Monday, October 28, 2019, 10:41 pm — Perkins … Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … now that it’s cold, moved it in front of the forced-air heater … a favorite cat-approved spot …
Category Archives: movies
Hollywood Glamour Cat
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 10:32 am — Teeny Tuxedo … newly catnipped scratcher … and silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 …
- Hollywood Glamour, 1924-1956: Selected Portraits from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (1987) … book accompanying the exhibition, Aug. 29-Oct. 25, 1987
- Perkins … with Gloria … Sofa Pillows Cat, Jan. 3, 2019
Scrumptious Catnip Cat
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 10:29 am — Teeny Tuxedo … a new scratcher … and the tasty catnip flakes that came with it … sprinkled on the scratcher …
… 11:10 am … worn out from all that catnip …
- More catnip action with Teeny and Perkins … New Scratchers Cats, Dec. 29, 2018
It’s Fate Cat
Monday, September 9, 2019, 2:07 pm — Perkins … stopped in her tracks …
… I hear something …
… do you know what it is? …
… have to go find out …
… it’s Betty Garrett … singin’ to Frank Sinatra … It’s Fate, Baby, It’s Fate … in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1949 …
- See Perky a few minutes earlier, play ball with Gene Kelly … Baseball Cat, Sept. 9, 2019
Baseball Cat
Monday, September 9, 2019, 2:03 pm — Perkins …
… Hey! … what’s goin’ on over there? …
… it’s a movie … Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1949 … Gene Kelly’s at bat …
… I wanna play! … batter up! …
… strike ONE! …
… strike TWO! …
… you’ve got one more try, Perky … you can do it! … slug it outta the park! …
… no more comments from the peanut gallery … I’m concentratin’ …
… you clobbered it, Perky! …
… run for first! …
… run, Perky … run! …
… whadda ya mean … I’m out?! … I’m takin’ this to to ump! …
Finnish DVDs Cat
Friday, September 6, 2019, 10:21 am — Perkins … livingroom oriental rug … dreaming of movies … Finnish movies! …
… on the coffee table … Finnish DVDs … plus book, Deep River, 2019, Karl Marlantes … Southwest Washington state, Finnish-American family saga …
The new DVDs … most, directly from Finland, now that I have a region-free DVD player:
- Elina: As If I Wasn’t There / Näkymätön Elina, 2002
- Ikitie / The Eternal Road, 2017
- Täällä Pohjantähden alla / Under the North Star, 2009
- Unknown Soldier / Tuntematon sotilas, 2017
Rainy Raccoon & Coyote
Friday, June 7, 2019, 9:10 pm — Raccoon (1st since winter) … black oil sunflower seed bird feeder … shooed it away with the “whist, whist” I use with Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo, to keep them away from the door … scampered into the trees … came back … “whist, whist” … scooted away … 5 minutes later, a COYOTE trotted along the edge of the trees, left to right … “whist, whist” … trotted faster toward the creek side of trees … first I’ve seen since here, 15 years … have heard them yipping, but after their territory was taken over by housing construction, south and west, 2 years ago, not nearly as much … until a few weeks ago … LOUD coyotes right outside window, 2:30 am … same area as trees in photo …
Below, in action … between the rain … movie in background, Their Own Desire, 1929 … Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone … Turner Classic Movies …
Memorial Day Rabbit
Monday, May 27, 2019, 6:51 am — Memorial Day rabbit … first of the year … hooray! wondered where they all were … watched Watership Down, 1978, a week ago, TCM … while on in background, 2:30 am, an explosion of coyote yips and howls a few yards from the bedroom window … closest I’ve heard them in a LONG while … more peacefully, two owls hoo-hoo-hooing at 4:30 am …
Catnap Oasis Cat
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 9:15 pm — This is becoming one of Perky’s favorite sleeping spots … Lawrence of Arabia is one of her favorite movies, too …
Myself and I Cats
Saturday, May 4, 2019, 2:43 pm — Teeny … watching Teeny and the wire toy … photo editing with Snagit …
… 5:03 pm … Perky doubles her relaxing … in front of the computer … and on the deck window Kitty Sill …
… rearview mirror movie … Freckles, 1960 … Teeny Tuxedo looking through the deck blinds …
… two orangish redheads … Martin West … not-quite-awake Perkins …
- My handy-dandy rearview mirror has been has been working brilliantly since 2013! … See its first appearance, Tonight’s Rear View Mirror Movie, March 23, 2013 … with Ben Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Movies … in my blog, Movies, Of Course!
Chocolate? Nope! Cat
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7:51 am — Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens … The Chocolate Soldier, 1941 … Perkins says, “I can’t watch Nelson Eddy without Jeanette MacDonald! … Who’s this Risë Stevens dame anyway?” …
Forbidden Hollywood Cats
Saturday, April 13, 2019, 11:39 pm — Hot-cha-cha! … Perkins is ever so glad Mark Vieira’s newest book has arrived! … Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies … It’s even better than the box! …
… Monday, April 15, 2019, 10:52 am … Teeny Tuxedo and Marlene Dietrich! … under the dust jacket … Do you see the resemblance? …
Camera Mastery Cats
Monday, April 1, 2019, 2:58 pm — Perkins … Teeny Tuxedo … freshly laundered Kitty Sill cover … What’s happening out on the deck? …
… 2:54 pm … First photo for Digital Camera Mastery … module 1, taking sharp photos … a tripod will be very helpful! … (notice the S-curve in the background?) … Glinda, Wizard of Oz, 1939 … 1995 Hallmark Christmas ornament …
… also, first photo of My Photo a Day Adventure …
Late Night Yawn Cat
Sunday, March 31, 2019, 1:11 am — Perkins … it’s after midnight …
… time for a hearty YAAAWN …
Let’s Watch a Movie Cat
Sunday, March 17, 2019, 4:59 pm — Perkins … I’m in the mood to watch some Joan Crawford … how about Mildred Pierce (1945)? …
… then let’s try the 7th season of The Office, 2010-11 … Steve Carell’s last … Hey, Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket is just my size! …
The Office … replacement set, Nov. 2018, ebay, $35.50 … donated my original to college book sale, April 2017 … After trying to watch on tv, with commercials, couldn’t stand it … found great ebay deal … one of three tv series I’d take to a desert isle …
J’adore TCM on Hulu Cat
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 3:52 pm — Teeny Tuxedo and Turner Classic Movies … reflected in the oval standing mirror …
The best things about TCM via Hulu Live TV … both East and West coast feeds (3 hours apart) … ALL content streams live, unlike Slingtv … a LARGE % of aired movies are available on demand for a week or so… 50 hours of cloud recording … watch on computer AND tv …
Above, snip of A-Z on demand list, in mirror-reversed order, right to left …
- Tenderfoot, 1932, Joe E. Brown; Tennessee Champ, 1954, Shelley Winters; Tension, 1949, Richard Basehart
- They Died with Their Boots On, 1941, Errol Flynn; They Won’t Forget, 1937, Claude Rains; To Be or Not to Be, 1947, Carole Lombard
Tuppence Cat
Saturday, February 9, 2019, 7:35 am — Teeny Tuxedo … snow! … early morning birds on the deck …
… 8:40 am … “feed the birds, tuppence a bag” …
Welcome to Scotland Cat
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 11:02 am — Perkins … her fluffy tail is anything but wee …
“Welcome to Scotland … Kirkie Express” … Glasgow Airport … July 1999 home exchange, Kirkintilloch, Scotland … a week in Finland visiting relatives … August home exchange, Durham City, England …
Mail from Finland Cat
Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 5:19 pm — Picked up a special box at the Ridgefield Post Office this afternoon … from Helsinki, Finland … Suomi! …
Tuntenaton sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … first of three versions (1985, 2017) … restored, Blu-ray … ebay order, Dec. 28, 2018, $15.95, free shipping …
… Teeny Tuxedo approves of the new Finnish film addition …
… on vintage Made in Finland … Didas Deken 100% Zuiver Wol (Dutch) … Didas blanket 100% pure wool … (2017 Christmas present from L)
Tuntenaton sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … directed by Edvin Laine … “First adaption of the Finnish war book (1954) by Väinö Linna. Based on Linna’s experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the “Continuation War” (1941-1944) … story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war.”
Light, Shadows Duck
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 4:22 pm — Rob R. Duck … by lamplight …
Saturday, January 5, 2019, 3:11 pm … and sun shadows …
… retro wind up clock … Scotty dogs … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock … glass cat from Russ (trip to Finland) …
… “Anytime is a good time for a vacation” … wind up travel clock …
- See Rob R. Duck in Duck Tales Cats, Nov. 11, 2018
Sofa Pillows Cat
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 1:55 am — Perkins … think she’s dreaming about Gloria Swanson and Buffalo Bill? …
Heater Time Cats
Saturday, December 29, 2018, 5:08 pm — Perkins … on a cold winter day … the Christmas Grinch box is in the perfect spot … in front of the forced-air heater …
Two years ago … Thursday, December 8, 2016, 2:36 pm — Perkins befriends the forced-air heater on a cold day … a pillow added to a box gets her to the right height in comfy style …
… and earlier … February 5, 2015, 4:56 pm … Teeny Tuxedo pulled up a box to join Perk … which turned into … Cats at the Movies! …
Snow Cat Past … 2008
Ten years ago! … [1st posted January 18, 2015]
Here’s Teeny Tuxedo looking out at the snow, Dec. 23, 2008 … The Christmas we were snowed in! … Teeny was one and a half years old …
Front door, Dec. 24, 2008 … Snow drifts aplenty, snow drifts galore. Gigantic icicle by window on right! …
Christmas Day, 2008 … White Christmas, 1954, on tv! … Enlarge photo to see shadowy cat in front of forced-air heater … Perkins or Teeny Tuxedo? …
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen … and a train full of snow, snow, snow, snow … SNOW! …
Booomph Vs. Oomph Cats
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:17 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … ignoring all the boffo publicity about Brian Donlevy and his movie, The Great McGinty, 1940 … they’re focused on something more important at the bottom of this post … a dog! …
Brian Donlevy, 1901-1972 …
“The GREAT Reviews! Hey OSCAR!” … director, writer Preston Sturges’ first film … “Hey OSCAR!” is right … won Best Writing, Original Screenplay! …
“He’s got SEX APPEAL! … He’s got BOOOMPH! … He’s a Record-Breaker!” …
Tamed by a Redhead … “The screen’s meanest “heavy” is really putty in the hands of the girl he loves! It was the redheaded Mrs. Donlevy who insisted that he accept the leading role in The Great McGinty – the part that made him famous.” … Hollywood, 1941, v. 30, p. 50 …
… the doggone dog … a dachshund … that Perk and Teeny Tuxedo have their eyes on …
The Great McGinty … trailer …
But wait! … In the battle of BOOOMPH vs. OOMPH, who showed up in the ring first? … Ann Sheridan, the Oomph Girl! … 1939! … Read “What the “Oomph” Girl Thinks of Her Title!” … Hollywood, Sept. 1939, p. 19, 50-51 …
- Magazine articles from Media History Digital Library
Amongst the Living Cat
Saturday, December 1, 2018, 12:09 pm — Perkins … not ready for the desert angst of The Petrified Forest, 1936 … Leslie Howard / Alan Squier … “Yes, it’s pleasant to be back again, amongst the living …”
Humphrey Bogart / Duke Mantee … “Sorry to see ya go … pal …”
- My month … alone … at Bette Davis’ Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire … and The Petrified Forest … Deserted in the Desert Movies, July 15, 2016
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 