movieman1957

I had suspected that English was not your native language. You write it beautifully. You have every reason to be proud of your ability and accomplishments.

It's great to see so many votes coming. Since it has been brought up in the last few posts this might be an ideal time to remind everyone that the winner (announced tomorrow) will have the honor (and I hope pleasure) of hosting the next challenge. While they will be free to pick their start time there is usually several months between them. Eight fine schedules from which to choose your favorite. Make somebody's day and vote.

Time for our Thursday evening update. Countessdelave - 3 Audreyforever - 2 Sansfin - 2 Capuchin - 1 Fedya - 1 Lonesomepolecat - 1 It is still anybody's contest to win. We know Filmlover will be along after the celebrates and hopefully others will too. A winner will be announced Saturday. I don't want to be the tiebreaker.

Important things first.

Ah, yes, the "Milk Dud" test.

*"I can slap you down and then give you a hug."* I love it. *Neither one of us is any great "prize" I am sure, in the great scheme of things as far as the world is concerned... We have our faults and our failings, but we are exactly right for one another. And that is a really good thing.* Don't kid yourself. To fulfill someone's life because you love them and are there for them and share the everyday things makes both of you prize enough.

My bride picked it our years ago when we were setting up email accounts. For me it says I like movies, I'm a man and I'm older than dirt.

Gee, I hope there are some adding to the drama by making a late entry to vote for their favorite schedule. Don't wait too long. An update may come later tonight as my internet at home is back up. Voting ends tomorrow night.

*Mom saw SONG OF LOVE.* *"Seven children? They never came up for air, did they?"* It is like the old Groucho Marx line to a woman on finding out she had 11 children. "I like a good cigar but occasionally I take it out of my mouth." My father is the youngest of 14. He told me "they were very close." How's that for understatement?

Duke has a very good rapport with Dietrich. They are fine together in "The Spoilers." They are better together than "Seven Sinners" is as a movie to me. MissG and I talked about that one a little while ago. She liked it better than I did. I think I was in a bad mood when I watched it. I caught "In Harm's Way" (most of it at least over Memorial Weekend. I saw "Wake of The Red Witch" about a year ago. Watching Wayne and Russell is fun. Some exciting stuff there. It's been a few years for "Hatari." Don't sell yourself. I've rad enough of your comments to feel you are not boring. You are certainly interesting and fun. JF: My situation is not overwhelming but frustrating. As if I don't worry enough anyway I don't need my kids to give me more.

Sir Francis: Are those the Wayne movies you have seen or are most interested in seeing? I have "El Dorado" a couple of the others I have seen recently. Others I could get if you want to talk about them. I saw "Pittsburgh" a long time ago. I don't remember much about it though. BTW, with all that "excitement" of being married with kids comes, for me, a lot of worry. As my kids are grown that is a whole different kind of worry than "Ro" has. Believe me it is not all that all the time. I am going through some "excitement" right now. Whoopee! Edited by: movieman1957 on Jun 17, 2010 9:30 AM

Shucks.

I think Mae probably thought Jerry would never look in her drawer. She may think he would have no reason to. Earl, I agree, probably thinks he is a ladies man. However, thinking you are one and being one are two different things. That is why he talks so differently to Mae than the others. He tries to be poetic or sophisticated and I don't think he is. When you all started talking mundane I thought you were talking about me. Chris Mundane. It has a realistic ring to it.

Our Wednesday 5pm update. Countessdelave - 3 Audreyforever - 2 Capuchin - 1 Fedya - 1 Voting runs through Friday night. I hope there are many of you looking at the schedules and will vote. Lots of hard work went into these wonderful efforts. Thank you for your support.

That's it. You nailed it.

You haven't seen all of it? You can watch it while you are waiting for your tea water to heat up. Let me know if I can be of service.

You're right MissG. Earl and Mae are framed in a two shot. It was very much the two of them vs. Jerry. Maybe Earl wasn't bluffing completely as much as he was just being a jerk. Contempt for Jerry's intelligence and his for being a weak man. After all Jerry, for the moment, has just stolen his wife. Of course a man having an affair with a woman would buy her something like that but why she didn't do a better job hiding it is a question. If she did there would be no climax to the movie. Now I'm just being ridiculous.

Re: "Magic" That was creepy enough for me.

*The Great Train Robbery." Ten minutes in length, it was action-packed with a train robbery, a chase and a final shootout. It was an enormous success and the most profitable film of its time.* How much competition could it have had? TCM showed it a year or two ago and it is interesting from a historical standpoint. I think Robert O said there were 21 edits in it. A huge amount for that time. Unfortunately, there was no music to accompany it so it was a true silent movie.

I agree Ryan's "Earl" is damaged. No question. He insists on showing it to everyone. I didn't sense any grief on his part for being damaged. He seems to wallow in it. There is some sadness is Mae but not enough to keep her from straying. One scene that did seem a bit out of sorts was when the three of them are having their argument and Mae is asked about the negligee. Ryan passes it off as just a friend buying another friend a gift. Douglas' reaction, at the moment, isn't quite so shocked. Really? What man buys his friend's wife a negligee? There must be a good line coming from Jerry somewhere but it doesn't come. I like your list of emotions for Mae. That is plenty to go through. She looks good in a slip though.

Thanks for writing back. >Mae can be her ugly self with Earl. She can be "naked." Every woman needs to feel as if she can be naked with their man. I think Jerry makes Mae feel dirty (guilty) and that Jerry struggles to understand how dirty Mae really was, is, and still can be. Mae also knows she can hurt Jerry. She can't hurt Earl. This mean she's to be held accountable with Jerry. Again with the guilt. That is very true. There never seems to be complete comfort with Mae and Jerry. There is respect. There is an affection. Your choice of "naked" is very good. She can never totally relax. >Responsibility is a prison to the runner. I wish I had put it that way. I don't mean to belittle Stanwyck's performance. In retrospect I might be too direct. I like her work early on in the film and while she is going out with Jerry. Her speech to him to accept his proposal is gently handled. Maybe it is as it the film gets to her and Earl it has to do more with the character than her work there. At the risk of making some here question my sanity I thought Ryan was kind of one-note through the film. Always angry and no real nuance to anything but it probably wasn't called for. Maybe I am over thinking it. My favorite Stanwyck performances are her lighter films, "Double Indemnity" notwithstanding.

Lovely shoulders.

It makes me wonder if Mae has been in church.

103. "Why can't you find a desk of your own?"

I might include "The Rockford Files." (After including "Murder, She Wrote" that opens up quite a few shows.) As a tough guy who would really rather avoid a fight and surrounding himself with friends from both sides of the law he manages to take all kinds of work. There are often good characters and good story lines. Of course there is the obligatory car chase but what show didn't have one. (Great cars too.) He is not together unlike the Phillip Marlowe character.