The Silver Screen Oasis

Andree wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 5:38 pm

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 12:36 pm Crickets at least are cute. (and have you ever noticed that Fred Astaire looked like one?)

Monsieur Roach is still on the loose.

Poor George Harvey Bone, he didn't stand a chance with Netta Longdon. I love HANGOVER SQUARE, an old favorite. George Sanders is in it for about ten minutes tops. He is also rather ill-served THE LODGER. (don't get me started on the wooden Miss Merle Oberon; I am a Linda Darnell fan through and through)

Some people consider DELIVERANCE a horror film. I think I agree.

Puppets and clowns are always frightening to me.

But ants are cuter. Not having seen a lot of Fred Astaire movies, I've never noticed that resemblance, but if so that would be one
well-dressed cricket. I'm not sure what this insect is. Thank goodness it doesn't make a continuous noise like a cricket and is kind
enough to let me sleep in peace at night.

Yes, George didn't have much to do in this one, but despite his short screen time, it looked to me like he was trying to make it
with Bone's old girlfriend. That seems to be the m.o. for these period picture police inspectors. Poor Bone. He should have realized
he didn't have a chance with Netta. But nooooo, he goes full in and just embarrasses himself.

I can see Deliverance as a horror film, sort of a southern gothic tale updated for more modern times. Don't go into the woods.
I'm neutral on puppets and clowns, but positive on Santa Claus.

Good luck with that roach. We humans have to be as persistent as they are.

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 4:06 pm

Ants can be winsome although not as charming as crickets.

I was a bit confused as to "Barbara's" romantic motivations in HANGOVER SQUARE. Was she trying to get Bone to notice her as a woman and not just a friend? Of course for plot purposes we had to assume that she and Sanders would ultimately "get together".

Mr. R has not been seen by me in a few days. But he's just waiting.....

Andree wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:12 pm
...The trouble with crickets is their constant noise. They can send a man to the moon, but they can't invent a cricket finder?

Dargo wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:42 pm

Andree wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:12 pm
...The trouble with crickets is their constant noise. They can send a man to the moon, but they can't invent a cricket finder?

Wasn't there a 'Seinfeld' episode where Jerry has a cricket in his apartment that's driving him nuts, and so Kramer gets his hands on something like a lizard and releases it into Jerry's apartment into order to get the cricket? And then later on, Kramer gets his hands on another animal higher up the food chain in other to get the lizard?

(...I can't seem to find any info on this on the internet, and so I'm starting to believe I'm just imagining this...HELP!)

Dargo wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:42 pm

Wasn't there a 'Seinfeld' episode where Jerry has a cricket in his apartment that's driving him nuts, and so Kramer gets his hands on something like a lizard and releases it into Jerry's apartment into order to get the cricket? And then later on, Kramer gets his hands on another animal higher up the food chain in other to get the lizard?

(...I can't seem to find any info on this on the internet, and so I'm starting to believe I'm just imagining this...HELP!)

Thompson wrote: ↑February 10th, 2023, 10:07 pm I’m confused between bipolar 1 and bipolar 2. What is the difference exactly? Is it like reading French and not understanding a word and then wondering why you don’t understand it because you don’t know French? It’s something like that I suppose. I guess it doesn’t matter. Laffite can probably explain it better.

Thompson wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 12:41 am I’m worried about Laffite sleeping on the sidewalk during the Mardi Gras. The first thing that goes, believe it or not, is your shoes. For some reason you don’t wake up when the thief steals your shoes. Cowboy boots solve that problem. That’s why we wear them, not because we are cowboys but because they are impossible to steal off your feet when you are sleeping on the street. I’m also worried Laffite might get tossed in jail or the Mardi Gras paddy wagon for “obstructing the sidewalk,” that’s a law down here. You can smoke crack and urinate wherever you want to but you better not obstruct the sidewalk. I don’t want Laffite to get into it with the cops, they have all those tasers and stuff and there’s no telling. And, he could get run over by a bicycle or a motorcycle, or one of those skateboard dudes, they all use the sidewalk. It would be much safer if he stayed with me and slept in the chair. I found a spare blanket and we can go to Vickie’s in the morning for hot sausage Po-Boys.

laffite wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 8:45 pm ...I've never tasted a Southern sandwich. Why don't you buy me one and throw it out the front door. I'll find it.

Andree wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 7:56 pm

Dargo wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:42 pm

Wasn't there a 'Seinfeld' episode where Jerry has a cricket in his apartment that's driving him nuts, and so Kramer gets his hands on something like a lizard and releases it into Jerry's apartment into order to get the cricket? And then later on, Kramer gets his hands on another animal higher up the food chain in other to get the lizard?

(...I can't seem to find any info on this on the internet, and so I'm starting to believe I'm just imagining this...HELP!)

I'm a little rusty on Seinfeld episodes as I don't watch it as much as I did a few years ago. An annoying cricket does sound
like one of those pesky, everyday problems that were often part of a Seinfeld plot and Kramer using a lizard to get rid of a
cricket sounds like a typical Kramer idea, but I don't recall it offhand. I suppose you'd want an animal that was big enough
to get rid of the smaller animal but not big enough to possibly get rid of you. I always liked the episode where George takes
an expensive art book into the bookstore's bathroom then has to buy it and can't get rid of it anywhere.

Hibi wrote: ↑February 15th, 2023, 10:20 am

Andree wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 7:56 pm

Dargo wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:42 pm

Wasn't there a 'Seinfeld' episode where Jerry has a cricket in his apartment that's driving him nuts, and so Kramer gets his hands on something like a lizard and releases it into Jerry's apartment into order to get the cricket? And then later on, Kramer gets his hands on another animal higher up the food chain in other to get the lizard?

(...I can't seem to find any info on this on the internet, and so I'm starting to believe I'm just imagining this...HELP!)

I'm a little rusty on Seinfeld episodes as I don't watch it as much as I did a few years ago. An annoying cricket does sound
like one of those pesky, everyday problems that were often part of a Seinfeld plot and Kramer using a lizard to get rid of a
cricket sounds like a typical Kramer idea, but I don't recall it offhand. I suppose you'd want an animal that was big enough
to get rid of the smaller animal but not big enough to possibly get rid of you. I always liked the episode where George takes
an expensive art book into the bookstore's bathroom then has to buy it and can't get rid of it anywhere.

Andree, your avatar reminds me a little of Paula Zahn!!!

Hibi wrote: ↑February 15th, 2023, 11:59 am LOL!!!! I was just joking about Paula. She does look a little like a younger Peter (with hair!!!)

Andree wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 5:12 pm

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 14th, 2023, 4:06 pm

Ants can be winsome although not as charming as crickets.

I was a bit confused as to "Barbara's" romantic motivations in HANGOVER SQUARE. Was she trying to get Bone to notice her as a woman and not just a friend? Of course for plot purposes we had to assume that she and Sanders would ultimately "get together".

Mr. R has not been seen by me in a few days. But he's just waiting.....

The trouble with crickets is their constant noise. They can send a man to the moon, but they can't invent a cricket finder?
What's with that? Ants are still cute except when they swarm out of their anthill to consume the small corpse of a dead
insect. Then they're pretty repulsive. It's a jungle out there.

As I remember it, it seemed that Barbara was really in love with Bone at the beginning and that eventually she'd wind up as
Mrs. George Harvey Bone. And her papa seemed that he would be fine with that. Maybe ol' Harv dropped the ball when he
became obsessed with Netta. He spent so much wasted time mooning over her that I think Barbara started to wonder about
him as hubby material. In the end it all went up in flames anyway. Yeah, I definitely think that Sanders was eyeing Barbara
right from the start. Maybe that's the real reason he didn't exert much effort trying to save Bone. Shame, shame.

I know the film was setting up Fredric as the bad guy, cold-hearted and cunning, which he was. But he was the only guy there
with a head on his shoulders and who was ready to take control. I wouldn't want the rest of the cast, however appealing some
of them were, running a lemonade stand.

Sorry, but I was never a big Bowery Boys fan, even as a kid. They were okay, but they were no Three Stooges. I hadn't planned
on watching all of the Agnes Varda films, but I did anyway. I hadn't seen Vagabond in ages. Even knowing how things
turned out at the start of the movie, it's still very sad.

Well, the cricket or whatever it was passed on. I figured it couldn't live up in that duct without anything to eat for too long.
After about ten days, it ended. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.