Edna is another name that should stay in the past. (And I had an aunt named that as well!) As should Eunice and Bertha and Ethel and Alma and Velma (although we once had a neighbor, now passed on, named Velma and she was a wonderful neighbor) AGREED!! Alma and Velma aren't quite as bad as the other...

We have to remember that Gertrude and Ethel were the Taylor and Madison of their day. Or that Taylor and Madison will once seem as absurdly old-fashioned as Gertrude and Ethel do now. +1 Heather Just looked the name Heather up. It entered the top 200 names for girls in the US in 1963, and exited sa...

Yes, I had a great-aunt named Gertrude, an aunt named Ethel. My parents were introduced by a woman named Edna. When I was looking up Max Showalter, his parents were Ira and Elma Showalter. We have to remember that Gertrude and Ethel were the Taylor and Madison of their day. Or that Taylor and Madis...

All in all, this is the best list from AFT I've ever seen. Sure, it's not mine, but it's not heavily weighted toward recent films, and it includes some essential films. I also was surprised that there were less than a handful of post-studio-era films on this list. While musical is my least favorite...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/The_Fisher_King_Poster.jpg The Fisher King (1991) TCM On Demand-8/10 A radio shock jock (Jeff Bridges) tries to help a homeless man (Robin Williams) who believes he is a knight searching for the Holy Grail. A first time viewing for me and I thought it ...

Now it is time for 2003 and 2019. Next up will be 1940. 2003 The Best: 1 Finding Nemo 2 Lost in Translation 3 In the Cut 4 Big Fish 5 All the Real Girls 6 Mystic River 7 A Mighty Wind 8 House of Sand and Fog 9 Open Range 10 Down with Love 11 My Life Without Me 12 Love Actually 13 The Cooler 14 Under...

ALSO JUST THROWING THIS OUT THERE, BUT I was born in 1978 and- I don't know if it's a coincidence or not- but I have not seen HARDLY ANY FILMS FROM THAT YEAR- and the ones I have seen (JAWS 2, GREASE- numerous times and not by choice, SUPERMAN and HALLOWEEN) are almost outliers. i don't think there...

It's finally time for 1933. The next posting will be a joint 2003/2019 affair. The Best: 1 She Done Him Wrong 2 Duck Soup 3 I'm No Angel 4 42nd Street 5 Queen Christina 6 International House 7 Little Women 8 Only Yesterday 9 Berkeley Square 10 Hold Your Man 11 Bombshell 12 Dinner at Eight 13 King Ko...

also, I hate to speculate, but FANTASTIC AS SHE IS, I get the sense the role came very naturally to LANSBURY and she had A BLAST doing it- the 1970s were kind of the beginning of the whole "you need to suffer and be miserable and lose or gain 60 pounds in order to get a nomination" trend ...

Hibi wrote: ↑May 15th, 2024, 4:47 pm Edna is another name that should stay in the past. (And I had an aunt named that as well!)

As should Eunice and Bertha and Ethel and Alma and Velma (although we once had a neighbor, now passed on, named Velma and she was a wonderful neighbor)

LawrenceA wrote: ↑May 15th, 2024, 2:38 pm Are we done doing this? I can't quite get the scheduling. Sometimes it seems to be a new year every other day, and then it's over a week.

I'm sorry about that. I'll be getting back to it. I was sick last week and because of that wasn't posting as much.

Right. Four "accidental" gunshots . . . It could be even more outrageous. It could have been like that notorious 1980 murder case involving the Lizzie Borden of the 20th century who gave another woman 40 whacks with an axe.... and was then acquitted on self-defense. The case was so shocki...

HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑May 14th, 2024, 4:41 pm Is the new MATLOCK series with Kathy Bates still "coming soon" to CBS?

Yes. It's on their fall schedule.

Right. Four "accidental" gunshots . . . It could be even more outrageous. It could have been like that notorious 1980 murder case involving the Lizzie Borden of the 20th century who gave another woman 40 whacks with an axe.... and was then acquitted on self-defense. The case was so shocki...

:roll: the networks are dying It's been this way actually for quite a while, only the coronavirus pandemic accelerated things. The main networks have been dying bit by bit ever since they started only chasing younger demographics back in the mid-90s, post Friends. ABC, ironically the network mentio...