TCM over the years but am still looking for others.
Of his biopics I've recorded Disraeli (1929), Alexander Hamilton (1931), Voltaire (1933), and The House of Rothschild (1934). Still hoping TCM will broadcast The Iron Duke (1934) and Cardinal Richelieu (1935) (both of which TCM has never shown, but are currently available from Amazon, if it comes down to that).
But can't find Voltaire (1933) anywhere? Fortunately I do have a DVR from a TCM broadcast back in 7/14/2012 (TCM's last broadcast). According to MCOH's TCM Schedules Summary, it was shown in July 2010 before that, for a total of seven broadcasts since 1994.
TCM does occasionally air an Arliss classic every now and then, so Voltaire (and the others) may yet see the light of day one more time? However, if you have exhausted every other avenue and would rather not wait for a "maybe," then shoot me a PM... I'll dig my copy out from storage for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Arliss
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
MovieCollectorOH statistical reports on TCM broadcasts
http://moviecollector.us/reports.htmIt 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For piquancy and an aroma of fine chocolate the 2015 Yoo-hoo can't be beat.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes, you could count on her being annoying, and often with an accent!!
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
Did you get to see that great Showtime special with Carl Perkins presenting all of his rock and roll students-- George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton? Seems like it was dated about 1986, but I saw it again at least a year ago, I think, on the PBS.
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.
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5 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
"You Say you will when you won't. Ah ha, Honey Don't.
Rock on, George, for Ringo one time."
I was wondering if he would sing that line or an appropriate variation on it,
but he just left it out.
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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.
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Were I a wealthy man, I would cut you a $10,000 advance on the spot for your CROSSFIRE update/ slash fic.
FASCINATING.
Ps- If one was going to take lessons on how to really BE a woman, there is no better sensei than Gloria Grahame. Sit down grasshopper, you have much to learn.
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.
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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...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day. All the way...
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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.
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18 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I have the entire series on DVD, so I've seen all the episodes multiple times. I re-watched the entire series after MTM died last year. I've also seen the first three seasons more times that I'd like to admit (well actually I don't care, I love this show), because those are the only seasons on Hulu and they don't require me to find the disks when I want to put on background noise for cleaning and such.
I also read that I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore are being added to The Decades channel. I don't have that channel or MeTV, though I do have Sundance, so I won't be able to watch. The only thing I hate about watching these shows on TV are the commercials. I discovered MTM back on Nick at Nite in the 90s when I was an obsessed viewer and watched almost every night from 8-11 (later on Fridays and Saturdays).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.
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Hopefully. Her apartment does get robbed twice in the first season, maybe she wasn't able to get the second speaker back! Then she has a tiny tiny TV, it has like a 3" screen. I think at some point, maybe when she moves into her new apartment, she has a bigger stereo.
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.
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Noir Alley
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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.