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Too bad they didn't show that similar sequence from I Love Lucy episode last night in living color, Sgt! I wonder if he ever did find that man?

None of the above, not that they're all not great but I choose Tony Randall in the Seven Faces of Doctor Lao.

My sister had a life-long crush on Rafael Campos from the film. I told her he was a punk who would treat her badly and at least trade your crush for Jameel Farrar. Not sure that's how Klinger spelled it back then. At least if sis would have fallen for him, she would have married into having two complete female wardrobes to choose from.

You're killing me, Sgt. since you are the H.L. Mencken of the board. Speaking of Kevin Hart, anyone who must submit his name and everywhere he goes daily to the E-Channel to keep his face on screen isn't worth watching at any event. And no, I don't watch the E-Channel but everytime I flip past it all I see are reports on whatever worthless thing this Kevin Hart is doing. I'd rather have Mary Hartmann hosting the Oscars. Bring back Louise Lasser, unless she's dead of course and even then she'd be more amusing.

Raised on MTV? Thanks, now I realize all your posts make perfect sense.

Boring, eh? I would suggest that you never again view any films regarded as silent classics as it would really be a waste of time. Two films you might enjoy more, which have similar letters in their titles to Metropolis would be El Topo or Allegro Non Troppo. Enjoy.

Boy, this post was way over my head with a lot of big words but I think I get your drift, Sgt. and you're basically saying a lot of people today are dense and have no concept of the past or what anything means beyond just what their little psyche has attained so far in contemplation of worldly things and their meaning. Another thing about the past and movies. Many people now forget that in the early days of film, viewers at theatres did not know of a a future when they would be able to see these films again. They lived for the day and then were gone and disappeared from view. TV was not envisioned as a source for reseeing an old favorite nor was the idea of videotapes to be bought of silent films in the minds of anyone except maybe someone like Tesla. I remember my aunt saying once that she loved Rudolph Valentino as a teenager, and then he died and years later in the early 1940's she and some friends did get to resee Son of the Sheik at a revival and were so thrilled to be able to revisit the past and enjoy the film again. She said this rarely happened and was only done for really major films from olden times which people still talked about. So as a star aged his or her past on film was mostly forgotten unless old photos showed up in movie magazines and people accepted that ageing process as part of life, not as a means to judge a beauty like Lily Langtree from her past photos, and incur from them that now that she was a mature lady she was never a beautiful woman. As Rod Serling once showed on Tz, beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.

Tell that to Jan-Michael Vincent.

This episode seemingly has become true since so many actors and actresses look the same nowadays. Not that looking like Suzy Parker is a bad thing.

Gladys Cooper was a classic beauty who lived to also be a classic performer on film. She had a presence that transcends the sole beauty designation.

I understand your disdain but I have a deep inner feeling that you actually might like Isaak if you gave him a change. He's kind of the Ying to your Yang, Sgt. in a rather mystical way. Youtube him and see if you don't enjoy the minor mood he sets in his songs.

You are right again, Sgt. and it all started going downhill way back when they took off the market the original Mister Potato Head, which required the child to use a real potato and converted it to a Mister Potato Head which was made out of plastic. Someone here once wrote a great expose about this tragedy. The plastic potato had pre-drilled holes and all the creativity was gone of putting the eyes in a bit crooked and making his nose longer or his mouth closer to the nose. All those crappy people now who have no talent thinking they do have talent and because they've been getting fake compliments from the parents for years about how brilliant they are, they believe it and think they are artistic because they created a version of the Mona Lisa from online images instead of picking up a paint brush and some oil paints and trying to do it in a manual way. Yeah, this current world stinks. Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas!

Some of us live to watch only old movies with all the performers in it being dead, Sgt. and I'm surprised you don't know that by now. I can't even watch TWOO because some say Toto is being kept alive somewhere in a laboratory and I only enjoy movies knowing that everyone involved in it is no longer viable. Can't you tell when someone is touting the box office figures for every movie they mention here and they are chatting about what Rona Barrett once said that they are hibernating in a cabin not unlike the Unabomber's but with cable or direct tv still attached? Now I know that I have no life outside my tv so yes, that TCM schedule better be right as I plan my evenings and when to go to bed on the schedule following through exactly as it is printed.

So true. This is why Paddy Chayefsky couldn't get a job today in Hollywood.

Is this a pejorative comment or complimentary about Ben's arch and imminently snide appeal?

Outrage over ancient movies and their unfair standings in awards may denote a way to abstain from feeling pain about current events, Sgt perhaps. A way to forestall inner rage over things one cannot control. Or...maybe not.

Maybe it's due to a momentary loss of muscular coordination instead?

Speaking of l'argent this group deserves mega bucks for the iconic album Odyssey and Oracle. Colin Blunstone is an amazing singer with hits like Time of the Season and so on. Glad to see them make the grade finally.

Obviously you never have seen them in their youth. Angela was quite attractive in Gaslight and Bette also in the early Thirties was quite a dish. When Beyonce and Britney hit ninety they might not look so hot either. People can change or life can alter their looks. Brigitte Bardot was beyond gorgeous but now not so much. I guess you did no research on looking at these women in their early days on film?

If it happens to a crotchety old geezer, it seems fair.

Aunt Teresa in the movie had very strong opinions about college girls!

I think it's good we don't agree on everything otherwise people would think we were separated sybaritic twins, and having been also in the military you of course would be my superior, the Upper G.I. Twin and I would be the Lower G.I., Sarge.

Fabulous. Finally some culture for the mavens here. As for Durer, I'll steal the Mank line, there but for god, goes god.

Coulda been worse. They coulda cast Conway Twitty over Jesse Pearson and then you would really wonder about why any teenage girls would faint. Speaking of performers who did not turn on teenage girls, my relatives' daughter always laughs about the show, Jersey Boys saying that no teenage girls she knew ever in a million years thought the Four Seasons and particularly the lead singer, were even slightly attractive. She says their songs were popular but the group looked like a bunch of old lounge singers from New Jersey or looked like they were from the Bizarro world. The guys they thought were attractive were people like Elvis, the Beatles or someone who looked young not like the Frankie Valli who looked creepy and dressed like an old man. Speaking of Pearson's casting, since he looked a bit like Dick Gautier who played it on Broadway, maybe that's why they choose him. Dick played the part very tongue in cheek, and I think Pearson tried to a bit emulate his style. The comparison to Elvis at the time was believed apt, though it was a much more exaggerated version comedically.