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The Bells of St. Mary's

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Free on YouTube

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It Happened on 5th Avenue

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This is the closest thing to a trailer I can find.



According to Just Watch, it's available on TCM, Plex Player and Free Movies+. Click on FreeMovies+ and it comes up on the screen.

Can also rent on Apple, Amazon and Fandango at Home.

They included him in their TCM remembers video. Feels like this year we lost more big names than we normally do.

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A dead one.

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I still think pound for pound Terminator 2 is the best movie Cameron ever made.

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Agree!

Dan Fouts had John Jefferson, Charlie Joiner & Kellen Winslow.

Bradshaw had Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, Franco Harris.

Aikman had Michael Irvin, Alvin Harper, Jay Novacek, Emmitt Smith, Darrell Johnston, Mark Tuinei, Nate Newton, Mark Stepnoski, Erik Williams, and eventually Larry Allen.

My mom went through this with my SIL. Part of it was the "helpful advice' my mom gave my SIL about everything. My brother told me my SIL said my mom old her "better" ways to do nearly everything around the house. She felt like my mom thought she was stupid and couldn't do anything right.

That was a bigger problem than my mom, my dad and I knew, but it wasn't what caused the three year period when my parents didn't get to see their three grandchildren.

Long before my SIL ever met my brother, I had another brother who was killed in a car wreck when he was 17. I was a freshman in high school. The brother who's wife didn't get along with my mom was at LSU slaying sorority girls. There's not much worse that can happen to parents than losing a child, and it really changed my parents. We lived in Kosciusko, MS back then, but they buried my brother in a family plot they had in Bastrop, LA. Kosciusko was where we grew up. We'd been there since I was in the 4th grade and the brother that died was in sixth. I had to retake Algebra that summer, and was away at All Saints Episcopal School in Vicksburg.

While I was off at school, my parents started looking at moving back to the Bastrop area. My mom grew up there and my dad grew up across the border in Crossett, AR. Both had lots of family in North Louisiana. My dad worked in the Woodlands division of IP and my mom taught school. I got a letter they were in Monroe looking at towns in NELA. Then I got one saying we were moving to Farmerville. When they came to get me from All Saints, I didn't go home to Kosciusko, I went to Farmerville.

Moving wasn't the only thing that changed a few years later when I went off to LSU my parents decided they didn't like some of the changes the Methodist Church was making. They started going to an Assembly of God church with some friends who had left the Methodist Church. A couple of years later they moved to Ruston and were going to a tiny Baptist Church in Simsboro. They became much more evangelical than they'd ever been. A lot of, or maybe most of, the toys they got the grands were Christian themed.

My brother had moved to Alaska, met his wife, a Montana girl who had a daughter from a previous marriage, they got married and had two sons together. All of the kids lived up there until they were grown. My parents becoming more evangelical became a problem when my niece asked her mom if they were all going to hell. A couple of years after it happened, my brother told me my niece followed the question with, "Grandmother said people that don't go to church go to hell."

Boom, my parents weren't invited to come visit them, and they didn't bring the kids to visit for maybe three years. My brother asked them to quit sending the kids Christian gifts too. Even though we had grown up going to the Methodist church, my brother completely quit going to church as soon as he moved away to college and never went back. It wasn't just my SIL, he didn't want them around the kids because he didn't want to have to answer those questions either.

After he and his wife decided to divorce, he started back bringing the kids to visit. All have the kids are married now. Two have their own kids. They all have great relationships with my parents.

They have spent a lot of time around my parents. My niece went to Tulane and got closer to my mom because she'd drive up and visit them. One nephew moved to Slidell four years ago. His wife and two kids come for Thanksgiving every year and come a couple more times each year. Their kids are in eighth grade and sixth. Now that my brother's kids are old enough to make their own decisions, they've chosen to let their grandparents have an influence on their kids. My mom gave them 10 Commandments for Kids, or some such when they were there at Thanksgiving this year.

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Springhill and Haynesville too.

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Might have to get some Ebarbs from Farmerville involved. Back in the late 70's I saw Roy Gene Ebarb slap the Farmerville City Marshall and tell him to get back in his car. The man got back in the patrol car and left. That happened during a night of drinking and fighting in the 1st Baptist Church parking lot.

Roy Gene wasn't as mean as his younger brother Ken. After we played at Coushatta high school, Ken sat down next to the bathroom on a Continental Trailways bus after Clarence Williams went into it. He held his leg against the door and wouldn't let him out or anyone else go to the bathroom. Two hours later when we got off the bus back in Farmerville Clarence had busted out the screen on the little window at the back of the bus, stuck his head out and was saying, "I'd be alright if I just had some fresh air." He used to make the football managers ride laying down in the overhead luggage racks.

One morning during homeroom instead of hearing someone say the morning prayer, the guidance counselor got on the PA and called for the principal to come to the auditorium. Teachers and some students all ran down the hall to the auditorium. A black guy had flirted with a white girl and the white guys were fighting the black guys in a senior homeroom that met in there. After the fight had been broken up, and all of the fighters were in the principals office being scolded, Roy Gene threw a guy through the plate glass window in the principals office. They called the cops after that, but I don't think they made any arrests. The next day they made some of the guys who were in the fight get on the PA and say it wasn't blacks against whites. They said it was football players vs. basketball players. The stupid part of them saying that was all of the basketball players (the black guys) except for one played football too.

I moved to Farmerville from Mississippi before the 10 grade. Before the first football game I played in Farmerville one of the assistant coaches reminded us to, "Leave your helmet on when the fight starts." My mom grew up in Bastrop and said boys from Farmerville were known for fighting when she was in high school in the 50's.

It was a fighting town.

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CSATiger said:
and anyone who says that has never dealt with a NLA pulpwood logger!

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Henry Johnson was a 6'3" 240 pound senior DL when I was a 5'9" 165 pound sophomore RB/LB. I never saw him in the weight room. Every day after practice, he spent five minutes soaping up his dick in the shower while singing, and nobody said a word about it. Nobody f'ed with Henry and we were all jealous, and would have been proud to show off that dick too. He owned his own pulp wood truck in high school.

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Did you take a 100mg gummie this morning?

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I ate a 25 MG one this afternoon and missed the 2nd half of Tulane at Ole Miss. Got a darn good nap and still buzzing. :nana:

King coming back. They cut the lead from 30 to 20 points, and they're driving.