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I did notice that a number of parts of Herrmann's score sounded like the more melancholy and haunting parts of some of the work he did for Hitchcock. I think the viewer can assume that these two kids will have it rough, at least for a while, but things might work out over the long haul.

I saw A Summer Place only once many years ago, so I don't recall too much about it, except that much of it was unintentionally funny, as many of those 1950s teenagers in trouble flicks were. The song was pretty nifty.

I know the ending to Blue Denim was the usual Hollywood cop out happy ending, but I was glad that's what happened. I felt sorry for both of those kids and it was nice that they got together and could help one another. It was also fun to see Roberta Shore as the teenage singer. She would have a co-starring role on The Virginian a few years later.

I don't think things will ever go back to that time. A number of states have tried to basically outlaw abortion or make it very difficult to get one or for clinics to keep operating, but they have been blocked by judges for the most part. I don't think the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, but if it does it will likely become a state matter and so some states will still have legal abortion. That would certainly make it more difficult for women who live in states that outlaw it to get abortions. That would make Ernie happy.

Nothing comes between me and my Calvins. Not even a back alley abortionist.

My paper had a strange pairing in the major obituaries page. On top of Carol Lynley's was that of the police supervisor who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot. I think he was 99. Although Carol's was at the bottom her's was longer.

If I was Macdonald Carey I sure as hell wouldn't have let Ernie anywhere near my car. The little we saw of the office of the back alley abortionist didn't look too bad. Okay, the guy was smoking a cig, but lots of doctors still did that at the time. In today's money it would have cost $811.00 for the abortion. With a ride to and from the place, doesn't sound too bad.

Probably. Wooden coat hangers only though.

No doubt Joan would have gotten a quickie abortion. I saw it a number of years ago, but the trailer is so campy I might tune in.

I think I remember the book too, or rather the title, more than the movie, which came out six years later. There were no names that I recognized in the movie. Wiki has the details about the book. It was written by a number of Newsday reporters and columnists, long before Ray Barone worked there. I suppose that since it was a porn book plot details wren't all that important.

I used to be disappointed that the movie version left plot elements or characters out, then I realized that it was impossible for a movie to get in all the parts of the book, especially if the book was a long one. So I now consider them as separate works, even though it is obvious that one is adapted from the other, however incompletely. I seem to always miss the two earlier versions of The Maltese Falcon when they are shown. I've seen parts of them, but one day maybe I'll catch the entire movies.

I was reading the Wiki article on Trog. Joan would have a glass that said Pepsi on the outside but it was full of 100 proof vodka. If only the move theater had given the same thing to every patron.

I remember, just vaguely, that movie title. Doesn't leave much to the imagination about its content. Yeah about all it takes is some blabbermouth saying how immoral something is for there to be an immediate uptick in interest. The theater should have sent him a free pass as a thank you gift.

Now how could anyone know that Wee Willy Williams would die the next day?

Joan Crawford as you've never seen her before. Joan fulfilling the promise of her early movie career. Joan Crawford is TROG!!! I hate to admit it, but I actually saw this thing when it first came out. Maybe I was hit on the head that day. At least the buttered popcorn and Coke were good.

That does often happen. A book or movie that people weren't all that interested in suddenly, for whatever reason, becomes controversial and everybody starts talking about it. I guess that's marginally better than some folks who want to censor books they've never read. That always makes me laugh.

Billy, we can't go on meeting like this. I can't fly to Turkey every month and my boobs get cold against this glass. I've met this new stud back in Texas and we're going to New York to try our luck as a folkie duo, Joe and Blow. But if you ever want to talk to me just give me a call, just don't make it collect. See ya honey.

I wish somebody had tried to stop our class from reading Romeo and Juliet. Of course that might leave Macbeth or Hamlet, which aren't exactly wholesome reading material. Yeah, I doubt that most teenagers would have picked up on all of Shakespeare's erotic puns unless the teacher pointed them out.

Hey, I'm tryin' to eat some soup here.

Not bad for a lonely young lad who cowered in his bedroom because no one invited him to the school dance.

No it wasn't. TWP is one of those early 1960s films where they could only go so far, but they go as far as they can and make it as sleazy as possible with lots of wink winks. As a story about how a town can get ugly and turn against its citizens it does so very effectively. Kirk's goal was to break down the girl so totally that she would not complete her testimony and so his clients could not face the death penalty. That worked, but other things did not. And the sound of the theme song fits perfectly with the whole nasty vibe of the movie.

I agree with that and I didn't think too much of it at the time, but watching the show in reruns for many years, I just have to say that the American educational system wasn't quite as good as people say it was in the 1930s and 1940s.

That is kind of funny. I know it's been on TCM before and I too think it is one of Kirk's best films. I watched Town Without Pity, which I hadn't seen in ages. Being the early 1960s, Kirk used the blame the victim defense on steroids. Things didn't turn out quite as he had hoped, at least in some respects.

Not to go too deep into the MTM weeds, but in at least one episode Rhoda mentioned that she made more money than Mary did and it was not a joke. IRL you'd wonder why she didn't get a bigger apartment and move out of her extended closet. It was even funnier that Lou wanted to move into Rhoda's apartment. And actually Mary didn't have a college education. Rhoda spilled the beans in the WJM newsroom without meaning any harm. I can't recall if Mary attended college for a year or two or not.

Fetv just stopped showing TMTMS last week after it had run two episodes a weekday for a little less than a year. Of course they were edited. It's pretty obvious when they have scenes in the closing credits that weren't shown during the episode. Some of my favorites with Rhoda were the one where she and Mary attended the club for divorced people, called something like the Better Luck Next Time Around, and found out that, just like themselves, most of the people weren't divorced, the one where they attended Mary's high school class reunion, and the one where Rhoda invited a man she had been in a fender bender with to a small party and she found out he was married, Armand Linton and his wife....Nancy. No doubt there are more, but those are some that come to mind. R.I.P.