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I need to get out of the house. The next showing of this is in an hour.

Kim Wexler, the lawyer of your — well, my — dreams.

I don’t get outraged when the Academy Awards show fails to include the name of a dearly departed, but why overlook Carol Lynley? After 1965’s ‘Bunny Lake is Missing’, and appearing wonderfully bare in Playboy that same year, Carol did a lot of TV work, including episodes of two Quinn Martin productions, one of them being ‘The Invaders’.

https://youtu.be/qLbdg4WM8qc

‘Better Call Saul’ returns! Season 5 of the series that is better than my most optimistic hope — better than ‘Breaking Bad’ in my opinion — starts in less than 2 weeks, on the 23rd. I’m especially looking forward to the opening scene, depicting the life in hiding of Jimmy/Saul/Gene. Season 4’s memorable opening began with this song.

REALLY BIG canvas paintings.

The background on the film ‘Angel Face’ is that Howard Hughes wanted director Otto Preminger to make Jean Simmons miserable for wanting out of her RKO contract. One way that Preminger was able to diminish Simmons, after Robert Mitchum refused to provide physical abuse, was by featuring Mona Freeman to maximum flattering effect. Mona’s modest start in show business was as one of the first Miss Subway girls in New York.

Preminger pushed the limit of what censors allowed on screen in 1953. Mona is completely comfortable with Mitchum seeing her in a slip and that obviously wasn’t the first time he zipped up her dress, despite the characters not being married. Something about Robert Mitchum I’ve long thought is that the way he talked sounded somewhat like Bing Crosby.