Thank you, Alison, for your kind words about Theresa's and my discussion of Shadow of a Doubt. It was a tremendous pleasure to talk about such a great movie with a dear friend and fine critic. Towards the end we talk about finding more things that we hadn't seen the next time we see the film and, su...

Thanks for sharing that interview, Moira. Good stuff!

Those magazine cover paintings usually looked not quite like their subjects. I think they were trying to make the dreams look even dreamier and not incidentally, to get the women of America, the World, to spend more money on "beauty" products!

Agreed, mongoII!

She could have played Lina Lamont!

Well, Red, with Annie it's all 'er nothin"!

My first encounter with Celeste Holm, though certainly not the last, was on the original cast album of Oklahoma where she was Ado Annie, the girl who cain't say no.

Thank you, Moira. I had not heard about the loss of this remarkable woman.

Andrew Sarris once said that in the military you always go to any movie that they show so you can catch up on your sleep, but he couldn't sleep through The Snows of Kilimanjaro, because every reel or so there would be a loud explosion or blast of music. He could have worked that experience into a ne...

Wendy, for years I never made it through Metropolis until they came up with a longer version. Still not my cup o' tea, but much better!

Thank you, Theresa, for alerting me to this. You know what I really like about movies! And thank you, MichiganJ for doing such a great job selecting and editing. I'm not sure how much these young women or their characters "like to undress", but this dirty old man is delighted that they did...

Here's a different tribute to Borgnine with quite a surprise.

http://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/2012 ... /#more-534

Thanks, Fernando. I'll pass those names on. Bob

"A CROWN OF THORNS" Theresa and Alison, this comment from Kim Novak is a real heart-breaker. To many of us men and women whose looks are somewhat less than "gorgeous", it may sound facetious, but it is true. During the fifties and sixties, the height of her popularity, she was ge...

Alison, on July 8th, I posted a list, already out-of-date, of the oldest living movie people.