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Thomas as Jack Farrell was truly something special. Like does it make sense for a grown 6’5 man with a short haircut to look this gorgeous and cute??

#thomas ian griffith #Jack Farrell #the unexpected mrs pollifax #hes literally perfect #I loved him in this movie #he was a little protective cutie

[mrgriffiths]

"𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆?

𝑮𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆.."❤️‍🔥

Thomas Ian Griffith as Jack Farrell in The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax circa 1999.

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#thomas ian griffith #tig #jack farrell #unexpected mrs pollifax #throw back #1999 #90s movies #drama #thriller #spies #i loved this movieee #black and white #my edit #tadow

[jolenes-book-journey]

Mail Call From the Website

Mail Call From the Website

Over the last several months we have gotten a few responses here and there that are not actually spam. Whoo Hoo!. Anyway, I thought I would post them for everyone to read and enjoy. If you can answer their questions, please send me an email by visiting the CONTACT page and use the new form. I had to turn off the comments as I was getting just too much spam. This are just the last 5 we have…

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#A New Kind of Country #Dorothy Gilmans Short Stories #Four Party Line #Mail Call From the Website #Masquerade or Hearts Design #The Calico Year #The Mystery of the Barrel Organ From Germancy #The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax First Edition #Tightrope Walker

[virgo-mess]

The time has come that @karatekels and I gift you guys the link to all the TIG movies we have been able to find. It will also be routinely updated if we happen to get hold of another one! There's 12 movies on here, and the two part episode of In the Heat of the Night TIG guest starred on as the hunky carnie Luke Potter 🥵! The Secret of Giving was curtosey of whichever lovely person posted the link for it during Christmas. I wasn't able to find your account again, but if you see this, thank you, and I hope you don't mind. We put it in this folder. And once again, thank you to whoever shared Beyond Forgiveness with me ages ago 🩵🩵🩵. I hope you guys enjoy it, and I'll be sure to notify you if a new movie has been added 💜

Movie List-

Excessive Force

Black Friday aka The Kidnapping

Rock Hudson

The Secret of Giving

The Heat of the Night two part episode

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

KK3

Ulterior Motives aka Kill Fee

Vampires

Black Point

Hallow Point

Beyond Forgiveness aka Blood of the Innocent

Kull the Conqueror

High Adventure

Seawolf aka The Pirate's Curse

Crackerjack

Avalanche aka Escape from Alaska

Timecop 2

Final Encounter/ For the Cause

#thomas ian griffith #terry silver #the cult of tig #tig #movies #love you guys #enjoy

[karatekels]

Which TIG movie should I watch for the first time?

I need a pick me up, and what could be better than watching a new TIG movie for the first time? Please vote below, and know that even if I end up watching a movie, I have no issue watching it again during the next movie night!

#thomas ian griffith #cast your vote #ideally something that will make me happy #so I guess a few of these are out

[eemcintyre]

My current progress going through my other past/current/occasional male hyperfixations' filmographies:

I made this post for Tom Cruise way back when I was young in my Tumblr career and realized today that I would like to keep track of my viewing progress for several other dad actors' filmographies

The difference here will just be that each list will be shorter because, unlike with my main man Tom, I don't have the desire to see every single solitary film each of these boys have been in, so I'll only be including the ones I've already seen or want to actually watch at some point

Thomas Ian Griffith

Seen:

The Karate Kid Part III

Ulterior Motives

Excessive Force

Crackerjack

Beyond Forgiveness/Blood of the Innocent

Hollow Point

Behind Enemy Lines

John Carpenter's Vampires

Black Point

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision

Seawolf

The Kidnapping/Black Friday

Not seen:

A Place to Hide

Rock Hudson

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

High Adventure

Avalanche

The Secret of Giving

A Vision of Murder

Sam Rockwell

Seen:

The Green Mile

Lawn Dogs

Charlie’s Angels

Galaxy Quest

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

G-Force

The Way, Way Back

Laggies

Mr. Right

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Argylle

Not seen:

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Matchstick Men

Piccadilly Jim

Joshua

Snow Angels

The Winning Season

Seven Psychopaths

Jojo Rabbit

Richard Jewell

See How They Run

Patrick Wilson

Seen:

The Phantom of the Opera

Hard Candy

Passengers

Insidious

Morning Glory

The Conjuring

Insidious: Chapter 2

Stretch

Zipper

A Kind of Murder

The Conjuring 2

The Commuter

Annabelle Comes Home

In the Tall Grass

Midway

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Moonfall

Insidious: The Red Door

Not seen:

Little Children

Watchmen

Barry Munday

Space Station 76

Big Stone Gap

Bone Tomahawk

The Hollow Point

Aquaman

#thomas ian griffith #patrick wilson #sam rockwell #older men do it better #dilfism #movies to watch #watchlist #cinema

[darklingichor]

Mrs. Pollifax 1-4, by Dorothy Gilman

These are just fun!

If you have been reading this blog for any amout of time, you have probably figured out that I have a job that alternates between crazy making, annoying, and mind numbingly dull. This week was the last one, I had to keep something playing in my ears so I didn't fall asleep.

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Emily Pollifax, is a widow with two grown children and a busy comfortable life. She likes people, likes to listen, but a her various volunteer positions don't really give her the opportunity to get to know people, or really help them. At a check up her doctor wonders if she is depressed, she doesn't tell him that when on the roof of her apartment building, tending her geraniums, she'd been tempted to step off, until a neighbor, terrified, told her to get away from the ledge, what if she fell?

The doctor advises her to do something she always wanted to do but never had the time for.

This plants the seed, Mrs. Pollifax had always wanted to be a spy.

She decides, there's no harm in asking, so she goes from her home in New Jersey to Washington DC and walks into the home of the CIA.

Through a small comedy of errors, she is assigned as a currior on a mission to Mexico. She is to pick up a certain book from a certain store on a certain day, other than that, she is to behave like a tourist.

Things go pear-shaped, of course, and Mrs. Pollifax and another agent find themselves held prisoner in Albainia. The rest of the book is how this whip smart, optimistic, sweet lady executes a prision break and a dash to safety.

The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax

This time our lovely Emily, is going to Istanbul to help a long time double agent get out of the country. Again, she us a corrior, she's supposed to get this person a passport and other papers. Again things don't go as planned, but because of her incredible knack for making friends is strange places, she is able to navigate kidnappings, shoot outs, murderous mobs, and a murder frame up.

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax

Our CIA courrior is going to Bulgaria with passports in her hat, for some resistance fighters and ends up in a race against time to save a young traveler who seemed to make the wrong friends at just the wrong time.

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

Emily was given a "promotion" for this mission. Sent to a high end hotel/clinic in Switzerland, to find stolen plutonium. True to form, she makes friends in odd places, and uncovers a plot more devious than the CIA ever thought of.

These books were written right in the thick of the cold War, so there is a lot of communist vs. Capitalist stuff, but, no one other than those who actually hurt people are painted as villains. This person might have different ideas from Mrs Pollifax, but that doesn’t make them bad, she reserves judgement for how they behave, and a lot of people, no matter the politics, are decent and become allies.

The plots of these books are fun, the recurring characters are wonderful and the ones that are unique to each adventure are interesting.

#book #books #book blogging 2023 #Dorothy Gilman #Mrs. pollifax #cozy mystery

[virtualcoffeetable]

I have been accused of being somewhat abrupt in my actions and decisions, but I never act without thought; it is simply that I think more quickly and more intelligently than most people.

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

It wasn’t that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit.

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

#reading #booklr #books & libraries #books #book blog #mysteries #classic literature #crocodile on the sandbank #elizabeth peters #murder on the orient express #agatha christie #the unexpected Mrs. pollifax #dorothy gilman

[princelysome]

Rather than commit suicide, why not offer your services to the CIA as a spy?

I read these books when I was a kid, and I thought I'd see how they have weathered the passage of time. The characters hold up, and are quite engaging. The premise and preconditions of the storyline are seriously dated (though the world seems to be doing its damndest to correct that). The story itself, is well-paced and well-written. Mrs. Pollifax is not Jack Ryan or James Bond. (She's not Miss Marple either.) She could, almost, be a character in an Alistair Maclean thriller, except she's in her 60's, and she's female.

Still an entertaining read, at least for those of "advanced years".

#princelysome #2022 #books i've read #wvdeli #kindle #dorothy gilman #the unexpected mrs. pollifax

[jamesphillimoresumbrella]

Absolutely gutted by Una Stubbs. I hope she knew what she was to us. Imagining Baker Street without the best Mrs. Hudson is devastating.

I've got just the one Mrs. Hudson-centric fic to trot out, back from the early days and it's a Mrs. Pollifax story as well, so I'm not sure that it counts.

#mrs. hudson #england has fallen #una stubbs #bbc sherlock #somehow it also hurts to keep on imagining her in stories going on #it's a complicated feeling and I'll return to it later

[accidentalspaceexplorer]

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Mrs. Pollifax, recently a widow, with all of her children out of the house, finds her life increasingly empty of meaning. When she is reminded of her childhood dream to become a spy, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to be recruited by the CIA. Through a misunderstanding, she ends up with a job in Mexico, and hijinks ensue.

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, the first Mrs. Pollifax novel, is always a delight. My mother loved these books, so when I was about 13 my mother introduced me to them, and I’ve loved them ever since. Mrs. Pollifax herself is unrepentingly full of spirit and resourceful, and often manages to get out of scrapes because of that time she sat down and listened to someone’s life story. She is so fun to read about, and despite the dangerous situations she ends up in, manages to always stay the same wonderful Mrs. Pollifax.

My Rating: 5/5

#the unexpected mrs. pollifax #mrs. pollifax #book review

[why-bless-your-heart]

Tagged by @thedailyplod who apparently knows less than half of me half as well as she should like ;p

Birthday: St. Laurence’s feast day

Zodiac: What’s early August? Cancer or Leo, I think they changed it like five years ago.

Height: 5′9′ (and a bit)

Last Song Listened to: What are you, the cops? My music is my business, I invoke my right under the fourth amendment. Just move along. Nothing to see here. Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men

Hobbies: Drawing, little bit of music, little bit of embroidery, little bit of sewing.

Favorite Color: My grandfather always said that he didn’t like that question because colors are only enjoyable or distasteful in context, but people ask that question expecting an answer so he’d always answer “Green.” My favorite color is green.

Last Movie Watched: Miss Congeniality with my sisters.

Favorite Books: Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien are givens so I’m going to go with Santiago by Mike Resnick, Brother Odd, by Dean Koontz, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, by Dorothy Gilman, and Comrade Don Camillo, by Giovannino Guareschi.

Dream Job: I make whatever the heck I feel like whenever the heck I feel like it and people pay me for it.

Meaning Behind URL: Sassy southern with Christian undertones.

Tagging any of my followers who have ever dinged a car in a parking lot.

[skippyv20]

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999) Angela Lansbury

When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn’t realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman gets her an interview with the CIA and accidentally gets her an assignment to Morocco for a supposed easy task of picking up an encrypted code book. When the agency realizes their mistake, they send a super-agent to watch over her. Both are taken prisoner and the real agent is injured, leaving Mrs. Pollifax to use her considerable wits to help them escape and to save the day.

Movie anon here….hi everyone, enjoy! Welcome back PG-thought you might like this movie, seems fitting with your decoding expertise of riddles :)

Wonderful!  Thank you so much!  Looks great!😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

PG you have mail😊💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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Mary Beth’s Writing Prompt Day 48

Palate cleanser after a great book:

These days, I turn to magazines because I have them online on my iPad - it’s too easy not to. But, if I have this book nearby, I’ll read The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman. It’s one of my favorite books of all time and it’s light but has meat to the story and is funny at the same time. I love the character and the author and any of the Mrs Pollifax books are good at any time.

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

Book Review: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy GilmanKindle/Audible Mrs. Pollifax is a most unlikely spy and that is her whole schtick. Dorothy Gilman can spin a tale of mystery and intrigue. Ms. Gilman’s first book went from carny to British mistress with Africa in between, this one New Jersey, Mexico, and Albania. I think Mrs. Pollifax even amazes herself.View all my reviews Amazon blurb Mrs.…

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#Audible #Book Review #Dorothy Gilman

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