WhyaDuck

Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.....Those words spoken by Lou Gehrig, repeated by Gary Cooper....This is a Must See movie. Thanks for the name Teresa Wright......she is excellent as Lou Gehrigs wife in this, because it is about their love mostly.....and I hear about actors looking into each others eyes....but in the last 30 minutes, alot is said when Cooper and Wright avoid each others eyes to be strong for the other. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Aug 25, 2012 3:04 PM

I liked No Country For Old Men a little, it was no The Big Country, but I liked it a little. Just saying, that if you watch every single Acadamy Best Picture ever, you may come to the conclusion that I did, don't go on what the Acadamy says, use your own eyes and ears and mind, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. You don't have to say you like it because it won a statue.

I would have liked to have seen Around The World In 80 Days in CINERAMA as released in the 50s. I heard you felt like you were going to all those places. I don't think TV does it justice, probably. I have tried to watch every best picture, Cavalcade and such. I found some gems I hadn't seen. Watched great movies again....myself, I had a hard time watching Tom Jones, which I think is just stupid and not romantic or funny, that stuff of the mid 60s only. There are movies like The English Patient or American Beauty that I would never try to watch again. ...but thats me......different strokes for different folks....You will find it hard to watch ALL best pictures for that reason. Some of the nominated and not nominated are as good or better. I felt in the ealy 90s The Firm and Last Of The Mohicans were as good as any movies I had ever seen, yet not best picture, maybe not even nominated. Last Country For Old Men won, I think, but is it all that ? What the Acadamy says is BEST in a certain year may be just their opinion, and there often are other pictures more worth watching of that year. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Aug 25, 2012 2:27 PM

You don't need to be a baseball fan to like this one. Yes, it has baseball and Babe Ruth and Bill Dickey are in it. Mostly it is about Lou Gehrig and his wife, so for those who like love stories, it's that also. The music is excellent and of it's day, leading up to the last 30 minutes....and the illness....and the speech......to the final shot of fading away into the tunnel as the illness made him fade away, to the applause, that music, then " Play Ball " as if life goes on. I marvel at how Babe Ruth played himself down for this movie to make Gehrig look better. I wonder how the fans at Yankee Stadium felt recreating this moment. If you can get through this ending without some kind of a tear in your eye, you do better than I do. The last 30 minutes is emotional, and the kid from the hospital now grown up, and that speech. That great speech that everyone should hear once in their life. Yes it is baseball....but it is so much more. May I add well acted by Gary Cooper, the woman who plays his wife and Walter Brennan. Very good Gary Cooper in this one. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Aug 25, 2012 1:48 PM Edited by: WhyaDuck on Aug 25, 2012 1:52 PM

In Finnians Rainbow she does one of the best St Patrick Day versions of Glaccimora I ever heard, and I know I probably spelled that wrong. ....and after the song the great Fred Astair is crying and Petula asks him why he is crying....Fred says he can't stand those cheap Irish songs. ...I'm of Irish ancestors and it's funny.

He really had Shirley Maclaine and Julia Roberts laughing the other night. I liked when Ms Roberts tried to say something back and Rickles said, " Hey, You don't have any lines ". Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 29, 2012 11:28 AM

I think they are on there, but I really get a kick out of the one with Rickles with Hope and Crosby and John Wayne. Bing gets a pretty good shot in on Rickles. It's hard to top the combo of Hope and Crosby......and the one with Sinatra is great. ....Classic Tonight Show clips on the internet.

I like her greatest hits album, cd......More than Downtown.....oh, her singing This Is My Song was written by Charlie Chaplin who also wrote Smile for Modern Times. Comic, actor, director, editor, writer, music writer, producer - he did it all.....It is Chaplin-like in, " I care not what the world may say. Without your love there is no day ". .....I like Don't Sleep in The Subway and all the songs on this hits collection of hers. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 29, 2012 10:55 AM

Mr Rickles was always proud to mention working with Clark Gable and why not, and add in Burt Lancaster to that movie. Ray Milland said he was in a B movie that was awful but Don Rickles was very good in it. He was in TV shows in the 60s and worked with Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Don Adams. All along he was tearing up the nightclubs, and TV got to see him at what he does best on Johnny Carson and Dean Martin TV shows. ....of course the beach bikini movies, which were just an excuse to show girls in bikinis at drive-ins.....but in Kellys Heros he probably turns in his best movie role. Working with Eastwood, Savalas, Suthurland, Rickles seems on his nightclub best in this one, and Carroll O'Connor is in Archie Bunker form as well....Of course the record albums of his nightclub act were comedy hits......Some TV sitcoms that never really were a good fit for him.....In Godfather, James Caan said he was imitataing Don Rickles at times to play Sonny....and of course Mr Rickles on tour with Frank Sinatra...and in Casino with DeNiro and Pesci......and still funny on talk shows and award shows. .....For some fun, go to YouTube or search for these clips, Sinatra on Johnny Carson with Rickles.....or Rickles hosting Carson show with guests Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and John Wayne. It's free and fun.....The hand that shook Sinatras hand and Gables, The Don, still going strong. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 29, 2012 10:30 AM Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 29, 2012 10:36 AM

TCM is and has and will show these beach movies alot, and they all seem to have Don Rickles as " The Big Drip ", " The Big Drop ", " The Big Drag ".....As a kid I knew of the Frankie and Annette beach movies.....I didn't know that these films varied with Buster Keaton or Peter Lorre or Paul Lynde or whoever they could get.....and I never knew young love on the beach was and still is Don Rickles, and 1000 hit songs in one movie......So heres to the King Of Beach Movies, The Don of Surf and Turf. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 25, 2012 3:48 PM

A few years ago, on this site, I , who always loved Casablana....questioned Laslo being able to get in and out of Nazi concentration camps.....It didn't seem possible.......Some on here said the movie was before we knew of the consentration camps after World War II.....Others said if you don't like Casablanca, you don't like movies..... Here is the answer, I think.....Laslo character is the French resistance, which there was....Bergman could be a German not thrilled by Nazi Germany.....Laslo is the French resistance..... Bogey is America,....Doing everything it can to stay out of the war........ At the end, at the airport, we remember Bogey and Bergman.....but perhaps the most telling line is Laslo, the French, saying to Bogey, America...." Now that you are back, I think we can WIN "..... A great movie. Perhaps the greatest....Do not wonder about Laslo, he represents all the French Resistance.....Bogey is an America trying to stay out of the war, but once in, is in all the way...... There are parts of New York the Nazis don't want to march into....Bogey to the Nazi.....A great line..... " Heres Looking At You Kid "....... World War II is going to be bigger than just you and me....... Now that you are back America, I think we can WIN...... Edited by: WhyaDuck on Apr 13, 2012 9:56 PM

I know, alot of people get into Osbourne and all the behind the sceenes stuff...Sitting in the red chairs and telling us all the trivia about the movie, sometimes taking away from the plot.... but sometimes I wish for a more tongue and cheek approach....We in Cincinnati and Dayton once had a Bob Shreeves, you can find him on You Tube....and he would bring us the late late night movies....He would be as a bartender on Friday or Saturday night....From midnight to 6 or 7 he would be our late night comic, and the movies were just part of the show.....He was burlesque and vaudville, and I liked it....His pouring the beer, corney jokes, throwing the pizzas and donuts around of local sponsors....it was great.....and somehow I miss this, as I do local monster movie types as Cool Gouls......Because I don't think all of these movies should be taken real serious....and I really don't care about hearing detail on the director of Monster With A Fourth Eye and such.... So I miss Victor Mature and Hannibal crossing the Alps, and Bob somehow in the movie with a broom behind the elephants. I miss him saying the feature stars of the movie and adding, " the handsome and ever popular Gordon Faldo "....or whoevers name was in the movie he could use.... Now some things TCM says about the movie is important....most just detracts from the guts and the plot of the movie....and please don't tell the end before it even starts....but often I miss Bob Shreeves approach in his early TV vaudville style, himself and his comedy better than most of the movies. People did in fact watch to see him, and the movies late at night were just an extra....some movies deserve nothing more. .....Such was the case with another local who did afternoon monster films, Doctor Creep, who would tell audiences that the movie is soo awful, they should change channels. I Love That.... Edited by: WhyaDuck on Oct 28, 2011 9:03 PM Edited by: WhyaDuck on Oct 28, 2011 9:12 PM

She had her own TV sitcom in the 60's.....She also had Frank Sinatra, I think they were married before Mia....thats fluff stuff....She is considered by dancers one of the best female dancers ever....You may see her dancing in some movies on TCM....I think she is in Sweet Charity, but I'm not sure....She is no secret....

The End is a comedy about suicide.....and to the critics at the time....and to me as just one in the audience....I found little humor in this movie about suicide.

Did they even make this colorized ? If so, why ? The bleak background would be just as bleak in black and white. It would be like colorizing Grapes Of Wrath. Why ? The scenery is still going to be bleak. Hence the reason for black and white by the director. Now my late mom liked Yankee Doodle Dandy colorized and I agree....but Misfits is no star spangled musical.

The critics hated this movie and I've seen the censored and non censored version. I just never got the great humor in Burt Reynolds trying to kill himself and I thought it made for a long movie. I also agree that little use is made of Sally Field in this and they could have gave her more to do in this thing. Comedy about death is hard to do, and this one always came up way short of comedy to me. The part where Delouise pushes Burt out the window stands out as the funny part in a less than great movie. ..Probably the best part of The End is indeed, The End. .....This one probably goes on the list with Cosby in Leonard Part 6, and Pryor and Gleason in The Toy....Sometimes these comedies are tragic.

I had to click on just to see what SUTS are...or is. Oh, summer under the stars, those SUTS.

Yes, I was going to rave about it being on TCM also, but you kind of tricked us with HBO. I was going to say this very good movie gets shown very little. TCM did have a good movie the other night with Widmark and a great cast about a US Navy captain way too eager to engage the enemy. I had never seen it. TCM showed Casablanca again this weekend, but I can watch it only so many million times. Gone With The Wind is a great movie. Lawrence Of Arabia is a great movie...but......I don't want to watch the same 100 or 200 movies over and over and over. Mr Smith Goes To Washington was just shown for about the hundreth time this year. I like it, but not this much. I could suggest The Music Man as a nice summer movie, but it probably isn't an MGM film, and MGM films seem to abound on TCM. so I guess I'm saying heres to the movies that are seldom seen and therefore they give us something different. ....Although the problem with HBO is they are reduced to showing such old movies. They use to have new movies, but pay per view has killed that. I found HBO is no longer worth the price. An example of overkill is a channel showed National Lampoon Christmas all weekend and it is July....and aren't the million showings of this in November and December more than enough ? ....Yet many many very good movies are almost never shown. Reruns are killing cable TV.

The last movie I saw at the theatre was Saving Private Ryan. ...This is not to say I haven't wanted to see others, but I've discovered I don't like Thanksgiving Day football, and instead on holidays I like to rent new DVDs for our family....but this means skipping them at the theatre.

Falling asleep with the TV can cause me to dream I'm in an old movie, a cartoon or a fire and brimstone meeting, only to wake up and see why the dream was so strange as I hear it on the TV. I can see how people playing educational recordings while sleeping just might work.

Well, Tom Hanks has been pretty good. DiCaprio already has a list of quality movies. DeNiro...Pacino....Hackman.....Robin Williams has alot of good movie performances...Clint Eastwood.....Robert Duvall.....Anthony Hopkins.....Morgan Freeman.....Eddie Murphy.....Jack Nicholson....Michael Douglas....Dustin Hoffman...Tom Cruise As for women: Meryl Streep has been great...Diane Keaton is great at both drama and comedy.....I think Sally Field is very good....Whoopie Goldberg was having a good movie career, and I'm sorry she ended up on The View. I haven't even came close to naming all of todays good actors and actresses. In the 1960s my parents use to say, " They don't make movies like the old days ". The truth was alot of great movies were made in the 1960's. So I didn't buy it then and I don't but it now. There are movies I like Davis or Tracy in, and others I don't. I see on TCM that Burt Reynolds is a Tracy fan, but I would tell him there are some Burt Reynolds films that are better than some Tracy films....yet I am a big fan of MOST of Tracys films. I will say 3D and special effects and needing a BLOCKBUSTER could be ruining the movie bussiness, but I think in the end, talent and good scripts will win out. Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 24, 2011 2:55 PM Edited by: WhyaDuck on Jun 24, 2011 3:13 PM

I do have to tell the old joke I heard on TV, I think Danny Thomas told it. Young patient asks why such old magazines in waiting room. " Because I'm an old doctor ". I don't like all old movies, but I do like GOOD movies new and old.

Oh, you were talking about the movie.

This thing went on the fritz a few years back and stayed that way for too long, for too many. I did see a guest programmer with Osbourne telling him her job at TCM and how her goal was to get the TCM internet fixed and updated. Looks like the lady did it. Heres to you.

What did you want to have happen in your hotel in the first 25 minutes ???