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Oh, I can't let that go unchallenged. I think it is a great choice. Certainly no other script ever had more great lines. And don't be concerned. Third Man came in at around #33 or #38. That's still a nice little respectable number.

WGA is Writers Guild of America

Here are the top ten: 1. "Casablanca" 2. "The Godfather" 3. "Chinatown" 4. "Citizen Kane" 5. "All About Eve" 6. "Annie Hall" 7. "Sunset Boulevard" 8. "Network" 9. "Some Like It Hot" 10. "The Godfather II"

> some enthusiasm you guys show Um, yay? No, actually, I am very happy to see this list and will be getting a set.

Path40a, I know voting is closing in a few hours (I hope some more people will still get theirs in), but I wanted to say thanks - and I am sure the others will add theirs, too - for organizing this. It was great and I can hardly wait for the next one.

I have several in my collection, too, and was surprised to find out they had special editions for a number of films of the Thirties and Forties, too. GWTW is often advertised on eBay, but I was able to get some good items, too, like Stage Door Canteen and others. Broadway theaters do a lot of this for plays and musicals. I find if you look carefully, you can get some really good things others pass over entirely. Most theatre collectors want Playbills and programs of recent hit shows and pay lots for them if they are hot. But they will ignore important pieces of history in doing so. For example, while people were paying high prices for Wicked stuff, I got a real find, a Broadway Playbill for about $18 of Petrified Forest (the play version) with Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard. And for about half that recently, I bought a group of Playbills, one of which was for a show featuring an actor named Archie Leach. That one, I turned around and sold to someone else. You can occasionally find nice autographed programs of people like Judith Anderson, Helen Hayes, and other film stars form the past for reasonable prices. I have a few programs signed by Katherine Cornell I picked up for a song, and one special piece about 11x14 that is the original artwork that accompanied an out of town newspaper's theater news. It is a group drawing of headshots of Laurence Olivier, Katherine Cornell, and Margalo Gillmore, all from "No Time for Comedy". And it has been autographed by the artist and all three stars, which the artist obviously got after it was printed because the signatures are not in the printed newspaper that I got with it.

Also, Paul Newman had a lot of resemblance at the time of the early Fifties, and let's not forget Burt Reynolds (see the Twilight Zone episode where he imitates Brando) and maybe even Vic Morrow.

Well, I'm stuck. Been working on it for two days and still coming up with nothing. I've tried connections to Genevieve Bujold, Richard Burton, Charles Laughton, Tim Curry, and getting nowhere. lol, and it is getting very hard to look at some clues here at work because anyone looking over my shoulder sees things like "transsexual" and "crossdresser", etc., and heaven knows what they are thinking. What ever happened to regular roles?

Actually, there's no reason why she shouldn't be one choice. She fills out the two most important requirements: 1. she was born in Canada and 2. she's dead.

There is a truly wonderful film coming up at the end of April, Cinema Paridiso.

Funny, I was watching the new DVD release of Stalag 17 the other day and the actors doing the commentary mentioned that Brand was a war hero. Something about machine gunning like 25 of the enemy or something.

Dang, I guess that means I didn't, either. Not even one of the John Wayne sets. Ah, well, someone is going to get a nice package of things.

That's probably "On the Beach."

I don?t know if someone has mentioned it on another thread but Canada is giving Fay Wray a stamp on May 26th, as part of a series of four ?Canadians in Hollywood.? The painting is of Fay Wray as Ann Darrow and in the background is King Kong on the Empire State Building fighting the airplanes. At this time, it is unknown who the other three will be, but it is likely that the four stamps will consist of two men and two women. That said, I am guessing that the other woman will be Mary Pickford. One of the men will probably be Lorne Greene and my guess for the last will be John Candy. We can have a game for the next few days. Who do you think the three will be? Let?s set the deadline as April 12th, and then I will check back in to see who is closest when the official announcement of all four is made

Well, there will be 9 things of L&H on in a few days.

There are a number of books you can probably get from the library about gangsters in the movies. And, in a way, gangsters go back to the first real story film, The Great Train Robbery, except they were called outlaws in the Wild West. There are also connections to gangsters in real life and to the film industry. One thing that comes immediately to mind is that John Dillinger was killed as he came out of Manhattan Melodrama. And I recall something about Bugsy Siegel was involved in filmmaking.

Sorry, "message" board, not "mesage" board. It's not quite 7 AM here on the west coast, and my eyes are half-closed, and it's obvious the other half wants to join them.

CharlieT, Thank you so much for your vote, and believe me it is not lowly. The great thing about this TCM mesage board is that we all bring something great to it, and that is a love of movies. And with almost fifty years of movie watching, I still learn something every day from someone else here. As long as you care about movies, you are completely qualified, Charlie.

I do double up on some approx 90-min films to fit in the 3 hr slot. Generally, though, they are just films I would like to have for the collection, but not classics that deserve the best quality. Things like real classics go on the very best speed I can do. That being said, however, I will double up on Garbo and Eddy & MacDonald, for example, just because I'd like to have them but they are not an essential; still some consider them classics.

lol, I know I am stirring up a hornet's nest here because here I am in Widmark Country and I feel like the wagon train surrounded by the Indians. I guess I like Widmark but I am not crazy about him, except for Kiss of Death.

But, hey, there was a Widmark film on TCM just the other day.

My first love as a kid was Ann-Margret in State Fair (I know it is an abysmal film, but I was about six when it came out and there was Annie. Sigh.

aaaaahhhhh, Ann-Margret....

I have been waiting for Kiss of Death, too. I wonder if it is tied up by AMC because I saw it running on there awhile ago.

Rear Window? Though I can't think of any mirrors.