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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I agree with your take, but Mickey Owen's take, "we all did the worse things we ever did in our lives that day." is "a bit" of a stretch. And poor soccer-jersey-wearing Raven Sherman, one heck of a woman.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Make one mistake and you'll hear about it for the rest of your life." Didn't The Bungles, years ago, find and keep a lot of money from the basement of their apartment house?
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Bob Carpenter, youthful owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, went into the Army this week. Carpenter, heir to DuPont millions, reported to Fort Dix, New Jersey to begin basic training as a buck private." All stereotypes, even those about the rich, fail close scrutiny.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Girl with Green Eyes from 1964 with Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch and Linda Redgrave Couple toasting themselves alone: Woman: "To love." Man: "To simplicity." Woman: "To you." Man: "To us." Woman: "Forever after." Man: "For while we're happy." Maybe it was a bit daring in its day, but even...
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    What Are You Reading

    The Lonely Girl by Edna O'Brien originally published in 1962 The Lonely Girl is the second book in Edna O'Brien's trilogy The Country Girls that sees the two rural Irish girls from the first book, now late teenagers, living in Dublin. You'll want to start, though, with that first book, The...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "But I hope t'ey don' expec' me t' COOK fawr ya. It ain't seemly f' management t'cook f'labeh." If Alice isn't careful, she'll end up like the radio and be on her way through the window pretty soon. ***************************************** ("This second base situation, my boy," rumbles Mr...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Thank you. I just write these reviews for fun and to share here and on a classic movie forum. I hope, as you note, some people are encourage to watch some of the movies I comment on. I do write professionally, but in my field, which is finance. As to the mushy stuff, my favorite genre of movie...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Charge of the Light Brigade from 1936 with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patrick Knowles, Donald Crisp. Nigel Bruce, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington and David Nivens Marginally framed by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, this Warner Bros. movie by the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Mrs. Brown: "Hmm, this riding on the handlebars is better than I thought it would be." Timmy: "Sorry for that bump." Mrs. Brown: "Ahh, don't be." Timmy: "Huh?" Mrs. Brown: "Oh...uh...nothing." Timmy: "We're here, Mrs. Brown." Mrs. Brown: "Not yet, you men always say that before it's true."...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's great. I'm so glad you enjoyed it and that it sparked a renewed interest in you for the classics. There are a lot of good Ford movies, as well, out there for you to discover. To your husband's point, I'm always "amazed" at how good everyone's teeth looked the "Old West."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "DON' STAN' AROUN' GASSIN', GET T"YA BENCH!" That is freakin' hilarious. Alice better not push Sally too far as Sally is as close to a breaking point as a person can get. Tell me you'd have casual sex with a sailor without telling me you'd have casual sex with a sailor:
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's kind of you to say. Now I really hope you enjoy the movie.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    3:10 to Yuma from 1957 with Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones and Ford Rainey 3:10 to Yuma is a wonderful morality tale, the Western's stock-in-trade. It's a good-versus-evil story that still causes your allegiances to shift here and there, because it mixes in...
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    I'm with Sally, there's a story behind Kelly just quitting like that. Sounds like Alice is going to find out why first. "He envisions 'streamlined, noiseless cars'..." It's 2024 (eighty years to the day later) and we New Yorkers are still waiting for those "streamlined, noiseless cars." "I...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Let's run Sandy's "arf!" here through the dog-to-human translator: Arf = Nertz to that, Boxcar Annie. You can stay here if you like, I'm going to look for a Pullman sleeper.
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    In my Clover Press read, I have a feeling I'm just about to meet Cherry and the Captain, whom I first met when these Day by Days started, but as always, your reviews are very helpful. Also, I just met Sanjak, quite the character. I know you explained this to me before - International touchiness...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "But that was the back door -" "Of course - and it's a secret - just between us!" "But we're going to serve ice cream right here in the canteen." "Later, I hope right now we have some dancing to do -" This all can't be innocent wording by Monte Barrett; he had to do this intentionally.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Notorious from 1946 with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and Leopoldine Konstantin A funny thing about Alfred Hitchcock movies is that almost all of the pictures from the "master of suspense" are really love stories with a suspense wrapper. Notorious is one of his best movies in no...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    SIC 'EM SANDY! I SAID "SIC 'EM!" "Are you nuts!? He's probably got a gun. This is exactly why I wanted to stay back until you got settled in. You sic 'em; I'm all for negotiations and appeasement."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Let's slow down for a moment here, Annie. Turk isn't after me. So why don't you go and find our new setup while I stay here in comfort, umm, keeping an eye on Turk. Then, once you are established, you can send me a ticket - Pullman car, please - and I'll come. No use in both of us roughing it...

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