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I was just commenting on your alacrity.

Jeez, Lawrence, you're a speed reader.

Yes, and the practice goes back at least to the early part of the 20th century. In the 1950s they also advertised a "food plan," which I suspect involved delivery. Click here to see a Macy's grocery ad from 1912 (it's in the bottom right corner): http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1912-08-14/ed-1/seq-10/

I believe #1 is the "Love Time" sequence, so the two dancing in front would be Lillian Roth and Buddy Rogers.

"Hi, I'm Joe, and this really is a gun in my pocket."

The saddest part of the film is that, under the ACA, Lara was not allowed to keep her doctor.

Porco Mondo is available on youtube, dubbed in Spanish (and it's an Italian film). That is like seeing The Seven Samurai dubbed in Korean. I did skim through the film for a few minutes, and i) it's nothing I want to see, and ii) it should not be "accessible" to younger viewers.

I think the biggest flaw in the film is that everyone speaks English.

Or, in the case of Cheech and Chong, a little too much chemistry.

Simple. You say to the woman "I have homosexual tendencies."

It was killed off by an Executive Order. Also, there will be no Meryl Streep movies during 31 Days of Oscar.

Ironically, that little girl ran off with the guy who played the son of Fredric March and Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives.

No, even in that film he did it.

I think it was ridiculous that Alfred Doolittle had to marry Freddy just so that creep would stop tailing Eliza.

You're welcome. Thanks for posting the pictures. That film must have been a quickie, since I could find almost nothing about it in the trade magazines. Margaret Landis was a brunette in every photo I've seen - not sure why she is a blonde in this film.

The film has been yanked from circulation, because it is offensive. Prof. Higgins is a woman-hater, and Freddy is a stalker. Also, the Spanish complained because that stupid song about rain killed off their tourism industry.

Near the end of the film, Sam Levene looks at a newspaper in the police station. There is a picture of the "suspect" along with a story that he had been killed in a car crash.

It's the 1924 film. The dark-haired actor in all three photos is William Fairbanks. The guy at right in the first photo is James Pierce.

I have a question about Boomerang! What is it that Philip Coolidge (the weird guy) is supposed to have done, prompting his talk with the priest? The priest recommends he go to a sanitarium. And Coolidge gets a really scary look on his face when the priest asks if his mother knows what is going on. One of my first thoughts was, maybe the guy was supposed to be a pedophile?

I'm surprised the cops never checked him, considering he was always using his smartphone to film cops beating up guys.

Yes, they do. I went for jury duty shortly after 9/11, went through a metal detector. An idiot ahead of me tried to bring a knife into the building.

“I Just Read” the December 1945 Reader’s Digest article entitled “The Perfect Case,” upon which Boomerang! is supposed to be based. It is four pages long, pretty much to the point. There is no weird guy (played by Philip Coolidge) who may be the killer. There is no Ed Begley character. And as I suspected, there are no “courtroom theatrics” involving the firing of the suspected murder weapon. (And what would have happened if the gun had gone off??) The article, written by Anthony Abbot (a pseudonym) was condensed from The Rotarian magazine, which I was not able to access. Regarding the land development controversy in the film, it is ironic that the intersection where the murder took place no longer exists, because that section of Bridgeport was developed in the late 60s and early 70s. For anyone interested, you can access the Reader’s Digest article here: http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12229/11/Chapter6_1-78p.pdf

Yeah, that was certainly not needed.