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I haven't voted in awhile, it never seemed like I had enough time to read through all the challengers. This was so hard, there were so many clever programming entries.

In The Women: Crystal Allen says, "..he's the kind that lets that old-fashioned sentiment put the Indian sign on him, and that's all," to Mary Haines.

Jerry Goldsmith LA Confidential

LAC fascinates me too with the locations and that era of LA policing. How things change and how things haven't changed. It came out around the time of the aftermath of the latest LA riots and it resonated with many in 1997. It has for me that wonderful "before they were big" appearances by many actors. Working Girl did the same.

Okay, you mention the Hulk, you're brushing close to my fav, Mark.

I feel validated when TOR is mentioned in a thread I started. Thank you for making a great connection. Like MM says in a favorite scene in How To Marry a Millionaire, being asked how she likes being on the lam with tax fugitive David Wayne.. "Love it!"

Maybe she's miss wonderly to the 3rd power! Since I have had to operate on another generation of identity myself, I can commiserate. I just hope I don't forget this pw. I don't want to change movies.

I find once I fall in love with a movie (like North by Northwest) these are the scenes that further endear it to me.

Thank you all for the resurrection. Another I love. . . .. Noah Pretorious (Cary Grant), Prof Barker (Walter Slezak) and Deborah's father (Sidney Blackmar) playing with knotted plan of a H-O railroad on an upstairs landing in People Will Talk (1951).

Here, lafitte, from the imdb site about the gaffe with the little boy at Mt Rushmore. maybe the one you're thinking of.. From imdb.com: During the scene in the diner at Mount Rushmore, a young extra boy in the background anticipates the surprise gun shot, fired by Eve. The diners are supposed to be unaware this is going to happen but the young extra boy covers his ears way before she draws the gun. The young extra boy must have known there would be a loud bang from the blank-filled pistol from previous takes and therefore covered his ears on the "printed" take.

Herrmann wasn't the only composer to Hitchcock. Rozsa composed the soundtrack to Spellbound, and included an early use of a theremin.

My son has recommended it to me too. I will be checking it out.

Alfred Newman Street Scene from How to Marry a Millionaire (with his 20th Century Fox fanfare and Cinemascope extension):

Nero: I am surrounded by eunuchs! (Speaking to Petronius) Why do you stand aloof? You're my counselor. Why don't you counsel me? Petronius: Let them enter. We shall all die. All except you. You, of course, being a god, are immortal. Nero: Your levity is ill-timed, Petronius.

Very good points, Tom. I always thought the Kara's charming zither music being juxtaposed to the much darker plot of the story, created a tension all its own.

I know this thread is a poll, but I love charts! I believe this one is based on a poll. Does anyone know what this one signifies? Try to tie it Classic movies or Tor Johnson please.

Myself, I love the Bailey's coffee creamers (Creme Brulee) <3

I always thought, a spirit levitating, as being light of heart.

I don't believe it. Helen Mirren looks way too pretty here to be mistaken for Ayn Rand. And yup, The Fountainhead has the overkill metaphor of power chisels being used in the scenes juxtapositioning Neal and Coop.

I was actually in a humor writers group and I had to leave cause they wouldn't find my writing funny. Then I would go home and watch Funny Bones again.

Petronius: To Nero, Emperor of Rome, Master of the World, Divine Pontiff. I know that my death will be a disappointment to you, since you wished to render me this service yourself. To be born in your reign is a miscalculation; but to die in it is a joy. I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius.

I hear Marie's declaration as an "on the nose" statement about irony in the subtext; this is about the juxtaposition of bitter and hopeful. It was to be the best years of their lives, but look what happened -- the war. The men who fought and families left behind were in the best years; if not in age (like Fred and Homer) then by their careers (like Al's banking job). The families were growing and developing their own lives while they were gone. After reading Five Came Back, I have a new appreciation of Wyler and what he went through in the war. This movie was his return message and trying to get his life stateside back on track.

But, like so much of the story, there is much more going on. As light-hearted and fun as that appears (Homer can't stop grinning), it is shot in deep focus. Simultaneously in the background, Derry is on the telephone, breaking his own heart in telling Peggy it's over. There is a brief cutaway shot of Al looking at Derry during "Chopsticks", but I didn't think it was necessary.

HelenBaby2 - You got the whole point in that scene.

Dang! I would have loved that scene. The collectivist train being foiled by the individual's superior intellect, doing his work for his purpose and Roarke just comes up to the tracks and announces: "But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won. No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers. His brothers hated the gift he offered. His truth was his only motive. His work was his only goal. His work, not those who used it, his creation, not the benefits others derived from it. The creation which gave form to his truth. He held his truth above all things, and against all men. He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not. With his integrity as his only banner. He served nothing, and no one. He lived for himself. And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement." I don't think Ayndy Randy could write a suspenseful scene. The express just went through.