Sunday, December 13, 2009

This week's poll: Who would you hire as your lawyer if you were the defendant in a murder trial?

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In last week's poll, you learned that your business partner had been murdered and that the police suspected you. You hired private eye M...
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Trivia Time - Part 14

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Well, I'm back from my break. I really needed the time off to make Trivia Time fresh & fun. In the New Year, I plain on taking Trivi...
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12 Days of Christmas: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one of my favorite Christmas movies. I saw when it was released in the theater in 1989. My husband...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

12 Days of Christmas: Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye Team Up for a "White Christmas"

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There was a time when I grumbled because White Christmas was shown every Yuletide season while Holiday Inn (1942) only made sporadic appe...
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The Friday Night Late Movie: Robert Culp as a Modern-Day Sherlock Holmes in "Spectre"

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Robert Culp as William Sebastian. Gene Roddenberry produced and co-wrote this highly-effective 1977 made-for-TV supernatural thriller that b...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

12 Days of Christmas: Art Carney Plays Santa in Rod Serling's "The Night of the Meek"

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This is Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in the uniquely popular American institution, that of the...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

12 Days of Christmas: Come to the Stable

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In the opening minutes we watch two French nuns in black habits walking over hills cloaked in pristine white snow when they see a sign post ...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Jeff Chandler Wants to Rule Kansas in "The Jayhawkers"

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This Cafe Special was written by Raccoon713. In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, a law which enabled territories west of Iow...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Name the Movie Game (December 8th Edition)

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Are you ready to play? 1. You may ask up to five yes or no questions a day. Each guess does count as one question. 2. Please number each que...
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Trivia Time

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Trivia Time is taking its very first week off. I'll be back next week. Rick, your "Free Pass" is good till then.
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Coffee Time!

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Though Vincente Minnelli's 1945 musical Yolanda and the Thief was and is one of Minnelli's, not to mention Fred Astaire's, ...
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This Week's Poll: Which private investigator would you hire to clear yourself of a potential murder rap?

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The scenario:  You and your business partner run a highly successful telecommunications empire...but he has been found murdered! There are s...
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TriviaTime Part 13: The Answers.

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Rick, Dawn, and Gilby, you guys did OK this week. Here is what you missed. Who Am I ? With no screen credit, I'm Whit Bissell. #4. B...

Underrated Performer of the Week: Daria Nicolodi, the Original (Italian) Scream Queen

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Most Italian film fans will likely remember actress Daria Nicolodi as the longtime partner of horror director Dario Argento. She is also the...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Friday Night Late Movie: Edmond O'Brien Solves His Own Murder in "D.O.A."

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As a man crosses the street into a police station, huge 3-D letters fill the screen with the film's foreboding title. The camera follows...
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Friday, December 4, 2009

Trivia Time Extra

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Below is the coolest TV spot that was never seen in the US. It's almost perfect, but there is a major flaw. The first two persons who ca...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Nightmare Alley - A Dark Gem

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By 1947, Tyrone Power was an established star best known for his romantic and swashbuckling roles, an extremely handsome matinee idol. Howev...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

What's Your Favorite Holiday TV Special?

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For me, the answer is easy: the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer , which was originally broadcast on NBC in December 1964 and has ...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

"Name the Movie" Game (1 December 2009 Edition)

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I'm thinking of a movie for this week's game. If you know it before even asking questions, please feign ignorance, ask a question or...
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Trivia Time Part 13

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Who Am I is back this week ......... I did not get any screen credit for my part in Don Siegel's of The Invasion of The Body Snatchers ...
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