laffite
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It's yours
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Quills
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THE ROAD TO PERDITION
LITTLE BOY LOST or THE LOST WEEKEND
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Estelle Parsons in Bonnie and Clyde
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Egan, Richard
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A story about a man who has a boring job but with an artistic hobby. He has a battle axe wife who makes him miserable. He gets mixed up with a younger woman who wants money from him but she is put up to it by her boyfriend. Complications ensue and the story does not end happily.
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A LIFE OF HER OWN
?meaning the life of Marian herself. Why not, she thought, I will play myself. Who better to play the legend than the legend. Furthermore she would not have just one leading man she would have several. An adventuress must have many men to love and then to contemptuously and summarily dismiss as if throwing out the garbage. Who would be the first of these eminently disposable leading men. The secretary, who was excellent at naming things, put her forefinger on her pursed lips, rolled her eyes upward as if deep in thought and then proceeded to come up with another winner, naming...
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BORN TO BE BAD
And ready to give herself/himself up, watched in amazement as the men in white grabbed the musician who played the wrong note and carried him off. Once again she dodged the proverbial bullet and her reputation as the slippery one became to assume the status of legend. Soon there was a clamor for a movie of her life, a project that was enthusiastically received by all. A contest was held for a title and heads came together to choose one. Meanwhile Marion's life took another breathtaking turn when...
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"Henry, i know how much you like life-sized dolls and all but if it's not working properly, I think you should send it back."
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WHAT?S NEW PUSSYCAT
?indeed is what was on everyone?s mind although all agreed that going from Marion to Marian in a modest makeup change would be hard to beat. Also hard to beat would be Josephine Baker?s number that brought the house down, oh that Josie, can she sing a song, or what? And a song about a pirate, no less, so they thought. The Music Hall Impresario called for order and announced a new act was in the offing. A bustle of enthusiasm and then a hushed silence as the curtain rose and revealed?
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Neff, Walter...Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
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2001, A Space Odyssey
holistic
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LES CINQ GENTLEMEN MAUDITS
?all with blood on their hands---for whomever they curse ends up dead. Relieved to find all this blood nothing but a metaphor, attention was turned to Marion who vehemently denied any association with these fellows and insisted that the gloves were not really his but stolen from some ragpicker on Bleeker street. ?Cuff?em,? said the Police Chief, his last words for he was killed instantly by a bullet from no other than Kirby himself. Shrieks everywhere, people trampled over including the five gentilehommes who would from this moment on curse no more. Kirby issued a devilish cry and stealthily withdrew. Was he the killer of the girl too, then? But wait, a new wrinkle...a stentorian voice was heard emanating from high, the voice of...
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CAUSE FOR ALARM
?ensued when a loud clanging emanated from the massive container. What within, so thought the crowd. Marion Kirby insisted that he was no relation to the deceased. Meantime an autopsy report showed death by strangulation and a pair of gloves found near the body matched those worn by this new Marion. But he avoided arrest by declaring that only he could open the container without dire consequences and so?
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>>redriver wrote: But I rarely get anything Saturday either.
>markfp2 wrote: Feel lucky that you get anything on Saturday. If the top management of the USPS has it's way, there will only be delivery five days a week. I can't see them ticking off big businesses (who could switch to other carriers) by cutting out a weekday so it would probably end up being Saturday. That would certainly hurt Netflix customers especially when there's a holiday on a Monday. Three whole days without a movie fix. Ouch!
I will receive on Saturday so long as I mail one on Thursday. If I mail on Friday, the replacement won?t reach me until Tuesday. That?s because Netflix does not ship on Saturday.
If USPS stops Saturday deliveries, Wednesday?s mail would be crucial. Mail on Wednesday and receive on Friday. Mail on Thursday and wait till Monday. That's a three day wait. If Monday is a holiday, it's a four day wait.
I've never tried streaming a movie. Do you have to watch in real time...or do have a time frame in which you must watch...say 24 hours. Can you pause the movie for a short break?
I've had my account on hold for months. TCM is keeping me busy and I have a large VHS collection of TCM movies. I'm having a problem justifying the use of Netflix. But i've used it a lot in the past and feel it is first class. If they shipped on Saturday, it would be even better.
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>I don't think anyone has mentioned Ewidge Fenech
Probably because no one can pronounce it
Okay, everyone can but me.
Seriously, how is that very interesting name pronounced? Can someone give me a phonetic spelling on that. (Not that it matters, after looking at her, who cares about names?)
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High Noon...Ultimate Showdown Classic
The Four Feathers (1939)
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for Opertunistic ***** ... Fooolish Wives ####
(I'm wondering if the software censored a word)
no-no
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PFFFFFT!
A law student interrupted and calmly pointed out that the victim?s name was still Marion Kirby and observed that the name was spelled differently than those other Kirbys who were so far away in Connecticut and of course had nothing to do with the present case. He was immediately put in charge of the investigation. Just then a stage hand spoke up and delivered a smashing bit of news. It turns out that...
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Vivien Leigh ?
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DEAD END
THE SPIRAL ROAD or TOBACCO ROAD
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HAMLET
?or perhaps thought he was. Investigators frantically sought the name of the deceased perhaps thinking her name was Ophelia. This could explain everything. Inspector Harris articulated brilliantly on the subject but didn?t stop talking for three days. He was promptly fired by the Chief of Police for impeding an investigation. The girl?s name turned out to be Marion Kirby, a showbiz hopeful. The entertainer spiraled downward to madness. The investigation was temporarily stalled. Then strange occurrences began to befall the investigation, for instance?
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The Shanghai Gesture (early scene with Omar and Victoria -Poppy-)
alliteration
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THE ENTERTAINER
...who performed that night, a middle aged man, a drunk and somewhat of a bounder who was seen talking to the departed in a suspicious manner. He was interviewed by Inspector Harris but couldn?t get a word in edgewise. Harris arrested him anyway for withholding evidence. The case took a spectacular turn when?
Movies are the answer
in Games and Trivia
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ROGUE?S GALLERY
?because the grime in this Bowery bar was moral grime and the low-life patrons in this Bowery bar were reflected not by physical dissipation---they were young and hot---but by their portraits that hung in the Rogues? Gallery in the back room, portraits that revealed their moral turpitude. Marian never went in for pictures and instead was agog at the sight of these Adonis-like hunks as leading men. They were already rolling the film as Marian danced a wild bacchanal with several of them in one magnificent frenzied number. Just before the end, however, the director yelled, "?