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@Uncool4school My take is that this is a middle aged man is reminiscing about his college days and the opportunity he had to be with "19", but didn't because they had nothing in common, although I see your interpretation. I read that the song was based on a real life experience of one of the ban...

Thanks for sharing. I'm glad to know you already have a job and a place and that you know some people there. I hope you don't get too popular to keep your online friends updated on how you're doing. We all care and want to see you happy.

@juanitat10 I agree to an extent, but maybe if others who are vulnerable to being found dead, naked, in a hotel bathtub, having died alone would hear the message about drug abuse, alienation, lack of self-esteem and support systems, her death might be less tragic.

What you said is right on and correct, but no one commenting upon Whitney's death has said this. They should have. It's sort of like Michael Jackson's death--stating the obvious is politically incorrect, but he was a severe drug abuser, and this is why he died. Dr. Murray administered the drugs...

@ccipollini1984 Thanks, Chris. This is what I've been taught. One other thing: no one said it would be easy or that there wouldn't be bitter disappointments, failures despite doing our best, or outrageous injustices that are beyond our comprehension and which cause us to question what we've be...

Movies Unlimited now has this available on DVD.

@ccipollini1984 Just checked Amazon--they have 3 copies, ranging from $48 to $79. None of them is in pristine condition, and they don't have dust covers, but this is better than $300.00.

A compilation video is good, but I had in mind more of a travelogue or diary, just for you. This is an important step that you are taking in your life, and you like to write, so you should do something like a diary or journal, supplemented with a video. I have a good friend from college who alw...

Chris: I don't know you all that well, but I've been to Vegas a few times. I didn't even like being there overnight. I don't see how you could stand it from what I've gleaned about you. Take courage from Rudy Valentino, who went to a strange country, not knowing the language or anyone there no...

I saw them live in the 70's. The lead singer really enjoys showing off his package with extra-tight pants. Didn't get it then or now. We know you're a boy.

@ccipollini1984 You are absolutely right about the attitude shown him up to now at TCM of all places. That Jeanine woman thought Pola Negri was a phenomenon--most people today don't even know who she was, and I don't think TCM shows her films--don't know if they're lost or what. As I have writ...

Correct the reference. The Tortuga Trading guy is Sean Rich, not Mark.

You raise excellent points, as usual. I am fortunate to be very close to my blood relatives, but I know families that not only aren't close, but are competitive in destructive ways and who dislike and actually go out of their way to hurt one another. Clearly, family is more than just genetic kin...

I had no idea that manual typewriters were in vogue at this time. They're great until you make a mistake. They used to have little white sheets called "Correctype", which you inserted under the key and typed over the wrong letter, which works like the correction tapes on modern electric typewri...

Not only do these dumb mothers allow their children to be mutilated, they also lie to them, all because men want them to do it, to keep women "pure". What they really want is for women not to be able to have or experience sexual desire or pleasure, fearing their own inferiority. Well, the men ar...

@kangadillo I think height is always an advantage for a man, until he gets close to 7 ft, then he may be uncomfortably tall for most women. The piece I read said that the female reporter wasn't expecting him to ask her to take his measurements, but sure didn't turn him down. I've seen a photo o...

@kangadillo Also, society was undergoing radical changes--women got the right to vote, and film became a new mass medium. Then along comes this foreigner that women fell for, who had the audacity to imply, as Michael Medved said "that he knew what he was doing in the bedroom". He made pocket wat...

I sort of do and don't miss Christmas. Mine wasn't the best this year and it was my fault, so I want to move on. As far as New Years goes, I live in an area popular with college students and young people. Lots of bars here. It's dangerous to be on the streets tonight with drunk drivers, drunks i...

@Miauriceful I don't disagree. The di Valentina was a papal title bestowed on one of his ancestors by the pope at the time. The d'Antonguella designation is a left-over from the days before Italy was united by the Lateran Treaty of 1860. While all other feudal rights were taken away, those enti...

@windstorm1000 I read Polyclinic Hospital was a major medical school training facility and had an excellent reputation at the time. Alberto, RV's brother, always said that they delayed surgery until the most-experienced doctor could get there, and this contributed to his death by allowing the inf...

I was watching TCM's series on "The Thin Man". In one episode, Nick and Nora's train is pulling into the train station at San Francisco, which looks exactly like the train station in this video. Maybe all of the train stations were similar then--who knows, but it sure looked like the same stati...

@ccipollini1984 It would have improved the Christmas Eve Service I went to if they showed up and smashed the piano, cello and violins and ran off with the little kiddies wearing Burger King crowns, bathrobes, aluminum foil wings and tinsel "halos. Just kidding about the kids. I was in a foul mo...

@dollyduke Have you seen Cobra? Right before Rudy kisses Nita and fondles her breast, she turns toward his midline and her arm and move up his body I think she fondled him first--check out the look on his face. They didn't call her "Naughty Nita" for nothing. They wre lovers after he split wi...

@ccipollini1984 I've heard that his father was involved with a circus, but as a veterinarian, caring for the animals, not as a performer. Giovanni Gugliemi was a veterinarian, and met Gabriella Barbin, RV's mother, when she contacted him to provide care to her employer's animals--she worked for a...