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What Are You Reading
The Great Man by Al Morgan, first published in 1955 The Great Man does two things that a good popular novel should do: It entertains and it provides insight into something – in this case, the midcentury broadcasting industry in America. Today, it's still a fun page-turner and excellent time...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,236
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Who's Miss Wong?" wonders Danny. "Soombody oowes me a favarr," nods Uncle Frank. "She joost doon't know it yet." The man can see an opportunity between the cracks.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,681
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
That would be one heck of a storyline.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,675
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Ma's not that old. Sally could find herself with a little sister or brother nine months from now if these two aren't careful. :) ************************************************************ I get that people were truly hungry in the Depression and would eat things like the neck of a chicken...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,673
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Well whoot am OI s'posta wear?" protests Ma, gesturing down at her budge. "An apron with 'READ THE BROOKLYN EAGLE' printed craaass'ta froont?" :) ********************************************************** "Please don't think I'm meddling..." Meddling is all she does, period, full stop.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,670
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Way Back Home from 1931 with Phillip Lord, Stanley Fields, Bette Davis and Frank Albertson, Today, movies like Way Back Home are produced by Hallmark and its made-for-cable-TV ilk. It's a "homespun" tale about "simple folks" in a small rural community who solve their problems by being kind...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,660
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Dear Sirs. Please be advised that the name and title "Superman" and all related indicia and derivatives therof are registered trademarks of Superman, Incorporated and Detective Comics, Incorporated, and are fully protected under United States law. Please be advised that public infringement of...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,667
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Just when the story stated to heat up, the Daily News goes two days without anything about Puk Paaris – does Page Four understand its own mission?- Fading Fast
- Post #10,664
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
You nailed it; it was Kiley's character. A nice enough guy who had absolutely no business trying to teach in that school.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,659
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Your point is spot on; although, I think it was another teacher's records that the kids smashed.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,657
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
⇧ Another fun comparison is to look back in Poitier's career to 1955's "Blackboard Jungle" when he played one of the "troubled" kids and Glenn Ford was the teacher trying to break through.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,655
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
To Sir, With Love from 1967 with Sidney Poitier, Lulu, Judy Geeson and Suzy Kendall Sidney Poitier was on fire in the 1960s, banging out one impressive movie after another, with many, like To Sir, With Love, driven by an idealized 1960s social conscience. Even if their simple social solutions...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,653
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Gaaah annything in a 9-E? Oi gaaht boonions." Freakin' perfect after she gives Bink s___ about the size of her feet. And why the hey did they take Bink with them anyway? ********************************************************** "Well," relates Uncle Frank, a flush creeping across his...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,661
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Politics from 1931 with Marie Dressler, Poly Moran, Karen Morley and Roscoe Ates "I couldn't do it... I don't know a thing about politics... I have all my preserving to do." If Hallmark and Frank Capra teamed up to make a low-budget short movie with early 1930s sui generis star Marie...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,651
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Let's staaaart oovar..." :) ************************************************************ "Well, there's that restaurant in Valley Stream." "Oh, no, I haven't a thing to wear." "So?" While sitcom like, the idea that, in 1944, they do everything naked in Valley Stream is very funny...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,657
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Sally and Alice are on fire today. Outstanding. ********************************************************* This Noel Coward things has more legs than I thought it would. ********************************************************* Sorry, the turkey comes without dressing. :)...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,654
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Gabriel "Blah Blah" Vigorito That is one insane mob nickname. ********************************************************** "This? Oh it's just something I throw on to lie around the house in."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,651
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Under Eighteen from 1931 with Marion Marsh, Warren William, Anita Page and Norman Foster It's not easy to pigeonhole Under Eighteen, an engaging picture that is part kitchen-sink drama (before that name existed), part romcom, and part pre-code sexcapade. Here, these disparate parts are...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,650
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The EE also endorses the Fire Department's city-wide campaign to end smoking by customers in all department and other retail stores. "Bearing in mind the disastrous Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, he warns, "it is easy to imagine the havoc just one careless smoker could cause in any of...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,647
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I enjoyed that one a lot, too. My comments on it here #30,722 (As always, feel free to ignore, we all have too much to do.) I've watched a few Hallmark Xmas ones, too (kinda in the background). I did enjoy "Rescuing Christmas" and "The Christmas charade."- Fading Fast
- Post #31,649
- Forum: The Moving Picture
