Noir Alley

[Bronxgirl48]

23 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:

No !  I hate teddy bears  !  I can't stand what I see as contrived cutesiness !  Also,  I've noticed that they're always offered at the site of accidents etc., as though a frigging teddy bear is going to assuage the relatives' grief at the death of their family member . 

I never even liked them as a kid.  Now, all that said,  one of my sons did have a "stuffie" which he carried around with him for a while as a little kid, and which I did actually like.  But that was a Bugs Bunny "stuffie", not a cutesy teddy bear.

I know exactly what you mean about what has sometimes been called "grief porn" re: the profusion of flowers, stuffed animals and the like being placed at public sites and private mourning places.   Not sure but I think it started with the death of Princess Diana.   I am put off by it all myself.

But I do love teddy bears on their own.   They have to be more the vintage kind, or at the least not overly precious because I don't care for that either.   Just simple, sweet  and cuddly.

I think I've mentioned on this board that I've had impure thoughts about Bugs Bunny.

[cigarjoe]

5 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:

No !  I hate teddy bears  !  I can't stand what I see as contrived cutesiness !  Also,  I've noticed that they're always offered at the site of accidents etc., as though a frigging teddy bear is going to assuage the relatives' grief at the death of their family member . 

I never even liked them as a kid.  Now, all that said,  one of my sons did have a "stuffie" which he carried around with him for a while as a little kid, and which I did actually like.  But that was a Bugs Bunny "stuffie", not a cutesy teddy bear.

[Bronxgirl48]

2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

The Village Gate was a real beatnik place and I'm sure all the entertainment was also  the real deal while the stuff in BB&C was all Hollywood.  

Yep!  Host to many iconic jazz celebrities.   I never got down there myself, though.

[TomJH]

2 hours ago, BingFan said:

Does anyone know whether Eddie’s prime time introduction of Lady on a Train from last Saturday, Dec. 11, is available for viewing, and, if so, where?

I’m a fan of that movie and would love to hear what Eddie had to say about it.  Unfortunately, I missed it (obviously).

Thanks!

This won't mean much to any American posters here but any Canadian ones (particularly those from Ontario) may be interested to know that Elwy Yost, who hosted Saturday Night at the Movies for 25 years on TV Ontario, had a "thing" for Deanna Durbin. I can't quite remember now how he worded it but when I met him once during the '80s he made reference to Durbin in Lady on a Train, saying that she grew into a very lovely lady. He almost seemed to purr as he said it. It was Elwy's own reserved, gentlemanly way of saying he thought she was pretty hot stuff.

[Vautrin]

3 hours ago, King Rat said:

In Mafioso (1962) they bring Alberto Sordi all the way from Sicily, and he isn't a hitman, just an excellent shot. I'm with you on Blast of Silence. Would I love to see more films like it? No. But it does have its own special weirdness.

Yes, a steady  diet of indie, low-budget, shot on  location noir films, like steady diets of  many things, would  wear one  out eventually.

We'd start to see  the similarities we see in many other types of films, but this  one is pretty entertaining and has  its own charm.

[misswonderly3]

15 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:

 

I think I've mentioned on this board that I've had impure thoughts about Bugs Bunny.

 

Bronxie,  that "laugh" emoji I gave you was never more appropriate.  And that is because I too, had a crush on Bugs Bunny.  Now let me be clear:  I'm talking about when I was about 10 years old.  I used to watch "The Bugs Bunny/ Roadrunner Hour" every Saturday afternoon.  And when I say "crush", I don't mean anything weird,  no fantasies of an actual date with Bugs or anything like that.   

I just thought he was very cool.  So funny and quick  ( like a bunny!)  But looking back,  I don't know which was odder,  having a crush  ( even an innocent one)  on another species,  or an a cartoon character.

also... yes,  that's exactly a good term for that other thing,  about people who don't even know the person who died throwing flowers and teddy bears and other stuff on the grave site or accident site or whatever,   "grief porn".  I never understood it.

[misswonderly3]

15 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

Joe !  What the frig is that?

[misswonderly3]

18 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

Too bad for you, you might as well stop watching Noirs after 1959, you are just not gonna dig them Hibi as an acquaintance of mine Jo Gabriel puts it on her blog...

""FILM NOIR HAD AN INEVITABLE TRAJECTORY…
THE ECCENTRIC & OFTEN GUTSY STYLE OF FILM NOIR HAD NO WHERE ELSE TO GO… BUT TO REACH FOR EVEN MORE OFF-BEAT, DEVIANT– ENDLESSLY RISKY & TABOO ORIENTED SET OF NARRATIVES FOUND IN THE SUBVERSIVE AND EXPLOITATIVE CULT FILMS OF THE MID TO LATE 50s through the 60s and into the early 70s!" (The Last Drive In)

 

Your friend writes well.

[misswonderly3]

15 hours ago, TomJH said:

This won't mean much to any American posters here but any Canadian ones (particularly those from Ontario) may be interested to know that Elwy Yost, who hosted Saturday Night at the Movies for 25 years on TV Ontario, had a "thing" for Deanna Durbin. I can't quite remember now how he worded it but when I met him once during the '80s he made reference to Durbin in Lady on a Train, saying that she grew into a very lovely lady. He almost seemed to purr as he said it. It was Elwy's own reserved, gentlemanly way of saying he thought she was pretty hot stuff.

Right,  Tom,  I think I remember that.  Didn't Elwy show a double feature once featuring two, count 'em, two,  Deanna Durbin  "noirs":  Lady on a Train  and also,  a "type" departure for both her and her co-star Gene Kelly,  Christmas Holiday ?

[TomJH]

57 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:

Bronxie,  that "laugh" emoji I gave you was never more appropriate.  And that is because I too, had a crush on Bugs Bunny.

 

"Look, Doc, I know I got "It' but maybe this is going a little too far."

[TomJH]

47 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:

Right,  Tom,  I think I remember that.  Didn't Elwy show a double feature once featuring two, count 'em, two,  Deanna Durbin  "noirs":  Lady on a Train  and also,  a "type" departure for both her and her co-star Gene Kelly,  Christmas Holiday ?

I can't recall if Elwy had that Durbin double bill, MissW, l but I'm almost positive he did show Lady on a Train. Those comments that he made about the actress's attractiveness were made to me and a friend in his office at TV Ontario.

[misswonderly3]

1 hour ago, TomJH said:

I can't recall if Elwy had that Durbin double bill, MissW, l but I'm almost positive he did show Lady on a Train. Those comments that he made about the actress's attractiveness were made to me and a friend in his office at TV Ontario.

You are so fortunate, Tom,  to have met him.

Although it was a long time ago,  I'm fairly sure that Elwy did feature those two Deanna Durbin films one time on Saturday Night at the Movies.  The reason I think this is,   I believe I videotaped that show.  I think  I might still have the video kicking around somewhere.  "Christmas Holiday" was on it too.  I wish I could find that videotape, because "Christmas Holiday" in particular is extremely rare.

However, now that I consider,  it's likely the videotape would be so old and brittle it wouldn't play anyway.  ( That's what happened when I found a video of "The Unsuspected":  it wouldn't play.)

[TomJH]

On 12/21/2021 at 2:04 PM, misswonderly3 said:

However, now that I consider,  it's likely the videotape would be so old and brittle it wouldn't play anyway.  ( That's what happened when I found a video of "The Unsuspected":  it wouldn't play.)

Sometimes it can even happen to a DVD. I've had to replace a number that wouldn't play a few years after I got them.

[Bronxgirl48]

2 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:

Bronxie,  that "laugh" emoji I gave you was never more appropriate.  And that is because I too, had a crush on Bugs Bunny.  Now let me be clear:  I'm talking about when I was about 10 years old.  I used to watch "The Bugs Bunny/ Roadrunner Hour" every Saturday afternoon.  And when I say "crush", I don't mean anything weird,  no fantasies of an actual date with Bugs or anything like that.   

I just thought he was very cool.  So funny and quick  ( like a bunny!)  But looking back,  I don't know which was odder,  having a crush  ( even an innocent one)  on another species,  or an a cartoon character.

 

Did Bugs have a girlfriend in his cartoons, like Mickey did Minnie?  

I was always jealous but never understood why.

To this day, I still don't.

Adding to the mystery is that I've written on these boards that two human actors always remind me of Bugs, in terms of looks -- Lloyd Nolan and Zachary Scott, but I've never been romantically drawn to either of them....

Go figure!

  

 

[Bronxgirl48]

1 hour ago, TomJH said:

"Look, Doc, I know I got "It' but maybe this is going a little too far."

LOL

 

[TomJH]

2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:

Did Bugs have a girlfriend in his cartoons, like Mickey did Minnie?  

 

 

 

[Polly of the Precodes]

4 hours ago, TomJH said:

"Look, Doc, I know I got "It' but maybe this is going a little too far."

Just how many times DID Bugs put on a dress and turn Elmer Fudd's head?

[cigarjoe]

6 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:

Joe !  What the frig is that?

Bill The Cat. 

 

[TomJH]

40 minutes ago, Polly of the Precodes said:

Just how many times DID Bugs put on a dress and turn Elmer Fudd's head?

I don't know but I always found him a sexy little cottontail when he did it myself.

When he strolls by like that, clearly getting Elmer's admiration, it kinda brings a new meaning to "What's up, Doc?"

 

[Dargo]

And to answer the earlier question posed about if Bugs Bunny had any girlfriends...yes and no.

He's had three, but none were ever featured in any of the classic W-B shorts and only in BB's printed comic books and for promotional material during the 1950s and 1960s. The first was named Lula Belle Bunny and then later came Honey Bunny.

The third one, Lola Bunny, was/is an animated character which was created much later for the 1996 film Space Jam.

(...at least that's all the info I was able to find about this...Doc)

[TomJH]

3 hours ago, Dargo said:

And to answer the earlier question posed about if Bugs Bunny had any girlfriends...yes and no.

He's had three, but none were ever featured in any of the classic W-B shorts and only in BB's printed comic books and for promotional material during the 1950s and 1960s. The first was named Lula Belle Bunny and then later came Honey Bunny.

The third one, Lola Bunny, was/is an animated character which was created much later for the 1996 film Space Jam.

(...at least that's all the info I was able to find about this...Doc)

Let's not forget Mama Bear (voiced by Bea Benederet) in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears. She was definitely in favour of inter-species relations though I don't think Bugs felt quite the same way about it.

Somehow that blonde wig has me thinking of Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.

[Bronxgirl48]

Thanks, guys!   

I actually had no idea just how risque some of those Bugs cartoons were, lol.

 

[Bronxgirl48]

Daffy and Porky in a noir moment:

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