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6 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Vautrin: Holmes & Watson is now on Starz. It got terrible reviews when it came out. John C. Reilly (sp?) played Watson (he got better reviews playing Oliver Hardy). I saw the first Downey movie (he was awesome as Chaplin); however, stop with the Moriarty business and Irene Adler. She appears in a very brief Holmes story (Scandal in Bohemia) and is only hinted at in later stories. Moriarty (who my mother claimed was brother to Sherlock and Mycroft) is not a major factor in most of the stories. Sherlock was very adept at martial and other physical arts; yet he was also a cocaine addict, a violinist, and, in The Seven Percent Solution, he meets Dr. Freud (courtesy of Watson - Robert Duvall - Holmes is Nicol Williamson and Freud is Alan Arkin). Excuse typos.
I had brain freeze and had forgotten about the Holmes & Watson movie. Now i remember it. Doesn't sound very
interesting. Since Moriarty is the most famous opponent of Holmes and Adler is the woman, I can see why Richie
used them; it was the easiest way to go. They were the usual suspects. I remember in the stories Holmes could
hold his own in fights, but I don't think he did that very often and certainly not to the extent that Downey Jr. did in
the two movies. It doesn't matter that much in the movie as a whole, it was just unusual to see Holmes so physically
active. Being a cocaine user, he must have been glad to meet Freud, a fellow user.
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One can be both a Dickensian and a Doylesian. I suppose if Ferrell wants to try his hand at playing Holmes
and some suits are willing to let him do it, there's not much one can do about it, but it is hard to see him as
Holmes. While the Downey Jr. films were entertaining he turned Sherlock into a martial arts master, which
was kind of weird. And those scenes which were done twice, once in real time and once in slo-mo got
kind of silly after a while. In general the Brett series was well done and true to the stories for the most part.
The only thing off putting thing to me was the way Brett played Holmes--lots of nervous tics and bizarre behavior
as if Sherlock was in need of a good mental health professional or whatever was available at that time.
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Never eat at a place called Pop's. Though I must admit that burger that pop cooked up at the start of the
flick looked very generous, especially compared to those thin Depression-era burgers one saw in
movies of that time. And it must have been very rare as he got it done in about a minute. If I were Andrews
I would have snatched that thing away from Darnell and chowed down. Perhaps a foreshadowing of how
hard Dana tried to get into Linda's pants without success. I thought Alice Faye was pretty sexy in a prim
and proper way which only makes it more exciting. I certainly wouldn't have left her on their marriage night,
though they must have wished that the sister was not so near them. Yuck. And it was good to see Bickford,
the abusive cop, get caught in the end. A pretty decent noir with a happy ending, though I felt a little bit
sorry for Kilbride still mourning Stella at the conclusion. You were old enough to be her grandfather, so
you really should have controlled yourself. It was a tad on the creepy side.
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16 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
and Duke was such a symbol of America that Stalin put out a contract on him.
If this is supposed to rehabilitate Wayne's views on minorities it failed miserably.
And I would take the Stalin put a contract out on Wayne theory with a very tall glass of vodka.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
My favorite Rock Star's birthday is on June 20th. And he's also associated with the first day of summer--
All Summer Long, Keep An Eye on Summer, The Endless Summer-- Brian Wilson.
Also, if June 21st isn't the first day of summer, June 20th is. June 21st is rather sparse IMO. Jean-Paul Sartre,
Jane Russell, Increase Mather (I always got a kick out of that first name), and Ray Davies.
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My birthday is also on the 21st of June. I always liked that day because it's often the
first day of summer. I think my mother may have come down the Hudson on a boat.
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Look at the 1971 interview Wayne did with Playboy. Yep, he was a racist. Racists rarely come out and
say "I'm a racist." Once again, the tale of Frank taking Sammy to different hospitals which would not
admit him is an urban legend. Booze Brain wasn't even anywhere near when the accident happened
and I don't think Sammy was refused admittance by a hospital. Since both Davis' parents were Christians,
I don't see how Sammy was half Jewish. Of course he did convert to Judaism in the early 1960s.
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Percy "Playboy" Helton, the unheralded Hollywood chick magnet
Though he was somewhat diminutive, character actor Percy Helton was big with some of Tinseltown's
most gorgeous ladies. And Helton didn't mess around with B actresses. Among his conquests were
Lana, Rita, Marilyn and many other big stars. When asked what attracted them to him Percy modestly
remarked, "I treated them like ladies. I put them on a pedestal, though really I wish they had put me on
one, literally." The ladies were disappointed and men like Gable and Flynn were relieved that Percy
stopped his wolfish ways when he married the love of his life Edna in 1931. Percy, an old-fashioned
gent would not betray his marriage vows and stayed at home. Eventually his phone stopped ringing
when women realized they would have to do without the "Helton treatment" as it was known. When
asked about it, Percy smiled and replied, "You know the old saying, good things come in small
packages." Helton gave this reporter a wink and went back to his Pepsi and grilled cheese sandwich.
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Runt, Runt, RUNT. That cracked me up. Bev wasn't bi-polar. She was just a master manipulator who used
people for her own advantage. When she needed Percy at the beginning she was nice to him. When he
had outlived his usefulness, she told him what she really thought of him. He was obviously delusional for
thinking that a gal like Bev would be interested in a guy like him. I liked the fact that, for a change, nobody
died. Egan returned to his loveless marriage and Bev gets on the bus out of town, already picking out her
next sucker. Some harm, little foul. The only thing more puke-inducing than Percy smothering Bev's hands
with kisses was the shot where Egan breaks into her room and Percy is covering her neck with kisses and
she seems to just lie there prone as if he's sucked all the energy out of her. Very bizarre. Without Helton
it's just another The Postman Always Rings Twice ripoff. His creepiness really adds to the movie. And by
unintentionally upsetting Bev and Egan's scheme, he gets his revenge for her treatment of him. Did he ever
get the twenty smackers he lent her? I doubt it. It may not be much, but it's short and entertaining.
Long tall Bev's built for speed, she's got everything ol' Percy needs. Oh baby.
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8 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
My "laugh" response to your post was for the "I made up for the lack" remark.
You and me both, bud!
Like I said, my Mom wasn't adverse to cussing, but the "F-bomb" was one she didn't tolerate. She might let one or two get a pass in a movie, but in face to face mixed company, I pity the fool who tries to be free with it. 💀 My brother once(and only once) made that mistake.
We were both visiting Mom, he was already there when I showed up, and he was in a foul mood about something. Turns out he lost another job. And of course, it was the world being against him more than anything he might have done, or even just business was bad. Didn't matter. So he started in on one of his grumpy diatribes when he said something like...
"I'm sick of those bastards who think they have to f**K with my life....." Well....
Mom bounced out of her chair shouting, "Who the HELL do you think you are coming into my house talking like THAT!?!" And Len(my brother) got up likely intending to leave, and Mom started slapping his face back and forth, 3 stooges like, Funny to see, my 6'3" brother walking backwards trying to avoid the hands of our 5'7" Mother. He was big enough to grab her hands and keep her at bay, but at least smart enough to know that would make things much worse. And poor me.
I near bit my tongue off trying not to laugh, or else I'D be in for it!
Sepiatone
Good story. My mom would give me a dirty look or say something Okay, that's enough and then I'd tone it way
down. Sometimes my dad would join in as he didn't like the f word either. So I packed that word up and kept it
for another day.
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6 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Yea, but then he would catch the virus.
Maybe he would be fortunate enough to bite a Clorox drinking Trump fan.
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8 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Heh. Brings to mind an incident at work when a co-worker spotted me reading a book in the break area. He noticed it was a book he'd seen me read before. So, he asked, "Why do you read books you've read before? You already know how it ends!" I reminded him of the large LP collection he was always bragging about. Saying, "Yeah, well, you already HEARD all those songs on those albums before!"
And as you've probably surmised, my Mom had no aversion to cussing.(where do you think I learned all them words?
). I suppose, spending eight years raising two boys as a single Mother would bring that result. 
Yeah, it was obvious(based on your previous contributions to the forum) that your post was "tongue in cheek". And so, consequently, was my response.
Although that stuff about my ex's Mom was true.
Sepiatone
I reread books on a fairly frequent basis, but ones that I haven't read in a number of years and am a little vague
on the details if not the general plot and themes of the book. I suppose one advantage of an LP is that they were
usually about 40 minutes long, whereas a book took a lot more time to get through. My mother cursed very
infrequently and I can't recall her using the f word. I made up for that lack.
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How about this--Udo turns into a vampire and the flick is titled Kiss of Undeath.
He can use that huge hat to block out the sun.
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7 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Wow. Usually a woman has to reach 80 or more years old to advance that kind of complaint!
Or even younger, as my ex's Mother often made the same complaint back when she was in her 50's. But her "heyday", just as my Mother's, was back in the 1940's, so I knew where(and when) she was coming from. 
But then too....
Those "classic" movies from the '30's(specifically pre-codes) also contained what SHE might consider "filth", so you can't win from either direction.
Sepiatone
That was posted mostly tongue in cheek so to speak. My mother rarely cursed, so she became upset when I
did all the time. I remember when I watched Now, Voyager for the first time. She wasn't interested in seeing
it as she had seen it years ago. So much for the timeless classics.
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1 hour ago, spence said:
nope, even leslie howard served in the RAF & was 50 when killed in a plane crash or someone shot him down in'43 Trust me here, I've read & seen a ton of TRACY over 41yrs
I'm sure you've read a lot about Tracy but why would a 41 year old movie star at the height of his fame try to
enlist in the armed forces? Sounds a bit unusual. During WW II Howard went on making films. I don't think
he was in the RAF. There is still a lot of controversy about why his plane was shot down. We may never know
for certain.
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10 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
I was a member of Home Film Festival for 4-5 years and I believe at least two of their catalogs in the bookshelf.
I was one for a little less time, maybe three or four years. If one lived in a small town it was a great place to order
foreign or less well-known American films. I probably have some of the old catalogs around somewhere. They
were a dream for any film fan. And the people who took your orders were always very friendly and polite.
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Yeah, it takes more guts to play football and hit somebody over the head with a chair than to face the
Wehrmacht in battle. Right. Wouldn't Tracy have been too old to serve in WW II? Forty one at the
time.
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I haven't seen a video rental store in years. I remember two types of stores in town. One had a large
selection of new movies, with a few classics, the other had mostly classics and foreign films. They
both have long been out of business. I remember Home Film Festival, a mail service that specialized
in foreign films and more obscure movies. The only hassle was having to mail back the videos when
one was done with them, but that was a minor issue. They were located somewhere in PA. I'm sure
they are no longer around, but it was fun while it lasted.
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I too am disgusted with TCM showing these newer movies, the ones with naked people running around
and loads of dirty language. If I want to see such things I'll just stay at home and not watch TV. I want to
see the classic movies from the 1930s and 1940s that don't have all that filth in them. C'mon TCM, let's
get back to clean, uplifting cinema that both taught good moral lessons and was entertaining at the
same time.
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Lauren Bacall was also in a two part episode of The Rockford Files. It's a small world after all.
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Sorry to hear about Tom Lester. I was just watching Green Acres last night. I don't know if Lester was the
second hardest working man in show business, but Eb Dawson was likely the laziest farm hand on TV.
R.I.P.
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4 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
I dunno, I stand by my opinion that there's a bit of a resemblance. Also, Richard Conte was attractive in his own right.
Glad you're able to find re-runs of Mad Men. I thought it was a great show, and really loved it.
As I recall, Sally had a crush on that guy in "The Man from Uncle", David McCallum. Come to think of it, so did I. (this is not to say that I responded to viewing him on TMFU quite the way Sally did.)
This will be one of those to each their own situations. I like Conte as an actor. He often seemed to play a guy with
a chip on his shoulder who was going to spend a large part of the movie feeding it, but he did that very well.
I'm enjoying watching Mad Men again. I missed some of the early episodes and an occasional one during the
later years. It's also easier to follow the plot watching it every day instead of once a week. When I first saw that
episode I thought that Sally just had a crush on McCallum, like many kids do with TV stars. Then I read a detailed
synopsis of that episode and found out her feelings went um....deeper. I missed that. Well it was pretty dark in
that TV room. No wonder Betty flipped out.
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John Hamm and Richard Conte? Shirley you jest. Granted, Conte had a certain rough-hewn appeal,
but he lacked the classic good looks of John Hamm. I've been watching reruns of Mad Men on Audience,
and not once have I said to myself Wow, Don Draper reminds me of Richard Conte. Even Sally knows
better.
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Not sure when it will show up again, but FCM or whatever it's now called has been playing Mr. Scoutmaster.
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Like I said, my Mom wasn't adverse to cussing, but the "F-bomb" was one she didn't tolerate. She might let one or two get a pass in a movie, but in face to face mixed company, I pity the fool who tries to be free with it. 
But then too....
Death Takes No Holiday -- The Obituary Thread
in General Discussions
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Just saw on another website that Florian Schneider, co-found of Kraftwerk, has died of cancer at the
age of 73. May the Krautrock be with you.
Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, dies at 73
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/world/florian-schneider-kraftwerk-music-intl/index.html