Comments on: This Week on TCM

By: BlueNight

BlueNight — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:12:02 +0000

Like I said, the stores merging was from a purely emotional viewpoint, not an actual fact. However, that’s how we, as the audience are supposed to take it. It’s an emotion-based metaphor.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:40:03 +0000

What she cared about was destroyed. He didn’t protect her or her store. It didn’t become part of a larger store — it closed, going out of business.

By: BlueNight

BlueNight — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:40:11 +0000

Because she gets what she wants emotionally. Her store’s survival was at stake, but as a part of a larger store, its survival is assured… as long as he’s in charge and she has a job. She’s probably making more than she was as a small business owner, too! Economy is a funny thing.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that, in its post-80’s sentiment, she needed a man to be a man for her, to protect her, and that which she cared about. Their stores merging (from an emotional viewpoint, not a business viewpoint) is a metaphor for marriage, when two become one.

By: Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:57:51 +0000

Of all places MTV (using All Movie Guide as their source) offers the best partial answer why you've never heard of William Wright. "Drafted into the army in 1945, Wright had trouble re-establishing himself upon his return to Hollywood a year later. He played detective Philo Vance in one PRC production of 1947, but was replaced by Alan Curtis in the studio's next two Vance mysteries. William Wright died of cancer at the age of 47." Now I'm not sure when he died, because IMDb had him dying in 1949, after being born in 1911 (a mathematical impossibility if he died at the age of 47). These kind of details fascinate me, particularly in light of the fact that other movie stars went off to serve in the war and worried about the impact on their career (Jimmy Stewart's first film after returning from the war was It's a Wonderful Life [which was not as well regarded upon its initial release as it is now in some circles]). Baseball fans often wonder how much more Ted Williams might have achieved had he not served in the military for two different wars (According to Wikipedia: "Williams served as a United States Marine Corps pilot during World War II and the Korean War." [all told, almost five years] Not to sound like Tom Brokaw here, but imagine if a George Clooney or Payton Manning did a tour in our current military actions (and no, I'm not trying to make a political statement here, merely drawing a comparison). The closest we came in the present day to something like this is the late former NFL player Pat Tillman.