I am still recovering from PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.
Oy vey.
Not the best choice.....
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- 4 minutes ago
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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- 6 minutes ago
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
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- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
I have to confess that I've never truly understood VERTIGO, much less why it's been on Top Ten lists as one of the greatest American movies. I have less of a problem with Scottie than I do with dumb needy masochistic Judy, putty in the hands of controlling men to be sure. Everyone in this story is p...
- Yesterday, 2:56 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
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- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
On that self-congratulatory 30th TCM anniversary: "We like to get things right" Well of course human beings make mistakes but it seems the channel is churning out more and more of them. Because of some mysterious glitch last night with DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID, we were treated to an extra...
- May 3rd, 2024, 4:22 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Baxter to Cochran: "I have done many things in my life that shame me but YOU! You love to wallow in the MUD!"
- May 3rd, 2024, 3:17 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
I have a heads-up for today (Friday) on TCM at 6 p.m. EST -- CARNIVAL STORY. Do not miss this delightfully seedy tale, filmed on location in Munich, of three men vying for the love of a sexy drifter played by Anne Baxter with her unique brand of hamminess. She falls hard for Steve Cochran who is his...
- May 2nd, 2024, 5:21 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Just once I'd love to see THE BIRDS and MARNIE without an intro or outro mentioning Hitchcock's misogynistic treatment of women, Tippi Hedren in particular (and now I've learned he also sexually harrassed Diane Baker). Last night I heard that a major theme in his movies is "the dominant male&qu...
- May 2nd, 2024, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
- Replies: 1118
- Views: 357446
Re: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
Swithin, I used to get confused as well with those hunchback characters. Your "hunch" (sorry) is correct -- Naish is the one in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. He falls in love with a gypsy girl (Elena Verdugo, who has eyes for someone else...) Poor Daniel.
- May 2nd, 2024, 3:46 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Actually now that I think about it, I shouldn't have been so surprised. They choose Betty Compson as their birthday girl for March 19th.
- May 2nd, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
TCM programming dept.: "Whose birthday should we celebrate for May 2nd?" -- "How about Theodore Bikel?" -- "Great!" LOL Bless their hearts. (but then they don't even schedule I BURY THE LIVING) You're now officially Southern, with that "Bless their hearts"......
- May 2nd, 2024, 3:28 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
lol, I thought it was weird that the actor playing the NYC mayor was an Ed Koch look-a-like. He wouldn't become mayor until 1978. It should have been Abraham Beame in 1974. I realize they couldn't make fun of an actual real-life politician but as a born and bred New Yawker that definitely was Ed! I...
- May 2nd, 2024, 3:16 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
TCM programming dept.: "Whose birthday should we celebrate for May 2nd?" -- "How about Theodore Bikel?" -- "Great!"
LOL
Bless their hearts.
(but then they don't even schedule I BURY THE LIVING)
LOL
Bless their hearts.
(but then they don't even schedule I BURY THE LIVING)
- May 1st, 2024, 3:27 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
You're welcome, Hibi! Enjoy MARNIE too.
- May 1st, 2024, 3:23 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is coming up next! One of the legendary worst movies, it is still more entertaining than what I'm trying to get through now for my first viewing: TOWARD THE UNKNOWN. When Bill Holden's leading lady is Virginia Leith, (in addition to a cornball script), you know it's turkey ti...
- May 1st, 2024, 3:11 pm
- Forum: Noir Alley
- Topic: Noir Alley
- Replies: 1254
- Views: 100653
Re: Noir Alley
Wesley Addy summed it all up but we still don't buy it. Fish four days old, etc. in signature Odets parlance, lol.
- May 1st, 2024, 3:00 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2595
- Views: 146145
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Hibi -- I seem to recall you missed the last TCM airing of REBECCA. Well, it's on this evening! (along with MARNIE)