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A thread should be done on Hemingway the Ken Burns documentary was very good as usual.I was a bit disappointed that it all ended with a bang....more info on the family or on his exes would have been interesting.His son Gregory got operated to become a woman in 1995 and everything got complicated. Mary Welsh was the best looking wife of the 4 imo.She had a firm trim body all her life,i find her very attractive and sexy.Hemingway should have considered himself very lucky to have such a quality woman as a wife.He was too drunk most of the time to appreciate her i guess..Hemingway pursued Slim Keith while she was married to Howard Hawks.

You've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it. Groucho Marx

THE ANGEL WITH THE TRUMPET 1950 by Anthony Bushell with Eileen Herlie Maria Schell Basil Sydney Oskar Werner Set in 1880's Austria ,this is the 50 years saga of an Austrian family,interesting film but Basil Sydney is totally miscast,good acting.The uncredited narrator is Jack Hawkins with his unmistakable voice I do not know if this movie was ever shown on TCM.. 6.5/10

The Long Dark Hall 1951 directed by Reginald Beck & Anthony Bushell. with Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Anthony Dawson .Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson,.A crime drama developped by Universal for Eddie Robinson then it was sold to a UK producer.An ok movie but what is quite surprising is the subject : an unfaithful husband is the last person to have seen his murdered mistress.On the heels of Carole Landis's suicide....in 1948.Palmer was married to Rex in real life she also went to the funeral with Harrison.Just before Harrison had made only 1 film Unfaithfully Yours with Preston Sturges and it died at the box office in part because of the scandal. Harrison left Hollywood for a while.I think this one was barely released in America.A movie imitating real life events,Harrison hates the film and my question is why he and Palmer did it then? They obviously knew the screenplay... Anthony Dawson does a great performance as the villain-again- he later played the hired killer in Dial M for Murder,always cast as a villain he was a very good actor, he deserved bigger roles.I do not know if this movie was ever shown on TCM 6.5/10

I have the same dilemna since i have seen it first run...

Bertrand Tavernier died today on the 25th of March.He was a very important French director .lemonde.fle-realisateur-bertrand-tavernier-est-mort_

Robert Ryan was a boxing champion in College and won a championship title while he was in the Marines,It helped him a lot while filming Golden Gloves , his first major film.Nobody was buggIng Robert Ryan but he was a peaceful quiet man a real champ...

Actor Yaphet Kotto died on March 15th. He was 81. variety.com yaphet-kotto-dead-dies-alien-bond-villain-

hwww.nytimes.comFsally-grossman-dead Sally Grossman died on March 10th, she was on the cover of the classic Bob Dylan album' Bringing it all back home. She was the widow of Albert Grossman who managed Dylan many years.

I do not know if they will be elected . Here are my choices: Carole King as a composer writer Kate Bush would be a long shot:she never toured and had a relative success in the USA but she is a worthwhile artist.Todd Rundgren is a good composer and a very good producer,since 1968.Iron Maiden should be inducted,formed in 1976,recording since 1980.Extremely influential band (Metallica among many others) they still have incredible success worldwide i.e. selling out soccer stadiums until the pandemic hit the world. Steve Harris the bass player and founding member is a very big influence on new generations of bass players since 1980 & the era of video.

Christopher Lloyd looks like the twin brother of the deceased Motorhead's bass player Lemmy minus the long hair

Caroline Cellier died of cancer in Paris on December 15th 2020. She was in many films including the very good L'Année des Méduses 1984 .She was the widow of French actor and playwright Jean Poiret.She was 75..https://www.lemonde.fl-actrice-caroline-cellier-est-morte_

I do not see the name of Claude Chabrol here often.A great director and very prolific.I'am on a binge right now finishing his complete filmography with 7 to go all later period,i Had seen many before on the silver screen but i'am a completist... a real master

A great actor he was a memorable Sherlock Holmes with another great James Mason as an intelligent Watson in Murder by Decree in 1978,i have seen it when first released.Plummer and Mason were a remarquable duo,he was great in many roles recently in Barrymore and in Remember with Martin Landau.

I watched a rare showing of Le Dernier Tournant 1939 with Michel Simon & Fernand Gravey several months ago,it is the first filmed version of The Postman Always Rings Twice,it is very good and would be very interesting to show,TCM should be able to get it.

French Actor &director Robert Hossein died on December 31, he turned 93 the day before.From pulmonary problems. Robert Hossein, acteur et metteur en scène de la démesure, est mort (lemonde.fr)

Guitar player Bob Kulick died on May 28th from heart disease.He was the partner of actress Stella Stevens.In early 2015, she and partner Bob Kulick sold her longtime home in Beverly Hills. She is now in a long-term Alzheimer's care facility in Los Angeles and Kulick often visited her there until his death on May 28, 2020.He was mostly a session player with various performers like Kiss,Lou Reed.Meatloaf etc. htwww.foxnews.com%2Fentertainment%2Fbob-kulick-kiss-guitarist-dead

Wanda Nevada from 1979 Peter directed,if i remember well his father had a very small role

Bogie you are reviving souvenirs...Mountain was my 2nd attended rock concert.1st was 10 years after 2 months before.Mylon Lefevre was opening,this was on June 18th 1971 at Place des Nations in Montreal (former EXPO site) a summer under the stars serie for $2 a show .a great place open air,in summer 71 i saw also ELP,Humble Pie with Frampton (he quit soon after)Procol Harum.I did not care about Black Sabbath -even for $2!! I regret very much not going to the last show of the series in early september The Allman Brothers with Duane Allman... he died the following month-i did not know them as well as the others,i have never met anybody who was at the final show.Back to Mountain,i saw the 4 piece line-up with Knight on keyboards,they were supporting their real 2nd lp Nantucket Sleighride,the week after the Montreal show they played the Fillmore where the live side of their lp Flowers of Evil was recorded. Mountain were talented musicoans making 'intelligent noise' unlike Grand Funk Railroad & other less talented bands.Pappardi is playing the viola on Cream's White Room.He played many instruments , had a unique bass sound,Mountain was very loud no wonder he developed a severe earring problem.My only complain of him as a producer for Cream he should had let the boys loose at the end of Sunshine of love,Cream was a jamming band,too bad tapes were not done ,the limiting length of lps prevented the inclusion.Strangely enough Cream were the last shows i have seen,in 2005 i went to NYC to catch their last 2 of 3 special concerts at MSG.I fullfilled an old dream as i was way too young when they originally split.Gail Collins shot Pappalardi,got only a few years in jail-i was very surprised then when I learned it .She did also all the lps artwork.

Cela me fais plaisir..Ernest Hemingway was the godfather of Claude Brasseur I forgot to mention it...

Then i guess Bette knew of good sources what was going on at MGM....

After Irving Thalberg died,Norma Shearer was i would say a 'merry widow' for several years in a competition with La Crawford it seemed, Well Bette Davis(i think) said the only male star Crawford was not involved at MGM was Lassie ! Lassie was a female though,Bette probably did not know this

Excellent French actor Claude Brasseur died on December 22 in Paris (not of Covid) at 84,he acted in more than 80 films,he will be resting next to his father legendary actor of stage & screen Pierre Brasseur. www.ledevoir.comdeces-du-comedien-francais-claude-brasseur

About The Burglar nobody mentionned the horrendous music score by Sol Kaplan it was way too loud and constant like in a serie z movie. The editor was surely deaf and did not care about the dialogue, i found it very irritating ,Duryea was very good as always but giving him 35 was a bit funny.

Pete Way influential hard rock bassist died on august 14th. Founding member of the UK group UFO was a major influence on Iron Maiden's bass player Steve Harris style and stage performance.Way died just ten weeks after his former UFO bandmate and guitarist Paul Chapman, and one year after keyboardist Paul Raymond, www.express.co.uk%2Fcelebrity-news%2F1323081%2Fpete-way-dead-death-UFO-band-lights-out-ozzy-osbourne-