Bethluvsfilms

Yep, I was an 80's and 90's girl all right. I forgot about NEWHART. Though I stopped watching that one the last couple of seasons it was on the air.

Yes, I've no doubt that Cody probably would prefer death than having to rot away in prison for the rest of his life, or going to the gas chamber. But I still think his choosing his own demise was his way of sticking it to the authorities, maybe particularly to Fallon whom Cody had saw as the brother he never had only to find out he was an undercover cop and had been playing him for a sucker all this time.

I can't think of a Jack Lemmon film I didn't like. He was great in both comedies and dramas. And in addition to which, he was also a very humble and great man in real life. Think my personal favorites of his are THE CHINA SYNDROME and MISSING. But he never fails to crack me up in MISTER ROBERTS and SOME LIKE IT HOT.

For classic era actors, James Cagney, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart had coolness easing out of them in doses. For modern actors, I have to go with Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, and Al Pacino.

I've always thought that Charles Laughton in SPARTACUS should have been nominated and won the Best Supporting Actor that year instead of Peter Ustinov. Not that Ustinov wasn't great (he was), but Laughton impressed me so much more as the immoral, scheming but still likable Gracchus. I never took my eyes off him whenever he was on screen.

Here are my favs: 1. THE SIMPSONS (1989 to 2002 anyway). 2. CHEERS 3. THE SOPRANOS 4. FRASIER 5. M.A.S.H. 6. DALLAS 7. NIGHT COURT 8. THE TWILIGHT ZONE (the original series, though born in the mid 70's, I caught them in reruns). 9. THE DUKES OF HAZZARD 10. FAMILY TIES 11. HOME IMPROVEMENT 12. EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND 13. DARK SHADOWS (I know it was a soap opera, but still a favorite of mine, and again I saw it through reruns since it was cancelled a couple years before I was born). 14. LAW AND ORDER 15. LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT

(SPOILER ALERT) Even though he dies at the end, you could say that Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) in WHITE HEAT got away with his murderous rampage. I have said this in the past, but even though he would have preferred to have gotten away free and clear with the robbery at the plant, he went out his own way....and totally unrepentant of his past crimes (the murders of the train engineers, Big Ed and Parker). He stands up, screaming that immortal line "Made it Ma! TOP OF THE WORLD!!!", blowing himself up and destroying any legal victory Fallon and the police force were hoping to achieve by bringing him down (alive that is). Cody's choosing his own method of going out was the ultimate 'screw you' to all the law enforcement witnessing his end.

I love both GLADIATOR and SPARTACUS....but if push comes to shove, I have to give the edge to SPARTACUS. But don't ask me to say why. But really both movies have a lot going for it....a hero you could root for, Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) and Maximus (Russell Crowe) in GLADIATOR. Both movies had despicable villains SPARTACUS had Crassus (Laurence Olivier) and GLADIATOR had Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). Both films had superb supporting casts as well (Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov for Kubrick's epic, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, and Derek Jacobi in Ridley Scott's classic). Both GLADIATOR and SPARTACUS end on a sad but satisfying note. (And for the record I also love TITANIC, so sue me!).

MOGAMBO

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Robert Arthur

Charles Kemper

I admire the way he's coping with the situation. Not so sure I would be so restrained. As a matter of fact, I know I wouldn't be. So far we only have 2 cases of people who have contacted the coronavirus here in Michigan, but I expect it will probably increase with quite a few more cases within the next few days. I'm not going to sweat it, but I do feel sorry for Tom, Rita and all the others who have contacted this disease and have had to be quarantined.

Grant Withers

I find I like A SUMMER PLACE a lot more than I used to. Looking forward to PARRISH. Love Claudette.

I always heard that Laughton and Clark Gable didn't like each other much when making MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY back in the 30's either. And there's that rumor that he didn't like directing the children in his only directing effort 1955's THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. According to Peter Ustinov, Laughton and Laurence Olivier hated each other when making SPARTACUS. Did every actor dislike working with Laughton? Still a great actor in any case, even if he was near impossible to work with.

Haven't seen 941, 942 or 948. Love 943 and 944. Especially love 945 and 946. I love the irony about 946, whereas Clark Gable played an officer leading a mutiny in 1935's MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, in this film RUN SILENT RUN DEEP, he plays an executive officer inspiring a mutiny. Saw 949 once, didn't float my boat. 950 is watchable but not my definition of a classic.

Albert Dekker

John Ireland

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS

WITNESS is one of my favorites among Harrison Ford's films. (SPOILER ALERT) Although he did sort of spoil the philosophy of the Amish and their reputation for non-violence by getting into it with a guy who wouldn't move his car when they were driving back to the Amish village.

STAR TREK II; THE WRATH OF KHAN

Alan Hale Jr.

Harry Carey

Ann Rutherford