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*But seriously Laffite, Gloria did have her quirks. She would go on to marry Anthony Ray.* So she bedded Anthony Ray while married to her father...then later married him too. Do I have that right? Did Anthony have any teenage sons from a previous marriage...I wonder. Just kidding. When are they going to make movie of Gloria's life. Or have they?

*From Richard Brody in the latest issue of the New Yorker:* Whatever the director Nicholas Ray already knew about generational conflict was surely sharpened by his discovery, in 1951, of his then wife, the actress Gloria Grahame, in bed with his teen-age son from a previous marriage. Five years later, Ray made ?Bigger Than Life??screening at Film Forum Jan. 2-8, in a revelatory new CinemaScope color print?which features one of the most horrific scenes between father and son ever filmed. The story, based on a nonfiction article published in this magazine in 1955, concerns Ed Avery (James Mason), a schoolteacher and suburban family man who is stricken with a fatal arterial inflammation that a ?miracle drug,? cortisone, cures?at the price of drug-induced psychosis. Ray?s depiction of Ed?s murderous rage owes nothing to the factual account; the vengeful fury with which this formerly doting father, Bible and scissors in hand, threatens his son is an artistic explosion of the director?s own. The sight of such deep-seated demons being liberated makes repression look downright appealing. ♦ I didn't know that about Gloria. O Gloria, you naughty girl, will you never cease to amaze?

*The Chargers will not be one of the teams I'll be rooting against, though. I'd love to see them win it all. But that's a curse for you. You'd rather me rooting against your squad.* Not so, my friend. You are no curse. I do not hold you responsible for the Demise of the Dallas Cowboys and consider you a happy addition to the Charger Booster Club (temporary though it may be), and so I say, ONWARD HO, to that appointment in Tampa on February 1st. PS Cute cartoon. Looks like he's talkin' to the KC Chiefs. They could use a new team. (Oh listen to me gloat, I'm terrible)

*Frank*, good points all. Just one comment. AJ has given Norv the proverbial vote of confidence and that was when the Chargers were 4-8. We have an excellent sports writer here in San Diego who wrote a column citing examples of vote of confidence coaches who were nevertheless canned shortly thereafter. He almost made it sound as if the VOC was a kind of curse, haha. But I think the strong finish and making the playoffs cements Norv's future (for another year at least) though, in a way, masks a certain mediocrity. The C are back from the dead and it's a near miracle just to get this far and Norv will get credit for that regardless what happens with the Colts, IMO. Besides, AJ loves him (to the chagrin of many C fans). Well, anyway, I hope you'll be watching and enjoying the playoffs...despite the proceedings being sans Cowboys.

Hi Frank After that game last night I am agreeing with you and revising my opinion about the Chargers chances. As John Madden likes to continually point out, teams that peak at the end of the season can surprise regardless what went on before. And he was also right when he declared that LT "was back." I've been following all year and last night was the only game this year when LT has had a game like that. The Colts have had a strange season. Despite being 12-4, they have not dominated like in years past, strange as that may sound with that kind of record. I recall when they were 3-3 they could have easily been 1-5 but for two very improbable last-minute comebacks and they have won by the skin on their nose this year rather than by high deficit scoring. Yes, the Chargers have an excellent chance to pull one off next week. They have played well against the Colts in the playoff and the latter are probably are none to happy, I believe, to be coming here. The Chargers will have to find a way to play defense, they have had a "marshmallow" defense as well. O those Cowboys? It's been a weird season. How does Miami make the playoffs and not the Cowboys? I haven't been close enough to know what's wrong but I'll take your word that it's the coaching. Too bad. I have heard commentators on radio suggest that it's time for Jerry Jones to back off, hire a good football man, and recede to the background. Yeah, I know, that's funny. Coaching problems have been the lament of Charger fans as well. Were it not for a weak AFC West (How does New England, 11-5 miss out, and the Chargers, 8-8, move on?), Norv might well be under the gun although AJ is like JerryJ in this respect, Norv was coming back in any case.

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>Its not insulting, its classic Saturday Night Live. They been doing skits on movies since the 1970's i.e. "Jaws". ( Knock on door ) Woman: ( approaching cautiously ) "Who is It?" Voice: ( high and squeaky, obviously put on ) "Delivery Man." Woman: ( concerned ) "I didn't order anything." ( Pause ) Voice: ( high and squeaky ) "Delivery Man." Woman: ( nervously ) "What do you have?. I didn't order anything, I said." (Pause) Voice ( high and squeaky ): "Delivery Man." Woman: "Look, I didn't order anything and if you think I'm going to open this door, you're crazy, now beat it." ( Pause ) Voice ( high and squeaky ): "Delivery Man." Woman ( exasperated ) opens the door. Woman: "AAUURRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!." CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP Who says a pair of jaws has to be in water. Love it.

*The Torture Thread Sports Line* A short note to the eponymous one and Dallas fan extraordinaire: How are you, *Frank*, long time no talk. Baseball season is an eternity while the football season seems to whiz by. Both the Cowboys and the Chargers must win this final week to gain the playoffs. The Charger situation is laughable. They've had a miserable year and have trailed Denver the whole season, by as many as three games at one point, yet somehow find themselves in a position to advance if they beat Denver this Sunday. Neither of these teams are playoff caliber, to be sure. If the Chargers win, unless I'm mistaken, they will be fourth seed by virtue of being a Division winner (with a 8-8 record) and will host the wild card with the best record, which will be the Colts, 12-4 if they win Sunday. What a joke! (Unless they've changed the rule, allowing the Colts to be at home by virtue of a better record). I haven't followed Dallas real closely but you don't have to what with all the controversy, haha, but it's been a bit rocky, I know that. I thought they were back to form a couple of weeks ago with that impressive win over the Giants. I didn't see the Baltimore game but was surprised they lost. They are clearly better than the Chargers and will have a much better chance of advancing if they get in. The game with the Eagles is gonna be tough. Well, good luck, my friend, I wouldn't mind seeing Dallas get in there.

Lou Gehrig grounding into only three double plays was just too much for me to believe so I had to look it up. What I found was even more amazing. It turns out he only did it TWICE (EDIT: Oops, I see you said only two times below, ok), and if that were not enough, both times came in that last year, 1939, when we was so ill he had only 28 at bats! That means in all those years when he was healthy, from 1923-1938, he NEVER GROUNDED INTO A DOUBLE PLAY AT ALL!! That has to be one of the most remarkable sleeper stats of all time. For a lark, I looked up Mickey Mantle, another power hitter, and who, despite chronic knee problems, was a speed demon, and found that he hit into 163 DPs in his 15-year career. Whoa, Lou, you are are amazing? http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=gehrilo01 Speaking of Joe Dimaggio, he also has quite an unusual and near unbelievable stat. He hit 361 lifetime homers while striking out only 369 times. That near one-on-one ratio is strains credibility, but it's true! Most home run hitters strike out a lot, Mantle and Ruth are good examples. Contact hitters who are also long ball hitters are rare, and Dimaggio was one of them. Still, the majority of those do not have that kind of ratio. No wonder the great Dimaggio still has that 56-game hitting streak, you gotta make contact with the ball before you can hit safely. Message was edited by: laffite

Daly's sometimes lengthy and sometimes tortured explanations on why or why not a question should or should not be allowed was just another thing to enjoy on this show.

...and she practically caused a scandal with her "Let's Do It." No one was as earthy and Eartha. Adieu, we'll still be listening.

*33* *"Yeah, the bike has a flat, I'll fix it later. Right now I want to brush up on my CPR."* ///

*I will not answer you...not because I don't want to, but because I don't want to get in trouble!* I think you are exercising excellent judgment here (who says the young are not wise!). We don't want the Madame to make you sit in the corner. Not that I am any better. When I was in the Fifth grade my teacher was so exasperated with me she said, "I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING DRASTIC WITH YOU!" This is no big deal nowadays but realize that this was a time when Fifth graders were still afraid of their teachers. I don't remember what she did but I must have survived, much to the chagrin of everyone who has ever known me. Okay, no more OT, Madame Maven, Maitresse d'Ecole extraordinaire, je vous le promis... Continuons!

Actually I AM Michael Parks. But don't tell anyone please. Otherwise people will keep thinking I'm Charles Bronson. I tell you, I can't even walk into a coffee shop anymore.

I can't get youtube but I remember seeing Carol Channing on WML and was on the floor laughing. See if you can find it. She was hilarious when she disguised her voice in the lower registers, then she decided to go high. Oh, Carol, why did you do that? You had them on the run.

*I was thinking how amazing Tyrone would have been in the Ameche role.* Boy, could I take than one apart, whoa! Tyrone playing that role, ho ho? But... ...Our Maven Extraordinaire has expressly decreed that all such OT discussions are verboten so my brilliant analysis will just have to wait. Okay, okay, CineM, I'm leaving, I'm leaving...now where's the principal's office again?

They should have consulted ME. One day on 1985 I was sitting in a coffee shop in Columbus Circle and was taken for CharlesB by three young fellers across the way. They were so excited. One of them finally came over and stopped short seeing that I was no such person. My 15 minutes of fame concluded at that moment. But at least I knew then why people used to get nervous when they saw me on the subway, heh heh.

*Is that all you can say?* *I think hanging around with the Coop girls has been getting to you.* I might be better off somehow if I DID hang out with the Coop girls, but I don?t (except for one of them who also happens to be a Smithy girl and a Darcy girl) though in another way I?m better off NOT hanging out with the Coop girls since I think that Gary is rather awkward and somewhat of a goofball while Tyrone is just plain dull at times though he can snap out of it on occasion (don?t tell Butterscotchgreer I said that about Gary because not only is she a Smithy girl and a Darcy girl but I?m led to believe that she is, hopelessly, a Coop girl as well ). Of course Gary and Tyrone are IMMENSELY popular around here which might give you a clue of how much Laffite knows, i.e., fort peu de chose, which is French for not a whole lot. But I do know and I don?t want to give anything away that Tyrone is not helped in The Rains Came because he is asked to play a rather dull character. Fortunately for him something happens to his character (in the form of a certain Myrna) that forces him to break out of his dullness and actually be not dull for a change, which is another way of saying that he becomes quite good at the end of this picture. So there is hope for him at least though I?m not sure the same can be said for Gary (who I shamelessly imitated in my previous response to you) though this notion is belied by his gazillion fans, much to my chagrin. If it?s possible, IRLM, that you have not as yet noticed Tyrone?s dullness, it is probably because you are a girl and have been swept away by his winning good looks.

*Excuse me? "Mr. Bland"?* Yep.

*So did anyone like my suggestion of The Rains Came ? So far nobody seems to like it * I like it. A movie in which Mryna gets to call George a ... ,,,windbag. And it's very funny too. You can see ole George (that rake Ransome) doesn't think too much of it. This is a fine movie. It's available on Netflix, A nice surprise is Brenda Joyce, the other half of a seemingly unlikely couple (she'll be sorry ---not a spoiler). As far as Tyrone is concerned...well, he's Tyrone. He's Mr Bland but gets better. ILRM, I would post a Tyrone for you, but I don't have a good one. Here's a good one of Miss Joyce though. laffite

That couldn't be me. First of all, he's not as good looking as I am. And secondly, I don't go out with girls who are older than 112. That's my limit, although she looks pretty good for 403. Come to think of it, I might check out a few books with her. Or did Librarian3 have anything to do with books? As usual, out-of-the-mainstream laffite doesn't know what the hip Butterscotch is talking about. I don't care for vampire movies although I am a little partial to vamps. Of course they didn't mention Lucy Van Pelt. They didn't want to ruin the whole movie.

*hey johnny on the spot!* Hey greergirl extrraordinaire *cute smiley! i love it!* Glad you loved it. *well you know, my junior moments must be coming from all those fake machete fights. im all tuckered out....i be helen and greer will come help me! ill have less junior moments then. heehee!* Uh, helen and greer are busy. You?ll just have to fend for yourself?junior moments and all. *i never underthink! what is this thou is accusing moi of?! * Underthinking can be a good thing. It means that in some cases simplicity rules. The cessation of overthinking opens a new door. *yup, during the series, they constantly talk about Sicily, especially Sophia, Dorothy's Ma, before they came to Brooklyn. they always joke about silly things that make me laugh so hard! actually, i think in one episode Sophia pretended she was the "Godfather" or godmother if you will. that was a cute one! i could definitely see Bea Arthur doing that. how funny!* Ohhh, that?s Dorothy. She was a golden girl. Laffite?s been to sea too much. Don?t even know the Golden Girls. Maybe we should get cable installed aboard ship. That we can drink rummy and watch all those senior moments on the GG. *I have tickets for Rigoletto coming up in Apri* *wow! fancy!....maybe this a bad time to mention how early in advance i got my tickets to go see Carol Burnett when she comes to Austin. heehee!.....dont worry i seem to feel a junior moment coming on.* Maybe they have pills for junior moments. Have you thought of seeing your doctor? When is Carol going down to Austin? *actually there was this one time where i was in one of my team leagues and we were in a big competition and on the last game we were tied with another team unless i rolled 3 strikes on my last frame and i did it, and my team mates and i were so excited and we were jumping up and down and there was always this one grouchy man sitting in the bowling alley behind all of us, and he would always watch us do everything and he finally stood up and shouted, "KEEP IT DOWN YOU LOUSY KIDS!!" it was so funny, but i was so scarred by his voice, that i had this shocking look on my face and my coach went up to him and said, "will you be quiet and let the kids have a fun time, you grouch?!" then she turned back to us and said, "carry on darlings".....it was a rather humorous moment.* Wow, what a hero you are? Three strikes in a row! And to win the match too! That makes up for all those junior moments. Why did your coach call you all ?darlings.? Is that the name of the team. Gee, I can?t think of any other reason she might call you that. *maybe that grouch and Harriet should get together and take lucy along for kicks. heehee!* Oh, what a gruesome threesome that would make. Maybe they?ll go to Sicily and get rubbed out. I don?t think they should be allowed to go into bowling alleys though?especially when the Darlings are playing. *I?ll check with my sources in Hollywood. Would you like to play the title role or should we get someone to play you? What young actress could play you, do you think?* *i doubt very dubiously that anyone would like to play me silly.* Why not, silly? You made three strikes in a row, you ace math tests, you are a greergirl extraordinaire, your car gets broken into, you have a valiant history with a fake machete, and last but not least, you have an I love lucy purse. Why, this is the stuff of great biopics. Who can we get to play you? *A strong girl pirate? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Oh, excuse me, ahem, you mean there?s such at thing as that.* *i already proved it so there! you cant trip me up with your vicious words. heehee!* How did you prove it? You?ll have to prove it again. When I am deprived of my rummy that you hid I have middlin moments and don?t remember a thing. *I think you should take your fake machete to Guess. You can wave it menacingly in the air. They?ll give you three or four just to get rid of you.* *what kind of a female pirate do you take me for? im an innocent one* Honestly, greery, I think you should go in the joke writing business. *who only uses her fake machete for good not evil* My foot! Take Laffite?s rummy, for instance?which is what you did. Do you think that?s good, for heaven?s sake. Why don?t you be a good greery and give it back so I can get soused and watch the golden girls. *when certain dirty piarets want to dance around a camp fire with their rummy!* How can I dance around the campfire with my rummy when you took it. *actually i think she had a machete in the movie on the island when she was cutting down grass and vines, but who's looking anyway.* I?m looking Well, it was probably a fake machete, what else can you expect from a girl. *heehee! oh were not that bad, just because im clumsy, doesnt make every other girl clumsy! goodness!* Well, you?re not too clumsy, you bowled three strikes in a row. If you were clumsy, you have thrown at least one gutter ball. Have you ever thrown a gutter ball? *Oh scotcho, oh scotcho, the rum stealer supreme* *Once again up to her wiley ways* *No consequences will laffite take* *For difficult to find will he it make,* *The Wiley One shall seek all the days* *But for to find will be but a forlorn hope and dream* *johnny on the spot stole the rummy* *so it tickled his tummy* *if only if only he hadnt taken one sip to many* *he'll be gone it he isnt careful* *johnny oh johnny i promise ill hide the fake machete* *if youll only stop blaming me for your halucinations.* *....heehee!* No tummy does laffite?s rummy tickle For the hand of fate so fickle As it is, the joy of spirits supreme is denied Wandering the land far and wide His rum to find, oh what a pickle To be bereft, no rum or wine to imbibe. Yes, the Wiley One is to blame What need to hallucinate If wine and rum were here to sate Those who would run around fire?s flame. *i just quote the best, which lizzy happens to be prodigiously so. just because lizzy can beat mr. darcy with a bow and arrow doesnt mean she's butterscotchin' him up. she's being herself, i mean if she let him win, he would be accustomed to being spoiled even around his true love, and as Lady Catherine DeBourgh says, "she right for you darcy, you need someone who wont be afraid to stand up to you...i think you've found her." she's quite right you know! otherwise, who else would stand up to Darcy?* But she should be clever enough to let him win without him knowing. You know how you girls are. You?re very good at rank deception and can wrap the likes of a Darcy around your pinkies just like that. And Lady Catharine DeBourgh should know that Darcy doesn?t want a girl who stands up to him. He wants a girl that will grovel at his feet. He would have much better off marrying one of Lizzie?s wimpy little sisters. Then he could be King of the Hill. And if Mr and Mrs Bennet can?t find a husband for Lizzie, they could drown her, just like they said they should have done. *It?s cause I want you to make an historical speech (not hysterical) that will be quoted extensively by everybody in the whole world for all time. That?s not asking too much, is it?* *oh gee, let me think.....* Are you underthinking or overthinking? *well i dont think Lucy Van Pelt would succomb to anyone or anything, that is unless Shroeder finally declares his love for her so she can melt in his arms and she wont shout LIKE THIS! anymore....its all for the better, if Shroeder and her get together, she wont be so annoying hopefully anymore.* Uh, I don?t think so. To all of that. I think you?ve been watching too many Smithy movies. *Here, take my handkerchief.* *dont ever lend me your hanky unless you want it wet when i give it back to you. every hanky frankie has lent me, i have used to much when watching my Paula and Smithy, that it never dried b/c i cry so much. heehee!* Well, me and ?Frankie? are tired having you ruin all our hankies. If I were your life coach I would order you to watch RH once a week instead of every other day. After all we?re tired all havin? all our hankies ruined ?cause some greergirl keeps mushin? im up with all that sappy crying. Geez, hankies don?t grow on trees, and we?re in a tough economy. *didnt you know that it was a magical cottage and they made it just appear there for them, b/c its a happily ever after sort of thing...* I know it only too well. *well until disatster strikes then, but that doesnt come yet!* Oh, there?s gonna be a sequel? And there?s going to be a disaster. Well, maybe finally it?ll get interesting. *lucy van pelt will never grabe their special little cottage away from them! why the thought of that happening is treachorous!* As well as horribobble. Well, they can always go sit under a tree where he can ask her to marry him. Even though he doesn?t know who he is. *i dont think we have another speech to give though, next week is the last week of the semester and i got a really good grade on my other speech* Well, will it go down as one of the great orations of our time. I mean that?s fine if it was good but what I want to know is will it go down as one of the great orations of all time. Anybody can get a B- on a speech but will the children of the 24th century have to recite it in school. Will they have to memorize it till their sick to the death of it because it?s so gald dang good, that?s what I want to know. *my bowling? i have been in lots of leagues with teams and some by myself. i liked it best with my team though, b/c it was more fun that way. my best team was called A Lady and the Gentz, b/c i was the only girl on the team.* Well, that?s a cute name for a team but just for the record I would never be on a team if there was a girl on it. Even though she did bowl a 210 and I only can bowl 149. I could have bowled a 210 too but I just didn?t want to. *we won first place in the league that year. my highest game was a 210, by sheer luck and chance. but i usually bowl a straight throw, and you have better chances of getting strikes with a curve so im gradually trying to place a hook in my throw and it isnt easy. oy! but its fun.* No, I think you deserved that 210. 210s are not luck and chance. You must be very good (for a girl.) Good luck on your hook. Most girls throw straight balls because, you know, they?re girls, but other more advanced girls (there are only a few) can develop curves (although many have them already) but I think that you will succeed because any girl who can bowl a 210 has a certain control that you need to throw a good hook. *where did you go on this fantastic journey? Madagascar? ooh where? did you bring back any treasure? i bet you didnt find the rummy yet.* To heck and back, dodgin? slings and arrows of that proverbial and outrageous fortune. Oh yes, much treasure, which I?ve tradin? in for enough doubloons to afford cable ?cause I want to watch the golden girls and reruns of RH. Also, I want to subscribe to the Bowling Channel. *adieu johnny on the spot!* adieu Miss Three in a Row

*hey johnny on the spot!!!* *looky i found proof of female pirates!!! go helen!* Heavens to murgatroyd de burgos, greer- and helengirl supreme, where do you find this stuff! So now you think this proves that girls make good pirates. Humph! What it does show is that they make cute pirates. Helen really looks good in these pictures. Cute smile but sorry, that attempt to look fierce is sadly lacking. Laffite and his band of pirates extraordinaire would find this light work. By the way, that is not a fake sword. It's a real sword and if you look closely it's stuck in Helen's leg. She's trying to be cool about it but you can see it hurts like the dickens. Boy, is she gonna tan his hide when they get home.

Off the top, I'm remembering how bad I thought Gable was playing Parnell and I caught glimpses of Jack Nicholson as Hoffa and didn't think too much of that either although I may not have given this last a better chance. The actor who should play historical figures must be able to shed their comfortable screen personas and actually be somebody. Some actors are criticized for simply playing themselves in every role and they might not fare well. Forgive my terrible recall but that fine actor (help!) who played Ghandi is a stellar example of what it takes fill the bill. I think you have to almost be an "actor's actor" to do these difficult roles because it generally requires technique, mere image won't do it.

*bonjour and welcome back, Lafitte!* Merci beaucoup! I am quite busy these days and may not be quite back as yet, but getting there. *Maybe Marilyn needn't have relied so much on* *the Studio, she evidently was capable of coming* *up with the goods. Poor thing, she just didn't* *have enough self-confidence.* Perhaps, but there is no doubt that the Studio helped her a lot. Maybe this was what she needed to gain that self confidence. I don't think she could have done Bus Stop so well without it, for instance. Or the Misfits. There was never any doubt about her comedic talents, she had that from the get go. But she wanted desperately to be a dramatic actress. Don't Bother To Knock was a real nice coup for her in retrospect but at the time I don't think she was given much credit for it. She wanted to do the Studio and prove herself.