Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for April 17, 2010

What a revolting development this is!!!!!

GM Aunt Marg, VB & all :-))

I suspected that.

Good morning leaky, margueritem, and the rest. I’m on my way to see what DT’s house looks like today.

Murder doesn’t take long, does it dear niece?

Especially if you KNOW who it is you want to murder. :-))

Oooohhhhh, Leaky….those eyes!!!!! too scary!!

‘Morning, VB! Glad to see that you made it tonight.

These lawyers look so mean.

Red Rover, Red Rover send BassmanBob right over.

Let us know if your ok.

Being that I am new with this strip, I need to do a little research before I make comments related to it. As for the rest of you………………………………….

GM, ALL!

MontanaLady……..walk with me to the end of the pier…………………………

Rhodayour tap shoes leave tell tale marks, Dear. Best to change them….

Sydney, see yesterday’s comments. :-)

Leaky………………

you won’t catch me doing that…..

again……

I’m running out of victims here. :-(((

GM LoneWolf

leaky and margueritem got me (re)interested in “The Bad Seed”. I’m downloading it from YouTube now…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENIOxdKpRMQ

“Especially if you KNOW who it is you want to murder”

Ah, but’s that’s the question- who would know that, and how?

Was the lawyer with glasses about to have a conversation that he didn’t want his partner to hear?

I’m sure someone will show up, dear.

mrbribery…….I was referring to myself :-))

VistaBill………that movie is awesome. I may do the same thing. I’ve only seen it about 4 times. lol

VistaBill……..I’m watching it now. That little *itch is a holy terror. One of the parts I like. was when Leroy got his comeuppance.

GN all.

I haven’t seen that movie for years! It’s time that I remedied that. GN, Rhoda!

G’Night LS.

leaky, I just have to say that picture looks like Bill Mumy in a wig.

Got’a look that up on IMDb, I’ve seen one vertion of “Bad Seed”, but I don’t think it was this one.

Do have a nice day leaky.

\\//_

GM everyone.

Oh, Rhoda, about that lady in Wichita, the one that fell down the stairs …

Welcome back, Sydney. Sorry about the computer problems. Of course, here in the states, we get third-world support also; so we understand.

davidf42…………..she slipped, I SWEAR it.

It’s all VB’s fault!!!! i stayed up until 1:00 AM last night watching the original version of ’ The Bad Seed’ The actors were excellent, and I had forgotten just how horrid Rhoda was. My Mom had seen the movie long before I did, and told me that Rhoda took the little boy’s spelling medal, and hit him with her tap shoes. I’ve had it wrong all these years. ;-) I think that the original ending was changed to protect the audiences of the 1950s…..

Hello Marg. Yes movies were governed by the Hayes Code in those days and one provision of the code was that “Crime does not pay.” In the novel, Rhoda got away with it all, so the ending had to be adjusted to fit the requirements of the Hayes Code.

Leaky - I think Rhoda’s original answer was “I may have pushed her, a little.”

davidf42, from what I saw last night, she said she slipped and bumped into the old lady as they were going down the icy stairs, then she told her mother that she had slipped on purpose….

Marg - Oh, OK. I’m probably getting the dialog from the film mixed up with the novel.

Gee, Mister. What’s the time limit for getting killed on an assignment these days?

margueritem said, “I’ve had it wrong all these years. ;-) I think that the original ending was changed to protect the audiences of the 1950s.”

Maybe that’s why I like the old movies. There’s not as much “reality” as in the newer ones.

R_Noonan63 I believe the title was ‘It’s a Good Life’. I read the original story.

Morning, Anniephans!