Fun with Keywords! (vol. 3) Answering the questions no one really asked me...

Bored. Sad. Lonely. Noivous.

Thought another round of this might cheer me up.

-- In quotations are the exact phrases or questions found in my 'Recent Keyword Activity', or the internet search results for this blog; people tried to look this stuff up, and some search engine gave 'em my address.

"Laura Tierney"



Gene Tierney, as Laura, in LAURA, maybe?

"Slept two hours bronchitis"

Sorry to hear that. Feel better soon.

"Billie Cagney, alive or dead"

Why? Is she wanted?? ;)

-- Get it? 'Wanted, Dead or alive'.

I really don't know.

Tis Cagney's wife; for you non-Cagney experts out there.

I would say 'for you non-Cagney fans' but I've yet to meet one. Introduce yourself, and I'll kick you in the slats. ;)

"What movie is Bobby Jordan shirtless?"



Well now you're speaking my language! You can see Bobby Jordan shirtless in DEAD END, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL, possibly in CRIME SCHOOL (I haven't seen that one since I started crushing on him, so if he was shirtless, I didn't pay much attention; but I'm pretty sure he is), PRIDE OF THE BOWERY (while pressed against a shoitless Leo Gorcey), BOWERY BLITZKRIEG (unless you got a botched copy, like I have), KID DYNAMITE, MR. WISE GUY (in a tiny bathing suit), and briefly, in bed, in SPOOKS RUN WILD.

Enjoy. :)

"What's the difference between the Dead End Kids and the Bowery Boys?"

The Dead End Kids refers to the original six actors who starred in the Sidney Kingsley play, Dead End, and then, in 1937, traveled to Hollywood to reprise their roles in the film version.

Later incarnations of the 'Dead End Kid' series -- Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids, and yes, even Bowery Boys -- contained actors who were NOT original Dead End Kids, because they did not star in both the stage version and the film version, like the six original DEKS.

So the difference is: The Bowery Boys is the fourth subsequent series, spawned from the Dead End Kids, though it has nothing to do with the popular characters found in Kingsley's play and its adapted film; the Bowery Boys is also more comedy-based; and only contained, at the most, four of the six original Dead End Kids, and at the least, only one.



Bowery Boys and original DEKs: Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, and Gabe Dell.

The Dead End Kid series spanned from 1937 to 1939.
The Bowery Boys, from 1946 to 1958.

"Happy Birthday poem Ginger"

Me? You want me to write you a poem??

Okay...

Happy Birthday to you
You're one year older
Would you like some new shoes?
I can make you colder...
Give me your clothes
And I'll bake you a cake
Feed you a line
and hand you my rake
Now get in the garden
and hoe up the weeds
So it's your birthday? How special.
Don't die on me, please.

-- Ha. Yes I know that was awful. I'm not drunk enough to improvise a good poem.

"Richard Conte photos"

I don't know. Click on 'Richard Conte' in my sidebar. I've got some decent Conte pictures floating around.

Or check out my friend Artman's blog:

Art, Movies, Wood, and what not.

He's a Richard Conte fan, too. :)

"Noivous definition"

Noivous? Means ya' noivous!

What dontcha undastand? ;)

"Is there such a thing as touch of pneumonia?"

YES! It's real. It will haunt you. Go run and hide your children!

"Does Warners release the Bowery Boys on DVD in 2010?"

I don't know. Maybe they'll put 'em on dvd. Maybe they won't. Maybe you should be taping them off TCM like I am. Or maybe you should buy 'em from bootleggers on eBay before they all get thrown in the hoosegow for bootleggin'!

Maybe Warners will release 'em in a nice box-set; or in several box-sets! Maybe they'll release 'em from the 'vault', and put 'em on special dvds from the Warner Archive Collection, and make you pay twenty to thirty bucks for one damn movie.

Meanwhile, the East Side Kids roam free at the Internet Archive.

Warner Brothers = smart, sneaky moneymakers.

Monogram = public domain.

"Bogart poem"

There once was a man with a lisp
Who liked the bend of my wrist

I gave him a tug
He gave me a hug

I stole his fedora

That's it.

-- Ha. I don't know; I wrote a real one several years ago. Go and try and find it. Or here's an idea: write your own poem, Lazybones.

"Why did Bobby Jordan leave the Bowery Boys?"

Because in the days of the Dead End Kids and East Side Kids, the movies centered more on a group dynamic. In the Bowery Boys series, Leo Gorcey as Slip, and Huntz Hall as Sach, were the two main characters, and Bobby Jordan was just part of the gang. I guess since he was an ORIGINAL kid (there's that 'O' word again), he felt he should be a main character, and maybe he was sad or mad he wasn't.

-- Whether he was sad or mad is the part I have to guess at. I don't know if the split was amicable, or if he was just disappointed, ready to move on; or if there was bad-blood, or what.

After he left the Bowery Boys, I think Bobby Jordan should have joined forces with Billy Halop; they could have starred in their own series! Instead of Bowery Boys silliness, they could have been tough, gritty, film noir-ish, ex-reform schoolers, who just returned from WWII (as they both had, in real life, anyway), and found work as Private Investigators!

'The Dead End Detectives', or, 'East Side P.I.s'!

-- No I don't think I have too much time on my hands. ;)

Coming up with film series for Kids long dead...

"1940 sexiest man alive"



Dana Andrews!

-- Just look at him; he knows it, too!

"Nick Conte"

Richard Conte's real name; short for 'Nicholas' Conte.

"Bowery Boys on TCM"

Every Saturday morning, at Nine Thirty AM (my time; not NY time).

"Audrey Hepburn doll"

Mattel has one from BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, and several from MY FAIR LADY.

Madame Alexander has one from SABRINA, and one from FUNNY FACE.

I think all but the MY FAIR LADY ones are pretty hard to get.

"James Cagney 'kisses' Mae Clark with a grapefruit"

Ha. It's from THE PUBLIC ENEMY.

And Mae's 'Clarke' is spelled with an 'e'.

"Bobby Jordan naked"

Well, now let's not get perverted! At the height of his popularity -- in the 1930s -- Bobby was only in his early teens.

As mentioned above, though, several of his East Side Kid movies -- where Bobby was more grown-up -- feature him shirtless.

Hasn't anyone ever told you, It's better to leave SOME things to the imagination?

-- Now if you want to see Leo Gorcey naked, I may can hook you up. ;)

"Why does TCM keep showing the same Bette Davis movies?"

Because they want you to love Bette Davis as much as they love Bette Davis. That way, the next time Warner Brothers releases one of her early/obscure titles to a Warners Archive dvd, you'll want to shell out twenty or thirty bucks for it, when you could have just recorded the damn thing when they were showing it ad nauseam.

Soon they won't show it anymore, and you'll miss it.

Like a zombie, you'll chant, "Must see Bette Davis!"

You're a Bette Davis addict! You'll have to go to Bette Davis rehab...

Just like I want 'em to show CRIME SCHOOL again, so I can see if Bobby Jordan is shoitless! Makes me noivous, though, when Bogie, sans the (stolen) fedora, has to carry little Bobby Jordan outta da rubble.

I DVRed it last December, but deleted it after one viewing. [Stupid!]

Now I've gotta wait for TCM to re-show it, or break down and buy it. Which I'll never do, because I'm cheap and optimistic.

But enough about my personal life... ;)

[Rimshot]

-- What movie of Bette Davis do they keep showing, I wonder??

Maybe Robert Osborne has given up his (suspected-by-me) crush on Leslie Caron, and now has the hots for Bette Davis.

If I ran TCM, I'd show nothing but DEK movies during the day, Jean Arthur in the afternoons, Film Noir at night, Fred and Ginger Sunday morning for church, and every Saturday night have 'Dana Andrews is Gorgeous, in Uniform, and/or possibly Shirtless' marathons.

Now that's my idea of The Essentials!

I will retire now.

Sorry for my lack of blogging, recently. I've been in a hole, convinced no one likes me, planting a garden, avoiding the filing of my taxes, trying to write a short story, and enjoying the brilliant words of a certain book I'll gush over later.

Thanks, as always, for reading.

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