Hello Daryl Stout!
** On Tuesday 02.02.21 - 06:19, Daryl Stout wrote to August Abolins:
DS> There was a movie with Jimmy Stewart, and this female
DS> housekeeper said she was resigning because he swore at
DS> her. All he said was that he was going to get some sun on
DS> the beach.
Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation? I wasn't even in school yet when
that came out in theatres.
I enjoyed the Looney Tunes. The Roadrunner always perplexed me
and I (as a pre-schooler and early grader) could never
understand the joke in the Latin subtitles at the beginning of
each episode when they would stop the scene and post something
in fake Latin. Only decades later as an adult after getting a
VHS tape of Looney Tunes hit shows, did I finally "GET IT".
In Hitchcock's North By Northwest (the one with a confrontation
that ends on Mt Rushmore), Hitchcock wanted to push the limits
on censorship and have some kind of love scene at the end of the
film that implied more than the usual fair. The censors said no
to his material. So, Hitchcock placed the "lovers" on a train,
and after a few quips of innuendo, the final scene is the train
entering the tunnel. Apparenty, the censors couldn't say no to
that! And by some stretch of the imagination, the message
may have been even clearer.
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