Recent content by Benzadmiral

Two neat vintage episodes of different series. First was "The Stranger in the Mirror," a Season Three entry for The Fugitive. "After three police officers are murdered, Kimble (David Janssen), the new stranger in town, becomes the obvious suspect. His situation is complicated by his boss...

So, Lizzie, it sounds like I could have my character refer to either "Scotch tape" or "gummed tape." Of course the story is intended for a modern audience, so I suspect that the former might work better, while still avoiding an anachronism.

I'm revising a story for an online contest. It opens in August of 1941 in New Mexico, and concludes just after the war ends. I know what we call "Scotch" tape was invented around 1930. Did people call it that in the early Forties? I'd have thought "cellophane tape" would have been the common...

Oh, and an episode of The Fugitive from 1965, "Set Fire to a Straw Man." Kimble is working for a self-made businessman whose sister (Diana Hyland) is a playgirl. She sets her sights on Kimble, who is warned off by the brother. But she persists . . . and he comes to realize that she is...

A neat little episode of Have Gun -- Will Travel from the show's second season called "The Chase." Paladin is hired to find a woman's husband, a fugitive, before the posse does. The husband, a bank clerk, is accused of shooting the town deputy and fleeing with $20,000. As he begins his...

True enough, a "snap-brim hat." We are not told the brand directly, though one of Mr. Big's henchmen describes "the Limey" (Bond) as wearing "a grey Stetson." Now it could have been an actual Stetson, or it could have been a case of dubbing all members of a class by the name of its best-known...

A two-part Season Three episode of The Fugitive, "Landscape With Running Figures." "Kimble stumbles, signing his own name on a time-sheet, which sets off a manhunt, while residents battle a flood. Gerard (Barry Morse) drags his wife off of their vacation to join the hounds. With many roads out...

Hogan's Heroes fanfic? I guess I should have expected it. There is probably fanfic of the short-lived '90s sitcom Herman's Head, for all I know. Klemperer was a very versatile actor. I've seen him on Perry Mason in dramatic roles, on Man from U.N.C.L.E. as a villain, and he played Adolf...

A Season Three episode of The Fugitive, with Arthur O'Connell, Sheree North (later Cosmo Kramer's mom), and Kim Darby, still 3 years away from playing Mattie Ross in True Grit. Dr. Kimble is injured slightly while running from a posse, and winds up being treated by O'Connell's "Dr." Adams, a...

The recent film Tully, written by Diablo (Juno) Cody and starring Charlize Theron. I'm not sure if I liked the film overall. There are flashes of Cody's trademark funny dialogue here and there, but the first half of the film is depressing -- you wouldn't call this a comedy by any means, though...

That's similar, but Bogart's Sam Spade wears his hat at that point, I think. And Spade did not have the sides of his hair so closely cropped, let alone graying.

Bolthead, I'm a 7, though sometimes a 6 7/8 can fit me with a bit of stretching. How wide are the wide brims? And I've been a fan of Resistols for a while.

To us, yes, but we can DuckDuckGo up images from the two films at any time. An average moviegoer in 1941 heading into the Rialto to see the latest Bogart picture wouldn't think anything of the portrait on the one-sheet while going in. Coming out, if he looked at the one-sheet again, he might...

The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

I had fun a couple of years ago with a short Man from U.N.C.L.E. fanfic, featuring Bud (Jack Lemmon's character) and Fran (Shirley MacLaine) in 1964, now married and with a small child, innocently caught up in a Solo-and-Illya adventure -- because Bud's new boss is trying to have him killed...