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09/20/2025 “ANONYMOUS”   Leave a comment

I’m a huge fan of using quotations in my posts from the rich, the famous, and the wannabe famous. I thought today would be a good day to give kudos to the one person who supplies us with endless quotations that are almost always funny, truthful, and many times sarcastic. That writer is Mr. Anonymous. I did a little research this morning and came up with 15 quotes from Mr. Anonymous that I really liked and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Here they are.

  • Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults but for having faults different from ours.
  • The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the Empire State building after taxes.
  • One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can’t possibly be as bad as they are painted.
  • An average film is where the actor has more lines in his face than in his script.
  • Modern art is when you buy a picture to cover a hole in the wall and then decide the hole looks much better.

  • Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
  • Hollywood is Malice in Wonderland.
  • If white bread could sing it would sound like Olivia Newton John.
  • Television is a box that has changed children from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
  • Parents never appreciate a teacher unless it rains all weekend.
MR. ANONYMOUS

  • You can tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much.
  • Psychology is the science that tells you what you already know in words you don’t understand.
  • Eating food with a knife and fork is like making love through an interpreter.
  • If you speak three languages your trilingual. If you can speak two languages you are bilingual. If you can only speak one language you’re an American.
  • “A Hollywood marriage is one in which the couple vow to be faithful until after the honeymoon.

And now I’ll offer up one of my own quotes:

“OLD AGE AND RETIREMENT ARE JUST KARMIC RETRIBUTION”

07/31/2025 “RETRO CINEMA QUIZ”   2 comments

The heatwave continues making all of us suffer for another week with no end in sight. I’m recuperating from recent cataract surgery and I’m somewhat limited to certain activities. Fortunately, writing the blog and working on my paintings has been approved without consequences. I thought today we’d have a little trivia test on the early years of cinema. As always the answers will be listed below.

  • For what two films did Elizabeth Taylor win best actress Oscars?
  • What American actress once described herself as “pure as the driven slush”?
  • Who was Gene Kelly’s unusual dancing partner in the imaginative 1945 film, Anchors Away?
  • Whose lengthy Oscar acceptance speech prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to set a time limit for later award ceremonies?
  • In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, what song did HAL, the computer, learn to sing?

  • What was the movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn’s real name?
  • In what film did the star *proposed by saying, “Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse”?
  • What film star won a special Oscar as “the most outstanding personality of 1934”?
  • Or which Alfred Hitchcock film did artist Salvador Dali designed the graphics?
  • Who did Fred Astaire name as his favorite dance partner?

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The Answers
Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Tallulah Bankhead, Jerry the animated mouse from the cartoon show, Greer Garson who spent 5 1/2 min. at the 1943 ceremonies for the film, were Mrs. Miniver, A Bicycle Built For Two, Samuel Goldfish, A Day at the Races with Groucho Marx, Shirley Temple, Spellbound in 1945, Gene Kelly.