I Just Watched...

[Bronxgirl48]

CNN's How It Really Happened: Oscar Pistorious

"My lady, it was an accident"

Sure.

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 shocking that they've filmed it three times: a fictionalized version with Barbara Hershey that was in a TV movie in 1990 (a graphic one at that; it holds an R rating despite being first aired on CBS), and two recent online miniseries, one on hulu, the other on HBO Max.

Candy Montgomery! And I chillingly remember that tv movie with Hershey, I think it was called A Murder in Texas or something like that. They hypnotize her to get a defense of "dissociation" due to a traumatic incident in childhood.

[Hibi]

What I think of as "old lady names"--names that no woman under 60 had when I was growing up--are back in fashion. Hannah, Emma, Sophie, Eliza, Amelia--a friend has high school students with these names. I know people who have named their little girls Mabel and Millie. Rosalie is much worthier of revival than any of these. If Hannah and Emma are now considered chic, is there hope for Bertha and Gertrude?

I draw the line at Bertha and Gertrude, (Agnes too!) LOL. I did have an aunt Gertie. She was German so it made sense, and Aunt Agnes too.

[Hibi]

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

Yes, probably true. I'm not sure who else was up that year. I was surprised at the time she didn't get one (nomination). Yes, it's broad and over the top, but just what the role called for.

absolutely.
GOD, can you imagine GLENDA JACKSON in the part, all DOUR and HUMORLESS?

NO! (LOL).

[Bronxgirl48]

Rosalie is remembered on QVC as the infamous foul-mouthed caller who could be heard over the phone yelling "Get the f*ck away, I'm talking to Leah Williams!!"

Unflappable host Leah just laughed and told us "Some people are so passionate about what we're selling"

[Hibi]

I looked up Rosalie and it seems to have had a resurgence lately due to a character in the Twilight series (and no, I'm not making this up!) So, that's nice. There was a Cole Porter 20s musical with that title that was later made into a film with Eleanor Powell in the 30s.

Wow I had not known this (until I researched it) The Broadway 20s musical had a Gershwin score, but when they filmed it in the 30s, it was scrapped and a whole new score (with the same plot) was written by Cole Porter. Weird.

[Hibi]

Rosalie is remembered on QVC as the infamous foul-mouthed caller who could be heard over the phone yelling "Get the f*ck away, I'm talking to Leah Williams!!"

Unflappable host Leah just laughed and told us "Some people are so passionate about what we're selling"

LMREO!!!!!!!!!

[Lorna]

ROSALIE
"My mother is SALOME OTTERBOURNE, the novelist"

JACKIE
{drunkenly]
"SALOME?!? Didn't she have some fella's head cut off?"

ROSALIE
[PANICS VISIBLY]
"WHO TOLD YOU?! WE BURIED THAT BODY IN LUCERNE!"
[realizes what she means]
"Oh...you mean from The Bible?"
[laughs nervously, glances to side]
Yes, yes of course...

[CinemaInternational]

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 shocking that they've filmed it three times: a fictionalized version with Barbara Hershey that was in a TV movie in 1990 (a graphic one at that; it holds an R rating despite being first aired on CBS), and two recent online miniseries, one on hulu, the other on HBO Max.

Candy Montgomery! And I chillingly remember that tv movie with Hershey, I think it was called A Murder in Texas or something like that. They hypnotize her to get a defense of "dissociation" due to a traumatic incident in childhood.

It was called A Killing in a Small Town, and yes, Barbara Hershey win the Emmy for it that year, so she must have chilled and scared a lot of voters in the part.

[Hibi]

Edna is another name that should stay in the past. (And I had an aunt named that as well!)

[CinemaInternational]

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)

[Hibi]

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 ones.

[kingrat]

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 Madison will once seem as absurdly old-fashioned as Gertrude and Ethel do now.

[Bronxgirl48]

WE WHO ARE YOUNG: Pre-WWII Depression era social drama, not from Warner's in the mid-1930's with, say, John Garfield and Priscilla Lane but MGM in 1940 starring John Shelton (more animated as a ghost in Abbott & Costello THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES) and poised-for-stardom Lana Turner as his wife.

We are supposed to feel sorry for this couple -- you know, victims of The Cruelties of Life, but they bring it on themselves -- Lana violates the no married women rule at her husband's office and so is let go, the newlyweds over-extend themselves financially buying expensive furniture for their modest apartment, they apparently do not practice birth control (and are revealed later not even to be Catholic) so Turner becomes pregnant, Shelton convinces wife she should have a private doctor instead of going to a more financially reasonable clinic, he can't pay for the furniture so his salary is attached at work, Lana is about to give birth but John cannot hail a taxi so steals a man's car.....

Henry Armetta's worst insult to a businessman: "You capitalist!"

Ridiculous fairy-tale ending, with a certain character realizing the Dickensian error of his ways...

[Bronxgirl48]

And I'm not even any sort of rock-ribbed pull-yourselves-up-from-the-bootstraps type of person but that screenplay really pissed me off!

[Bronxgirl48]

House Hunters and House Hunters International marathon.

Every episode: "I can picture us having coffee on the patio"

Even if they don't have one.