of the real movie stars.

  That leaves Clint…and right now I can’t really think, you guys will name the others for me…..when asked if he were tempted by all the sirens with which he starred, he said of the elegant Miss Woodward…“Why go for hamburger when there’s steak at home.”

A sad time. A great man.

But now I’ll just smile and think about him and George Kennedy, ankled in chains, watching the sudsy babe sponge down the windshield, her magnificent melons squished against the glass in CHL.

“LUCILLE!!”

…of the cold rifleman as Luke escaped for the eighty fourth time. The words you quoted, Frank, the “failure to communicate” line was uttered by the great character actor, Strother Martin (God I love that name) who was so mean that Seven-Up didn’t even like him (“you like it—It likes you’). I also dug Strother in the little seen and underappreciated little classic by Sam Peckinpah, "The Ballad of Cable Hogue” which also featured the late Jason Robards.

“You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Rudolph Valentino, looks very much alive,
And he looks up ladies’ dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi
‘Cos he’s liable to turn and bite,
But stand close by Bette Davis
Because hers was such a lonely life.
If you covered him with garbage,
George Sanders would still have style,
And if you stamped on Mickey Rooney
He would still turn round and smile,
But please don’t tread on dearest Marilyn
‘Cos she’s not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood.”

Yeah, Ray Davies again. A sad night losing Paul Newman. For cinema. For America.