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The Era -- Day By Day
"who else coulda done'at? Uncle Frank? I ask ya..." And another opportunity to see reality lost. ******************************************************************* "What does this Johnson do?" he queries. "Can you -- giggle?" proposes Mr. Parrott. "Haw haw haw?" enunciates Mr. Rickey. "More...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,225
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Sal," whispers Alice. "Lemme ask ya sump'n. Was you jus' -- prayin'?" "Leemee lone," mutters Sally, bending over her bench. "S'awright," assures Alice. "I was too." "Leemee lone." ******************************************************************* "ye'll joost have t'foind solace in ye...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,221
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
About Mrs. Leslie from 1954 with Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan You can dismiss About Mrs. Leslie because it's a soap opera, but what is a soap opera but life with its dramatic moments – its romance, disappointment, exhilaration, love, hurt, and all the other human emotions – telescoped into...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,858
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I tell ya," sniffs Alice, wiping her eyes, "he neveh shoulda rode wit' t'at tawp down..." I love her. ******************************************************************* Is that any way to speak to someone who just cost you a thousand bucks? The other question is how is he speaking to her...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,216
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Thank you. I, too, am saddened by its decline. And I fear MLB's insane greed will only speed its decline farther even if it provides a temporary revenue boost as all this moving of games to this or that streaming service has turned me off and I'm a long-time fan. I can't even imagine how a new...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,270
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Hey Sal," interrupts Alice, edging just far enough away from her friend so that she won't be caught in the blast should Sally be struck down by lightning. The nuns left their mark. ************************************************************* He's either her boyfriend or her brother but...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,212
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I Love Melvin from 1953 with Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, I Love Melvin is a mid-century Technicolor musical first, a romcom a distant second, and a family drama somewhere over the horizon. In that light, it's a short, entertaining effort because Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,854
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat by Red Barber and Robert W. Creamer, first published in 1968 The word "legend" is overused, but it does apply to Red Barber's career in sports broadcasting – a career that began in baseball's infancy on radio and peaked with TV and radio broadcasts in the largest...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,268
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"T'at Joe, he's awna levell. Sal, well, she's a lit'l nuts, but hell, ain' we awl! That's a pretty good shorthand of the family. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "Ye know, Oi been thinkin', " muses Uncle Frank. "Real estate is whaaar th' mooney...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,208
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Oi ain't fargatt whin you poot thim barrth controol papars in here, an' ahll thim people froom th' parish caahled a boycaaat. :) ******************************************************************* "...An'nen'na goil run awff! Whoeveh hoida -- hey, kid, you awright? How come ya face is...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,203
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Rooney from 1958 with John Gregson, Barry Fitzgerald, Muriel Pavlow, and Marie Kean Love and hate are reasonably easy to show on film, but charm takes finesse – go too far in one direction, and it becomes a treacly mess – too far in the other, and it's lost altogether. Rooney manages to nail...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,850
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"How come," queries Sally, looking up from a month-old copy of 'Mademoiselle,' "you was hawlin' pipe from Canada? What diffn'ce does'AT make?" "Um," ums Alice, "it -- uh -- makes t'wawteh tas'e like -- uh -- maple syrup a'sumpn..." "Ah," ahs Sally, with a prodigious eyeroll, as Alice wipes away...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,199
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I agree and would say we need an Aristotelian balance, but man, we (humans) are not good at that.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,849
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Hustle your bustle." Sounds like a case for Jane Arden! What's that you ask? Yes, there was a precode movie very close to this story, "She Had to Say Yes." (comments on the movie here: #28,708 ). It stars the lovely Loretta Young as shown here. Oh, and being a precode, Young...- Fading Fast
- Post #11,195
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
These Wilder Years from 1956 with James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Lou Keim, and Walter Pidgeon Who knows what the expression "They don't make movies like that anymore" really means, but it could certainly be applied to These Wilder Years, a mid-century low-key melodrama about family...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,847
- Forum: The Moving Picture
