DRESSING 'UP' FOR SUCCESS........

Watching a few minutes of the 1947 melodramatic adaptation of GREEN DOLPHIN STREET, this morning, in which...if my memory serves me correctly, with oblique associations.......Lana and Donna's characters 'doll up' in Hollywood costume department's fashionable post WW2 Pastel tropical bird Couture, and are greeted by their mother's childhood beau...having cruised, with some "sexual/he's got some money" bent, his young hottie son.....and arrived, unannounced (Edith Wharton grimaces!), over-dressed for this early in the morning social call....only to be greeted by Mom's 'ex', who makes sexist remarks, immediately.......calling them 'colorful fish'.....Everyone's 'manners' are pretentiously Nouveau Riche Bourgeoisie, posturing as 'our shit don't stink' upper class gold diggers......Some of the dialogue from this scene was lifted by Melvina Reynolds, for her tongue-in-cheek song about American Suburbanites, 'Little Boxes'...... This 'not quite random association' was a new observation....as was the instant referential, if 'really oblique', with Miles Davis' track, 'On Green Dolphin Street', from his Album, 'Kind Of Blue'.......Every 'association' is with the largesse of stored 'data', within the resources of our 'Inner Sanctums'........Even Lana's character, Marianne, seemed right on the heels of Cora Smith, from the year before.......with a Lux Radio Theater 'costuming' upgrade by Walter Plunkett.......

THE "CANCELLATIONS" ......THE 'RESURRECTIONS"

It's been over 25 years since the end of QAF's run on Showtime...........I'd really love to see a continuation of the unwinding, convoluted story.....now that the characters are middle-aged.............What about it, Showtime....or LOGO, {it will be PEACOCK, of course...the latest Gay Interest Purveyor} a more likely candidate to do this..........Cucumber & Banana will have to do, I suppose....but what's happened to that series! {cancelled, of course} I wanted UNITED STATES OF TARA, SHAMELESS, QAF, DEXTER and a few others to just go on until the cast were at the end of their stories..........SIX FEET UNDER, so far, demonstrated the most satisfying Conclusion of these.........Shows remain only until their ratings drop....yeah, I know......It's all about the numbers....the ratings game.......I've heard that a 'reboot' of Queer As Folk is in 'next season's Lineup.....with fresh, young faces, naturally. I'm a bit surprised that Luca Guadagnino hasn't , yet, serialized CALL ME BY YOUR NAME...with Charlie Hunnan the "Oliver" role, full circle....to exploit the New Gay Sensibilities, so fashionable now.....That would be a 'bigger splash' for Peacock's streaming services, I'm sure....

DISAPPEARED FILM PROJECTS.........LOCKED UP IN MORE SCIENTOLOGY SCANDALS......JUST LOOK AWAY.......AND GET THAT "LOOK" OFF YOUR FACE.......IT'S JUST A CRASH IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH ..IN THE LARGER PERSPECTIVE OF YESTERDAY'S FORGOTTEN NEWSWORTHYNESS

What will happen with "The Juliet", Paul Haggis' proposed adaptation of the Alfred Bester short story, "Fondly Fahrenheit"? The movie's production was tossed around producers and directors for years....finally ending with Haggis as director.........Now, that Haggis is being placed on the 'noli me tangere' list...you guessed it.....for forcing women to their knees to service his knob..... will this production go South? Or, get another last minute director? Or, just be abandoned for it's infantile comic book plot line? I'm sure the last reason wouldn't be a consideration, as movie goers love Marvel Comics' film adaptations.......Maybe, if it were made, with it's principal female android wearing all black, to support current feminists' political correctness.........and ended with the male protagonist being decapitated by his 'step-down' androidess.....everything would be just hunky-dory....justice served to a populace that thrives on guilt and punishment......Caravaggio, get your hands off that boy's butt! Who do you think you are.......Leonardo DaVinci?