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Madchen in Uniform (1931), remade in 1958. Nothing wrong with some extra-curricular activities at a girl's school. Then there's These Three and its remake The Children's Hour. From what I recall, neither of them made it very clear what was really going on. Teacher, teacher, teach me love, I can't learn it fast enough.

Well at least you don't have to pay a divorce attorney. I believe she had some kind of insurance, but still. You feel sorry for someone who died that young just because she married the wrong kind of guy. Yes, there are hints in some of her back and forth with Raft that she has a side gig, one where she wouldn't have to declare her earnings. Wink, wink.

I've always thought of Babbitt as the early creme de la creme of dissecting the American middle class and pointing out it idiocies and follies and rank materialism. And all done with some humor. As I recall, at the end of the book there is some possibility of change for George F. No doubt Lewis' literary reputation has declined over the last forty years or so, but I still enjoy the his novels. I don't know if I'd call Babbitt a forgotten book, but it's probably not as well known as it was in the past.

She must have been one heck of a cleaning woman because she sure didn't survive on her personality. Sometimes ID will switch in the late night repeats, but most of the time they follow the prime time lineup. I watched that episode of American Monster where the nerdy looking girl married the harmless looking guy and then he shot her in the head and claimed it was an accident. Why not just divorce her? That happens all the time in these shows.

Based on ID's past doings, I'll believe it when I see it, though I will tune in. One good thing about ID is that they usually repeat the prime time shows later in the night, so if something else is on in prime time one can still watch the ID show later in the evening. Lynn Bari and Virginia Huston are both attractive, but I found that loud mouth maid sexier.

Pretty entertaining noir with most of the usual boxes checked off. I know Georgie was no great shakes as an actor, but I usually enjoy his tough guy screen persona. I got a laugh out of how Raft takes a raft of pictures and manages to find the women in a couple of days. How the heck did he manage that? Yes, Lynn Bari was attractive and looked good in a swimsuit, but that million dollar figure seems grossly inflated. I'd go with $250,000. Now if only she was called the Yoo Hoo girl.

The GNR cover of Live and Let Die is pretty good too.

I was thinking about it for some reason and went back and listened to it. Still pretty good.

Didn't know that. I just recognized him from TV. I enjoyed DAF. There is even a little touch of The Loved One at the beginning of the film. The title song is good, but I like the Goldfinger song better. Whatever people think of the movie You Only Live Twice, I think the song is very good.

They do provide a nice comic touch to all the killing. I recognized the actor who played Mr. Wint, as I've seen him in other roles. Mr. Kidd not so much. It would have been fun to have a tag team wrestling match between them and Bambi and Thumper.

I thought Diamonds Are Forever was pretty good. Maybe not up to the standards of the early 1960s ones, but pretty close. After five films the James Bond formula of girls, guns, gadgets, egomaniac villains trying to rule the world had to be getting a little tired. So I think DAF did okay with that. One just knew that diamond smuggling couldn't be the endgame, it had to be something much more grand, which it was. How about an 007 name switch--Blow *** and Oddfeld.

That's the main reason I will watch it, and to see how the toupee holds up. I would think it's not in the class of Goldfinger, but I'm sure it has some good parts in it.

I remember seeing Thunderball and You Only Live Twice in a movie theater. I lost interest in James Bond after that and haven't watched another one since. I will probably watch Diamonds Are Forever tonight.

That's one of the marks of a cinema classic.

With that name you can almost guess what the character might be. She was a hoot in that role. She played a similar type of character in other places, but I don't think she ever outdid Lahoma. Several nights ago they ran the three episodes from this season, if you can call it a season. That was a strange end even for ID. I hope it will come back some time in the future.

My opinion is you've seen one teen idol you've seen them all, though I do admit that Tab Hunter is a better name than Troy Donahue.

I've heard that Ole Blue Eyes' mother was an abortionist though I've never looked very deeply into the matter. I guess if it's in one of the well-researched biographies it's probably true. I think Marsha Hunt was playing one of those stereotypical well-meaning mothers who have too many things to do to follow through.

I believe Q was made for homesick sailors who dream of mommy while they toss and turn restlessly in their seamen encrusted beds.

Yes he was, though he was a little on the uptight side as I recall. Yes, Williams was the name. I had forgotten. I also remember Dr. Marlena Evans, one of the best looking psychiatrists ever. With a little help from the internet I have found the teenage sexpot, though I got the details wrong. She was one of the Landers' sisters, who were not twins. She appeared on Somerset, the spin off of Another World, which ran from 1970 to 1976. One of the transplant characters from Another World was Lahoma Vane, played by Ann Wedgeworth. She was sort of a blue collar semi-vixen who did and said the most outrageous things, but with a twinkle in her eye. I thought she was one of the kookiest characters on the NBC soaps, down to her name. Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Whatever.

Roberta Shore was cute, but Sara Lane, who was in the last few years of The Virginia, was really sexy. Of course her character was a bit older and more mature than Betsy Garth who was still kind of a grown up kid.

Yes. I mostly remember her from TV shows of that time, where at the worse she was really nasty to the best where she was just misunderstood.

My viewing of the NBC soaps was very irregular. My mom would be watching when I came home from school. I would watch for a few minutes, make some wisecracks, she would give me a nasty look and I would head out. I do remember Rachel and Mac (get a haircut, you freakin' hippie) and could not help notice the vast difference in their ages. I also remember Bill Hayes and his wife, who were major characters, though I don't recall their names or the soap they were on. Then there were the twin actresses who played the teenage sexpots. Can't recall their names either, but all those shows were always a lot of fun.

A few good shots of caffeine can fix a multitude of problems.

My mother was a devotee of Another World and the other NBC soaps. From the little I can remember, Constance Ford was quite often in her kitchen offering advice over a cup of coffee.

Yes, it would fall hardest on those who can't afford it, as usual. I think she was using Roberta Shore in this movie. Maybe as a supporting player, her name wasn't that prominent in the opening credits.