Hi All, I think everyone who was present in 1948 thought Rosalind Russell would win the Oscar as Best Actress for "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1947). Apparently, nerly every person she met in the week or so before Oscar night told her she was a shoo-in as they had all voted for her. Roz and...

Hi Lynn, I love Las Vegas and can remember the old hotels on the Strip. The Old Flamingo, Desert Inn, Sands, Dunes, Riviera and those ones in your web link. Only the Sahara and the Tropicana are still standing and they both looked dingy when I was last there in 2002. I usually stay at the MGM Grand....

Hi, I once fainted! It was when I was ill with mononucleosis at university in Heidelburg. I got up out of bed and went for the bathroom down the hall; I remeber that the lights went out and when I came to, I was on my back and the building was going round and round. I remember lying there for severa...

Hi, I have been having trouble accessing TCM for nearly 2 weeks. I have been bounced off after logging in and re-registering. And, have had posts zapped away into outer space. I've given up and probably won't be posting there anymore. Also, there are still some very rude and ignorant individuals on ...

Hi Joe, I'll pick some recent ones that vexed me: Edward Norton for "Primal Fear" Haley Joel Osmand for "The Sixth Sense" and Joaquin Phoenix for "Gladiator". I was very happy indeed though when Adrien Brody won for "The Pianist". Other than that, I haven't ca...

Hi, Some of those great drag queens from the past like Charles Pierce could and did pull off Marlene. I saw him in LA and he came out a la Dietrich in a huge white fur and diaphonous gown and drooled, "Ich bin Marrr-laina"..... and brought the house down..... It could have been her!! As fo...

Hi Tracey, I heard that Gwenyth was pregnant again and so the project is delayed... However, this is not an official communique but just rumour from a 'gossip columnist' - Cindy Adams.... Who knows!! I did see a picture of Gwenyth in fishnet stockings and top hat sitting on a beer barrel about a yea...

Hi Ayres, I have noticed some of these 'intro's, promo's' and wonder why can't we all just talk plain English!!!! I call this kind of talking and writing "overly ambiguous and pretentious claptrap"... Who're we trying to impress? I say, "Let's all start out our autobiographies and nov...

Judith, Thanks for the headsup on that site. Yes, I've seen the Haji Baba movietoo and it's fun.... Her best line though came in "The Bad and the Beautiful" on that staircase, when she purrs to Lana Turner: "Saw your movie tonight and thought you were swell !!"..... Everafter, I'...

Hi Everyone, Happy Birthday to Elaine Stewart. I phoned her this morning - "too early", I was told... - and they're having a nice birthday dinner for her tonight. She's 78 and now has short grey hair. She says nobody recognizes her as she doesn't look like she did in her starry days. All h...

Hi Jon, Sorry to hear of your glitch, but glad all is resolved. I am concerned however about that message put up over at TCM. There are are couple of people over there that I don't want to encounter on here; and they're just the ones who'll barg in. :shock: I guess it's a 'wait and see' situation. L...

Hi, Many years ago, I was in a restaurant in Geneva and a woman was causing quite a ruckus a few tables away. She wanted more liquor and the management wanted her out. Finally a gendarme literally came and had to pick her up and carry her to a waiting police van. She certainly was the center of atte...

Hi Joe,

Actually, Paulette Goddard always spoke very well of Sonny Tufts. He was quite a good dancer and escorted her and several others around town.
I always had the impression that he was a good egg!!

Larry

Hi, Could this have to do with " The Truth "?? Nobody likes to hear the truth and your review said that there wasn't much to this book to spend money on. So, bingo - therefore, you were pulled off the reviewing stand because you were, in essence, telling people not to waste their money. A ...

Hi Miss G. & Chris, Yes, the windsors and the Romanovs were related in many instances. 1) Take the one I'm most familiar with - the Dowager Empress. She was a Danish princess, whose sister, Alexandra, married King Edward VII. Therefore, as Chris & Wikipedia pointed out - Nicholas II and Geor...