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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Film Noir Office

    Jake Gittes' office in "Chinatown" (admittedly neo-noir rather than classic) has a built-in bar. Granted, Jake ran a detective firm employing several detectives. For those on a more modest budget, a bottle of rye in the bottom right-hand drawer will suffice. I don't believe I've ever seen a...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    I think all of our meat anxieties and neuroses stem from the fact that we evolved to eat mammoth, which the supermarket doesn't stock. We've been trying to find a substitute ever since.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Weapons in the Movies

    If you want to see Tony Curtis fence, see his fight with Ross Martin in "The Great Race"(1965). It's a bit slapstick but you see Curtis in top form.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    In older movies, no matter what the time frame, the moves were taken from Olympic-style fencing. That's because the fight arrangers were fencing masters, often from the Hollywood Atlhetic Club. Even when the weapons were 18th century smallswords, as in "Scaramouche," the moves were often saber...
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    Your TOP Bogart movie..?

    That was my thought as well. Grant would have been perfect in that role. He was only 5 years younger than Bogie, but looked far more youthful at that time, and he was the best romantic comedy actor we ever had.
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    Your TOP Bogart movie..?

    Worst Bogie casting: "Sabrina." One of the few movies where he was clearly out of place. Bogie was a heavy drama guy. Romantic comedy was just not his style.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When you said, "....removed the body from the frame...." I pictured him removing the remains of the former driver from the wreck.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just realized that I meant to post this observation in the "Vintage Things That Have Disappeared" thread, but somehow posted it here instead. Oh, well.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I recall reading a novel in which a European aesthete was highly amused at the American obsession with drinking foreign bottled waters. Every European connoisseur of spring waters knows that Saratoga Spring water, from NY, is one of the finest in the world.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    As Americans with our democratic-egalitarian (ideally) values, we are uncomfortable with titles of authority so we borrow them from other languages. "Boss"is Dutch. If you're a great figure in business you're a "Tycoon," (Chinese) unless you're in the movie business, in which case you're a...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    City parking lots used to have kiosks where you could drop off film to be developed. You could usually pick up the developed prints there the next day. For obvious reasons, you don't see those any more.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I'd forgotten the deaf-mutes who handed out cards, sometimes with some gimcrack item attached, like a paper flower. The last one I remember was at a truckstop in Oklahoma maybe 20-25 years ago.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    When I was a boy in the early '50s I saw the Captain Marvel and Batman and other serials at kid's matinees. We watched them utterly oblivious that they were already 15 or more years old.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I was outraged some years ago when Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" was used in a Mercedes Benz commercial. Poor Janis must have been rolling over in her grave.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I think the theremin had its film debut in "The Lost Weekend"(1945).
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A new gimmick making the rounds is for the first words to come from the phone are, "Can you hear me?" They want to get you to say "yes." Apparently this one word opens up all sorts of possibilities for them.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lately the most dangerous call is one where the first thing they say is "Can you hear me?" What they want is to record your voice saying "yes." With that, they can get all sorts of stuff concerning you. I no longer answer the phone. They can leave a message and if it's someone I want to talk to...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    That looks like a Winkler. Is it?
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Weapons in the Movies

    Quote A couple of recent interesting TV/movie firearms observations: In the old TV series "Yancey Derrringer" - set in the immediate-post Civil War time-period in New Orleans, one of the villains carried an 1851 Navy and the other an 1849 Pocket Pistol. I was pleased to see both from a...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Are those birds from a Royal Swanery? I've read that they can get out of hand.

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