GordonCole

Some men can only deal with women in power if she is playing a part in a movie. Some men can only like women smarter than they, if said woman is in a so-called film noir movie. Then their superiority to some men is allowable since it is only a fictional tale.

For your edification, the powers that be that sell prunes, now call them dried plums thanks to folks like you who deride their product with such pruney remarks. Love your wit and wordplay skills.

OMG! You are making a mountain out of a molehill, by going into overdrive about how an allusion to a fictional character, cannot be made in a joking way, unless the entire spectrum of their fictional personality jibes with the intended similar victim named. Next I suppose Sgt. Markoff sinned in the most egregious way by not knowing or probably caring if Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears were aligned in some psychic entertainment vortex or not. Should he say five Hail Marys, six Our Fathers and become a flagellant to appease the gods of pop and not pop music till he expires. Personally I like anyone who doesn't care about Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse and isn't afraid to say so publically. And I say that even though I own two Amy Winehouse albums. For gosh sakes, lighten up. This kind of conversation of splitting hairs, checking every fact said in jest as if it is a serious conversation at the UN is a real drag and destroys all the fun of talking about movies for me and I wonder who else if they are not afraid to say so. Nitpickers are the bane of the existence of some of us who enjoy just talking about stuff without each conversation being subjected to more scrutiny than an FBI investigation.

Ah, geez...can't we have a little fun here and allow the time honored trait of being sometimes a curmudgeon to exist? I think the world would be a very sad place if we had to have everybody like and approve of all the same people and nary a snide, arch and sarcastic remark could be made. Next we can ban all the Fieldsian digs in films that are rather underhanded and not kindly. I cry foul on your belief that Sheridan Whiteside would be the Mr. Rogers of his day, particularly since he seems to be a lot like Alexander Woolcott, who rarely worried about the effect of his stinging words on anyone, since they were always applied with a deft comedic hand. I find Sgt. Markoff's retorts so refreshing amongst a sea of groupthink seen now in the world. A world without Richard Haydn or Clifton Webb types to shake things up with their singular effete opinions is a world not worth living in for those with a love of sophisticated revelry sometimes laced with acid.

You kill me, Sgt. Markoff. Finally a true successor to Sheridan Whiteside right in our midst.

Ben is a sly dog who gets his digs in with non-pedantic aplomb. Or should I say with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Oh wait, I forgot. I was informed that I don't know the meaning of the phrase, tongue in cheek, as a poster here once explained to me, using that as the reason I don't care for Muller's intros, as if that would be the only possible reason ostensibly.

Young and Innocent. Can't get enough of Nova Pilbeam.

Them's fighting words. First TCM will give you warning points for incivility and then make you walk the plank in your Captain Bligh wardrobe. I'd be careful if I were you.

So good to know that you are the official arbiter of what a female should look like, EricJ.

Who needs the Joker when one has Gwynplaine? I own both of those but still think they would be a great programming coup for TCM viewers.

Performance with James Fox and Jagger.

Counterpoint to Sturgeon's Law is of course, Schrodinger's Brother's Film Law which states a film is neither good nor bad till viewed by a cat with a short attention span. If said feline leaves the room with the film still rolling, you know the determination.

Interesting theory. I'm just curious though what the criteria is for the voting public. Wouldn't they have to prove they've actually seen a majority of all films of a genre to come up with a list of top favorites that would even be worth caring about. What if of the thousands of westerns made, they'd only seen mostly the Top 100 anyway so naturally they pick only the most well known, which already are the Top 100. If you've only eaten peanut butter sandwiches your whole life you might not put smoked salmon on your list of favorite foodstuffs, even though technically your favorite is peanut butter sandwiches so you voted honestly, since you haven't experienced anything else. Sorry to be gumming up your assignment but the vox populi often are limited in their overall considerations of anything but what is easily accessible it seems and vote accordingly.

Sorry I missed it. I blame that on you for not submitting any lurid photos from the liaison in the post.

Waiting with bated breath.

Yeah, and when said men run off screaming from the random guy who is into David Carradine, he can yell out "Shane, come back, please come back. I love you, Mother loves you...not so sure about Father but please come back, Shane."

Would seem true that multiple accounts seem silly but didn't a post go missing since yesterday about the multiple accounts of the OP about Traven? I think it was said that the OP had ten different accounts in ten years and I'm dying to know under what monikers but the post stating this supposed fact has gone poof. But if having multiple identities was good enough for Traven, why fault his admirer, the OP?

When big stars started doing commercials it was fun to see, but thankfully people like Orson Welles did not perform his Paul Masson commercials in costume as the Thane of Cawdor.

But aren't you glad he didn't designate them as "groan men"?

Just wanted to express my appreciation for your usage of the term "dumb-clucks" as I haven't heard that one in many moons. Would it be wrong to blame John Carradine for having too many sons that aid in the Carradine confusion? No, I guess not.

Don't sugarcoat it, Sgt. Markoff, tell us what you really think of Kael. Harpy, shrew, shrike yes...but give her credit for not being the movie critic for Entertainment Tonight like Maltin at least. That does take some integrity. As a famous actor once said "Entertainment Tonight is a waste of videotape."

It's funny you mention him, since I always liked him also and would see him in episodes of Perry Mason and other tv series, but speaking of Leave It To Beaver, I just saw the other day on that show, one of my favorites possibly unsung here, Frank Albertson as Wally Cleaver's teacher, Mr. Gannon.

If you know all that, I'm gonna guess you remember the name, Judith Campbell Exner? She was quite a dish as I recall.

Yeah, like that old bootlegger, Joe Sr. didn't have enough baggage in his past to rival the Mob connections. But you are right about the cover story though I think Sinatra still blamed Lawford. Of course when Kennedy won the presidency, didn't old Joe say he hadn't planned on paying for a landslide and then the mob got ticked for not being appreciated when Bobby started going after them and I bet Sam Giancana was upset too, and probably didn't even enjoy hearing his Phyllis McQuire girlfriend sing For Old Times Sake to him anymore.

Lots of gossip about the Kennedy connection to Hollywood. Some true, some uncorroroborated, some still a mystery to be solved. I believe before there was a Marilyn interest by JFK he had a thing for Gene Tierney but that would have been a no-no in Joe's dictums for any future political purposes so she was ditched. During the Rat Pack days, Old Blue Eyes was high on Kennedy and Lawford of course was supposedly the connection. Didn't Frank build on extensively to his home in preparation for JFK to utilize his hospitality having all his hopes dashed when this plan was dropped ostensibly for security reasons, yet Frank perhaps blamed old buddy, Peter and things were never the same. Lawford was also the liaison to Marilyn in some ways some say, but after she died the poor old Rat Pack were supposedly banned from her funeral since the tab was being picked up by Joe Dimaggio. The photo of Marilyn and her sewn on straight to the body dress was hidden away for fear of repercussions and thankfully during that birthday display [as Lawford introduced her to the audience as the "late" Marilyn Monroe] the First Lady was not in attendance or the birthday singing would probably never have happened. One could go on and on with such stories but who knows where the truth lies?