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I will be chuckling about this quote for a long, long time.

My husband saw it for the first time. I glanced at it every so often after it got started, and I was shocked (and somewhat depressed) at how vividly I remembered it. I didn't remember the neighbors at the beginning (and because of Feud that meant more), but the !!!! scenes really were already seared on my memory. I used to be young (as were we all) and innocent, and that may have been the first horror movie I saw. And somehow I remembered the singing to Daddy up above in spite of my husband's laughing loudly at that performance. Really loud.

I hadn't seen the Feud wiki and that led to their wiki for Mamacita's actress. Ever since her first appearance, after I told myself that Ruth Buzzi probably wasn't playing it, I'd wondered. Here's her wiki.http://feud.wikia.com/wiki/Jackie_Hoffman I also checked on Ruth Buzzi who is now 80 and her character on Laugh In was Gladys Ormphby in case your memories are as undependable as mine.

Look beyond their faces. Hands, sometimes necks, knees, skin changes with age and, short of doing stuff to it, it hits almost all of us. Over on Tom and Lorenzo, there's a magnificent comparison of scenes from WEHTBJ and Feud. Look at the textures of their faces as well as the smile lines around their mouths. To me, I think the movie movie actresses' faces have more expression, maybe because older age hasn't caught up with them. http://tomandlorenzo.com/2017/03/feud-bette-and-joan-v-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane-side-by-side-comparison/

Before shelling out $$$ for a streaming service, if you are in a major metropolitan area, check your local library. They aren't all just about books, any more. Ours has a huge movie collection and many of the very oldies that have been issued by Criterion. And our "major metro" isn't that large, more of a minor metro.

Back, briefly, to The Bride Came C.O.D. In McCabe's biography of Cagney, he quotes a Bette Davis biography (without saying which one) as having her say about her and Cagney's appearance in The Bride came C.O.D. "We both hit bottom in that one." I was hoping to find Cagney's take on it.

AND dueling eyebrows

As edited, Adam appeared to me to be 'that guy' that you pray is on the other working group. When he left, with his hirsute toupee, I had a vision of the vibrant hair of four auffed competitors, walking into the sunset, brighter than the sun and casting long shadows.

Until I saw the close ups on the summary full article, I was clueless how they got four individual tshirts overnight. I had forgotten that Ben and Evan had been wearing them already....talk about my focusing on the characters created and overlooking the characters that made them. I do love the way they altered two t shirts for Cig and George. (Was that why they didn't go for Emily and Tyler?)

It does not bode well for N.C.I.S. when fans prefer dead characters to the currently alive group. I am afraid that the franchise takes itself seriously and that means we won't see the dead return as Zombie NCIS, righting the wrongs of society one scared-to-death at a time.

Really liked the partners dealing with the potential suicide. To me, that seemed the right amount of technology and it kept the human factor in.

I hate to deflect from the movie list on TCM (as I've been over there, marking them to record, thanks psychoticstate and AuntiePam), but the character Mamacita is the one I know nothing about. (I have not seen M Dearest.) Is there a book or article somewhere that expands on who she was and why?

I feel as if Mr. ECats and I took one for the team as we watched "The Bride Came C.O.D.". I'm not sure where the romance was ......Jack Carter as the slimy would be bridegroom of the heiress was such an unmitigated egocentric cad, I almost found myself rooting for him. I liked the cariacature of a rich father by the guy who played Bette's Father. Bette Davis, it must have hurt her, down deep, to play such a dumb broad, Engaged to the slime ball after four days? And then she did have this thing about falling into cactus. Once into a cactus is enough for pretty much everybody. The studio put their major stars in. Which brings me to James Cagney, who I had forgotten how much I didn't care about any of his movies. The guy was short, and I found myself focusing on how the scenes were shot to compensate for his lack of stature. Then after it finally ended, I compared it to my memories of "It happened one night" . Clark Gable is ALWAYS going to beat out Cagney in my mind, so that the comparison can't be fair. Maybe I should have looked at it as if all the characters were caricatures. (Yes, I looked up the definition of caricature.)

If the series were to stop right now, who do you think would get the nomination for THE EMMY for best Actress? Can we imagine a cat fight on top of a cat fight as in history repeating itself in a somewhat contorted way?

If you were to read the definitive biography/autobiography of each, which would you chose? Our library has several of both women, but I really don't feel like reading fictional accounts of perfect people.

Please don't let this be Tony Denozzo gets pneumonic plague and Ziva waits with him 2.0. If he's in a blue lit containment area, I shall be most unhappy, (even if it's part of medical protocols), or maybe they'll make it magenta?

Thinking about Cary Grant re the movies of the time of Feud, I wondered what could have happened if the minotaur or the other oversized characters had been made suave and debonair. And they would have been in a Tux. Then I remembered where someone said that the artists have to sit with the staff who do clothing..either make or rent, and I realized that renting a Tux to fit an orc might not happen, even in Hollywood.

But have you seen "The Bride came C.O.D."? Wandering through our library's website, that one just stood out, for all the wrong reasons. What a demeaning title! What serious actress would want to be in that? And what better movie to typify the old school when a studio owned an actress (and actors) and could put them in anything that would possibly puts people in theater seats? Here's a link to the imdb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033432/ The alternative titles (in 1941) aren't much better for those my fractured foreign language skills can translate.

My DTV system copied both hours, but the second one only got as far as Pride confronting Gregorio about her not warning her team about her husband etc. Anybody willing to give a Cliff Notes summary of the second half of the show (from memory)?

Tieler did a recycle challenge in New Orleans....repurpose is their buzz word http://blog.nola.com/new_orleans/2017/03/abita_youth_repurposes_tired_d.html#incart_river_home

I am way too old to be this shallow. That warning given: I thought Gibbs was sending Torres to the hospital room to give the Lieutenant eye candy for her to enjoy.

Yes and then have Logan and Melissa, now THAT would be a GREAT team! Both Logan and Melissa come across as both very professional and unflappable, unlike Adam in particular. I can just see a vibrant blue dot and a vibrant magenta-red dot walking at a great distance off into the sunset.

Was it Vee who said something like magenta eyebrows and lipstick do not a fairy make. Wonder if Keaghlan heard that as a comment on her green eyebrows?

I have avoided seeing WEHTBJ a second time. I saw it first time it played in theaters (I am that old) and I really have vivid enough memories of it. In retrospect, I've seen a lot more Bette Davis movies than Joan Crawford. I think it's time to revisit both Our library has copies of The Women and Mildred Pierce and both are coming to my closest library. I'm surprised (and a little saddened) that there's not a waiting list for both. I really thought that Feud would set off a watching frenzy.

I went on "the director's" real life wiki page and he had two wives; I think that WEHTBJ came out two years before his divorce from his first wife (or should that be her divorce from him....it didn't specify). His second marriage was to a model. I might interpret that as being a marriage in the business who knew what to expect from the get go.