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[MBarnum]

I hope you're feeling better, MBarnum. Recovering while watching Mamie Van D. can be hard on a system.

You're telling me! Watching Mamie (as a college professor!) acting along-side Thinko the Robot and a chimpanzee is something likely to pop up in my nightmares for years to come.

[MBarnum]

On the other hand, her film THE BEAT GENERATION was surprisingly excellent...with much thanks to performances by Steve Cochran and Fay Spain.

[MBarnum]

On the other hand, her film THE BEAT GENERATION was surprisingly excellent...with much thanks to performances by Steve Cochran and Fay Spain.

The movie really had very little to do with Beatniks, however.

[Matthew]

unpack the luggage, la la la
re-pack the luggage, la la la
unpack the luggage, la la la

hi ho the glamorous life (until August when the luggage is packed again!)

[Jennifer]

The makers for DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES have a new show starting titled, I think, MAIDS. It sounds like it might be good.

Devious Maids. I recorded it. It started last night on Lifetime.

[ChasSmith]

DR JohnG, Oriental House looks just like a Chinese restaurant should!

And that is the truth.   Ruth.

[singdaw]

[ChasSmith]

I LOVED drugstore (and five-and-dime) lunch counters.  Even just stopping at one for a Coke was a treat.

[ChasSmith]

But one of the large Woolworths (or whichever it might have been) in the then-thriving downtown Columbus was the place of my first BLT, for which I am eternally grateful...and to this day, I still think those lunch counters are the perfect places for same.

[singdaw]

I have fond memories of my father taking me to the automats in New York City!

[ChasSmith]

I've always loved that BEAT GENERATION poster. 

[Jrand74]

That is a NICE poster!!!

[bk]

MR BK the phone number on the matchbook cover of Kiru was DU-5 ...  What did the DU stand for?

DUnkirk.

[bk]

I'm up.  I didn't fall asleep until two, so not quite eight hours.

[bk]

It's overcast out, but I'll try to do the jog in about thirty minutes.

[ChasSmith]

Ours were CApital and BElmont in Columbus, and LUdlow and JAckson in Fort Lauderdale.

[Ginny]

Our phone number in Detroit started with BR-oadway.

[John G.]

From the yard beyond the restaurant we went to Saturday. Car 54, where are you? (I figured it had the nostalgic sheen of the TOD).

[John G.]

And a wonderful weather vane:

[ChasSmith]

BK:  Do you have a menu from Coffee Dan's?

[bk]

BK:  Do you have a menu from Coffee Dan's?

I do but I couldn't find it yesterday.  I know I got one at some point when I was maniacally finding stuff on eBay.

[FJL]

More vibes to MBarnum and Freddy.

[FJL]

Sorry for yesterday's E & T situation (or if it looked like I was here when i was not).   I hadn't realized I'd still been on when I walked away.

[Ron Pulliam]

What do you think of my hat for the Royal Ascot...    Too much?

The hat's all right.  But that purse is, as the French say, De Trop!

[Ron Pulliam]

I'm extremely grateful for the "new forum" and the new "capabilities" of same.  Loved today's column, Bruce.  Love the nostalgic photos of favorite places.

[FJL]

Very enjoyable notes and photos!

[Ron Pulliam]

I have fond memories of my father taking me to the automats in New York City!

I have fond memories of seeing them in "Pillow Talk". "That Touch of Mink".

[Ron Pulliam]

I like your hat DR SINGDAW, but you shouldn't hold your purse there.

Agreed (hence my de trop comment.  Great minds think alike, it seems!)

[Ron Pulliam]

I started watching a movie recommended, I believe, by BK called "Hitler's Children," a documentary in which survivors of the highest ranking members of the Third Reich are interviewed. The movie is only 85 minutes or so long, but I had to stop it midway through, as it was too much to bear in one sitting. I will return to it this evening, I hope, but it's as devastating a movie as Resnais' "Night and Fog."

And I see that the library has just gotten "Shoah," which is nine hours. Wonder how long that would take for me to get through?

With rest breaks, potty breaks, time out for phone calls and snacks, and the extra time for viewing all the extras, including three other films on the same subject the filmmaker cut from "Shoah" because it was too long, and I reckon you can watch it in four or five days.

[FJL]

Speaking of PILLOW TALK, it's been at least a week since the NY Times Critics Pick on LOVER COME BACK has been linked here.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/critics-picks-lover-come-back/

Is it generally felt that LOVER COME BACK has held up even better than PILLOW TALK, if anyone knows such things.