If the cinema is to make progress it must take the risk of always being one jump ahead

[sovay]

Aw, man. I missed Leslie Howard's birthday. Well, it's still good advice.

Hans Conried's birthday is next week. I can thank him for appearing unexpectedly in last night's Passage to Marseille (1944), playing a character with enough effect on the plot that I would really have expected him to get a screen credit. It wasn't quite the youngest I've seen him—that would be Herman the short-tempered (and equally uncredited) sketch artist in The Gay Falcon (1941)—but seven years younger than me is still enough to merit an exclamation if you ask me.

(In about two and a half years, we'll catch up to the point where I am technically the same age as Dr. Terwilliker, because The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T was made in 1953, and I will probably screen it for my birthday or something. You can now work out my birth year and Conried's if you don't feel like looking at Wikipedia.)

I am off to see teenybuffalo and ajodasso for dinner and a movie.

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[bummble.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I saw Psycho, thinking that Anthony Perkins was an attractive man, although a bit on the old side for me (I tend to prefer men younger than me, generally, for some reason).

I caught most of it again the other night, and he had suddenly turned into this cute but terribly young man, almost still a boy... And too young even for my cougarish tastes!

[sovay]

I caught most of it again the other night, and he had suddenly turned into this cute but terribly young man, almost still a boy... And too young even for my cougarish tastes!

. . . Norman Bates is younger than my younger brother. I've just done the math.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness--especially on the last point.

[sovay]

Awesomeness--especially on the last point.

We made cherries jubilee and watched Warlock (1989), which I am hoping to write up. It was great.

[gwynnega]

Wow, Hans Conried was rather younger when he made Dr. T than I'd thought.

[sovay]

Wow, Hans Conried was rather younger when he made Dr. T than I'd thought.

I think it's that abrasive sneer. He could sound like he was born middle-aged and disdainful. It is a tragedy of Gilbert and Sullivan that he never, so far as I can tell, performed Pooh-Bah in The Mikado.