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Hi again, Katie.
I used to love Dark Shadows but don't think there is anything approaching that currently in the soap opera theater!
I also have zero religious values, thanks to 12 years of Catholic schools. I asked in another thread what your name meant, and I still don't understand what the writer was referring to by that phrase.
I too think the 1930s was THE best decade in films, and I cut off my interest (this is a hot topic here) in films at 1950. I am not enamored of silents but have shared that I'd like to be locked in a room and not come out until I've seen every single film from the 1930s and 1940s. That is my fantasy. Oh, and in addition to film noir, my second favorite genre is fantasy. Also, I'd like to be transported back in time to the year 1935.
I like David Lynch too. I like the X-Files, in fact the weirder the show (IF well done) the better.
Are you from New York? I also might have ADD, who knows. Can an old person have ADD?
At any rate, welcome to one of the best message boards around.
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One I'm certain of though is Madge Evans.
See, now there's another name I don't know offhand -- but have Beauty For Sale taped, thankfully.
Do you know Ann Harding? Thanks to TCM, I've seen this actress in a few films, and consider her amazing.
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Hi Katie.....and welcome.
The speed here? Depends on who is on during any given time. I've seen where it's almost instant responses, which is great, or where it can go hours without an eyeball (or a response at least).
I know RT and it's a hoot there. I've never participated in the movie discussion, right now I'm a television board persona non gratis looking for a television list home -- I was banned from Television Without Pity.
This is a GREAT place, one of THE best currently. It is like A&E in times gone by, the moderators are nowhere to be found and there are adults here who keep people like me in line. However, a person is also allowed to go off topic if they so start a thread, without getting beat up.
It's wonderful here. Enjoy.
dolores
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me-thinks-me-not-the-only-one.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
dolores
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Interesting thread!
Harry Lime in The Third Man.
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How funny, songbird2, I just talked about this film in response to another of your posts.
I passed by the film last evening while surfing, in the midst of taping it, and caught Basil kissing a girl...apparently Jane Bryan...and holy moley, I never knew Mr. Rathbone could KISS like that!!! Phew. Hope my tape doesn't melt.
Guess this was before the idiots in censoring imposed a time limit on kisses.Rathbone and William....it must be a 'type' that I like. 'Arresting' is putting it mildly!!
Oh, and yes I like Kay Francis. Is she in the movie too?.........
:)dolores
P.S. Nooooooooo, Orry-Kelly did the wardrobe? Well, color me over the moon.
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Well written, songbird2. Exactly the sentiments I have when watching these two stellar performers. With a lift of the eyebrow or a slight smirk, Cagney can thrill. Bogey thrills in a different way, but has the same effect nonetheless.
Ryan and Hayden and Mitchum are thrillers as well, but more of the testosterone laden stars against whom women...okay, me...would have no defense. Warren William is not testosteroney laden, but I'd succumb to him too.
And lo and behold, caught a minute of an early Basil Rathbone movie I was taping yesterday, and man could he kiss when the pre-censor morons allowed kissing! Phew.
I know, not about Cagney or Bogart, but on the subject of who was thrilling and who was not.
Soooo many of the realllly good actors left me cold, including Stewart and heaven help me, even Grant. Grant was gorgeous and beautiful to look at, but I don't see heat in the clinches.
Okay, I'll stop now.
dolores
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Rusty, good one! No contest, Webb could fight dirtier because he's smarter and better looking than Brent. Ditto on Hayward.
See jdb1 for an explanation. I'd be surprised if he were the smartest bulb in the pack, since when the director said 'act' I think George heard 'react'.
Ick.
I know, larry, there's gotta be a horse that finishes last in order to make the winner look stellar.
dolores
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That makes sense, movieman1957, re Cagney.
I think we got to see, onscreen, that first phase of being smitten when one falls in love. It's like we were intruding on Bogey and Baby.
Cagney, I believe, also lived on a 'farm' in upstate New York, so he may have been a real guy and not into the Hollyweird star stuff. I don't know, I'm just guessing here.
dolores
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Ain't it the truth, movieman1957?
Ain't it the truth, GM?
P.S. I was wondering, suddenly noticing the post numbers next to each name (duh) -- is there a way to sort the member names by the number of posts they've written? Just curious.
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I just want to say this thread has become one of the most touching avenues I have ever visited on the Internet.
Ever.
Thank you everyone for sharing of yourselves.
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jdb1, you're so right. I'm not sure if it was Dark Passage or The Big Sleep that had Bogey and Baby in the front seat of the car, but I'm surprised they didn't burn down the set with their heat. Phew.
No, I've never seen Cagney emote that, but chances are he could if he wanted to. I am not aware of his backstory, but was he ever romantically linked to any of his co-stars? That helps with the onscreen chemistry, for sure.
That said, I think both Cagney and Bogey are equally passionate and hot actors.
Now, if George Brent could ever emote anything hotter than a pilot light that goes out with the puff from an asthmatic, I'd be surprised.
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The 'crawl', thanks that's the term that had eluded me. Yes, all you say is true, susanlenox.
That's yet another rant! Bob Dorian of AMC used to spotlight landmarked movie theaters, and the sight of them didn't do justice to the experience of them. I grew up in New Rochelle, NY, and we had the RKO, LOEW's and TOWN theaters. The main two were RKO and LOEW's, with TOWN a smaller theater which got the lower budget films. It was in the TOWN theater where I finally saw Rocky Horror.
At any rate, if you haven't lived through the ONE screen movie theater, well you haven't lived. There is no describing the smell of the air conditioning (yes, the smell) when you first walked in the door, back in the day when a person was lucky to have one wall unit in their house. There was one movie being shown, so there was only one line and one ticket booth. There were no advance tickets, you got on line, you revelled in the cool air and the smell of the popcorn, and you went in and chose your seat.
Hah, choosing your seat. You had a choice of the ENTIRE first floor of what might now (although many of the old chopped up single theaters have been razed) be cut into three screens (shows you how long it's been since I've seen a movie) OR the balcony! As I remember, the seats were cushy and the springs noisy and the fabric was velvet or worn out fabric. The floors were sticky and a movie was a magical experience. If you looked up, you saw architecture which was an ode to ages ago, and wasn't strictly utilitarian. Ushers 'shushed' people and to be late for a movie meant you had to be led in with a flashlight.
My hometown theaters weren't particularly beautiful, but the experience of the few movies I saw was. Radio City Music Hall was a grand dame, but I haven't been there in many years, so I don't know if they've given her due respect.
Good for you susanlenox, that you experienced what you did. Those who queue up now for a choice of four movies, buy popcorn that's overpriced, pay for tickets that are overpriced, talk amongst themselves or on their cellphones for much of the time, and see garbage on the screen....wouldn't have a CLUE as to what Bob Dorian talked about when he waxed rhapsodic about the old movie theaters. What a shame.
dolores
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Absolutely, Larry.
I went on about it earlier, re televison, noticing that the networks have for years now been co-opting the credit time in order to push the next program. In their mind, instead of taking up the advertiser's time, they can inpede on our viewing time the credits with their adverts. I'm sure the old show Police Squad! which used to show the actors in a faux freeze frame while the credits rolled...it was hilarious...would be squished beyond visibility nowadays.
I don't go to the movies anymore, so I assume that movie theaters don't do this. Some of the most clever movies have outtakes or additional footage at the very end of the credits, so I used to like to wait. What IS everybody rushing out for anyway, to get stuck in traffic? Probably the same people who think their cell phone conversations are fascinating.
At any rate, I do remember those lovely shots of 'the players'...didn't the wonderful old movies call them 'the players'?...with their names appended on the bottom. If I'm not mistaken, hasn't even TCM cut off some of these movies before their time? Or do they show what they're given? I've noticed that in some of the really old movies, this pattern of cast review was done at the beginning and the shots weren't even from the movie, so that to me was an added bonus. Ah, the good old days.
dolores
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Yes, cinemabuff64, she had long blonde wavy hair in her movies, not sure if it was over one eye, annoyingly, as Veronica Lake wore hers. I don't think it was.
She was husky voiced, with slow, deliberate movements, and very understated in her acting. Not like the scenery and theater seat chewing Bette Davis. She was the 'other' woman in Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, i.e., Van Heflin fell in love with her. She is one of my favorite actresses.
Since I am now totally bummed because I compared her list of movies on IMDb to the ones I have taped, I can't even say which movies I saw.
That settles it. TCM has to devote a day to Lizabeth Scott. Even better, since she is still alive...hey, Osborne, get her into the studio and interview her. And THEN devote a day to all of her movies.
Okay, I'll sit back and wait while you all at TCM follow through.
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Don't apologize, cinemabuff64. CineSage is our resident Charles Foster Kane.
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How funny, jarhfive. I thought you were a JarHead, former or current!
Lois, you've heard the old saying "I went to a fight one time and a hockey game broke out"? I used to see the Rangers baaack in the day, courtesy of an old BF. Watching Phil Esposito pull off a hat trick was pure poety. Oh, we sat in the Blue section in Madison Square Garden and I was naive enough at the time NOT to have ever heard the words that were used there. Thanks for the memories!
dolores
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Didn't know that about her being pregnant, good for her. She's very pretty.
cinemabuff64, if you like the husky voiced songs of old with plenty of liquor and smoke present, you'll like her. If you like Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, you'll like her!
She evokes that era...my favorite of hers is 'Cry Me A River', which I first came to know from a Scottish show about an ME whose name now escapes me.
jdb1, I love Edith Piaf. Another plaintive singer whom I favor.
larry, that makes sense! A bombe -- never seen one that big.
dolores
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Ahhhh.....so that's 'Fascination'. I am playing the Julie London version -- very nice.
Thanks, cinemabuff64 -- do you like Diana Krall? She does some lovely covers of the old standards.
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Ugh...yes, to the personal grooming in public, wordmaster. Or...I really did see one idiot doing this...reading a newspaper WHILE driving the car. Ugh.
rainee, there are idiots who spray graffiti on your personal property? And there's a name for it, i.e., tagging? Aren't you allowed to shoot them if they do that? No, of course not, criminals have rights, victims don't.
Yes, larry, it started out as squishing the ending credits to make room for commercials for upcoming programs. Never mind that you weren't finished with the current program and might have wanted to find out an actor's name or something. Nope, the MTB weren't going to cut into their advertising time, they were going to now take up the break between programs.
Oh, and don't forget about the animated popups that now pollute your screen WHILE you are watching a program to advertise an upcoming program. How many times do you want to know WHAT you are watching NOW and WHAT you can watch NEXT?
Welcome to the current media. Now a hell of a lot we can do about it, is there? Oh, yes, turn off the teevee, I guess.
dolores
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[keep the "curmudgeon" flag flying high, stoneyburke and friends!].
I know, I shouldn't take pleasure in the fact that you called me out by name, wordmaster, when the idea of 'curmudgeon' came to you....but I do. Fodder for a shrink, I guess, if I believed in the phonies.
dolores
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Actually, inglis, it's always an interesting thread when someone brings up the subject of who we are.
I'm 56, female, of Italian descent, have a big mouth, and liked Jack Lord in Stoneyburke, hence the name. I love movies, dogs and Warren William.
My real name rhymes with...never mind
dolores
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Nice picture, GM. But what IS that in front of them, some kind of meal?
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Maybe what you're talking about is what people have gleaned from watching office sitcoms, and what the media projects. In my years worth of experience in the corporate world (and I'm glad I'm out), the women that make it are the ones with the most testosterone, and the evilest glare.
MattHelm, I'm going on 30 years in the corporation for which I work, so I I've seen it up close.
You are correct, those that have risen fairly high have had to do the work of two men, been twice as mean as two men to their female and male employees, and while it helped if they were pretty, it wasn't a requirement in their race to the top.
However, as long as the CEO and the BOD are comprised of fat old bald white men, there will always be the glass ceiling for women and minorities. Even the she-male, pretty or not, competent or not, will only be allowed to rise so high unless the he-she has the package in her underwear.
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Katie...sorry, can't call you Slums!...Dark Shadows was good, emphasis on was. I saw it recently on the SciFi channel, I believe, and it did NOT hold up. I had the biggest crush on Jonathan Frid and I imagine he hasn't held up well either.
Thanks on your name. Yes, I imagine some think their wonderful liberality could be interpreted as immoral, but that's their small minded problem.
Thanks also on the ADD description. My attention span has plummeted to about 3 seconds after, I've noticed, the advent of MTV music videos...not kidding here. I too cannot watch a movie all the way through anymore unless it is exceptional. But I'm probably just a product of my times and stressors, rather than being ADD.
And by the way, saying "I'm not religious" doesn't necessarily mean "I have no faith."
Absolutely true, jdb1, a distinction that most organized religions don't want to recognize.