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To Cagefighter from Jimmy wrote on Dec 19, 2008 4:50 PM:

" You're right, I've forgotten to do that; will soon and to your attention. Thanks for reminding me! "

Cagefighter wrote on Dec 19, 2008 4:46 PM:

" Jimmy, I still await your take on the ending of "Diabolique". Was the kid "imagining" things at the end? Or, did he actually see her? I had elaborated a little more on the blog in which you first recommended the movie... "

Michael Welch G--d---- Movies Eh... wrote on Dec 19, 2008 12:35 PM:

" Also Welch has FINALLY realized he's spelling 'predatory' incorrectly -- know how? He suddenly thought of the Schwarzenegger movie 'Predator'! As J. D. Salinger's 'immortal' Holden Caulfield put it so succinctly 'G--d--- movies!'... "

Michael Welch OUT OF EGYPT -- Well FIGURATIVELY... wrote on Dec 19, 2008 10:54 AM:

" As far as the story of the book of Exodus I find the contentions of British scholar John Romer (in his very interesting 'Testament') convincing. Romer does not believe that the account of the 'Hebrews' in Egypt is at all historical but a mythology that lent a particular power to that Canaanite tribe, gave it a 'raison d'etre' for its subjugation of the other Canaanites. 'Moses' is also a quasi-divine figure who is both 'Hebrew' and 'Egyptian' and who MUST DIE and die by God's Hand in order to destroy his huge status as a rival divinity. Egyptian history which is actually VERY well documented compared to other antiquities mentions of course NO 'Hebrews,' who would have been an obscure entity GREAT Egypt would NEVER have noticed at the time... "

Michael Welch Another Exodus Comes To Mind... wrote on Dec 19, 2008 10:43 AM:

" Re: 'Exodus' I realize Jimmy is not referring to the lengthy but I always thought quite interesting 1961 Otto Preminger production with Paul Newman. I went to see that one with my mother and brother in the spring of '61 -- it played at the 'Palms' theater in downtown Phoenix -- in part because my mother said that my dad had looked forward to seeing it but he died suddenly on Jan 18 of that year and so we went with him 'in spirit.' Sal Mineo's young and troubled Jew, an ex-concentration camp 'trustee,' made the greatest impression on me along with the horrible surprise of Jill Haworth as a NORWEGIAN Jew named 'Hansen' being killed at the end. When Eve Marie Saint asks the blond blue eyed Haworth's character 'So: YOUR mother was Jewish?' she replies wide eyed 'Yes -- and my father too'... "

Michael Welch -- Lead But To The Grave... wrote on Dec 19, 2008 10:32 AM:

" George Macready, little remembered today, was another fine actor skilled at creating a complex and dark personality. In the famous Rita Hayworth film 'Gilda' he is outstanding as the devious and preditory 'lover' of both Gilda (Hayworth) AND it is suggested of Glenn Ford. In 'Paths' he's a pompous self-centered and ambitious general who commits Kirk Douglas' regiment to that desperate attack and then demands a certain number of the soldiers be shot 'for cowardice' when the impossible assault fails. Great character actors Wayne Morris, Timothy Carey and Ralph Meeker are among the fine supporting cast and the shy pretty German girl who sings in the movie's final scenes became by the way Mrs Stanley Kubrick... "

Michael Welch Paths Of Glory --... wrote on Dec 19, 2008 10:23 AM:

" 'Paths of Glory' is one of the finest films about the POLITICS of war -- WWI in this case. It's striking that it was directed by a very young Stanley Kubrick with a cast of excellent but 'unknown' but by 'face' character actors, two 'old stars' (Adolphe Menjou and George Macready) and one BIG contemporary star Kirk Douglas whose name and Bryna productions made the financing possible. Menjou, from Pittsburgh not France and a VERY right wing guy politically, practically steals the pic from Douglas as the wily and completely amoral sophisticate of a French general who generates the 'political' attack on a virtually impregnable German position about which he really cares little... "

Lee Bowers wrote on Dec 19, 2008 7:53 AM:

" Darn, all this good programming and I can't afford cable. But on a positive note, at least we won't have to watch the Packers choke another one. They don't play til Monday. "

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