Yes, Alma is back as a Spanish name, pronounced "Ahlma." The name from the past was "you can call me Al-ma." What movie character was named Alma? I seem to remember one. MISS PATRICIA NEAL in HUD played a character named ALMA- for which she won THE ACADEMY AWARD I have read that...

No one watched Police Van? I liked it (up to a point). Had a lot of style. I gave up trying to follow the plot after a half hr.in and decided just to be entertained. Too many characters and I couldn't keep them all straight. But I was never bored. Some really good sequences. Of course, the plot was...

At the risk of sounding like Jimmy Carter, there was a "malaise" that settled in over films in the second half of the '70s. This is not to say that there weren't some excellent titles that were still released in these years. What is true though is though that there were a convergence of e...

Andree wrote: ↑May 18th, 2024, 6:04 pm Howcum Brooklyn is a fairly popular name but Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and
Staten Island aren't?

It's because there is a character named Brooklyn (actually Brook Lynn) on General Hospital. Soap operas have driven the popularity of many names.

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...

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...

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...

Yes, Alma is back as a Spanish name, pronounced "Ahlma." The name from the past was "you can call me Al-ma."

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...