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"Mutiny on the Bounty" has Ian Wolfe as Maggs..."Dick Tracy" [WHICH I HAVE NOT SEEN] has Ian Wolfe in the cast as a forger and Dustin Hoffman as Mumbles...and Dustin Hoffman is in "Meet the Fockers" [WHICH I HAVE NOT SEEN].
I think that is a one-film connection, is it?
[awaits the arbiter's decision with much trepidation...]
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Thank you.
It is true...there is triumph in defeat, after all.
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[gazing triumphantly at the masses upon his pedestal, wordmaster turns and speaks...]
I HAVE NOT SEEN "ISHTAR"!!!
Back to the drawing board...
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Can I try too?
Franchot Tone > "Mickey One" > Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty > "Ishtar" > Dustin Hoffman
Is that two steps or three?
This game is [as the kids say] ALL GOOD!
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cool............;-)
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yawn.....
Without some type of William Castle-esque device where one could actually feel the flesh being sliced open and/or have some real internal sensation of disembowelment ["THIS SERIES WILL BE BROADCAST IN STUNNING 'INTEST-O-RAMA/VISION/SCOPE'"..."], it just wouldn't have that certain cachet that today's viewers need for their selfish gratification...
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> You've really gotta hear Shatner's Indian yell. [my emphasis]
There's a recommendation for you [well, at least for me]!
TCM is showing this? WHEN?
[WOW! I just saw today's schedule...Get ready folks! It's coming your way today! I'm there...]
Come on, aren't you all just the tiniest bit curious?
Same with that film he did in Esperanto ["Incubus", I think, is the name of it]...
[Note to self: a Guest Lecturer spot for our stentorian friend at the Classic Cinema College in "Meaningful Pauses in Modern Cinematic Line Readings: SPOCK!........................KHAN!.................."]
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> Geo. Macready was also in Gild [sic] with Glenn Ford....
> that sca [sic] from dueling... When did he die?...
> ---does anyone know??
I should've put his name forward when there was that thread about 'slimy' characters a while back.
This fellow, for me, is the embodiment of the expression "someone you love to hate". There are a few exceptions in his filmography, I'm sure; for the most part, however, George was the scheming, ruthless, diabolical one who one could go "BOOOOOOO, HISSSSSSSSSS!" to, on the screen, with impunity. [snidely Whiplash incarnate, if you will...]
[Note to self: Try to work up a profile for him for that Classic Cinema College...maybe some kind of Visiting Professor of Alternative Ethics...]
Two other notable roles I have watched recently: a slimy District Attorney in "Knock on Any Door" [how dare he try to put that pretty boy John Derek in the slammer!] and the equally and differently odious and obsequious Steve Hagen [right-hand man of Earl Janoth] in "The Big Clock". You want to talk about subtext? Here you go - look at the Earl/Steve tandem for a bit.
If memory serves, George Macready died in 1973, just a few years after "Tora!...", of emphysema.
The scar, according to what I have read, was from an auto accident. [The 'dueling' reference, I'm not sure where that is coming from...fanciful, from a film he'd done, but not strictly factual.]
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Being an early childhood educator of long standing, moira, I would suggest that the Selection Committee do a reference check and a Criminal Record Search before hiring Miss Crawford. I am not sure she is a team player [she may have some ideas that are a bit "outside the box"] and might not fit into the mix of faculty already in place.
I would go so far as to say that I would rather have someone like Robert Benchley or W.C. Fields heading up the Early Childhood Care and Education branch; they may have a bit less experience but are certainly hard workers, and may find their way into the job with a little positive reinforcement.
P.S. I'll be brown-bagging it until further notice.
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From what I've been able to read here and there, the silent version is about 8 min. 20 sec. and the sound version is about 15 min.
Based on your response to TMN, I must be incorrect.
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If you won't, I will........
[snickers quietly...he turns and speaks...]
An ambulance! An ambulance! My kingdom for an ambulance!
Sorry, Metry Road, I just can't resist a straight line.... :-)
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Back in my university days, I used to write quite a bit of poetry and short stories on my time off from translating literature and technical glossaries - one fantasy/pastiche was called, by strange coincidence, "Raymond Chandler Goes to College", about a kid going to the corner store for a midnight snack with visions of dames, taxicabs and lonely saxophones swirling in his head on a cold October evening...
Maybe I'll put pen to paper again sometime soon...
Thanks for the Chandler book reference - I'll check it out [of the library]...
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Now, if you think for a moment that this was serious I have a trailer park in Greenland I'd be happy to sell anyone... ;-)
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I'd like to thank all the little people who helped make this moment possible, but they are too many [and too small] to mention...
Somewhere over the rainbow deep in the heart of Texas I pulled up stakes and made for Oklahoma to find out how the West was won and I never looked back and so here I am, wherever that is, and good night Mrs. Calabash and all the ships at sea shells by the seashore is nice to be here again...
[bows deeply, and exits to the pharmacy to get more medication...]
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[enters, staggering, with a cutlass sticking out of his gizzard...]
All right, you got me!
I've been cut to the quick...and be glad you've never had your quick cut - IT HURTS!!!!
It's gettin' dark...dark...dark...
You won't have me to kick around no more...
On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia...
gasp.........sputter...........
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I told youse already once and for last, I ain't no chirpin' bird!
...And I couldn't carry a tune if you gave me a bucket!
Now, powder!!!!
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[enters, arms raised]
[throws machine gun to the ground]
All right, copper, I'll go quiet... Do your worst...I ain't no cheese-eatin' rat! See, I sudden-like got a case of magnesia...so I ain't in no mood for singin'! B-)
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Fitted sheets...a Nobel Prize to the person who can invent one that folds in a sensible way.
They were invented by a not very nice person.
You can't even use one to be a ghost on Hallowe'en [i think one of the "Peanuts" characters had this difficulty, if memory serves...].
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...maybe the unusual ones too...
...that would include just about everyone, I think.
[gulp] even me.
Lousy stinkin' coppers!!! You'll never take me alive! ;-) ...or is it, "You'll never take me alive!"..."...or..."You'll never..."...
ANYWAY, TAKE THIS!!!!
[dashes madly up the fire escape while spraying the area with machine gun fire]
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Just here to say that it was nice to watch the "Private Screenings" this morning, and to see June one more time.
I will concede that she does look better with her hair longer - it seems more becoming. Maybe "the powers that be" ["Pop" Mayer included] thought that style was more "girl-next-door-ish", and suggested she keep it that way. No more hair talk from me...
It was interesting to hear her comments about her co-workers, in particular Alan Ladd and the relationship that could've been but never was.
It says a lot about her that her career on Broadway and, ultimately, in film started as a dare. It is certainly more than I can say for myself.
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Well said, moira.
Oscar Levant's turns of phrase always made me stop and think about what a person says, does or feels.
A cynic is helpful in that he/she can add a new perspective to a situation, person, etc., and is not really around to put a wet blanket on the world, in my opinion.
It might be challenging to deal constantly with a cynical friend but the world needs balance, and cynics are just part of that. Cynicism leavened with humour always helps; otherwise, it just might be seen as bitterness.
As a person who is one himself, I know what life could be/used to be like and try to point it out in a way that makes people think. Sometimes people get it, sometimes they don't. I just try not to come across as being too world-weary. At that point, people get weary of you.
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Sorry, nothing substantive for me to contribute to the topic...
but as a word person, moira, anyone who can use "icky" and "apotheosis" in one post has my respect and admiration. Kudos.
[i also like the reference to "overeager makeup"...it paints a very vivid picture, although I might not want to see the finished product] :-)
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Well, unit...
Hello there, and welcome.
I think we would like to help you, but your description [or lack of one] isn't much to go on. Can you give us a bit more information about the film [setting, plot details, etc.]
When you say "obviously gay", is it in his appearance/dress, voice, mannerisms, all or none of the above, something else...?
Please let us know - we are here to help if/when we can...
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...which, unfortunately, Canadians cannot watch, for some reason or another.
I just finished watching "Keeper of the Flame". It is no "Foreign Correspondent", that's for sure.
We Canadians didn't get to see "The Story of G.I. Joe" either.
Oh well, such is life...
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"Commamche Blanco" with William Shatner and Joseph Cotton
in Westerns
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Hello there...I just watched it too, just to hear Shatner's Indian yell.
If this is an enchilada western, it would have to be described as pure "Tacky-o Bell"...too long under the old heat lamp.
How ever did he get his voice to echo like that when he was rallying his Comanche brethren to action? Maybe he had some kind of gadget akin to the Universal Translator in those designer jeans of his...and the most un-Western-looking belt buckle ever sported by a cowpoke in Western history!
One thing I did admire - although I hesitate to admit it - was the degree of marksmanship displayed by the cowboys here...so many shots to the head/between the eyes from long range - simply astounding!
I was fascinated by the horses in the film, high-stepping along the trails and through the town...I didn't know dressage horses needed the extra work.
"preposterous pontifications", eh? Some astute alliteration on your part - a tip of the hat for that...
The music was pseudo-jazz/cocktail/intermission noise pollution from some lounge that I wouldn't be caught dead or alive in. Strangely, though, it often synchronized with the horses' hooves...those wacky Europeans must have been practising overtime clacking their cocoanuts together - shades of "...The Holy Grail"!
I wonder if this was filmed before or after the ST episode where Kirk got a knock on the head and fancied himself an Indian...
Now that you mention the locations, I didn't see any tigers or Samurai warriors either so I don't think you're on the right track... :-)
All that said, this film is worth missing [and I don't say that very often...]. The only laughter I could muster was of the risible/scornful variety - unfortunate, indeed.
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