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I've been running out of stuff to watch. I've watched no American
television of late, just British stuff on PBS. The Forsytes was ok, not
great, byt hey, Eleanor Tomlinson. The hero characters are tissue paper
thin, some of the evil characters are fun.

The Count of Monte Cristo was complete in 8 parts; the novel was
initially serialized over two years in the 1840s. I read it as a child
but cannot recall what changes were made. SPOILERS Edmond wants revenge REVENGE! Also, I confuse the plot with The Man in the Iron Mask, which I
also read as a kid. Both were written by Alexander Dumas.

He doesn't become the title character till several episodes in, then it
moves along faster. International cast that befits the story.

Current shows I'm watching are Patience, which really isn't British, and
the final season of Grantchester.

There were a couple of movies I'd recorded some time back that I paired
up; Arthur would never do this pairing.

For Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday, TCM did an evening of her movies. I
finally got around to watching Butterflies are Free. Goldie plays Jill,
age 19 but she's playing 7 years younder. Jill claims to be a free
spirit but won't commit to love. This is supposed to be a bad thing, but
for goodness sake, she's 19. She seduces Don (Edward Albert, son of
Eddie), the blind man next door. She spends nearly half of the movie in lingerie. It's a plot point. Eileen Heckart is Don's mother who cannot
let go, recreating the role from Broadway. For whatever reason, it's now
set in San Francisco. Heckart had won a Tony and she did win an Oscar.

Then I watched The Pawnbroker (1964), the movie that convinced everybody
that Rod Steiger was a top character actor. Steiger is playing 25 years
older and looks lie hell. We so accept him in makeup that the flashback
scenes look phony!

This is the movie that broke the production code with respect to nudity,
but you wtill may not have been able to say "pregnant".

Steiger's character is a German Jew who had been a university professor
and had a happy life with a wife and two children. During the Holocaust,
he witnessed the rape and murder of his wife and the murders of his
children. He has no idea how or why he survived and doesn't believe in
God.

He has suppressed his emotions, desperate to suppress terrible memories,
but the memories keep breaking through.

Jewish groups actually condemned the cliche of making him a pawnbroker,
but it's actually a plot point when he explains to his Puerto Rican
assistant why Jews were merchants.

The breasts that broke movie censorship of nudity were quite lovely.
Even though Thelma George is playing a prostitute turning tricks without
paying her pimp, her nudity isn't prurient. It triggers memories of the
rape of his wife whose breasts are also shown.

The pimp owns several brothels and launders monies through the
money-losing pawn shop. A Barney Miller assortment of characters pass
through the pawn shop, including one of Hollywood's all-time great
character actoors, Juano Hernandez. The pimp is Brock Peters.

Morgan Freeman is an extra in the final scene, his first on screen
performance.

Quincy Jones wrote the score, which includes the bossa nova used as the
thme for Austin Powers.
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From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv

Did anybody else read that in The Streets of San Francisco voice?

The Breasts of Thelma Oliver
A QM Production.

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

I've been running out of stuff to watch. I've watched no American
television of late, just British stuff on PBS. The Forsytes was ok, not great, byt hey, Eleanor Tomlinson. The hero characters are tissue paper
thin, some of the evil characters are fun.

The Count of Monte Cristo was complete in 8 parts; the novel was
initially serialized over two years in the 1840s. I read it as a child
but cannot recall what changes were made. SPOILERS Edmond wants revenge REVENGE! Also, I confuse the plot with The Man in the Iron Mask, which I
also read as a kid. Both were written by Alexander Dumas.

He doesn't become the title character till several episodes in, then it
moves along faster. International cast that befits the story.

Current shows I'm watching are Patience, which really isn't British, and
the final season of Grantchester.

There were a couple of movies I'd recorded some time back that I paired
up; Arthur would never do this pairing.

For Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday, TCM did an evening of her movies. I
finally got around to watching Butterflies are Free. Goldie plays Jill,
age 19 but she's playing 7 years younder. Jill claims to be a free
spirit but won't commit to love. This is supposed to be a bad thing, but
for goodness sake, she's 19. She seduces Don (Edward Albert, son of
Eddie), the blind man next door. She spends nearly half of the movie in lingerie. It's a plot point. Eileen Heckart is Don's mother who cannot
let go, recreating the role from Broadway. For whatever reason, it's now
set in San Francisco. Heckart had won a Tony and she did win an Oscar.

Then I watched The Pawnbroker (1964), the movie that convinced everybody
that Rod Steiger was a top character actor. Steiger is playing 25 years
older and looks lie hell. We so accept him in makeup that the flashback scenes look phony!

This is the movie that broke the production code with respect to nudity,
but you wtill may not have been able to say "pregnant".

Steiger's character is a German Jew who had been a university professor
and had a happy life with a wife and two children. During the Holocaust,
he witnessed the rape and murder of his wife and the murders of his
children. He has no idea how or why he survived and doesn't believe in
God.

He has suppressed his emotions, desperate to suppress terrible memories,
but the memories keep breaking through.

Jewish groups actually condemned the cliche of making him a pawnbroker,
but it's actually a plot point when he explains to his Puerto Rican
assistant why Jews were merchants.

The breasts that broke movie censorship of nudity were quite lovely.
Even though Thelma George is playing a prostitute turning tricks without paying her pimp, her nudity isn't prurient. It triggers memories of the
rape of his wife whose breasts are also shown.

The pimp owns several brothels and launders monies through the
money-losing pawn shop. A Barney Miller assortment of characters pass
through the pawn shop, including one of Hollywood's all-time great
character actoors, Juano Hernandez. The pimp is Brock Peters.

Morgan Freeman is an extra in the final scene, his first on screen performance.

Quincy Jones wrote the score, which includes the bossa nova used as the
thme for Austin Powers.

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