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Vintage Interiors
With the fireplace, it looks a little like the set of Perry's apartment in Perry Mason!- Benzadmiral
- Post #96
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's a riveting novel as well. The deal was that Stephen King wanted to write a serial novel the way Dickens used to, and so the six (I think) parts, each with a strong cliffhanger, appeared once a month on the paperback racks. I read it all at one time, though I can see where SK put the...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,132
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Several good items this weekend: "El Paso Stage," a 4th-season episode of Have Gun -- Will Travel, with Buddy Ebsen (yes!) as a dangerous and unpleasant town marshal -- a far cry from his likeable Jed Clampett -- who clashes with Paladin in a script from Gene Roddenberry. "Nemesis," a Season...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,935
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
It may seem familiar to you once you watch it. It inspired the famous Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror." When I saw the film again a couple of years ago, I realized it's not specific scenes as such that are similar, but the concept of a mental duel between two ship captains.- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,932
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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FS: 2 Akubra Campdraft's and a Fed IV, size 7/56
Do the Campdrafts run true to size? I recall that The Hattery advised us all to order 1 size larger than our usual with the Fed IV, so I did, and with a little sizing tape they fit fine. How about the CDs?- Benzadmiral
- Post #5
- Forum: Classifieds
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What are you Writing?
New fantasy short story, about 4000 words in. I have a sneaking suspicion that I began the action too early -- that the story should open much closer to the climax. We'll see what I think when it's done.- Benzadmiral
- Post #545
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
American Pastoral, based on a novel by Philip Roth, about the effect of the late Sixties' civil unrest on an upper-middle class Jewish/Catholic family, with Ewan McGregor (who also directed), Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning. Very affecting -- somehow, it seems, Roth's novels make better...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,108
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
And top-notch memorable lines. McQueen's Vin Tanner: "We deal in lead, friend." * Harry Luck (Brad Dexter) (as he dies after coming back to the fight when he could have escaped): "I'll be damned. . . " Chris Adams (Yul Brynner): "Maybe you won't be."- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,107
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I've downloaded it and will watch it this weekend. A similar kind of "Just when did we lose control of the program?" event, I suspect, happened one night on the old Merv Griffin Westinghouse talk show. Jimmy Dean -- yes, "Big Bad John" Jimmy Dean -- was subbing for Merv, and Jack Carter was a...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,894
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
"All Our Yesterdays," the famous Season Three entry in the original Star Trek in which, on a planet about to be vaporized by a nova, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find themselves trapped in two different eras in the world's past. Kirk is accused of witchcraft and jailed in a ca. 17th-century society...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,882
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Try his The Graveyard Book. Not boring in the least. A top-notch fantasy adventure, inspired (as you'd guess from the title) by Kipling's Jungle Book, it stars a child who is orphaned and then raised in a cemetery -- by ghosts.- Benzadmiral
- Post #7,893
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Name the Actor...
Kerr looks rather like Dorothy McGuire in that shot from Separate Tables.- Benzadmiral
- Post #296
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
No idea on the camera, but this is Hitchcock's Rear Window, with Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Thelma Ritter, and "Perry Mason" himself, Raymond Burr. Based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich (or "William Irish," as he used that name a lot for his fiction).- Benzadmiral
- Post #295
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
"The Box," a 1969 Season One entry from the original Hawaii Five-O. This suspenser featured Gerald S. O'Loughlin, later of The Rookies, as Charlie, a con in Oahu prison who snaps and takes several guards hostage to get his demands heard for humane treatment in the joint. Steve McGarrett agrees...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,877
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Short Story
There is a little story, a coda to Salem's Lot, which appears in his first short story collection Night Shift and which first popped up in Yankee, I think. Dynamite stuff.- Benzadmiral
- Post #20
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Goodbye Christopher Robin, a neat little film for FL people, purporting to tell the story of how A.A. "Alan" Milne came home from WWI and was healed -- and helped England and the rest of the world heal -- by his creation of Winnie the Pooh to entertain his very young son. I enjoyed it (despite...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,052
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Episode 2 of Season 2 of The Fugitive. "World's End" has not only Suzanne Pleshette as a young woman from Kimble's Stafford, Indiana, the daughter of his attorney, who fell in love with him during the trial and has been trying to help him all along, but another appearance by Lt. Gerard (Barry...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,865
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
Yes! Open Range I'd forgotten. Good flick. There is a lot of humor in TG and BC; Unforgiven is very much the opposite, a noir Western, I guess. So you may not care for Cheyenne Social Club. But it's not a film that takes itself too seriously. Stewart and Fonda play two saddle tramp buddies...- Benzadmiral
- Post #250
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
Despite John Ford's insistence on having "humor" in the film (too much of it, at least JF's idea of humor, for me), The Searchers is excellent stuff and offers up a John Wayne you will hardly recognize. The three Western films I suggest to people who usually don't like them are True Grit (the...- Benzadmiral
- Post #248
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The new Murder on the Orient Express. I remember very little about the 1974 film, except that Albert Finney as Poirot seemed to be bustling everywhere on screen at once. Kenneth Branagh's Poirot, in contrast, is brisk, low-key, and more believable. The film is indeed a treasure for Loungers...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,026
- Forum: The Moving Picture
