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Observation about Sheldon's "You're in My Spot"
Thoughts on "Little Green Men"
Was Haley Just Dumb?
The Airport-funny but with a few errors
All those Locks on Jerry's Door
Stuff They Got Away with Before DVDs
Second Look at a Season Two Episode
RIP- I Used to Envy Her
A Dark Day Indeed
Lucy's Finest Physical Comedy Moment
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I'm sure this film will always have an audience with intelligent people. Some of today's younger crowd may be put off by the black and white. But that's what makes a lot of these older scary films work so well. You don't get invested in bright colors where everything looks so cheerful. B&W is better for this type of story.
Also some people might be put off by the slow pacing. But this movie was made when directors knew HOW to slow the pace and build up suspense. Today's movies throw everything in the audience's face in the first five minutes.
Yes, she was a great character. And her wardrobe! New York edgy, hip, cool, odd, or just plain weird. I wish I could've dressed like that when I was younger. But I could never have pulled it off.
All good examples. One moment that stays in my mind is a scene before the horror even begins. Marion has decided to run off with the money instead of depositing it in the bank. She's at a red light and sees her boss crossing the street right in front of her.
Earlier she said that she was going to spend the weekend in bed. Now here she was out and about. She looks so guilty in that one moment. She looks like she's been caught. And later when she wakes up in her car and the traffic cop stops to check on her, she looks so guilty again. It's such a contrast to Norman who shows no guilt over his crimes.
Those little moments stay with me.
My son has a few tattoos. But there's nothing I can do about it. Oh well. At least his big tattoo is on his leg and he wears long pants, so you can't see it. He had one on his hand.
One time though I was glad he had that tattoo on his hand. For a while he was thinking about applying to the State Police. I don't know if states have different rules, but here the State Police cannot have any visible tattoos. So he couldn't apply. I was relieved!
Gosh I hate tattoos! I know they are legal, but they look so stupid. I know a lot of teen age girls who have them and I always want to ask them why they would do something so dumb to their bodies.
I read a book by Peter Falk (aka Columbo). He wrote about his movie and TV roles and the people he worked with. He tells a story about Truman Capote who was in the film "Mmurder by Death" with him.
Capote had just finished doing interviews at San Quentin. Falk asked him if there was anything that was universal among the inmates. You would think, drugs, broken homes, child abuse,etc.
But he said that the one thing they ALL had in common was tattoos! There was a time when people didn't strive so hard to emulate the dregs of society. Not now.
I had that thought myself a long time ago. Forget the salad dressing, Lucy and Ethel could have made a fortune doing commercials for other peoples' products. They were hilarious.
Our local newspaper still carries her late twin sister's column, Ann Landers. I'm pretty sure the woman's daughter writes it.
Maybe "Dear Abby" is also written by a relative.
The Pope was a Polack? I happen to be of Polish extraction and we prefer the term "Polock". LOLOL Polish men are hardly anti-woman, but it was no reason to cancel her column.
Milwaukee has a large Polish-American community. But gee, after a lifetime of hearing Polish jokes (mainly because I have a very WASPY last name), I'm not offended.
edit: our newspapaper does carry Dear Abby, not Ann Landers. It carried the latter for years and I still think of it as Ann Landers. Dear Abby's daughter writes the column now.
Never was too fond of Clara either. She wasn't bad, but she could be awfully catty towards Aunt Bea even though they were good friends.
Warren didn't stand a chance. It was about impossible to replace Don Knotts. They tried to make him a bumbler like Barney. But it just didn't work.
On Cheers it worked when they had to replace Coach who was vague and confused all the time. They brought in a much younger vague and confused character. I wonder if it would've worked if TAGS brought in a very young deputy, someone who had just graduated from the police academy. Or if they brought in an old guy who was close to retirement age and getting kinda senile.
Aunt Bea has become Uncle Bee. He beat Opie to the punch!
Otis, the town drunk would run the local AA meetings.
They would never be able to make an episode like "Opie and the Spoiled Kid" because little brats like that are now indulged and their behavior is excused as ADD. If the dad took this kid "to the woodshed" as he did in the original TAGS episode, Andy would have to arrest him for child abuse.
In a very early episode I recall that Barney told Andy that he bought his parents a new septic tank for their anniversary.
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