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I overuse this particular metaphor with regard to film, but I have to say it applies so well in the case of WHAT A WAY TO GO! that I gots to reheat it once more: the souffle does not quite rise.

She was awesome as Dr. Hoffman and The Countess Natalia.

YES *** **** IT! Once you are forty, and a woman, it is bag over the head, heavy bangs and all the lights out for you. That is, of course, if your family opts not to cast you out on an ice floe or stone you to death in the square the minute you hit middle age. (Tongue in cheek.) ps- wonder if Osborne will tell "The Jiggling Grandma Arms" anecdote in re: HER CARDBOARD LOVER and its influence on Norma to quit the business.

*** **** it, Barbra Steele looks like Udo Keir in drag.

For those of you with the Googles or the Amazon Primes or the Netflixeses, I really do re-recommend seeing if they have the 1991 DARK SHADOWS REVIVAL, I know Dan Curtis could be a little hacky, but this time around they got everything right- from the casting* to the storyline to the visuals, it's excellent; ace production values (ALTHOUGH SOME BAD DAY-FOR-NIGHT Photography is often not corrected in various formats.) *including Jean Simmons, BARBARA STEELE, and a young Joseph Gordon Levitt. I think it's like 20 episodes, and they make for a great binge. hang on...lemme go find trailer... this one is FAN MADE: (the soundtrack is kind of hilarious, but it's got some good editing.) THIS IS THE 1991 nbs nETWORK pRomo (*** **** it, I miss the nineties.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97m6aBjqXLo

WOW. Those are some POWER SHOULDER PADS.

I have to admit that I have not yet listened to this, but here is the Lux Radio hourlong version of KISS OF DEATH, featuring Richard Widmark. I listened to another radio adaptation of KISS OF DEATH before this, but it was only half and hour long, and as such, just missed out on a lot of the best parts of the story. Not sure if it deviates much from the movie, but often times the radio version of a movie does change the ending.

Darnell was a good actress, but I don't think shed've been right for THE RAZOR'S EDGE. Isabelle needs to be refined and cultured and delicate (at least outwardly)- gorgeous as Linda Darnell was, there's something kind of Proletariat about her- and she brings a world weariness with her that I don't think would've worked for the first part of the story.

Why is WAWTG filed under "TCM PRESENTS' in the schedule? Is it a premiere? And why is it slated for 1:00 am if it is?

...I seem to recall hearing they were lovers.

and here is the sketch for THE White Dress in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH Forget the dress, I WANT THE SKETCH.

I came a cross some sketches Travilla did for the costumes in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. They are amazing.

Boom. Nailed it. (except minus Tim Conway making Harvey Korman crack up in every third scene.)

wHoa. The same guy that directed THE GUNS OF NAVARONE directed WHAT A WAY TO GO! ?!? mIND = bloWn

well, just watch it tonight and see what you think. it's worth a looksie for all sorts of reasons.

It's a little sexist, but in such a gleefully tone-deaf way that it is what it us... And some of the things it parodies (like Brigitte Bardot "art" films) went out a while back. the most interesting thing about WHAT A WAY TO GO! besides the aggressive stunt casting is THE COSTUMES- they're the real star (in fact, almost to a fault.)

well it depends: are you the kind of guy who gives up just like that?

And ROAD HOUSE (1948), another good psycho role for him with the added benefit of Ida Lupino at her smokiest. ps- Widmark was very smart and yet very brave to do NIGHT AND THE CITY just three years after having such success playing heavies and psychos because his character in that film is SUCH A PATHETIC LOSER!...I mean, it's a great film and a GREAT performance, but any number of other actors would've balked or held back or asked for changes to make the character a little less of a loser- but not Widmark. He totally goes for it.

someone else may've brought this up, but it just occurred to me THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR "LIKING" ONE ANOTHER'S POSTS.... Because, even if the spam is 20 pages deep- you can click on the thing at the top of the screen that alerts you who liked what you wrote and it has a link to that post in that thread- thus a "back door" where you can bypass the solid Wall O'Spam and bring forth an ACTUAL thread from beneath the Spam without having to back through pages and pages of Korean and arrows and names of universities and whatever the Hell else they use. you all know what i mean?

I've never seen it, but I have heard that Widmark is excellent in MADIGAN, a police drama made in 1968, co-starring Henry Fonda and directed by Don Siegel and co written by Abraham Polonsky, who of course had been blacklisted for years. . It sounds like an early FRENCH CONNECTION- with a very complicated plot that apparently has a lot to do with police corruption, Widmark and Fonda both play cops, I am Not sure if Widmark plays a good or a bad guy in this one.

Love it. The closest thing I can compare McCLINTOCK! to would if the John Birch Society had their own community theater that decided to do a Western re-imagining of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

There's a moment in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, as everyone is dazedly coming to amid the wreckage of the Grand Salon right after the ship has capsized, where we see Shelley and Jack Albertson reciting a Hebrew prayer over her Star of David necklace and- as goofy as much of that movie is- it is very real and it is very effective. She breaks my heart in POSEIDON. ...Well, what little shriveled artichoke of a heart I have to break....

I bet it was a 14 EEE. Think about it- there's no way either one could tote around the lode they were blessed with on a 6 1/2 narrow.