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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were so 1960, and now it is time for you to post until the 1960 cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: BENIGNENT!

[Freddie]

So exciting reading how DRAT! THE CAT! is progressing.  Continued broken-leg vibes!

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

It's been a ghastly morning so far. I'm ready to pack it in, return to bed, and stay there until tomorrow. I've dropped things, spilled things, and worst of all I have lost one of my 1099s, the one from the NY Public Library for the pre-showing discussion of the ballet back in March.

[singdaw]

Good morning, friends.

[singdaw]

And others.

[singdaw]

Nothing of note happened overnight.

[singdaw]

That I know of.

[singdaw]

I haven't peeked out the window yet to see how much SNOW arrived.

[elmore3003]

I'm a slob as a housekeeper, but I'm pretty meticulous about my tax records, so that missing 1099 really has me concerned. Luckily, I have all of the trashed paper from the day I sorted everything, and I'm hoping the 1099 turnbed up there.

[elmore3003]

Coatimundis are adorable and now I want one for a pet.

[elmore3003]

DR Laura, the NY Historical Society has an exhibition on Flaco, the Central Park Zoo owl that was freed by vandals. I would love to see it, but there's no way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6PgTGJCYc

[elmore3003]

There's a nice Wikipedia article about Flaco, his escape and tragic death, but I cannot get the damned URL to behave.

[elmore3003]

I tried to tell Tony Roberts how wonderful he was in the kast revival of The Royal Family. He was impatiient and rude.

[Jrand74]

DR ELMORE I hope your Saturday gets better!

[Jrand74]

I don't really have an answer for the TOD.

But I will say that our family went to the drive in to see Legend Of The Lost....and could NOT understand one word that Sophia Loren or Rossano Brazzi said.  The same thing happened a couple of years later when we saw Circus World.....Claudia Cardinale was talking but I don't know what she was saying....it was the same when I saw her in Don't Make Waves.....

[Jrand74]

But I did like all four of the movies that MR BK wrote about today....saw them on TV or video or dvd.

[Laura]

Good morning.

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

DR ELMORE I hope your Saturday gets better!

SECONDED.  And I'm thinking you should be able to get another copy of most 1099s, maybe even downloaded or emailed to you. Pain in the ASS, of course, but maybe you'll also luck out and find it, or Stella will be guilted into getting it out of her hiding place and returning it to you.

[ChasSmith]

TOD

I love all of those films, but I didn't see a single one of them in 1960.
Let's see...

Eyes Without a Face - never saw it until I had Criterion's DVD, not laserdisc, so, early 2000s? Wow, talk about being a latecomer. But what a revelation.

Peeping Tom - I saw it either at a festival or a revival house in probably the late 1970s, I'm thinking most likely at the Nuart. I probably didn't see it again until I had the Criterion laserdisc. Now I'm really curious about where in LA it was. Did Filmex show it? Seems like it was at something special.

Black Sunday - As a kid, I salivated over the trailers for this in the early 1960s, it looked like the most stunning horror movie ever. When I finally got to see it, it was probably not until the 1963-1964 timeframe. Didn't see it after that until the DVD era.

Psycho - I never saw it until a rerelease in - I forget, but I have the ad saved somewhere - 1964/1965? I'd read the paperback shortly before that, so I "knew" (haha) what I was in for. I guess I had never even seen clips from the movie. I went to it alone, and it first stunned then scared the living bejesus out of me. I laid awake all night with the lights on.

A very special group of films, these. And good memories attached to all. Which doesn't really answer the TOD. Have to think about that.

[ChasSmith]

Bigger sn*wst*rm between tonight and tomorrow morning, so big cleanup tomorrow afternoon.

Y'all know what I'm thinking. And the language I'd be using. I don't have to actually say it. Right?

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

DR John G.:

I keep forgetting to ask this. You posted a beautiful picture of the swiss cheese and onion pie, and if you said anything about how you liked it, I completely missed it. What was the verdict?

[John G.]

It’s hard to pick all of the movies that rocked my world, but I recall:

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife — first Lubitsch and maybe my first screwball comedy on the big screen
Wild Strawberries — first Bergman
Singin’ in the Rain
Mary Poppins — rewrote my childhood
Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast

[John G.]

DR John G.:

I keep forgetting to ask this. You posted a beautiful picture of the swiss cheese and onion pie, and if you said anything about how you liked it, I completely missed it. What was the verdict?

I really enjoyed it. It would work for breakfast as well as dinner. The recipe I used was to make two, but I only made one; everything halved worked well. I didn’t cover the crust while baking, which I should do the next time.

[John G.]

One of the very first film books I ever read was Lunatics and Lovers, an overview of screwball comedy. That was in eighth grade or so. I laughed at the in-depth discussions of movies like The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby and Libeled Lady. I dragged my parents to a free outdoor showing of Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife. (well, they took me because I was too young to drive.) It was every second as funny as the book promised.

[John G.]

We also saw The Awful Truth, a true wonder, but Bluebeard was first.

[John G.]

Onward!