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I suppose that would also be more evidence of the frontal nudity personal prohibition.

I didn't know that. I thought of Bates as a devil may care, up for anything type of actor, but that's his right. Guess he had to go for backtal nudity.

I haven't seen it in a number of years, so I can't recall all the details of what was bared and to what degree. It was certainly something that couldn't have been done five years before in a mainstream movie. In general I prefer Vlad to D.H., especially stylistically, though sometimes one can grow a bit tired of Nabokov's almost too perfect manner. But both are worthwhile writers.

Okay Callahan, what's up? I'm getting reports from Personnel that you spend half your day talking to an empty chair.

I check YT every once in a while to see if a newly uploaded Warhol or Fassbinder flick turns up. They sometimes do. Not the best way to watch a movie, but better than nothing. Donnie Brasco is good, though I tend to mix up these Mafia movies with each other. I have the actual That Obscure Object of Desire on tape somewhere. Maybe it was on TCM many years ago, can't remember.

Speaking of nude rasslin', there is the Alan Bates Oliver Reed nudie non-cage match in Women in Love. The boys clear out the furniture to the sides and go at it in the all together. By the firelight we can see both men's glimmering cheeks and every once in a while, a fleeting glimpse of their limp and bouncing dinguses, as Sam Spade might have put it. For the non-wrestling fans there are some nice shots of MP to be Glenda Jackson's berries. A flick truly with something for everyone. After Burr's nude scene they considered changing the name of the show to Ironfront, but then decided not to.

How about Tiny Tim having a man crush on Clarence Williams III? As for the first scenario, it's okay, though I find it hard to picture Tiny Tim wearing a cowboy hat.

That was mostly a facetious comment. I do recall that Pauline Kael got all bent out of shape about the movie. And I would think that most people would not approve of cops using unconstitutional methods in their work. Harry is lucky he is not around these days when everyone has a cellphone.

You're not too surprised when the older rockers in their 60s and 70s die, but it is a shock when someone dies that relatively young. R.I.P.

You mean there's a difference between a psycho and Dirty Harry? I do prefer Harry's haircut to Bullitt's.

Rosebud has to be in here somewhere.

I think I saw it two or three years back and I've forgotten a lot of the plot details too. I remember that posed photo of Georgie dressed up by a desk with a big shelf full of books in the background.

I'll bet George couldn't forget her either. Now if he had been younger... Not a bad picture, but nothing very special. I found the British bookstore setting to be interesting, more so than if it had taken place in an Amazon dsitibution center.

Brenty boy starred in the early 1950s British flick The Last Page, playing a bookstore manager who, innocently, got messed up with all kinds of criminal activities. And to top things off, the U.S. title was Man Bait. Now that has to a noir.

McCarthy had two or three different numbers of supposed communists. I believe 57 might have been one of them and also the fewest number.

I thought the early scenes about brainwashing might be satirical. Not sure if it was a satire about brainwashing or womens' garden clubs.

The only movie financed and directed by Eddie Fisher.

Soft core after 10 p.m.

I haven't seen the movie in a while, so I don't recall all the details. But besides the there's nothing wrong with being different theme, there is a strong anti-war message of course. To HUAC that might have been enough. Anti-war, sounds kind of commie to me.

I always thought one of the rather obvious messages is that people will dislike things that are out of their normal range of thought and experience, like a boy with green hair, that is a boy (or girl) who is different from others.

My own tulpa tells me that Tulsa Time is not really set in Tulsa. It's about a guy who left Tulsa and headed west and now wishes he was back in Tulsa. If he was in Tulsa he wouldn't need to set his watch to Tulsa time. Yes, the tulpa knows.

I was being somewhat facetious as the Pinkertons were well known as strike breakers. I will say that the Thin Men movies are intricately plotted. I've seen most of them over the years and it would be a lot easier if one watched the last ten minutes first so one could understand the plots, that is if one had already seen it once before.

Mellow is not a word I associate with QE II, but after a few sherries, who knows. I saw one of Helen's early flicks a few months ago with a lot of that "gratuitous" nudidity in it. Mirren is built like a brick loo.

Somehow I can't picture Nick Charles as a strike breaker, unless the strike was against a gin distillery.