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mrsl, true on Penza being a local. But I would have expected more from the local stations since he was as stalwart and as much an icon, well to me, as the Canadian guy, whatever his name was. Just kidding, I know it was Jensen. And actually, I think New York did have a lot of Ford footage. At least they did when the service was going on - I had to turn away, the image of soldiers acting soldierly (holding up Mrs. Ford, e.g.) things always chokes me up. But you are correct, it was BAU the minute he was interred -- no follow-up commemorative programming, no sirree. I don't remember the BIG! story at that time, perhaps J-Lo put her undies on backwards or...wait, I remember now!...one of the **** singers was photographed a capella in a car. That's it, THAT'S what was more important than Ford. Good grief, what a world.

I agree Hollis. The early films, especially those with Edward Everett Horton, were delightful to me for the sets and costumes and his dancing with Ginger Rogers in that feather dress, but otherwise Astaire as a romantic lead? Ick and double ick. Oh, and his rendition of Dancing Cheek To Cheek was charming as well. That's about it, though. Later on in his life when he made the mistake of continuing to act, his rug had bigger parts than he did. Funny aside, my father HATED Ginger Rogers. I'm still not sure why, it might be one of those arbitrary HATES we're all subject to. Then again, his likes were Pola Negri and Vilma Banke (??) and since I have no idea what they look like, I can't say what his 'type' was.

LOL, mrsl, I am eNORmously fond of the whiskey and cigarette voiced actors and singers. I always wanted to sound like that, but without the cigarettes. If you don't like Lizabeth Scott, I bet you HATE Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen!!!

Shameful, isn't it? I had to go searching for news of his death: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/nyregion/17penza.html?_r=1&oref=slogin I read in one blurb that he had been out of television since last August and in another it asked for donations to the cancer society, so I assume he died of cancer. A shame. 74 is much too young and he was too real to go so soon.

So true Larry on people with real accomplishments not meriting more than a few minutes of the media's time. I heard from someone that Ralph Penza, a New York newsman, had died on Feb. 16th but had not heard ONE word on television. I finally was able to find an article on the Internet but it is as if he never existed. He was last seen on NBC in August and who among those in New York noticed he was gone? Even I did not. What a travesty is television. Poor Zsa Zsa, I pity her for having decided to hook up with that charlatan. In racing around the dials last night -- I finally found a rerun of 'Inspector Lewis' on PBS which I had missed first time round -- in an effort to run away from Anna Nicole, most 'SPECIAL CHALLENGES!' (even the Food Network is now into 'challenges') and faux 'reality' television (the Surreal stuff with Ron Jeremy boggles the mind), I noted JUST how few channels show old movies anymore. At least on my basic 57 (make that 55, Cablevision shut down the SPEED network and TCM) channel compendium of garbage, I noted that only PBS, occasionally, and AMC show old classic movies. The entire rest of the programming is given over to, as mentioned, SPECIAL CHALLENGES!, the filth that is 'reality' television and of course, Anna Nicole. She is the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the 21st century. Remember SNL? Well, at any rate, on topic, with only the basic analog cable, there are only two stations that show old, classic movies. No more Late Late Show, no more Million Dollar Movie, nor any of the other affiliates that used to show movies at midnight. Once the greedy stations learned they could run moronic infomercials all night at a cost of zilch to them, they cut out all old movies. I assume it is a given that everyone has digital television, but even then, isn't TCM the only other station to show old movies? There are no others, are there? Sad, sad, sad.

Hmmm, should I disqualify myself since I like oily guys? LOL, as in Warren William? But seriously, I mostly liked guys like Eddie Bracken in Miracle Of Morgan's Creek (a guy that steps up to it and takes care of it, now that's manly) or of course Grant in Notorious (a guy that steps up to it and is drop dead drooling gorgeous while he's taking care of it). I can't remember William ever getting a decent enough role, at least not in the movies I've seen, but I imagine he could be protective while not being chauvinistic. Bottom line, Mitchum would be fine for, well you know, but Grant and Bogey and Cagney and William and March and Powell (William) and Powell (Dick) and Rathbone and Muni and Garfield would seem better suited to the long term. Gable and Douglas and Brando and Wayne? Blech, I wouldn't even want them as a dinner companion on a first date, never mind for 'afters'. Stewart and Cooper and Tyrone Power just bore me to tears. Good question, mrsl.

*sigh* That satin number on Florine McKinney (who??) is drop-dead drooling gorgeous. I want one, if just to look at it. *sigh* Warren William is drop-dead drooling gorgeous too, of course. Hoo boy, did any actor ever change as much from young to old as Joan Crawford did? You could cut marble with her in her later years, hard, hard, hard. Thanks, Snarfie.

Thanks, PK. What is it in PB that causes salmonella? Shame for Peter Pan. They never were one of my favorites, though. It's JIF and then Skippy for me. I hate store brands and organic PB, ick. Ever get realllllly good quality peanuts, from VA say, and grind them up with a little vegetable oil -- and include some cashews with the peanuts and then, and then................ Cool, thanks for the recipe SueSueApplegate!

Exactly how I feel when Julie Andrews rushes up onto that hill. Thank heaven for the invention of the remote! Used to be, by the time I made it to the television set, I would invariably have heard a note or two and I had to go wash out my ears.

Only a few posts below your words on the second page you can read where dfordoom correctly observes that he doesn't have to sit through an entire movie, such as Forrest Gump or American Pie, to know that he hates it. I don't wish the Andy Hardy movies on him anymore than I wish Sound of Music on me.

And you are correct, you don't, trust me. I have sat through Forrest Gump and wish only the most painful of deaths for Mr. Gump. Likewise, I have sat through enough of American Pie (based on a recommendation from a quite old relative if you can believe it) to make me run screaming from the television when the jackass female character is duped into applying a 'hysterically funny' substance to her hair and I the audience member am supposed to find that: a. funny and b. funnier. As to Mickey Rooney, he was quite good in The Twilight Zone episodes. However, I can't think of a movie wherein I've liked him and as to the Andy Hardy movies -- poor Lewis Stone, I bet he wanted to slap the script silly too, he was an excellent actor -- I have the good fortune of not ever having sat through one.

Why? Because I have either seen enough of it in previews or have sat through a few minutes of it or hate Julie Andrews enough to KNOW that if I sit through any more I will puncture both eyes with an ice pick. Odd? I don't think so, it's a fact. A scientific undisputed fact. I have seen enough of the filthy comedian Borat to know that his movie is a piece of crap that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

retrocrusher, TRHPS is one of my favorites too. I can happily say I haven't seen most of the musicals on the lists here. Except for 42nd Street and Chicago, I hate musicals. I've never seen Sound Of Music and hope never to see it. Seeing it to me would be as the punishment in A Clockwork Orange, my eyes would have to be held open with mechanical instruments of tortue. That said, I think The Wizard Of Oz is the greatest film ever made.

Huh? again. Repeat after me...........actor, singer. All your names..........actors who were also called upon to sing in their parts but were deemed not good enough and whose voices were therefore dubbed by another. Milli idiot Vanilli -- so-called singers who couldn't and didn't and were SUPPOSED to be singers. Made their living at SINGING. Sold albums based on their SINGING. Duped a bunch of dunderheads who paid for their albums and went to see them for their SINGING. Clear now?

Huh? Can't talk to the others because I didn't much like them, but Lucille Ball? There was a particularly good film noir that she did, The Dark Corner, that she was excellent in. Heck, I don't even like Henry Fonda and I enjoyed The Big Street. And you are TRYING to compare the BRILLIANCE of her television show to the two morons that make up that talentless hack 'musical' duo? And I'm sure that there are others here who can attest to their admiration for the other names you mentioned, and the quite unattractive Fab and Rob were not even worthy to lick the bottoms of the shoes of their shoes. Please. You're kidding, though, right?

We don't care, but you gotta love a country that has people in it who not only promote a hack duo that can't sing, but is now making a movie based on a hack duo that can't sing, instead of devoting time to making a movie with quality. And the best part of it is, there will be people who plunk down ... what is it today? ... $11. a head to go see this 'epic'. Hey, P.T. Barnum was sooooooooo right. By the way, I'm still waiting for the Leo B. epic with Brad Pitt entitled 'Why Me'? How about you, Snarfie, you still waiting? Our popcorn is getting a little dated, don't you think?

Throw Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep into the mix, and that's a pretty good list you go ther, johnm001.

:0 'hmmmm' good or 'hmmmm' bad?????

Back to something I wrote...seriously, is there anything (outside of a hospital) that tastes like a caper? Okay, Rusty, I'll bite. ('No, I will' said Meena to Costello in A&C meet Frankenstein, when they actually didn't, they met Frankenstein's 'monster') What in the heck are you talking about???? :0 I actually can't think of anything though. Speaking of things that can't be compared, has anyone actually TASTED a truffle? If yes, what is the fuss that surrounds it. I have had dishes where the waitperson announces, pompously, that a truffle was waved or shaved over it, or a truffle farted in the general direction of my dish, but I was nonplussed every single time. Since I've never felt the need to search out and buy one of the elusive little buggers, I can say that it is a taste that is unknown to me. Anyone?

Okay, now you've done it, Rusty. I have to print this out and look for these bars from hereon. Thanks a bunch! I prefer bourbon and like espresso too -- I like foodstuffs that bites me back. I forget the name of the hot sauce that was too hot even for me, but a little yellow skull came on the neck of each bottle. Perhaps you've had it? As to chocolate covered -- there used to be a Bloomingdale's in New Rochelle where I grew up (the town is being taken over by high rises now, no more nice town feel to it), and all the kids who grew up there remember The Cellar in Bloomies. One of the exotic foodstuffs it had was chocolate covered ants. No, my mother would never buy them for my brother or I and no other kid who is now an adult has ever tried them either. Drat.

Sad to say it's been so long since I've seen The Fountainhead, I've forgotten anything about Massey's part. Thank you, how sweet of you to say that. Sorry again, I thought all those who were not native to Vermont were flatlanders. I know, I've been there in leaf-peeping season (ack, the buses!!) with our car club, and the people can be ob-noxious. Hah. I'd love to hear them.

johnm001, the Food Network once highlighted two cheesesteak stores that were on opposite corners of a block. The funny part was, both got lots and lots of business, and the customers had their own version of whose cheesesteak was better. Again, there is nothing like it.

The same with bagels. Even in Westchester, which isn't far from NYC, there is NO bagel that compares to one I had when I brought my poor sick dog to the AMC on the East Side. I can't even describe how good and different it was compared to every other bagel I had had up to that point. I have not had one since. Are the Philly pretzels similar to the pushcart pretzels in NYC? They are from the same vendors who keep their hot dogs swimming in the same filthy water all day, but both are indescribably delicious. Do you put yellow mustard on your pretzels, johnm001?

mongo, do you have any when he was in a movie with Desi Arnaz? Cesar was verrry handsome, but I take it he got typecast? I'm not sure as to his acting abilities, but boy was he good looking when young.

What a cool thread. I can't even figure out what I do now, but my most favorite career path from a thousand years ago was print buyer, and Penny Serenade made me feel the best about the small printer. I know there are quite a few films that featured the web presses such as those used by newspapers, but I can't think of them right now.