i guess i’d always thought “chase” was some variant of “quick” – meaning the sensitive flesh under the fingernails. so i kind of figured chase and quick were both shorthand for “the important matter.” i seem to remember the phrase “cutting to the quick” in “lord of the flies.”
And now you know better. 
Welcome aboard. And may I say I loved your chase in Bullitt? The rest of the movie sucked but that chase was great.
well, i never claimed to be gene hackman…
Louis B.: “And what are you doing in my office, anyway? You work at United Artists!”
(Minor quibble: McEvoy’s novel Hollywood Girl came out in '29, not '27)
Minor quibble? MINOR?!?!? All of my references are wrong and you say it’s “minor?”
Boy-o-boy, I was all set to prove you wrong (my real Reason For Living) but stumbled on this: http://www.pandorasbox.com/louisebrooks/archive/LBadvertisements/showgirladvert.html
I have dishonored my daimyo, Cecil, with my error. Please, allow me to perform seppuku so my children will not need to live in the shadow of my disgrace. 
Before killing myself, I’d like to point out that NOBODY (except Ed and Dex) has questioned my characterization of The French Connection, movie and chase, as boring. Sounds like you’ve all seen it.
dropzone, Staff Reports only appear on the website, and since they’re written by us mortal beings (unlike Columns by Cecil), they can be amended. Let TUBADIVA know what you’d like changed, if anything.
How about the theory that the saying was first heard by the dress-maker who designed the wardrobe for Elka Chase, suggesting that there was too much material in the dress and so they should…
Or the theory that it was originally about slicing fruit, and “cut to the grapes” but it got distorted in the 15th Century because Henry VIII lisped the “gr” to a “ch”?
Or the theory that it was about the fabric on a lounge chair, which is exactly nine yards long, given rise to both “cut to the chaise” and "the whole ni-- mfffffffffff [CENSORED BY STAFF]
[posted by dropzone’s spirit]
I’m sorry, but you replied too late. Uh, could we have a cleanup in Aisle 5?
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That’s Ilka Chase.
[Dex and Drop gang up on Eve, there is a splash in the Hudson River, and she is seen no more . . .]
No worries, Eve. I’m too busy working out the details of a time machine so I can go back to 1925 for a menage a trois with Louise Brooks and the elegant, if not classically beautiful, Ilka Chase.
Yes, I am aware that the menage is very nearly as unlikely as the time machine but no goals, no glory, as my coffee cup says.
Well, that might be true of D.W. Griffith, but in this case I refer to the lesser known D.W. Frepplesnork, director of such classics as Birth of a Small Village and that civil war epic Persnicketiness. Both admittedly derivitive works intended for the yet to be invented Betamax market.
Ah, yes, Frepplesnork! I’m a big fan of his art drama, Busted Buds.
I prefer Far Up West and The Minor Difficulty, myself.
Pity that no print of That Common Girl survives.
Thanks for the welcome dropzone, dex,
I’ve been looking and made a few calls to some friends, havn’t gotten back with them yet. Let you know though! It was just a thought, seems something in the back of my head remembered hearing it. Curious though to know if anyone knows the origan of the term hissyfit?
Thanks for the welcome dropzone, dex,
I’ve been looking and made a few calls to some friends, havn’t gotten back with them yet. Let you know though! It was just a thought, seems something in the back of my head remembered hearing it. Curious though to know if anyone knows the origan of the term hissyfit?
Interesting question, ItBitKitty… I suggest you go to the forum called “General Questions” and start a thread asking about “hissyfit” there. We try (it’s a losing battle, but we try) to keep each thread somewhat on-topic, so that future readers looking for something have something more than a proverbial snowball’s chance of finding it.
Indeed, an amazingly prescient courtroom drama (considering the M. Jackson hoopla). Years ahead of it’s time in dealing with such sensitive subject matter.
Alright, I’ll stop now.
Coincidentally, I just got my copy of Asra Nomani’s new book Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. A review blurb on the back cover exclaims,
(puzzled look) Any guesses what the reviewer might have meant by that?
I think he means that she herself (her personal experiences, it’s an autobiographical book), is the exciting part of her story. She’s an exciting, intriguing woman.