Great response, Daniel. Apparently, Gary Cooper found her very sexy. Kirby On Dec 23, 2014, at 2:27 PM, daniel strebin <[email protected]> wrote:
> when i was 5 or 6 or so, i started conning my mom into falling asleep on the > couch so i could stay up really late and watch the saturday night double > feature monster/ sci-fi show, which in my little market of boring, oregon > (yes there really is such a place) was called "the cat creeps" with a really > sexy girl in a full black cat suit with ears and tail, pre-dating josie and > the pussycats, who came on screen doing a sexy sneaky cat crawl. as if that > wasn't enough to change my life in and of itself, the one night that > certainly did chose to pair "i walked with a zombie" with "the day the earth > stood still", which both burned their unique images and other-wordly > philosophies into my hungry brain permanently, in fact it took me years later > to figure out what movie emblazoned the voodoo seduction dance into my > subconscious, while it it was easy to identify where gort and patricia neal > came from (am i the only one who always found her sexy?) so i have always > credited those 2 films with the naissance of my fascination with great, > terrible, unique, indecipherable, redeeming, hopeless, etc films, as long as > they are memorable, that is the one defining quality for me in film, > memorable. and of course, i must also credit those first 2 memorable films > for my passion to possess something tangible and definitive from every one of > those thousands of unforgettable films i have seen along the way. daniel > strebin aka dan the posterman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vaughn Mann > Sent: Dec 23, 2014 11:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] My 2014 MOPO THINK-ABOUT-IT QUESTION > > > Kirby, > > Great Question, > > When I was a kid visiting my grand parents in CT while on summer vacation, my > grandfather to me to Town (Mancheser, CT) and he dropped me off at the local > theatre (single screen, of course) and I sawWm.Wellman's "The Next Voice You > Hear" w/ James Whitmore and Nancy Reagan.(1950) I am not sure what moved > me,but that movie has stuck with me all these years and still now and then, > pick it up and watch it. Perhaps as a child it opened up a great deal of > questions for me and the manner it was delivered. > > Number two is and early film; not sure when I saw it, but it, the love and > generosity of the theme "stuck with me" again, all these years. "Sunday > Dinner For A Soldier" w/ Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Jane Darwell and Charles > Winniger (1944). > > Let's just say, I loved the films and didn't remember them for a week or so > after leaving the theatre, but remember them until this > day....................Vaughn > -----Original Message----- > >From: Kirby McDaniel > >Sent: Dec 23, 2014 10:06 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [MOPO] My 2014 MOPO THINK-ABOUT-IT QUESTION > > > >Mopolians, > > > >Is there a film that CHANGED YOUR LIFE? Maybe not in a big way, but somehow > >affected a change in you permanently? > > > >This is not a “best-movie-you’ve-ever-seen” question, although the best > >movie you’ve seen may in fact qualify. > > > >And you may have more than one - but just pick one that stands out in your > >experience. > > > >It’s really hard to know. It’s easy to say that movies changed my life - I > >think that collectively they help to shape us, but that’s > >not what I’m fishing for here. > > > >I mean a film that SHIFTED something in you, maybe good, maybe not-so / > >maybe big, maybe small. So that you could say “after I saw X, I never liked > >this, or I loved this, or I never felt the same about thus and such.” > > > >Think about it. > > > >I’m not necessarily asking you to post your answer, either. This could be > >something private for you. It’s just a question I thought about recently. > > > > > >Kirby McDaniel > >MovieArt Original Film Posters > >P.O. Box 4419 > >Austin TX 78765-4419 > >512 479 6680 mobile 512 589 5112 > >www.movieart.com > >https://www.facebook.com/movieart.austin.texas > >http://www.pinterest.com/movieartaustin/ > > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > > > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Kirby McDaniel [email protected] Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
