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What Are You Reading
Girls in Their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien, first published in 1964 By the time you are reading Girls in Their Married Bliss, you are two-thirds of the way through Edna O'Brien's noted trilogy, The Country Girls, which means Kate and Baba, O'Brien's protagonists in all three novels, are two...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Can't say I'm comfortable with 1940s lithium prescriptions, but Sally might need to get back on those pills before she does something worse than what happened with the train conductor.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Fastest Gun Alive from 1956 with Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain and Leif Erickson The nuances of the story in The Fastest Gun Alive are complicated and come out rushed toward the end. Yet the high-level story of the eventual faceoff between a reluctant gunfighter and an...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Whatever the legal status, he is a horrible surrogate father to her.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Me trying to explain the consistent underlying philosophy of Harold Gray. *************************************************************************** "And just then, Private Frank Germano rushed out of the crowd..." Good one, Lizzie.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Hell's Heroes from 1929 with Charles Bickford, Fred Kohler and Raymond Hatton Does an end-of-life act of kindness, of self-sacrifice and of charity change the eternal judgement of one's soul? Is a man the sum of all his life decisions, or can a final redeeming act reshuffle the moral deck...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I beg of Alice to please keep any details of her sex life with Sidney, even just her random carnal thoughts, private as sometimes I read this while trying to eat my breakfast. ************************************************************************* Hops should change his name and go live in...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
If my girlfriend's 91-year-old mother left her cat $40,000, nothing would change for the cat as she believes everything is hers anyway. What say you Aria? "You're lucky I still let you visit 'my' house."- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Green for Danger from 1946 with Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Leo Genn and Megs Jenkins British filmmaking from the 1930s to the 1950s is a treat. Done with smaller budgets than Hollywood, the Brits more than made up for it with intelligent stories, talented actors...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,572
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Things I learned today: 1. I owe Burma a huge apology for my "Wasp-Waist" comment a few days ago. The old gal hasn't added an inch. 2. I owe Caniff a huge thank you for this panel. He blasted this one right by the censors. @FOXTROT LAMONT would be in heaven with it - I hope he is okay. 3...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"All right, Mr. Owen," says the Army doctor. "Everything else checks out. There's just one more test." "I'm ready," nods Mr. Owen. The doctor picks up a grenade-shaped paperweight from his desk. "Catch!" he says, tossing the grenade. "Oh," he sighs, as the grenade rolls to the far wall. To be...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,252
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Separate Tables from 1958 with Wendy Hiller, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Gladys Cooper, Deborah Kerr and Rod Taylor When a movie can expose people's hopes, fears, insecurities, failings, kindness and decency, with sympathy and honesty, and on all but one set and with no more...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
We haven't had a Wasp-waist alert in a long time, but well: I think that is what Burma is really PO'd about. In her thirties, she's a mighty fine-looking woman, but she doesn't have a teenager's waist anymore.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,248
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Royal Bed from 1931 with Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Nance O'Neil, Anthony Bushell and Robert Warwick The Royal Bed is an early and stagy talkie that riffs on one of classic Hollywood's favorite themes: royals who are bored and tired of being royals. This one includes the common subplot of...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Yarr loocky Oi don't send ye parcel post." Ma is channelling my old man. "Than ye c'n staarve t'death aaahr not," Oh yeah, it's him. ******************************************************************************* "We had a bank robbery here in town the other day, but I doubt they were...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Most amazingly, they opened a restaurant - a restaurant! - in 1943 amidst food rationing.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Thank You All Very Much (US release) / A Touch of Love (UK release) from 1969 starring Sandy Dennis "Boy you've been a naughty girl / You let your knickers down" - McCartney-Lennon Thank You All Very Much is a "kitchen sink drama" for upper-class Fabian Socialists in Swinging late-1960s...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Is there a movie or book about Australian war brides coming to the US, you ask? Why yes there is. There is the very enjoyable 1957 movie "Until They Sail" (comments on the movie here: #31,467 ) Which is based on a short story in this book (comments on the short story here...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,231
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Pleasure of His Company from 1961 with Fred Astaire, Lilly Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Gary Merrill, Tab Hunter, Charles Ruggles and Harold Fong The Pleasure of His Company is a genuine comedy-drama where both elements get equal attention in this funny, but also serious movie about love...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
The Pleasure of His Company by Bernard Glemser, originally published in 1961 and based on a play by Samuel A. Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Some books are art, while others, maybe not rising to the level of art, offer deep insight into the human condition. Some, though, are just fun...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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