Female Beauty We Appreciate

Officially, it was Ralph Kramden's line.

You're both right as I've heard both of those guys do it. I think Ralph Kramden was the first supposedly, and I don't know why I thought of Jerry Lewis. He used to make mumbling, incoherent noises in the early days of his career with Dean Martin.

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

In movies like Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Lou would do this exasperated breath thing (I just realized this can't be explained in text!) ...as if he was so scared he couldn't speak.
It was a wheezy sound with lots of lip movement as he tried to call for help. It was almost like "Hominah, Hominah, Hominah" but with less sound. Lou did a bunch of similar things (and may have done "Hominah") when encountering Female Beauty he could Appreciate (thus, bringing it back to topic).

Captain, I don't know if you've seen The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, but in one scene Gosling does the Costello routine when he finds a body and is calling out for Crowe (at the bottom of a hill where he's just fallen). In one of the A&C movies, Abbott was named "Chic" and Costello would slowly do that calling for him, with Chic...chic, then up to Chic...chichichic, oh, chic, then finally Chic! Chic! Chic! Gosling did the same thing even though Russell's name wasn't Chic. Off-topic, I know, but what the hey? To get things back in order after my novel, here's yesterday's birthday girl, Tricia Helfer:

Does anyone know what really happened to Jennifer Connolly's boobs? Was it an actual reduction or just weight loss?

Connelly has always denied getting surgery of any kind, and claims it was weight loss stemming from depression if I recall.

If it was surgery, there could have been a professional reason. Curvy actresses tend to have less diverse opportunities and, often, Hollywood has displayed a weird aversion towards them.

Supposedly people don't take dishy actresses as seriously. You're more likely to garner acclaim, awards and leading roles looking like Grace Kelly than you are looking like Kim Novak.

Strange - since so many of them get fake boobs to make them bigger.

And many of them get reduction to make them smaller.

I guess it depends on where you are in your career and what roles you're looking for. Also it's rumored that many actresses have flirted with porn and escort work early on in their careers, who knows how many of them would be getting trains run on them if they hadn't caught a break.

Ah, hell, Blix! Now I gotta wonder how many current train victims might instead be giving us great movies, given that elusive break.

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"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."

Meryl Streep's heir is out there somewhere...



*hates self*

Uh, sorry, but who is this?

Uh, sorry, but who is this?

You mean, "Uh, sorry, but who are THESE?"

(that's so bad!)

Yeah, yeah, I meant both of her.

It's Jennifer Connelly.