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I was hoping Edward would throw some light on the instrument or sound effect used when O'Brien sees a pretty woman in the first part of the picture. That always cracks me up. When you see clips of O'Brien running around it looks a little wacky, but dispersed throughout the movie, it's less so. The close up shots of the musicians look like something from Reefer Madness. And last but not least, Pamela Britton is so sweet and sexy as Paula. She could trap me any old time.

I believe Mission Memorial is the only major hospital in Asheville. Can't remember what the weather was like at the beginning of February, but for the last week it's been pretty dreary. My dad used to work at the Biltmore dairy when he was a young lad. I remember an episode of the Andy Griffith Show that showed a bus or train schedule with Asheville spelled Ashville. C'mon Andy.

You are correct, oh chef of the future. I had to think awhile and couldn't remember whether it was peel or core and I guessed incorrectly. That is one of my favorite episodes too, even the old joke of someone getting stage fright. Hard to think of another 1950s TV character who was a narcissistic blowhard to the extent of ol' Ralphie boy.

He' wasn't a preening, vain type of narcissist, but he certainly thought well of himself, especially when he came up with one of his quick money making schemes which always ended in failure. I've read in a number of places that The Flintstones was pretty much a copy of The Honeymooners, which certainly makes sense.

As for TV, the greatest. But can it peel a apple.

I like to talk to a man who likes to talk, but I prefer to talk to a man who likes to listen to me talk total nonsense. If blowhardiness was measured by body mass index, this boy might be the all time champ. Narcissistic? Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, sounds a bit like the Miranda warning. You do give suspects the Miranda warning don't you Sgt. Friday, because Gannon told us that.....

I believe it got good ratings at the time, being very topical. I haven't seen it in years but while a bit stereotypical still a good piece of work. Vincent also appeared in a few TV westerns and yes was also on one episode of the 1960s version of Dragnet. It was warm for LA in March and a strange smelling haze hung over the city. Interesting note on Vincent's Wikipedia entry: This article is being heavily edited because its subject has recently died. Knowledge about the circumstances of the death and surrounding events may change rapidly as more facts come to light. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.Please feel free to improve this article or discuss changes on the talk page.

I suppose the thing I remember JMV for the most is a TV movie he did back in the early 1970s called Tribes. He played a hippie dippie Marine recruit who had a failure to communicate with his tough drill sargeant played by Darren McGavin. They got along like Joe Friday and Jerry Garcia might have. But in the end they grew to respect one another, though JMV's character still took off. I never paid much attention to his TV show or other movies.

Or even a path of non-musical musings. Is she really married to him?

Just for the record, Costello released two albums before Jackson's first.

Yes, it made a good setting for the shootout. I always get a kick out of the sound effect that plays in the first half hour or so whenever O'Brien sees a good looking dame. Crazy.

Whatever the practicalities of Chester's hiring, it was fun to see him get his in the drugstore shootout, just as it was fun to see Joe Pesci get his in a couple of "Mafia" flicks. The meaner they are, the more satisfying.

Sounds about right. It's been so long ago that many folks never knew or don't recall how much of the telephone service AT&T controlled. They didn't call it Ma Bell for nothing.

They were probably closer to being a monopoly before the mid 1980s breakup. Now they're just another bottom line corporation.

Well, the dividend checks are pretty good. I'm biased as my grandfather worked for AT&T for a long time. But in general I wouldn't trust them any more than I would any other large corporation.

Ma Bell was just a nickname for AT&T, which had been around since the 1870s or 1880s. In the mid 1980s it was broken up into about six or seven separate and smaller companies some of which gradually merged with one another.

AT&T only raised their dividend by 2%. C'mon Mr. CEO, run that TCM pig squealing all the way to the bank. I remember when TBS showed about every Braves game they played and when Bill Tush had his own TV show for about a month.

Sorry to hear about Nathaniel Taylor Jr. Rollo was one of the funniest characters on TV at the time. His skirmishes with the very unhip old man Sanford were especially funny. Keepin' it real man.

Also messy with tobacco juice.

Hard to beat the Japanese department store that a number of years ago had a window display showing Santa Claus on a cross. In hoc santa vinces.

I hate things that are beyond the pail.

I agree, though I like a number of John Wayne movies, even the ones where he is basically playing himself.

I've heard that Roman Polanski International Airport is Jeffrey Epstein's favorite place to catch a flight.

I wouldn't try to book a flight on BOAC though.