Having read all of C.S. Forester's books about the British sea captain of the Napoleonic era, Horatio Hornblower as a kid, I was really disappointed when I eventually saw Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), the Gregory Peck movie version with Virginia Mayo as the co-star on tv as an older kid. Capt. ...

A favorite book of film criticism, and one of the first I ever read, was Agee on Film by James Agee . Most of his contemporaneously written reviews cover studio films from the the '20s to the '40s, so this book is probably most interesting to anyone who loves classic movies. Agee was also blessed wi...

"I am reading "Laura" right now - someone left it on the office bookshelf. I'm really enjoying it - I can hear the actors speaking the dialog of the book. There are some differences, but the movie is so far pretty faithful to what I am reading. The story is narrated alternately by Wa...

So, what's on your bedtable? Are you reading a good mystery, history, classic, biography, philosophical tome, poetry collection, self-help book, graphic or romance novel? Here's a thread to share your interests in the world of books. http://plasticage.net/gallery/albums/userpics/Books-in-Winter-Pri...

Good Morning, Miss Goddess. You've been missed. Hope that you'll be contributing alot soon.

Telling the boss you were late because you stopped to listen to a subway musician won't play well in most offices.-Jondaris Yeah, Jon, *lol*, darned those bosses! Don't those philistines know that contributing to the GNP in the rat race of life is peanuts compared to listening to Mozart? My bosses ...

Hey, Rusty, glad you're here. I think the TCM refugee couple are just so happy to be here in the clean, bright sunlight of a friendly movie forum that he's afraid to let her go! Let's hope these "kids" can make it as a team.

Hi Dewey, Glad you've found your way here. I think that The Lady in Question (1940) is enjoyable for an early peek at the Rita Hayworth-Glenn Ford chemistry in relatively small roles. Since I have a weakness for Brian Aherne , (yes, i may be the only one), I've seen it before and find that Aherne's ...

Yes, the Washington Post requires registration on their site, but it's relatively painless. As a longtime Joshua Bell fanatic, I found this stunt pretty amusing. I like the fact that so many kids wanted to pause to listen to his seraphic playing, while the foolish adults just wanted to hurry. Oy, wh...

I did occasionally find myself drifting over to TVland very late at night to catch the Andy Griffith show--but then I woke up one morning looking like a cross between Otis the Drunk and Aunt Bee, and I weaned myself away from that tendency pronto. Now I just look a bit like Ernest T. Bass on rough m...

I like Ruby Keeler , think she's plucky, lucky in her choice of a well-connected hubby, and darned cute. She's no Eleanor Powell , but I don't think she "dances like a cow", as I read once on that "other place", and I'm very fond of her performance opposite her then-husband Al Jo...

You make me smile, Ark. We all need to decompress from the atmosphere of TCM. Disagreement is a sign of intelligent life on earth, but I understand all too well how you feel.

On the other hand, I thought the Nancy Drew series with Bonita Granville an embarrassment to someone who lived for the books (at the tender age of 10). Julie, I know what you mean about the way that Nancy Drew was depicted on screen by Bonita Granville, though now those movies seem kind of cute. Th...

Actually, I will disagree here. I personally think the reading of "the letter" was the flaw of the film. It would have been much better to let us, the audience wonder what the letter contains. I appreciate what you mean about the letter being a tad preachy, Ark. I didn't express it well i...

I'd like to see Robert Osborne continue as co-host with more film scholars and older actors, but I'm a real dreamer. Maybe for the older actors it would be less of a strain than doing hours of a long interview and would enable them to have their say about some of their own movies too: Scholars as C...