JackFavell Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of Beryl Mercer when the name was attached to this storm! Did you hear her whine "Tommy.... Tommy....." amongst the rain and thunder as she passed by......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 LOL!!!!! Makes me long for Ma Jarrett... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 > {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Moio sudno na vozdusnoy poduske polno ugrey. > No, wait a minute, I think that means "my hovercraft is full of eels"... My, My! You have had a crab-puppy, a soot sprite and slithy toves plaguing your existence and now eels. I wonder what you did in a previous life to warrant such things in this life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted May 31, 2012 Author Share Posted May 31, 2012 I'm still searching for the crabpuppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I hope all here will watch *A Man and a Woman* (1966) on TCM Imports. I am every anxious to read your comments on this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I hope that all here watched *A Man and a Woman* (1966) last night! I find this movie very moving. It is unusual in how deeply it explores how their past affects their present. I identify with the characters very strongly as I know that if I had lived that life I would be the same as them now. The ending is so perfect! It is so poignant I nearly always nearly cry before the last minute and then I do cry as it ends but it a happy cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Bonjour, *B-Girl* I believe a while back you mentioned Bette Davis in *A Stolen Life*. I just found this "version" which I thought you would enjoy: P.S. *Sansfin*, *Un Homme et Une Femme* is one of my favorite foreign language films. I love the music, and the whole mood captured so exquisitely. Anouk Aimee was so stylish. I remember when she was the YSL "muse", appearing in magazine ads. It was the first time I had seen or heard of her, and later I discovered her movies. By the way, one of her first ones is being released by Warner Archives, it's also my favorite Yul Brynner movie: *The Journey.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 OMG! Harvey Korman has stolen Glenn Ford's hair! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 That was hilarious, MissG. I miss Carol B. and her movie spoofs so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 > {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > Anouk Aimee was so stylish. I remember when she was the YSL "muse", appearing in magazine ads. I expected much when I watched this movie the first time and I found it much more than I had dared to hope. I loved Claude Lelouch's technique of storytelling in *Une fille et des fusils* (1965). I knew Jean-Louis Trintignant well from *Les liaisons dangereuses* (1959) which I watched each night for a week and in the odd *Chateau en Suede* (1963). I knew Anouk Aimee only from *8 1/2* (1963) and *Of Flesh and Blood* (1963). I believe this story by this director with these actors is one of the few perfect blendings in movie history. Francis Lai's music truly put this movie over the top. "As our voices sing softly, our hearts see it as an opportunity, as a hope." Is there any person who has not heard it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Hi, Sans. I could kick myself for missing A MAN AND A WOMAN. Things have been a bit depressing on the home front lately. A beloved aunt recently passed -- the wife of my late Uncle George, who you may remember looked like Alan Hale, Jr. on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. My family is shrinking every moment, although thank heavens Mom is still doing relatively well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Bonjour, Goddess! I've never seen that Burnett spoof, and just love it, merci! (especially the giant light bulb, lol) I love the way Harvey captures the pipe-smoking essence of Glenn Ford in that role, ha! Now I want to see all the parodies from the show. Carol loves movies so much; she's the ultimate fan. Am I the only one who thinks Bogie looked handsomer with white face powder when he played those early psychos in THE RETURN OF DR. X, CONFLICT, and THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS, lol? Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 10, 2012 6:44 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I'm glad Carol gave you a smile. I'm very sorry to hear about your aunt, cherie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYtFdYwZpeA or, with subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2y2mNXjas&feature=relmfu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Thank you so much, Miss G. My Aunt Elaine was one of the kindest people I have ever known. Can't thank you enough for those links to A MAN AND A WOMAN! I'll watch the one with the subtitles. I woke up one night late with the television on and there was Anouk with Omar, but unfortunately I immediately fell back to sleep again. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 10, 2012 6:43 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Barb, My condolences on your Aunt Elaine. Glad to hear that BronxMom is doing well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I am very sorry for your loss. I hope she will remain alive in your heart and in your thoughts for many years. We would always gather and talk of the person who has passed. My mother remembered every embarrassing moment of each person in her family. She would say: "the dead do not blush". It is sad to say that she was the last of her generation in her family and there was no one to speak of her moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Thank you so much, Lynn. Elaine and George were a real team in their marriage (over 50 years) and now they're together again. I always called her Aunt Melanie in my heart, because she always thought about everybody but herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Thanks, Sans. "The dead do not blush" -- I think my mother would agree with that, lol. Mom still talks about the idiosyncratic ways of some deceased family members, especially her brother-in-law, who was probably the world's most cautious driver. Every time my mother spies a slow car on the road, she says: "Doesn't he remind you of Uncle Irving?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I learned that my uncle had used film stock to tie a girl to a bed. He was then careless with a candle and the film stock caught on fire and her wrist was badly burned. He then had to set a fire in his darkroom so that her husband and his wife would believe that it was an accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Geez, I'm sorry and horrified to hear this. Talk about family skeletons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 > {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Geez, I'm sorry and horrified to hear this. Talk about family skeletons. My mother's stories on those days were not for the faint-of-heart! It made us laugh because it was so perfectly the type of thing that he would have happen to him. There was no situation he could not make worse and yet find an excuse people would nearly believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 > {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > The larger the family the greater the number of 'skeletons' in closets of the past. Generally speaking, of course. My mother had three brothers and four sisters. I believe each of them had to work very hard each day to appear sane. I loved them all! My uncle was at the house of a friend when the police entered. He took an envelope out of his pocket and went to the highest-ranking officer. He slipped the envelope into the officer's pocket while saying: "I have done nothing illegal. I have no foreign currency on my person now." The embarrassing thing is that the police were there to look for a son of the family and they would not have searched any of them. My uncle's "coolness" cost him a good year's wages in Swiss Francs and prompted them to search the house and all the people in it for contraband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 More Cote D'Azur: This area looks very touristy -- I can't handle crowds, so I might have to go in the winter, lol. It looks like a good base, although my number one pick for that is still Bar-Sur-Loup. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 20, 2012 12:46 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Barb, Even in the winter you would probably still need your Bain de Soleil. I can't believe I spelled that right on the first try! My memory isn't so cheesy after all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 LOL! I don't even HAVE a memory anymore, Lynn. Here's a beautiful antidote to the more commercial aspects of Port Grimaud (the Disneyland-ish tram, plus who knew there was a Marineland in the South of France? No, thanks!) You can practically breath the 15th century watching this video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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