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I think he was a steelworker so maybe he had some kind of shift work where he wasn't at home during certain hours. It's hard to tell from an hour long program about the details of their life. Was it a hard core party house or just a place where kids congregated. The one son did go off to college so I guess they studied a little bit.

THTF, good entry in The Manly Art of Self Defense noir subgenre. I've seen it three or four times before, always worth watching. An actor can't pick the last film they will be in but this was a pretty good one to end on for Bogie. Rod Steiger didn't go too far off the rails, at least for Rod Steiger. I got a kick out of the scene after the pug died and Rod asks one of his gofers to get some coffee. Then the guy says how about sandwiches too and sensitive old Rod has a minor fit and acts like the guy just committed murder. I'm sure some folks would have liked a ham and cheese at the time.

Got some screwballs out in Ohio. Those houses must have been really close together. If I was the dad I would have put a curfew on my kids, no basketball after 9 or whatever hour would have worked, but that is no excuse for what the neighbor did. While it would have been a huge hassle, he should just have moved, unless he was the kind of guy that was going to get mad about something, no matter what. One of my neighbors has a basketball hoop, though our houses aren't very close. I think it has been used about five times in the last five years.

Officer, she looked 18 to me. Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you if you're young at heart For it's hard, you will find To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart

I think the 50 year old making it with a 15 year old would describe him or herself as lucky.

Until TCM had these James Bond Thursdays I had only seen the ones with Sean Connery. I lost interest as I got older. I enjoyed seeing one with Moore and the other with Dalton. Of course there aren't many surprises to me anymore in the Bond movies, but they are entertaining and have some fantastic stunts. I think the maiming of Leiter and the killing of his wife are sufficient reasons for Bond to be revenge minded.

Should have had chicken soup and speed available at the candy counter. Big mistake.

He did go to the NYC intellectuals with romance problems well a few times too often, but that's a minor complaint. And it would have been a neat injoke for him to put an umlaut over the o, but no one's perfect.

I agree a bit with the critics Ben mentioned who thought License to Kill was like a high budget two hour long Miami Vice. The villain's plans were much more modest than some of the other Bond villains who want to take over the world; he just wanted to sell drugs to more people. And shoot off the occasional Stinger missile. But taking that into account, it was still a pretty entertaining flick, with the extra theme of Bond alienated from some of his spy pals. The vehicle chase finale was very well done, likely the high point of the movie.

Max Cady I was sort of a good ol' boy but with an obvious sadistic streak and maybe a few screws half loose. Max Cady II was just an out and out psycho with tattoos galore and some way deep mental problems, though he was better read than Cady I and his cigars were hilariously huge.

He was way off the rails, even for an FTN episode. I didn't see the one about the two Asian sisters. Sounds like an episode of Hoarders.

I do watch Twister Sisters sometimes. It's more subtle than I thought it would be from the title. I like the title of an upcoming series--Relatively Evil. I finished with the FTN episode. Yep, Kevin had more than a few screws loose. I shouldn't have laughed when he sucker punched the old lady, but I couldn't help myself.

Plus who wants to watch people being nice to each other after the second cup of borrowed sugar? Welcome to Bobcat Lane. Bobcat Lane.? Get the **** out of here.

There is certainly less green space to fight over, which seems to be how many of these things start. Fortunately IRL there are fewer crazies out there than on FTN.

I was able to get through the streaming maze and will watch it later on, today or tomorrow. It's funny how many of the episodes begin with someone happy to get away from the danger of the big city and move to the quite, peaceful countryside and then all hell breaks loose.

I meant to, but for whatever reason it totally slipped my mind. I tried to stream it on the ID website tonight, but it just keeps on going around in circles even though it's supposed to work if you watch it on DirecTV (and other providers). I'll try again later.

If Buck hadn't been a Texas hick he might have tuned into WNEW-FM instead of Cousin Brucie.

Dullsville, baby. I saw it a number of years ago. At that time I concentrated on the foggy, semi-mystical bs. This time I saw it as a triangle/adultery tale. Either way, there's not much there. I was surprised by the ending. I thought Joan Bennett, the self-described tramp, would have ditched Bickford, who was old enough to be her daddy, and went off with Ryan before she ditched him somewhere down the road. Not even a heapin' helpin' of Granny's possum stew could have saved this thing, though it could have been improved if there had been a shot of Bob's horse taking a big dump on that pristine beach. I have never found anything off putting about Joan Bennett.

Well, a man who is planning to exterminate the world's population and then replace it doesn't have a lot of time for extracurriculars. Tea and cucumber sandwiches. Gee if I were a super villain who could eat anything he wanted, I'd pick something besides that. To each their own, I suppose.

I guess the producers decided to call an audible after Star Wars took off. The death of the girl at the hands of the Dobermans is disturbing as a thought, but in the movie they cut away from the worse of what happened to her. And of course I doubt viewers were too surprised that a Bond villain would do something like that.

Sometimes the subtexts just seem to come right out of the TV. And it's no coincidence that Mishima offed himself with a sword.

I don't think I could watch two Bond movies in a row, so I stuck with Moonraker last night. Pretty entertaining with the usual James Bond stuff you expect in a Bond movie. You've seen one you've just about seen them all. I must admit most of Bond's puns are pretty obvious and certainly not very clever, but that's a minor complaint. I haven't seen Close Encounters in many years, but the notes that open the door into the Venice lab sound like the same ones from CE. Ben did mention that the recent space flicks were at least part of the inspiration for Moonraker.

I've read that Bowl of Puke was the title that Henry James initially wanted for what later became The Golden Bowl.

It's very likely that Meineke and Kindler were homosexual lovers in Germany. Maybe they were even involved in a threesome with Ernst Rohm, though that is just speculation. The scene where Kindler kills Meineke--I believe the body is covered with dirt not just to hide it but also to disguise the fact that Kindler had just bumrushed Meineke and so some of Meineke's excrement is still around. And it's also possible that Meineke, a possible practitioner of auto-erotic play, does not realized he is being strangled for a different reason. The color of dirt/excrement is also an ironic comment on the anti-Nazi group White Rose. The two Nazis don't want anything to do with that color. It's also obvious that Noah is gay or at least bisexual. He is really a non-Noah, not bringing two things together but trying to separate the two sexual attractions he feels so he can better regulate his desires. The happy go lucky store proprietor uses his blindfold in order to symbolically hide his own homosexuality. He puts it on in moments of mental concentration to shield his physical concentration on male bodies. Kindler has not totally given up on his religion. He sees the ladder in the church as a Jacob's ladder leading to the superior, in his belief, way of homosexuality. A heterosexual woman like his wife can not be allowed to ascend the ladder to this higher form of life, so Kindler saws it in order to prevent her from climbing it. Then there is the hidden in plain sight fact that a combination of the two Nazi's names equals my child which represents both Meineke's age in relation to Kindler's and the possibility that both may enjoy having intimate relations with children.

During the hand off from Chris Cuomo to D Lemon last night, Cuomo asked Lemon if he was as angry as Cuomo was about the idea of remaking The Princess Bride. Don admitted he had never seen the original because it wasn't his kind of movie. I hear you, brother. He then said that he preferred old black and white movies and was a fan of TCM.