BruceH

"Some density...moved right beside meeeee...."

I'm also going to keep an eye out-----this album sounds very, very good.

Throw in The Philadelphia Story, Notorious, and North By Northwest and you've really got a box there. The Philadelphia Story is available in a two-disc Special Edition as part of another bargain DVD box, Classic Comedies Collection(Warner Home Video) along with Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby also with Grant and Hepburn, Gregory La Cava's Stage Door with Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, Libeled Lady, with Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Walter Connolly, George Cukor's Dinner at Eight, starring Harlow, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, and John and Lionel Barrymore, and Ernst Lubitsch's amazing To Be or Not To Be with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. Not bad. There's a nice Criterion of Notorious, and North by Northwest is available as both a single disc and as part of the recent mammoth Paramount Hitchcock set. But you probably knew that. Yep. But isn't the Criterion of Notorious out of print now?

Get it. You know you want to.

Throw in The Philadelphia Story, Notorious, and North By Northwest and you've really got a box there.

Did anyone notice the redness of the quills towards the mouth? Yikes. That's a dog that means business.

And don't forget my favorite---"Booby" Hutcherson! BTW, I keep meaning to get The Procrastinator, but, well.....you know. (Cornbread is very good.)

He deserves to lose his driver's license. Permanently. ANYONE who drives the Pacific Coast highway at 120mph is a dangerous maniac who whould be kept in restraints.

Sad news. The sound of his voice was part of my childhood. RIP.

Since the RVG Gigolo is the only one I have, I'm going to learn to live with it.

...and the Remains were form Liverpool.

Amen to that! I don't know how things are in the US right now, but in the UK any programme about jazz (or the arts in general) is rare. The two channels that traditionally dedicated themselves to that sort of programming (BBC2, Channel 4) are now endless back-to-back reality shows and home makeovers. I have switched my TV on probably about four times in the last five months. And we're supposed to have (so they tell us) the best TV in the world. As far as I know, there isn't ANY jazz programming on US television at all----and hasn't been for a long, long time.

I was thinking the same thing.

Yeah. I'm all about that. Not smart.

Nope.

Bechet.

It doesn't help that Lonehill is part-owned by Dick Cheney.

I wish it weren't on both Workout and Another Workout. One or the other, people!! The first Mobley album I ever got was Soul Station. (Not the first jazz album, I wasn't that lucky, but first Mobley.) I think Workout was second. Still one of my favorites by Hank. The combination of Grant Green and Wynton Kelly really works. Great compositions, great playing.... What could be better?

Jim, this is one case in which you're not using your head.

If I'm not allowed to download some of my CD's onto my iPod, then why the heck should I BUY and iPod????

The movies ain't bad either. (Though I agree that the commentaries are this series are very good.) I was especially impressed by "Curse," which could probably win some kind of award for "Best Movie with Worst Title." The little girl in the movie gives an amazing performance. What was your take on that one, Bruce? Excellent movie, though I can understand Lewton's anger at having such a dreadful title foisted on him. I thought it was hilarious that he turned around and made a movie in which no cat appears at all, so that in post-production they had to add a scene near the beginning with a cat up a tree. The suggested titles, "Amy and Her Friend" or "Imaginary Playmate" would have been not only more apposite (to say the least) but more fair to the audience. The girl gives such a good performance that I was curious about her later career, but it appears that she was one of those child-actors who didn't have a career after the onset of maturity. Too bad. (Nice, too, that the commentary included quotes from Agee.) Though, according to the commentary (as I recall it), she did have a fairly extensive career as a child in the 1940s, including an appearance as a child version of Veronica lake in Rene Clair's I Married a Witch. (Good casting!) True, but she didn't do anything, as I recall, past her teens. BTW, have you seen I Married A Witch? It's supposed to be rather bad.

Cheap shot. Your example isn't parallel and you know it. What do you propose, searching out each of these guys and beating the shit out him? Not very useful to say the least, but that's what some people want to do. In which case you'd just get yourself thrown in jail because you'd be the crimimal. Wouldn't do your kids a hell of a lot of good. So what does the list accomplish? It gets you to watch over your kids more closely you say? Well, I think that would by done by all the hysterical news stories you see all the time.

So the piazzas, town squares, whatever, have big holes in them?

Or maybe a lot of guys encounter the same few women, relatively and proportionally speaking. Look at it this way - Let's assume a group of twenty men and twenty women, each in a relationship with another. Let's also say that there's two women in this group who are "available" and eight of the twenty guys have sex with both of them, maybe just once apiece, over the course of two years, in addition to the sex with their regular partner. The other eighteen women and twelve men remain in comitted monogamous relationships for the same time. That's 36 different pairings among the group, but 40% of the men have had three partners, and 90% of the women have only had one. Of course, the other 10% of the women will have had nine partners in this time, but since they're only 10% of the women, is their activity considered "unusual", and therefore discounted, whereas the men's activity is considered "normal" because, after all, 40% is a rather "significant percentage"? Think about it - in this hypothetical (and not too far-fetched) example, isn't it most likely to be reported as "40% of men report having sex with three different partners in a two year span; 90% of women report remaining monogamous during the same time; Men MUST be lying!"? I think that's a quite plausible potential reporting of totally accurate data. Now, extrapolate this out over a longer time span and a broader population base. Are the men really lying, or are the researchers just not considering all the possibilities? This may have nothing to to with the particular story above, but my point is this - I'll believe anybody's statistics until somebody else can contradict them. Which usually takes about five minutes... This is making my head hurt.

He does have a good point. Registries like this that can be accessed by anyone don't seem to serve any useful purpose. After all, what are you going to do about it? Nothing, that's what. And does the registry show everyone who's a danger to your kids? No, only those who've had a conviction. All it does is get parents worked up and paranoid. So you look out for your kids, which you'd do anyway.