I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them. Yet another example of greatest actors...

I actually purchased a '71 Dodge Challenger before seeing Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.. Drove it to see the movie without knowing the Challenger would be in the movie.

I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them. Yet another example of greatest actors,...

Wicked, Wicked (1973) was shown on TCM this morning. Watched it while taking a break from "deconstructing Christmas." It was shown in Duo-Vision and thankfully I have a 55" TV. Most of the movie shows two different, but related scenes at the same time on the screen. Somewhat confusing...

THE KINGSTON TRIO The Last Month Of The Year ...I had this album when I was in high school. Actually my mother had purchased it from a local store. Love those white socks. At that time, boys in my high school wore socks the same color as our shirts. Yes pink socks with pink shirts. Of course, the T...

My favorite Christmas albums are (not in order): Santa's Greatest Hits (20th Century Masters); Dean Martin's My Kind of Christmas; Merry Christmas, Johnny Mathis; Martina McBride, The Classic Christmas Album; Ray Conniff-The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings (Christmas With Conniff, We Wish You...

THE KINGSTON TRIO The Last Month Of The Year https://i.discogs.com/4zPlNzlRnK1V5zRPpXQ55NmX-wzAZyAbqaB7TMf53SY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxNjI4/MTItMTQ5NTk4Mjgz/OC02MzEzLmpwZWc.jpeg I had this album when I was in high school. Actually my mother had pur...

I had seen Beware, My Lovely before and didn't care for it much. Watched it again this morning, but still don't care for it. I don't think the 1918 setting did much for or against the movie. Although I did wonder how a single widow supported herself since I doubt there was any war widow's pension of...

What is on Noir Alley on Dec. 16/17? I pulled up the TCM schedule for Saturday and Sunday and there is a 1.5 hour gap where Noir Alley usually sits.

I found I Wouldn't Want to be in Your Shoes fairly interesting. At least a 3.5. It held my attention all the way through and I thought the acting was fairly good considering the screenplay, rushed production and limited budget with which they had to work. I don't think Elyse Knox was supposed to be ...

...(...his most memorable one for me being the one in which he's paralyzed in a car crash and everyone thinks he's dead, titled 'Breakdown'...first telecast in 1955) Indeed. That episode was one of the few I saw in reruns decades ago and it scared me (probably about 1970). That episode put me off t...

I watched Black Angel, although had seen it before. It is entertaining and does not drag like a lot of movies. As Eddie said in the intro, don't look for logic as Cornell Woolrich did not care about logic - just a good story. Incidentally, I discovered Hastings Mystery Theater on YouTube. About 250 ...

It was ok. I thought the happy ending was a cop out. I wish the film had been a little longer and fleshed out, but you can't complain it dragged! I wanted to slap Lynn's son silly though. I started FF'ing any scene with him in it. I also found Harry Morgan's character annoying. I kind of guessed wh...

For a very long time, Crutchfield have been experts in car stereo. https://www.crutchfield.com/car/carselector.aspx Received a Crutchfield catalog last week. Haven't purchased from them in many years, but they are a helpful resource. Unfortunately most of their stuff is fairly expensive - and somew...

But I believe there are still audio shops that can install a CD player. I bought an external disc drive for $24 that plugs into a new car's many USB ports. You just play your CDs through that. It helps to have a "cubby" shelf for your drive to securely sit in though. I looked on one elect...