coolrob1955
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If you want to know about Mickey Spillane. Catch the movie 'Kiss Me Deadly'. One of the best, nastiest, and sadly one of the last of the great Film-Noir's. TCM have it scheduled, but you'll have to wait until September to get your teeth kicked in.
Maybe they'll bump it forward.
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Annoying words and phrases
Twenty-four seven
Between a rock and a hard place
Gravitas
Warning: Page Expired
Frigging or Shoot (say the right word or shut up !)
Bling
iPod
Blog (I have a life of my own, thanks).
Free (yeah, right)
Made in China (all Wal Mart products)
Global Economy (manufacture it dirt cheap in Malaysia)
My wifes baby-grading system
1. Cute (your baby is ugly, but I don't want to hurt your feelings).
2. Precious (So-so).
3. Adorable (anything not covered in parts 1. and 2.).
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Wonder what it would be like if TCM went commercial and had to dumb-down their programming to attract the kind of viewers that the advertisers would demand.
First up, they would have to re-format all the movies to fit the TV screen, and have them 'edited for content' to accommodate the numerous commercial breaks.
Robert Osborne, of course, would have to change his laconic, conversational style to that of a fast talking used-car salesman, and dress like a bum with a permanent four-day beard.
They would certainly have to have prime-time reality shows featuring air-headed starlets going on shopping sprees and getting their toenails manicured. Then we could watch them later in their teddies having pillow fights in their apartment.
Then there's the American Idol bandwagon. Maybe TCM could have a show called ?You Can Be A Movie Star!' with young hopefuls acting out scenes from old movies in front of a panel of incompetent, self-promoting judges. The winner would get a million dollars and a movie contract.
For late night viewing they could have Celebrity Texas Hold 'em Poker. With thirty seconds of actual poker and an hour of lame, moronic banter.
And of course for the wee hours there's always 'Infomercials' and 'Shopping' shows, where unemployed actors can make a few bucks hawking perfume and food processors.
Then I fell out of bed, and woke up covered in sweat. God, what an awful nightmare.
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MrWriteLA comes to the rescue again. He's our very own 7th cavalry.
You're doing fine JackBurley. It's a fine line between being too obvious and too obscure. It's a question of balance.
I never actually saw 'Casanova Brown' but it sounds fascinating. Has it been shown on TCM ?
Over to you guys.
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Very good JackBurley ,
You have the main movie and all the actors correct, and two of the reference movies correct, Joseph Cotten in 'Citizen Kane' ('The Third Man' would also have been acceptable). And Henry Travers in 'Ball Of Fire'.
However, as I'm feeling particularly snotty today, I refuse to relinquish control of this thread until you supply the names of the other three movies.
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There are lot's of actors (male and female) who. no matter where they are, will always be with someone they love. I'm sure most of them will be mentioned here.
I have to agree with SamTherapy about the generally very low standards of current movies (there are always a few exceptions).
One upshot is that classic actors like Spencer Tracy or James Cagney couldn't get work as janitors in today's Hollywood. I can't see where they would fit in.
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Dear Larry,
Be careful what you say about Ol' blue eyes. He has some scary friends, and you might end up sleeping with the fish.
I didn't care for him much as a singer in later years, bur he was great with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (my favorite Sinatra song 'Let's Get Away From It All' was recorded with Dorsey). He was a decent actor 'On The Town', 'Suddenly', 'From Here To Eternity'. It's true that in his later career he became vain and arrogant and less likeable.
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Clue
In the mid 90's, the sand finally ran out for one of these actors after a long and successful TV career.
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Ambulance, Yes. Sorry about the spelling error. It was the Vodka.
Hell, who am I kidding. I can't speell even when I'm sober.
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Dear GarboManiac
Are you all right sweetheart. Do you want me to call an ambulace ?
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This is good stuff Wordmaster, Have you ever thought of writing detective fiction ?
Submit a sample here - http://www.thrillingdetective.com/ - so I can read some.
Be sure to read Raymond Chandler's 'The Simple Art Of Murder' for some good advice and tips on writing pulp fiction.
I'm thinking of submitting a short story of my own about a psychopathic stand-up commedian, titled 'F*** 'em if they can't take a joke'
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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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Are you D and D, or are you a canary ?
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Don't know the name of the film. But I remember when I was very young how I hated to go to my aunts house. She was a devout Catholic and had a picture of Jesus and the Sacred Heart on the wall of her spare room (the room I slept in). It scared the crap out of me. To a four year old it looked more like a still from a horror movie than an inspiration. Catholics can be very spooky at times.
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Watched the 1994 version with Wynona Rider on DVD the other day. Thought it was excellent.
Watched the 1933 version on TCM a month or so ago, liked that one a lot to.
Never seen the June Allyson 1949 version, Will watch it today.
Which do you think was the the best version ?
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One of the greatest cynical people was Oscar Levant. A man who actually deserved the high opinion he had of himself.
?Strip away the phony Hollywood tinsel and you will find the real tinsel underneath.? Oscar Levant.
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Dear JackBurley, you're right, I'm brilliant.
It just so happens that 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' is one of my favorite movies, and Scottish headmistresses are very rare in films.
Anyway, see if you wrap your brain around this one.
Hack writer suspected of murder, and persued by a clown and a newspaper editor. Is given shelter by an professor, and a young mother who loses her baby.
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Well, let's see...
Brief Encounter (1945)
Celia Johnson - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Trevor Howard - Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Cyril Raymond - Lease of Life (1954)
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I agree. As sure as Havaner the capital of Cuber ?
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Puppy Commandments
Thou shalt not **** nor **** in thy human's house, nor the carpets thereof, for it is not a toilet.
Thou shalt not roll thy toys under the sofa, nor the bed, nor any other low place.
Thou shalt not beg at thy humans dinner table when thy humans are trying to eat.
Thou shalt not accept morsels under the table from thy small humans. Encourage them not, nor be tempted by them, lest ye share in there iniquity.
Thou salt not scoff down thy food like unto one starving to death.
Thou salt not carry thy food from thy bowl in the kitchen to the living room carpet to eat it.
Thou shalt not eat the cat's food.
Thou shalt not quench thy thirst from the toilet.
Thou salt not eat from the kitty litter box, for it is not food.
Thou salt not lick thy humans face after eating from the kitty litter box, for it is an abomination unto thy human.
Thou salt not seek out and eat dirty diapers.
Thou shalt not eat grass and come inside the house to throw up on the carpet.
Thou shalt not chew up thy human's shoes nor any other articles of clothing, for they are not food.
Thou shalt not chew holes in the sofa cushions.
Thou shalt not chew the ornaments of the Christmas tree nor the wires thereof.
Thou shalt not **** thy leg and **** on the Christmas tree, for it needeth not watering.
Thou shalt not lie under thy human's computer desk amongst the wires and cables without number, and chew thereon.
Thou salt not play tug-of-war with thy human's underwear when he's on the toilet.
Thou salt not steal thy human's underwear from the bathroom floor and flee with it to a secret place.
Thou shalt not unravel the toilet paper and tear it to shreds.
Thou shalt not aggravate the cat, for she liketh it not, and hath sharp claws.
Thou shalt not bury thy nose in the crotch of any human thou encounters and sniff thereof.
Thou shalt not make love to the leg of a human, nor the furniture, nor the cat, even when she is in heat and has lost her mind.
Thou shalt learn to control thy bladder and thy bowels. For standing at the back door and wailing like unto a Banshee to be let out at 3 of the clock in the morning is an abomination to thy human.
Thou shalt shake off the rainwater from thy fur before entering the house.
Thou shalt not bring any dead or unclean thing into thy human's house.
Thou shalt not roll around in any foul or unclean thing thou findeth in the yard.
Thou shalt not dig up any plants thou findeth in the yard for they are the pride and joy of thy human, and thou art not a Landscape gardener.
Thou shalt not push over the garbage can, nor root therein.
Thou shalt not molest the Garbage Man for he stealeth not.
Thou shalt not molest the Mailman, nor the Cable guy, nor the Plumber for they are upright in the eyes of thy human and stealeth not.
Thou shalt not sit on thy rear end and moveth not when on a leash.
Thou shalt not jump around nor whine and carry on like unto one possessed to get thy human to open the car window when it is raining.
Thou shalt not be constantly under the feet of thy human, for thou wilst most certainly be stepped on.
Thou shalt shun any contact with thy humans Mother-in-law, for she is a disciple of the Satan.
Thou shalt not question any apparently irrational behavior in the actions of thy human, for thou art a beast and have no understanding.
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'X' or 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' (1963)
Ray Milland - Dial M for Murder (1954)
Don Rickles - Toy Story (1995)
Diana Van der Vlis - The Incident (1967)
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Mickey Spillane dies at 88
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Or for a full, in-depth review of Mikey Spillane's work, watch the movie 'Marty (1955)'.
"This Mickey Spillane, he sure could write."
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