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Thanks for that. A buzzing mosquito fits quite well! Your thread.

I'll post: Where does the word paparazzi come from ??

Correct, Sixes, at a little over 160 Views. I've done considerable reading about Fields, over a couple of decades, but that story was a new one on me.

mr6666's thread.

...I've been unable to get on the Message Boards for almost 24 hours now. Not the other sites on TCM, just the Boards. I thought they were picking on me, but when I was able to log on, I noted that another user had the same complaint. So I'll stop sulking. To Business:

The male lead in this film had a Vaudeville background, and was there for years before he got into film. The persona he developed both on-and-off-screen featured a lot of drink and drunkenness. In real life he did drink, but the evidence is that he was never intoxicated at work, and that he actually drank a lot less than his made-up image suggested.

The female lead, also from Vaudeville, never drank, never smoked. Her tailored persona was based a lot on sexual innuendo and flashy costuming. It was entirely suggestive dialogue and mannerisms, and never involved anything near nudity. This worked so well for her that she sometimes got her act canceled, and her films withdrawn by authorities. Audience denied her performances then showed up in droves where she could be seen.

The cast member who rigged up a lot of extra paid time for himself. -- He has a long and busy resume` posted.

Idle since Apr 27 = abandoned thread.

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Nearing midpoint of the last Century: a film in production. The male and female leads disliked and distrusted each other. A support player would go to the male lead and tell him that the woman was rewriting her scenes to give herself more lines and a bigger role than his. Then he would go to the woman and say the same things about the man. The stars kept rewriting and re-shooting. The support player, who was paid by the week, thus engineered a setup where a shooting of a few weeks was expanded into several months. He profited from the expanded work time.

What film? What stars? What finagler?

Edited by: flashback42 on May 3, 2013 3:33 PM

Marshall was the NFL's leading racist, refusing to hire blacks until Bobby Kennedy gave him an ultimatum...Mitchell was the first black player hired by the Redskins. He was sent to Washington in exchange for All-American Syracuse running back Ernie Davis who, after he was drafted in 1962, refused to play for Marshall and the Redskins.

Yes you can get more dubious. Marshall is infamous for this, and has nothing to do with any individual game.

Edited by: finance on Apr 25, 2013 5:25 PM