It's because there is a character named Brooklyn (actually Brook Lynn) on General Hospital. Soap operas have driven the popularity of many names.
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- Yesterday, 8:19 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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- Yesterday, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
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Favorites from 1940 : Rebecca The Letter The Grapes of Wrath His Girl Friday Remember the Night The Great McGinty The Great Dictator The Philadelphia Story The Ghost Breakers The Mortal Storm Gaslight Waterloo Bridge City for Conquest Foreign Correspondent The Long Voyage Home The Bank Dick My Litt...
- Yesterday, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: Wicked (movie version)
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Re: Wicked (movie version)
L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books. Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote 20, the illustrator John R. Neill wrote three (not very good), Jack Snow wrote two, and there was one by Eloise McGraw and her daughter. The dream stuff was invented by MGM. Yuck. Oz is real; in The Emerald City of Oz , Uncle Henry and Aunt...
- Yesterday, 11:59 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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1.Alma is Spanish for “soul.” 2. I want for”Duane” to crack the MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES TOP TEN so bad. I'm also cheering for "Duane" or "Dwayne." As you know, in the South this can be pronounced "DEE-wayne," no matter how it's spelled. He probably has a brother Darius...
- May 17th, 2024, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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Yes, Alma is back as a Spanish name, pronounced "Ahlma." The name from the past was "you can call me Al-ma."
- May 17th, 2024, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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ALSO JUST THROWING THIS OUT THERE, BUT I was born in 1978 and- I don't know if it's a coincidence or not- but I have not seen HARDLY ANY FILMS FROM THAT YEAR- and the ones I have seen (JAWS 2, GREASE- numerous times and not by choice, SUPERMAN and HALLOWEEN) are almost outliers. i don't think there...
- May 16th, 2024, 10:15 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
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- Views: 771
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
All in all, this is the best list from AFT I've ever seen. Sure, it's not mine, but it's not heavily weighted toward recent films, and it includes some essential films.
- May 16th, 2024, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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Jeanette Basinger, for one, has discussed how difficult it is for actresses in their later careers to play ordinary women. Instead, they play Exaggerated Women. She notes that even Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, less exaggerated than, say, the later Bette Davis performances, tend to be cast as actre...
- May 16th, 2024, 12:49 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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I love the term "coattail nomination" and will use it regularly from now on. There are even coattail winners, like Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur . It's easier to nominate a Penelope Milford in a top film than a superior performance in a less-seen film. Uh-oh: not a fan of An...
- May 16th, 2024, 11:56 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
- Replies: 255
- Views: 35303
Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
1933 : A good year for comedy, drama, and musicals. A really good year if you are a fan of some or all of these actresses (alphabetical order): Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Miriam Hopkins, Barbara Stanwyck, and Loretta Young. Favorites : Duck Soup The Bitter Tea of General Yen Littl...
- May 15th, 2024, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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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 Madiso...
- May 15th, 2024, 10:28 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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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 worth...
- May 14th, 2024, 10:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
- Replies: 32
- Views: 814
Re: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
"Avez-vous bourbon?"
- May 14th, 2024, 5:43 pm
- Forum: General TV and Media
- Topic: Returning shows and new shows
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- Views: 15515
Re: Returning shows and new shows
CBS has two new hits with Tracker and Elsbeth . I was happy that Melissa Roxburgh, the star of Manifest , is playing Justin Hartley's younger sister, though she won't be a regular on the show. I was even happier that Elsbeth is not PC in its choice of villains. Any celebrity can be a villain. As wit...
- May 14th, 2024, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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There aren't any characters in Agatha Christie's books who are openly referred to as gay or lesbian, although A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED has a couple easily identifiable as lesbian. One of them figures out something about the first murder and is herself killed. In one of the later novels, Raymond West, M...