Open Thread Monday

I have to say that the Julia Ormond remake of Sabrina did have one advantage for the plot – Julia Ormond can be made to look plain.

Maybe since all the race cards have been played all at once, Barry needs to gather them up and reshuffle. This time he hopes the deck is not exclusively jokers and one eyed (or less) jackoffs. The sleazy, corrupt, radical machine that got him elected needs to stay out of sight til reelection. Or under the bus they go.

that was my issue as well. Every time I tried to watch aomethig or read an article my brain said "ugh, don't we have some socks to darn or something?" and I proceded to shut it all out.

I love, love, love that picture. But then I don't think Audrey ever took a bad picture in her life. (Same goes for yesterday's picture of Cary.)

In other news . . . I can't seem to find any Emmy threads around here (what's up with that?) so I'll put it here: Congratulations to "Little Dorrit" for its seven Emmy awards!!

Good grief! If he bails them out then they owe him (literally). That should improve his press, completely kill their readership, and totally spell the end of print journalism. Will he want to bail out the major networks next? Oh and he wants to have a "neutral net"…that cannot happen. How on earth can that happen? Does he think we are all milquetoast and will just fall in line to always represent the other side of the issue when we express our opinions?

You wanna bait the American Public? Try to take away their right to voice their opinion. I believe this President will find that goes over just about as well as his massive spending, his pretend deficit neutral health care plan, the insanity of cap and trade, and his unbelievable statement about not following the ACORN scandal.

In honor of Michael Moore's new film "capitalism: A love story", I am listing things I want Mr. Moore to do to prove that he is sincere about his hatred of capitalism.

1. Liquidate all your holdings (you can keep $21,000 for yourself) and give them to the people or make a gift to reduce the deficit.

2, All past and all future films you will no longer charge admission for the people to see. You will also make all films available on the INTERNET for either streaming or downloading. And give away free DVDs of your films.

3. You will let your writers join the writer's guild of America.

Do these three things, and you will prove that you are sincere and not a hypocrite. I'm not holding my breath.

I didn't watch the telecast (no love for Galactica?!) but kudos to Michael Emerson for Lost and Kristin Chenoweth for Pushing Daisies, which was unfortunately canceled.

It was/is inevitable. The failing newspapers are the propaganda vehicles for the Left. The Russian Bolsheviks had state run news; why shouldn't the American Bolshies?

What's going on with Big Hollywood? Half my posts won't go through; half will. Have they installed a word limit?
Are they having trouble with their site? Their servers? It's like it was months ago when one would type a post only to have the little icon spin around or the post not go through.

Bardot and Loren still sex goddesses at 75
Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren stripped off and pouted with an abandon that took the prudish 50s by storm and their sex goddess image endures even as both turn 75 this week.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.43847...

Wouldn't it be funny if Hilary ran for governor???? She's not very busy these days…

In addition to being beautiful Ms. Hepburn was the icon of class and elegance. She carried herself as royalty would, but without the pretentiousness.

It's "post flood control" we have it at message boards as well. It's activated by the admins of a thread/board to prevent spam or trolls from posting like madmen in a short amount of time. I think the one recently is about a minute or 90 seconds wait in between posts.

At my movie quiz site today, I have a game about robots in the movies. Now one of the first movie robots was a fembot of a kind. Most of todays starlets are fembots, of a kind (that does mean you, Megan Fox), not coming across as particularly human onscreen.
Hepburn was beautiful, but oh so human. Vulnerable, innocent, elegant. Qualities that today's starlets need but don't even desire. Too bad for them.
(And my Audrey top five:
1) Roman Holiday
2) Charade [the Hitchcock film she never made]
3) Sabrina
4) My Fair Lady
5) Funny Face)

Comparing her to other stars of her day, she made comparatively few films, but what she made was choice.

I walk out the front door everday past my cherished early 50's ultra-rare Argentinian half-sheet vintage movie poster of Audrey starring in "Funny Face" with Fred Astaire.

Her face makes everyday start out even better than it might have and salvages the ones destine to go bad.

Instead of going to what promised to be a mediocre night at the movies, my wife and I bought "How to Steal a Million" with Audrey and Peter OTool. Enjoyed it far more than we would have the junk being offered in the theaters right now.

There are two African Amerian govenors in the U.S.one in New York and the other in Mass. Both are collosal failures. Can people of any ethnicity be successful governors? Yes. Can they be successful as buffoons and Marxists? No.

In the Fifties era of big boobs and full hips (Monroe, Mansfield, Jane Russell, Lollabridgida,etc.) , Audrey stood out with her angular, elfin figure. Memorable lady. Classy.

The only enjoyable moments during the Emmys last night were those where I could oogle the gorgeous Jon Hamm. Otherwise, I didn't know over half the shows or nominees and winners. And don't care.

Yeah, I've noticed that the past few days too. Often I can only get one post in at a time without it freezing up; also, on some of these discussions I'm locked out entirely and have to try over and over again until there's an open thread. That might be because I'm a guest user, but it's still annoying. And it just did it to me again! Aarrgghh!!!

Wait, you mean they're not already thoughtless, Left Wing, tools of the State? Hmph. I hate to imagine what they'll be like after Obama gets control of them.

"How to Steal a Million" is a classic! The chemistry between O'Toole & Hepburn was great. The supporting cast was as good as the stars – Eli Wallach ("I've never been more relaxed in my life!")& Hugh Griffith especially – what talent!

My name is ReaderRedux, and I did not watch TV news for one whole day, Sunday.

That's even less likely than Moore becoming a vegetarian health nut.

I'm glad Bryan Cranston won another Emmy, but Breaking Bad should have won for best drama.

Over at Aint-It-Cool I found the following "article" about PrezBO's appearance on Letterman tonight:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42420

What makes me so sad is the tenor in which this article's "author" describes the debate about health care. Here's a quote from the article:

"The president is stumping for health care reform, something I’ve been really hot to explore since I saw Michael Moore’s documentary “Sicko,” which demonstrates that socialized medicine seems to be working exceedingly well in capitalistic democracies like Canada, Britain, France and Italy."

Think of all the impressionable youth reading that. I don't know how you counteract this mindset, in the long run. I will say that it was interesting that a few of the initial commenters on the article let the author have it for his obvious bias.

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Roger had the best line of the night after the English guy got his foot run over by the out of control secretary on the John Deere mower:

\”Too bad about his foot. Just when he had gotten it in the door.\”

The bloodspatter following the mower incident was shocking and hilarious. I would actually LOVE to see Tarantino direct an entire episode of the show (because if that wasn't a Tarantino moment, I don't know what is). I also enjoyed poor Sally's reaction to the doll appearing in her bedroom. (not enjoyed because I can imagine how scary it was, it was just such a true reaction) Christina Hendricks did a fantastic job this ep. Made me sympathize with a character I've never much liked. I also appreciated the JFK foreshadowing (of which they're doing a lot this season) with Joan's bloody dress in the hospital.

I never watch it. I ignore most of what's on TV. I tend to stick with Nick At Nite, TV Land, and the occasional foray to the Maury show – one of my few guilty pleasures.

Lately I've been watching Dragnet (1967-70) on Hulu.com – you gotta love Jack Webb.

So I keep hearing about Obama supposedly asking Patterson not to run for re-election.
I never heard why he would do that (if he did). I spend approximately zero time thinking about the New York Governor's race, so haven't kept up with it. It has to be something more than his statement that he and the president are race victims. Any ideas?

Add in newspapers and radio news for an entire week. You'll love it. No one screaming at you that the world is coming to an end. Does wonders for the spirit.

Oh, that was great — Roger might be my favorite character, actually.

Audrey living homage 2009 – Cote de Pablo from TVs NCIS.

http://www.cbs.com/upload/0795/1007387/p-2009-01-...

Sorry to get in here late…..but maybe the President could offer him a job on the board of directors at ACORN

You are wise. And you're right about Jack Webb.

It's easier than you think. Grab a couple non-political books you've been meaning to read. Then instead, sit back and read them. Think of it as a spiritual retreat from modern liberals.

Personally I couldn't do it anymore, I have to have my 3 hours of Rush every week day. Not so much for the politics, but for all the stories the MSM won't report, and especially the humor. I'm convinced Rush's true calling is a comedian.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ……..I think that just about says it all as far as a press bailout goes.

serve.gov ——-needs to be taken down—alert your friends—–they transfer you to acorn pages when you click in Health Care—-but (he/it) says not aware of what they are doing–lying sos.

excuse me folks—-it's just that i am fed up to my eye teeth with the lies.

I'm from NY and I've been watching the Patterson thing for some time now. He was never really that popular to begin with. His political weakness is exactly what lead to the state senate revolt last summer. Every act he takes, he seems to lose more and more political capital.

The dems know he's toast in the next election. What they want to do is avoid an expensive primary fight that'll cost who ever beats him (money is on Cuomo) time and good will.

Their main problem is not keeping the governor's office, they're almost guaranteed to do that, unless Rudy Giuliani tosses his hat in the ring. And he's currently eying it up. He can win it. That's what the NY state dems are worried about.

How much will a primary against Patterson cost their nominee, and will it be enough to hand the seat to Rudy.

I know most of us don't watch MSNBC,but I saw an interview with the president of Kaiser Health Services.He stated that he favored the Baucus health care exchange provision over open state borders competition.I guess we can surmise that Obama has tapped them to be in the exchange.Buy Kaiser stock NOW ! I like my Kaiser health care so I guess that's good news for us,but the rest of you are screwed.Just kidding I'm pretty sure the government is fully capable of ruining Kaiser.

Noble gestures from Mr. Jefferson, who did the exact opposite.

During Washington's two terms, when Jefferson was secretary of state, he colluded with James Madison to form a political party to to oppose John Adams for the presidency.

Since it would be virtual suicide to publicly attack Washington (he was a true American hero even then), they conspired to hire Philip Freneau, a journalist from Jersey as a translator working for state dept., under Jefferson.

His real job was to launch the National Gazette, a political rag, published anonymously, to attack Washington and his political allies.

In other words, We The People's tax money used to pay for what they Jefferson and Madison hoped would be the equivalent of today's New York Times, only worse.

It didn't really work, because Americans would just not stand for anyone dissing the father of their nation. But Mr. Jefferson does have a rather dark side that history classes tend to gloss over.

Who could squeeze in any news around all the great football?

Could be worse, could be Gutfeld.

Did you see where the HHS is going after Humana for sending letters out opposing ObamaCare?

http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/obama-administratio...

No.

That would leave a great hole, too.

Dang, you guys checked two of my all-time faves in two days! Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn—and sadly they only did one film together. But "Charade" is definitely one of my favorites!

Remember a few eps ago: Roger Sterling's daughter unfortunately picked November 23, 1963 as her wedding day…

And while she may be persona non grata around here, Oprah's "Mad Men" episode today was quite entertaining, especially Gayle's visit to the actual set.

Dear President Obammy-

The term you sought was "magic bullet", not "silver bullet".

The 'magic bullet' cures, the silver bullet kills vampires and werewolves.

Thank you.