That's very funny as I was really surprised when I read your previous post and you said you saw a 1943 movie on an international flight not long after it came out. Showing that one's mind can fill in blanks that aren't there, I assumed you meant after a recent rerelease of the movie on Criterion...
I'm sorry, did you say something after "Hu Shee?"
Pat is clearly Caniff's idea of the perfect man - a big, strong, curly haired good-looking guy who is a global adventurer, but one who can clean up and hang with the swells for a night if he wants to. I'd bet Caniff has a quite nice wardrobe as...
It's not a small investment - you can, though, buy just the years that pre-date the start of these Day by Days - but you are someone I would encourage to buy the Clover Press editions of the original "Terry and the Pirate" strips (as I talked about here: #9,346 ).
I think you would...
"My name's Emil. Ev'rybody knows t'at." "I didn't," shrugs Miss Kaplan. :)
If you've ever had to negotiate a deal with a deeply insincere and dishonest person like Trix, you realize it's futile because they simply assume your good will and attempts to build trust are just tricks because that...
The Thomas Crown Affair from 1969 with Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and Paul Burke
If you suspend a little more disbelief than usual and just soak up the 1960s cool factor and style, The Thomas Crown Affair is an enjoyable fairytale of crime, money, luxury, sex and fashion.
Steve McQueen plays...
The V.I.P.s from 1963 with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles and Elsa Martinelli
At his best, Terence Rattigan wrote plays and screenplays exposing many of the hypocritical aspects of English "fair play," while also...
Reader George Durst says the best solution to the problem of squabbling Dodger ownership is for the people of Brooklyn themselves to buy the team. Ownership of the team by a civic-pride organization selling stock at $5 a share would put the ballclub in the hands of those who most support it...
I live
I live about a five-minute walk from Hunter. Oddly, despite colleges, in general, being protest central today for several topics, Hunter is not a hotbed of protests. That or they have them, but never when I go by. NYU, which is way downtown from me, seems much more active on that...
The Right to Romance from 1933 with Ann Harding, Robert Young and Nils Asther
The Right to Romance doesn't waste one of its sixty-seven minutes while telling the story of an attractive, in-her-early-thirties female plastic surgeon who realizes that, because of her dedication to her profession...
Pat had been held captive for a few weeks, but yes, Caniff does love to put on and take off a beard on Pat.
I wonder if Caniff had one of these as a kid.
"You do t'is f'me, an' in retoin, I DON'T come oveh t'eh an' step in ya face."
God luv ya, Alice.
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"All right, look. Burms was wanted for things she did in league with Captain Judas in 1935. Judas is almost certainly dead. There's no one to...
Sally and Alice compliment each other in a good but odd way. On paper, those two don't work, but in real life, they somehow manage to.
Frank doesn't win too many rounds, but he won one today.
Burma should pull Terry aside, give the kid the quickie he deserves and, then, hightail it out of...
Butterflies Are Free from 1972 with Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn and Eileen Heckart
Stagey, contrived and dipped in 1970s flower-power gobbledigook, Butterflies Are Free is all those things, yet still enjoyable, entertaining and, at times, emotionally moving owing to smart writing and three...
Design for Living from 1933 with Mariam Hopkins, Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Edward Everett Horton
Movies don't have to be that real, most aren't. Design for Living is fun, not because it portrays real life, but because it doesn't, yet in a playful way.
Gary Cooper and Fredric March play...
Sinatra always had the rumors of mob connections swirling around him, but of course, the mob never had its hand in boxing, so that doesn't tell us anything. :)
And that is Burma to a T.
The Animal Kingdom from 1932 with Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Henry Stephenson and William Gargan
There is a conceit amongst playwrights and screenwriters, at least in the twentieth century, that "art" is "superior" to commerce in some metaphysical sense, making artists superior to...
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