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Absolutely not, klondike, you're quite right. There are others: raisins/grapes, onions, mushrooms, and macadamia nuts (and don't forget about plants and shrubs). I can't verify these, but have seen these on dog sites where I visit. sandy, these foods are apparently toxic to cats: onions, garlic, raw potatoes and green tomatoes, grapes/raisins and of course chocolate. I found these by googling 'foods that are poisonous to cats/dogs'. drdoolittle, I like pb and banana sandwiches, yes. I tried Elvis's sandwich, but it was a bit much, even for me! I see the PB Hershey kisses in all the supermarkets now (they were hard to find awhile ago), as well as the drugstore chains. bobhopefan1940, isn't guacamole delish? I'm sorry about your dog. I lost my first dog, and it broke my heart. She was elderly and a rescue. My new dog is a youngster, and full of energy. He likes to give kisses (which not everyone thinks is as charming as I do!). Donuts dunked in coffee are very good, as are biscotti. Think there's a trend here? I wonder if movie lovers are also food lovers?????

Thanks, Larry, yes she was Thelma Lou! I'll be darned. Oh, I am glad to hear Vera Lynn is still alive, I hope someone has told her how evocative her songs are. We'll Meet Again is one of my favorites. Meanwhile, I only came to her via Pink Floyd's Does Anybody Here Remember Vera Lynn? from their album The Wall. Life is funny, ain't it though?

THAT'S Betty Lou!? Wow, thanks, knitter45, sure enough I can see her now. I love seeing how actors who ended up in television were at the height of their careers. Andrea King and Frances Farmer are equally pretty, and I can't place their movies either, sad to say.

bobhopefan1940, yes but HOW many spoonfuls of peanut butter? Smooth or creamy? I try to read the label (if I've left my senses and brought it into the house which usually spells trouble but my dog is nuts about peanut butter) and figure out, okay, how many spoonfuls are THEY talking about when they mention a zillion calories per? Hmmmm........ah to heck with it..........and woops, there goes another jar of peanut butter! You saw my line about smooth peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwiches? Read it in a Kinsey Millhone novel so I had to try it. Not bad. But my favorite is still PB and strawberry jelly....on bread, on a spoon, on the floor, doesn't matter. And you saw my line about the PEANUT BUTTER kisses? You gotta, gotta try them. Ignore the truffle ones (Lindt is better), and the caramel ones (blah) and the cherry ones and the plain ones ...... but you GOTTA get the peanut butter kisses. *sigh* You will thank me in the morning!

Thanks, scarlett. Or as Rocky says in the British As Time Goes By, Rock On! Yes, Hollis, it's a line from The Maltese Falcon, and one of the few I understood. It's just so evocative, I love to use it. Isn't that what humans are after, from day one until the grave, if they will admit it? The stuff that dreams are made of? Thanks on the song. It was so long ago we even had a live band, whose specialty was Big Band music.

I can't remember the name of the movie, but it was a 1940s murder mystery, and had the hardboiled detective and was chock full of 'dame' and 'scram' and 'swell' and all the other words of the period. Love them almost as much as the flowered chintz and venetian blinds in the apartments (which today would be $2K a month!) in NYC. I liked Dana Andrews telling Clifton Webb that a 'dame in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of him' and Paul Muni telling the mayor's manservant to 'scram' when he offered to help him into his briefs and, of course, Dick Powell talking about his mind being like a plumber's handkerchief. Wonderful stuff.

scarlett, I agree on The African Queen. Bogey and Hepburn may as well have been wearing porcupine costumes, for all the chemistry they had between them. I think I blotted out the ending...they didn't link those too up romantically, did they? Oh my eyes if they did. Now here is an example of a film that may be considered 'good' by those in the film world, but I found it horrific. Hollis, I've shared on another thread how much I love Casablanca, irrationally I guess. I loved it so much that, sappy sap that I am, I used As Time Goes By for my wedding song. Then again, it beats the icky Wind Beneath Somebody's Wings, don't it? You're right, the ensemble crackled with perfection. I am to this day still not 100% clear on the storyline, but I don't care. Everything was just right, even the addition of the line at the end. Beautiful, the stuff that dreams are made of. You liked RHPS? Another of my favorites, Tim Curry looks so much better in makeup than I it is amazing.

Hollis, I consider Casablanca one of the greats. Some here and some writers do not. But I also have decided that is their right because that is their opinion. It is more peaceful to just talk about why a certain film is beloved to one. For me, I can't even fully explain it. I do know that Ingrid Berman looked like my mother when she was young but that isn't it. Ingrid was also achingly lovely in Notorious, and her kiss with Grant had more fire than her kisses with Bogey. However, Bogey's kisses with Bacall in To Have Or Have Not fairly melted the celluloid (no, I'm not sure that's the right medium). But Casablanca still appealed to me on a Cro-Magnon level. As does Wizard Of Oz, which is my number one favorite movie in all the world, always was and still is, even after seeing all the movies I have seen on TCM. I love Murder My Sweet and I don't understand The Maltese Falcon, still to this day. I like North by Northwest very much, and that is saying a lot for me because I don't like movies in color. I love the Charlie Chan movies but am lukewarm on the Moto movies. Thanks to TCM, I found Warren William and want to marry him if I get to the same afterlife place where he is. All of this just in answer to your first question, and again, it's just my personal feelings. Holy cow, I didn't realize you meant me when you referred to knowledge! I'm not being disingenuous, but I am not one of the better brains on movies here. But Thank You!!! I think you're very nice as well. As to bringing a movie to TCM, I believe there are those here who have done it. And some of those on here with film knowledge will blow your mind. I'm not sure when you joined, but if you search on some topics or words that interest you, their posts will make good reading.

scarlett, if memory serves, wasn't he going on about being the 'enfant terrible' in NINETEEN SIXTY TWO!!!.....yeah, we get it, you were alive and an adult in 1962. Seemingly this had some influence on the films he got to do because of his status in NINETEEN SIXTY TWO!!! and he was extemporaneously musing on the Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper's of the same era who didn't gain such notoriety in NINETEEN SIXTY TWO!!! and got to do more of what they wanted artistically. Or some such crap. Poor Warren, crying all the way to the bank. I imagine he just had a glass or two more of the Moet that was on the table than was wise, considering he had to give a major speech. However, I may not have totally grasped his speech...was it after the toilet mouth'ed ramblings of Borat? Rusty, your Tivo TAKING a recording but not MAKING the recording reminded me of the Seinfeld bit on car rental reservations, when his reservation is taken but not actually fulfilled. 'Tis why I love my VCR, which for the most part doesn't have the brains of Tivo but is nonetheless reliable in an ugly mule sort of way. By the way, one of my VCRs, my very first one from 1977, just broke and was deemed irreparable by a very, to me, trustworthy repair man. Services are at 3:00pm. Long live the Magnavox VCRs made in 1977.

Not at all, Vertigo22. That was just me trying to be more level-headed after all of the bellicosity (is that a word?) of the past year over just such subjects. It just comes down to one's opinion on a movie they like, and people are passionate and not too often open to having their minds changed. I know I am not. The critics and the film schools and the AFI notwithstanding, we all like what we like. I still maintain that film is like Picasso. Some think he is the best thing since sliced bread. I do not! But I appreciate your writing back and understand where you are coming from. I have been listening to people talk about the current Dreamgirls and how while it is an auditory accomplishment, the acting is lightweight and Hudson should in no way get an Oscar for 'acting'. And I do agree, to a point. 2001 was indeed a visual and auditory experience for me, something that before that point I had never experienced. Now, keep in mind that I had my younger brother in tow and he was upset because a bird pooped on his hat, but I managed to lose myself in the movie nonetheless. And so it became a watershed moment in my life. So many movies are just that for some people, they identify with them. Heck, here's another example. I was at a low point in my life when I saw Didi Conn sing You Light Up My Life in the movie by the same name, and the movie 'spoke' to me. I have since come to realize the movie was crap, but at the time it meant something to me and I remember it for that reason. Of course, 2001 will never be a North By Northwest to me (now there's one I can watch over and over, moreso than 2001), and since I am no student of film, NXN/W may not even be a noteworthy film to 'those in the know'. But I happen to like that film too. So, given all the disagreements here, it still all comes down to personal likes and dislikes. Film, it seems, is more available to the common man and thus generates more heated conversations than does an examination of Monet vs another Impressionist. Does that make sense. But yes, you are correct, great art is inspired and it is inspiring. While I bemoan the fact that films like Teeth are being produced, I still defend their right to be produced, just as I thought the art with the poo covered Virgin Mary had a right to be displayed.

Hollis, I have an especial appreciation for those who landed at Normandy, and wish none of them had to lose their lives in the way they did. I am glad your dad made it back. You also have my appreciation and admiration for being a Viet Nam vet. I still remain, to this day, horrified as to the way Viet Nam vets were treated on their return to the U.S. and cannot visit the wall in Washington D.C. without dissolving into tears. I see too many parallels with the current war in Iraq and hope it is soon over and all the valiant men and women there return to their respective shores. Yes, agreed. Although the relationship between my father and I is contentious (he still, at 91, is irascible and abusive) I do try whenever I can to connect to him. Again, thank you for sharing so personally on this board.

Re disagreeing and learning from this board -- absolutely true, Hollis. What a nice story. My father is a WWII vet, he was navigator on a C-47 cargo plane and was one of the first planes into Japan at the end of the war. I think I've shared here how the POW soldiers, almost too emaciated to climb up into the plane, wanted to know who won the World Series. The indomitable spirit of man, eh? Nice story on your folks, thank you for sharing. My father also spoke of dancing with Lucille Ball (how cool!) at a USO fete. As was my television, Hollis. But other than Warren William's films upcoming in March, I really am not missing TCM too much. I spent waaaay too much time taping films, and have run out of space to store them besides. It is a matter of principle, and when a corporation owned by the greedy SOB who owns the NY Knicks tries to FORCE me to get digital cable ahead of the crooked government's mandate that is FORCING me to get digital cable in 2009, I refuse to acquiesce. I wasn't much of a hippy in the 1960s, so I view this as my own littler personal rebellion. Of course, the greedy SOBs don't lose anything, but I still consider it a personal victory. Other than missing WW......... But thanks to Snarfie, I have his pulchritudinous profile available with the click of a keystroke.

I just do. As has been proven here for about a year now, movies are a very personal, passionate subject. I happen to really like 2001: A Space Odyssey and can watch it over and over. I find the entire movie, music and subject matter, an experience. You don't understand it and that's fine. Mind you, I don't tend to watch any movie over and over and over and over anymore. Thanks to my having the foresight to tape b/w movies from TCM before Cablevision kidnapped it, I now don't have to.

NZ, I agree. I watched both Cameron's Titanic and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut once, but I would never, ever watch either of them again. However, I would watch 2001:A Space Odyssey and Casablanca over and over and over and.... dfordoom, my PBS station used to show the Janus films a million years ago. I remember being especially fond of those, they were always so different. HollisinFairhopeAl, I absolutely agree. As was observed here, films had the opportunity to grow and improve, but instead they simply changed and not for the better. Films are now made with an eye towards the almighty dollar. I find it interesting that (in terms of a movie's life cycle) a movie trailer is made (they highlighted the Movie Voice Guy on some show last night), a movie is hyped to the nth degree, it comes out, it usually stinks, and it goes right to DVD, where (wow) extras are included and apparently some people buy it. The next time we hear about the movie is when they give all the awful people connected with the movie an award on some show where some of the awful people are allowed to spew forth toilet humor in primetime and people in evening dress laugh at it. Oh well, rant over. Hollis, I find it interesting that both your Mom and Dad were WWII vets. You must have been very proud of them. For my part, I got hooked on movies from the b/w movies on my 13 inch screen when I was a kid. King Kong is my first memory of a movie, and I cried and cried when he died. Thanks to those here, I've been reminded that I watched movies on Channels 2, 9, 11, and 13 via the Late Late Show, Million Dollar Movie and other such wonderful showcases for the movies near and dear to my heart. Until I lost TCM, it was just about perfect.

Thanks, Snarfie! My computer is near to busting with all the WW pictures..... That 'So Big' photo is fascinating. What in the heck was that movie about? The hands with the photo in the middle give me the heebie jeebies for some reason. Oh, and doesn't the guy look like Charlie Sheen? I LOVE the Wizard of Oz one. I can just imagine what some of those go for on ebay.

Bernardo. Thanks everyone, that was him. Wild picture of International House! Kind of violent, but interesting nonetheless. I really like pictures of the stars of old when they were young. Not sure I've ever seen Betty Lynn. She's not from movies, but has anyone here ever seen Vera Lynn? Outside of their mind's eye thanks to Pink Floyd, I mean.

Rusty, I have to confess, my blotto-maker of choice is bourbon. Although scotch will do in a pinch. As will vodka. klondike, IS haggis really what they say it is? Bits of a murdered beast's organs, boiled, stuffed BACK into the poor beast's stomach? Yes, I'd taste it. But.....is it GOOD? On my eternal threshold song of choice -- Amazing Grace. Before the advent of computer music (amazing piece of technology that), a friend recorded for me on a CD a version of Amazing Grace by a Scots Highland band whose name I have forgotten. But that's it. That's all I asked him to record for me. Amazing Grace. Over......and over........and over..........and over! I wasn't kidding...irrational!

Really, Rusty? See that, Ghirardelli had me duped re their baking chocolate. I should do the same test. The insufferable Whole Foods in this town sells Valronha chocolate for baking. I only was able to tolerate the store and its customers and its parking lot once, so I don't know if they have an even more expensive chocolate than that, but it was pretty much in the nose bleed section, price wise. Have you tried Hershey's new line of kisses? The peanut butter kisses are.to.die.for!! I am a snob when it comes to chocolate, I'm afraid. I like Lindt truffles and teuscher truffles. The latter are out of New York (and Europe of course) and were in the stratosphere when I bought them ages ago. If you want to die and go to heaven via chocolate, get some teuscher online, but sit down when you see the price. My opinion? They're worth it.

Same here, klondike, and there was no mushing in my rearing! While all the others were eating the weekly grilled steaks done on a hibachi on the fire escape on the second floor (picture it!), I revelled in putting the fat between a bit of bread with ketchup on it. Heaven. And to this day, I will leave the chicken and eat the skin. Same with hams of old. Today's cryovac'ed beauties don't contain the thick, almost inedible layers of skin and fat, but I used to do a job on the hams in the old days. I also prefer gristle to the meat as well. Italians feel the same as the Scots, klondike (only the Scots have it all over us with their Scotch), and even put the extra fried bits of fat, from pancetta say, into a bread, the closest spelling of which is 'chicole' bread. Yum. And don't get me started on bagpipes, I have an irrational love of them.

jdb1, Gene Sheldon looks verrry familiar. Was he with Guy Madison in the Zorro television show? Interesting on the ladies. They aren't that well known (well to me), but they are all very pretty.

patful, a five minute rule? You go, patful! klondike, these are people who cut all the fat off their steak cooked on the grill! Now, I ask you, if you grill a steak, do you eat the meat or the fat??!!! sandykaypax, yes those are the donuts. I've even tried freezing them to eat them slower, but they called to me from the freezer. Have you ever seen the part in The Goonies where Chunk says: I smell ice cream? Well, that's me about donuts and ice cream. drdoolittle, is a crumb cake muffin like a Drake's coffee cake? Do you (hmmmm, is there a pattern here?) sometimes take all the crumb off the coffee cake? twister, that's about the only snack I can stay away from -- salted items. Those and soda and regular candy. Sugar (I grew up in a house that loved sweets and baked all the time with my mother) is my nemesis, no doubt about it. Even now with a changed food style, I have to incorporate sugar in some form. Cool thread, drdoolittle.

I know that's not funny, but patful, that is funny! Your folks must have been frantic though.

Wow, I have to give myself an A-, since I never read it but admire the concept!!! What is the number that is the meaning of life again? So true, it is. And how weird, I read your first sentence and instantly thought get outttttta here, giving you a virtual shove, a la Elaine. And then read your second paragraph! Cue the Twilight Zone music........... :0 P.S. The box of candy was mine alone, I would never do that to a box I had to share............wellllll............

klondike, as someone who will try any (and I do mean any) food at least once, then I will have to give some thought to buying M&Ms, cream cheese and spicy pork rinds. Have you tried peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwiches? See what I mean? Hmmm, although if I do dot my next cheesecake with M&Ms, I have to pass on the pork rinds. I can't see that going over too well with the in-laws!

Snarfie, I have only two words.......hubba-------hubba. metsfan, Ricardo Cortez was waaaaaaaay sexy, holy moley. By the way, who is the guy next to Don Ameche? Not bad. Man, this thread is suddenly a-poppin' with testosteroney, ain't it? Phew. Is it hot in here??? I wonder if a similar gallery of present day studs and studettes could transport their fans?