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The Era -- Day By Day
Kudos, Lizzie, fun take on "Ma Sweeney's Gang" today.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,940
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
One Touch of Venus from 1948 with Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Eve Arden, Tom Conway and Olga San Juan Hallmark has been running with the mellow-romcom baton for years now, but before Hallmark, Hollywood, in its golden era, turned out Hallmark-like movies. Hollywood's version, though, came with...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,490
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...redeemable classes bef'oeh I c'n stawrt." "Remedial," corrects Sally, carefully controlling her expression." :) As Skeez and Nina exchange nervous glances. Yes, that line really stood out; Nina wouldn't have been out of bounds to slap his face. "Ha, sure, and like a lot of typical...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,936
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"You," snorts Mozelewski, "don' NEED no peplum." Nice.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,932
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Best of Everything from 1959 with Hope Lange, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Brian Aherne, Louis Jourdan and Stephen Boyd "Would you ever marry a girl who wasn't [a worried and embarrassed pause] pure." – Diane Baker playing the pretty and young April Morrison contemplating...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
In Honolulu, the war has brought a business boom for tattoo parlors, where a total of thirty three tattooists have all the customers they can handle. Conservative estimates place the annual take in the shops at more than $500,000, with about 65 percent of the customers described as...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,928
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
One Is a Lonely Number from 1972 with Trish Van Devere, Melvin Douglas, Scott Beach and Janet Leigh One Is a Lonely Number is a time capsule of the social, cultural and legal shifts that were in play when it was made in 1972. Yet it also has something to say about relationships and marriage...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,486
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Great summary. I enjoyed this movie. Like you, I didn't know Ms. Dixon either, but she gave a heck of a good performance. My comments on it here: #30,354 (As always, please feel free to pass on reading them.)- Fading Fast
- Post #31,485
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Gypsy -- in the remainder bin??? Sic transit gloria mundi." True, but she's in good company, "Kitty Foyle," books by D.H. Lawrence and Pearl S. Buck and many other notable titles and authors. As you said, "sic..."- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
These aren't the best pictures to support my point, but I grew up in New Brunswick, NJ in the 1970s when much of the town looked like a rundown version of Brooklyn in Lizzie's picture above, including trolley tracks in the pavement of some streets. Even in the 1970s, many side streets were still...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,915
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, originally published in 1982 Shoeless Joe by author W.P. Kinsella asks two things of its readers: believe in a metaphysical magic of some sort and be a fan of baseball, not a rabid "my team is the best" fan, but a fan of the history, the lore and the joy of the...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,179
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Kid from Left Field from 1953 with Dan Dailey, Billy Chapin, Anne Bancroft, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins and Richard Egan There is a subgenre of baseball movies that combines kids with some magic or whimsy to turn a losing baseball team around. These films use baseball as a metaphor for life...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,480
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"A poignant reminder that all wars are fought by 'kids from the neighborhood,' some of whom don't come home..." I remember a neighborhood boy who was ten or so years older than me (I was born in '64) not coming back from the Vietnam War. I only knew him by sight, but man it affected me.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Everyone confuses Burma the girl with Burma the country.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Operator 13 from 1934 with Marion Davies and Gary Cooper Operator 13 is a bumpy Civil War picture that kinda works as leads Marion Davies and Gary Cooper are engaging, plus the battle scenes are good for the era. You just have to accept that this picture's reason for being is to further the...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,476
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I'm not supposed to haul civilians, but if she's wearing your flying suit, and nothing else, I guess we'll have to salvage government property, including what's inside." In my mind, Burma has only ever worn "nothing else" under her clothes.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"He could tell us what Sandy's thinking, but he's contractually forbidden to do so." I assure you, no one wants to see into Sandy's angst- and insecurity-riddled mind. His occasional outburst of confidence are paper thin. The dog is a jangle of anxiety and self doubt. "Those charges date to...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,889
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Il Posto from 1961 from Italy Il Posto is the tale of a seventeen-year-old boy starting his adult life as a clerk in a large post-war Italian corporation. He is all but force marched there by his poor parents, but the bustling city and a pretty young girl he quickly meets provide a ray of...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"At leas' t'ey didn' bring up Rudy Vallee," sighs Sally. "Ah," nods Alice, stifling a grin. Just freakin' perfect. I also love that Mozelewski relentlessly called Miss Kaplan out. That was awesome. Burma: "And if that story doesn't work for you, I have two more to try out. Oops, did I just...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Tech-nic-nee, isn't it "Hebrew" or "Yiddish," not "Jewish?" Sally's been arrested boi th' F. B. I." "Th' F. B. I.!' thunders Uncle Frank. "That's roit," exhales Ma with surprising calmness. "It seems she troied t'climb a security fence at th' Sperry plant at Boosh Tarrminal, an' th' guards...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
