Lorna wrote: ↑Yesterday, 8:37 am

Holy ****!!!!

MARTY tonight. "A college girl -- one step from the street!" That is only the case if one is a kicker for the K.C. Chiefs. One who is "straight" supposedly, but I'm not convinced. https://www.current-affairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Harrison-Butker.png You mean no one with...

1967 was a year with some famous movie lines: "What we have here is a failure to communicate."-- Cool Hand Luke "They call me MISTER Tibbs."-- In the Heat of the Night "I just want to say one word to you: plastics."-- The Graduate "Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!"-- ...

Great idea for a thread. Who do you look at in a scene? Who can carry a film? John Wayne certainly can. I am not the world's biggest fan of Tom Cruise, but he has screen presence and can carry a film. His ability to alternate commercial films with more artistically ambitious projects has created an ...

Did anyone else see Donkey Skin ( Peau d'ane ) (1970), shown last night as part of TCM's Art of Artifice series? It was an excellent choice, and a film I had never seen. Alicia Malone's introduction told us what we needed to know about the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. She has a lovely French acce...

Speaking of the 1970s: consider the difference between Blow-Up (1966) and The Conversation (1974), which borrows liberally from the plot of Blow-Up , only with sound instead of photography. When Antonioni seems like the fun guy in the room, you know something is seriously out of whack. Swinging Lond...

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...