kingrat wrote: ↑Yesterday, 8:19 pm
It's because there is a character named Brooklyn (actually Brook Lynn) on General Hospital. Soap operas have driven the popularity of many names.

Maybe they have, but I don't know if that's the reason Brooklyn is
a relatively popular name.

I always thought Eddie wrote his own intros/outros. His are longer than the other hosts' and provide more info on the source of the film and on the screenplay. I watch noirs on YT, some good, some average. I just watched Try and Get Me! starring Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd plays one of th...

I don't even know what ID stands for. Investigation Discovery, it's a cable channel specializing in true crime. I just reread Catch-22 a few years ago. I remember when the movie came out it got mostly bad reviews. I haven't seen it in a long time so I'd have to watch it again to evaluate it.

HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑Yesterday, 6:14 pm
I think Bronx sounds sexy.

Yeah, it kind of does. I like Staten Island too. If it becomes
too cumbersome one can always use Island as a middle name.

There probably wouldn't be enough interest to start a stand alone ID thread and only some of the shows are worth talking about. But there are many noirish elements to these shows: The psychological problems of some of the characters, a twist of fate, the innocent person looked at by the police as gu...

Howcum Brooklyn is a fairly popular name but Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and
Staten Island aren't?

The album and song were hits when they first came out in the mid 1980s.
Unfortunately, this was their only big hit in the U.S., though they had
longer lasting success in other places.

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑May 16th, 2024, 11:48 am
Back in the day, the last one I bought was Caribou.

You "held out" an extra year.

I watched a few of his shows, but his persona kind of creeps me out. I never found him creepy, just too intense. He did often have interesting cases. What could be more noir than murders, confused individuals with deep psychological problems who often don't fit into the surrounding environment, inn...

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑May 15th, 2024, 10:57 pm

Easily my favorite ELTON JOHN song ... and album!

One of my favorite songs and my favorite album, though with the
caveat that the last Elton John album I bought was Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road.

Hibi wrote: ↑May 15th, 2024, 4:43 pm

I won't be watching! I'm not sure when it starts, I didn't catch that part. Probably next month.

I doubt I will be either. The original series was okay, but a little of Kenda
goes a long way. I guess he figures he might as well make hay while the
sun shines.

I love Tony Randall (nice Jewish boy from Tulsa, Oklahoma) as Dr. Lao, mainly because the character is supposed to be a "put-on" for the Western folks so they can learn his wise (but occasionally preachy) ways. I love the Leigh Harline score as well. (he actually first used it in MAN OF T...

I remember reading The Circus of Dr. Lao when I was a teenager. It's a fairly
racy book (and a very short one), much more so than the movie. In parts
it even gets a little Sinclair Lewisy. I haven't seen the movie in years. It's
okay, especially some of the special effects, but nothing special.

SAY IT AINT SO!!!!!!!!!! JOE KENDA IS BACK!!!!!!! MYMYMYMYMY! I saw a commercial for it the other day. Hasn't he run out of cases by now???. I guess there's hope for Paula yet! :( (Unsure if he's rehashing old cases or its like his last one, commenting on others). I'M BACK!!! And they say smoking c...