BruceH

You mean Ivy League jocks have behaved like scumbags?!? I'm shocked, shocked...

Hey, don't get excited.

That's what I thought, too. I guess he gets away with it because he's already a "star." If he were auditioning for Idol with that voice he'd never get on.

Whatta maroon.

Schickel's commentary is basically unlistenable, lots of gaps, lots of just describing what we're seeing onscreen, and he makes a major mistake in the first few minutes, calling Preminger's Angel Face one of the "Fox Five," when actually it was made for RKO. An Embarrassment. The movie, on the other hand, is quite worthwhile. I'll have to see it sometime. Just watched Somewhere In the Night. It was one of the earliest "amnesia" noirs (GI doesn't remember who he is, tries to find out on his own, gets deeper and deeper into Nefarious Plot.) It was made before that became a laughable cliche, and directed by Joe Mankiewicz, one of his early forays into directing, when he was just starting to learn what to do with the camera. Not the finest noir ever made, but there are enough good scenes and interesting performances to make it worth a look. And a commentary by Eddie Muller doesn't hurt, either.

This falls into that category of "The sky is blue" studies.

Not even the Mobley????

Not even the Mobley????

Same here.

You are so right. For one thing, the Betty Page body is out of fashion now. And her face seemed to fit her hair somehow. It was a whole package, a 50's ensemble, including the serenely happy expression.

But doesn't Whirlpool have the Richard Schickle (sp?) commentary? Or should I say "non-commentary"?

$10 is good!

This has probably been mentioned already, but the rain we've been getting here in Northern California for the past four months has been breaking all records. Also, I hear they've been getting 300 to 400% more tornados than usual in the midwest.

The bad kind? The kind that shouldn't get any business? The kind that isn't really a therapist at all? One or all of the above.

Lucky!!!

Yes, so much so that I wish they had done more albums together.

As far as I know, they always have all the original-album tracks on the RVG---then they drop any bonus tracks at the end, which is the right way to do it. So don't worry.

Man that cover is classic Crumb! For my money, as good as any of the Weirdo or early American Splendor covers. Anybody have his Yazoo jazz trading cards? I have all three sets - Blues, Jazz, & Country. It's fun to get them out occasionally and just enjoy the drawings and the commentary on the back of the cards. I especially dig some of the names of the country bands - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, Mumford Bean and his Itawambians, Hoyt Ming and his Pep Steppers, just to list a few. The Crumb comic strip on record collecting in the CD booklet is a classic too. I saw more of myself in it than I wanted to. I have all three sets too. After seeing them at places like Newbury Comics and Discovery over and over I finally couldn't resist getting them all (this was more years ago than I'd care to think about.) I also saw more of myself in that strip on record collecting than I'd care to admit. Glad I'm not the only one.

Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, to be precise. Also the Prairie Ramblers, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Riley Puckett, Ted Hawkins, and more. After all these years, the title track (which is track #1) is still my favorite.

BTW, speaking of "rural" old music, anyone here ever heard the RCA CD compilation called "Ragged But Right," a single-disc of "Great Country String Bands Of the 1930's"? It's been a favorite of mine for many years; was part of the RCA Heritage Series. (Probably out of print now.)

Man that cover is classic Crumb! For my money, as good as any of the Weirdo or early American Splendor covers. Anybody have his Yazoo jazz trading cards?

Indeed, this is a good one.

Wow--when did this come out on DVD? I was looking for it a year or two ago... I do think that Andrews is just a tad underappreciated. (Just saw LAURA yet again, this time at our oldtime downtown theater--one of those films I can watch over & over again.) Me too. I can't count how many times I've watched Laura. Makes me a little reluctant to buy it on DVD, though I know I will eventually.

I find her looks kind of scary. You notice the eyes? Affectless, very vacant eyes. Kind of gives me the creeps.

Of course, if you have a turntable, you could look for the Time/Life 3-LP Giants of Jazz box for Benny Goodman. I've been seeing it in used bins for dirt cheap. Excellent selection of both big band and small group Benny, and wonderful transfers from 78 to 33 1/3.