casablancalover
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I hope I have next Sunday night off. Even though I am working on my 2nd dvd copy, I still like to watch Casablanca with the virtual crowd here...
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My love of Bass has no bounds. One of my favorites this glorious Fourth, with Tuba solo!
(my son played the Euphonium in band)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9idEpI0JQ&feature=related
Happy Fourth of July.. more later.
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Empty thought?
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Thanks for posting. Very interesting,
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Some, but not all, folks here keep hoping a TCM show about this Forum happens. I used to think it was a good idea. Not anymore. I like my friends on the Messageboard and want to keep them friends. I can't imagine what this forum would turn into with people jockeying for attention - Tee Vee attention.
In terms of discourse, it's the Wild West here. I don't believe anyone here has produced a post that didn't merit some sort of comment that we wouldn't want repeated. Also, there would be the risk of exposing some who really like their anonymity, and I am not just speaking of the Sock Puppets which are always found on places like this. I like the honesty in style and subject at least. With the boards being scoped out for internet to TV stars, it wouldn't be same here.
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>Cujas wrote:
>"Don't Come Home a Drinkin' with Lovin' on Your Mind"--my personal favorite
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>"Just stay out there on the town
>And see what you can find"
I have a personal favorite that hasn't been written yet..
*"I Love to Call Her Baby, Cuz' I Can't Remember Her Name."*
Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 3, 2011 6:00 PM
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MissWonderly wrote:
Are you referring to thong-wearing or throng-waving?
Ha!
I didn't get to the previous post, and I also read "thong" at first !
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>*Something had happened. A thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town, and now it had come at last; George Amberson Mainafer had got his comeuppance. He got it three times filled, and running over. But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it, and they never knew it. Those who were still living had forgotten all about it and all about him.*
Orson Welles, narrating
The Magnificent Ambersons
(1942)
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Remember Bruce and Terry? No... but that's OK. Good advice song.
Here's another duo:
Hall and Oates-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKPVVOCqmqY
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 28, 2011 11:48 PM
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This is from memory, but this afternoon's weather reminds me of this:
> *It's alright. After a while, you get so wet you can't get any wet anymore.*
Andie MacDowell,
Four Weddings and a Funeral
(1994)
~I'll correct it later, if I can..~
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 28, 2011 2:49 PM
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*Lou Christie:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-_3Ta5Zzw
^love the old snapshots with this one..^
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 27, 2011 7:53 PM
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Political would be to inform Michelle Bachmann that John Wayne is from Winterset, IA, not Waterloo..
http://www.johnwaynebirthplace.org/birthday/index.html
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George Sanders is the classic, detached cynical columnist. Think Clifton Webb in Laura, and then Burt Lancaster took it to new levels with Sweet Smell of Success. He didn't even try to hide his intimidation and contempt under a sauve and polished exterior.
Back to All About Eve.. Addison's earlier scenes with MM look sorta tame, but we know what he was getting for all his "coaching" of Miss Caswell..
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 27, 2011 5:46 PM
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>*"Sabrina. . I, - I wasn't going to take you to Paris. I was going to send you."*
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>*"Alone?"*
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>*"Yes, all alone."*
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
(1954)
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It's a down day. Let me embrace it and be then done with it.
There's a new pub in Ft Myers that features Celtic folk.
The Battlefield Band:
John Williamson:
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Addison DeWitt is my favorite character in this as well. How he takes down Eve has a touch of true Karma to it. I mean, he isn't necessarily beloved by the Margo Channing crowd, but he actually sets in motion justice being played out.
That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that in itself is probably the reason: You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also our contempt for humanity and inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.
-Addison DeWitt (George Sanders)
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 26, 2011 11:11 PM
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Glenn Ford came into my radar with Fate is the Hunter. I thought he was terrific in that, and it's not easy creating tension with the limited range of an airline exec trying to recreate a crash. I had originally watched the movie because I like Rod Taylor so much.
A review from DVD Verdict (James A. Stewart) at imdb:
*Fate Is the Hunter* starts out slow, as the crew and passengers board. Even the routine task of loading the luggage is shown. Nothing's exciting, until that first engine light comes on. Even then, Captain Jack Savage (Rod Taylor, [The Time Machine|http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/tcmscifi.php]) is telling a crew member to "Walk, don't run" to look out a window and check on the engine. The radio goes out and Savage is forced to make an emergency landing, but he's calm until the very last moment when he sees that the plane is about to crash into that pier.
The investigation, on the other hand, starts out chaotic as Sam McBane is hounded by reporters at the crash site. It's here that the two main possibilities are laid out: pilot error or fate. McBane doesn't believe in either; he flew Air Force planes in China with Savage, and he's a stickler for facts. His refusal to accept either answer means that he must get at the truth, finally reenacting the fatal flight and discovering the unlikely but very important answer.
While Glenn Ford gets to deliver a rumination on fate at a hearing on the crash, this isn't [The Bridge of San Luis Rey|http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/bridgesanluisrey.php]. The passengers are seen boarding, but the investigation barely deals with the passengers and their lives, and the plot goes in less philosophical directions. It's the mystery story of a frustrating plane crash investigation, in which every clue turns out to be wrong or misleading, from the discovery that a passenger took out $400,000 in insurance to reports that Savage was seen in a bar. Like any good mystery, it's at least possible for a sharp viewer to solve the riddle before McBane.
Using the possibility that Savage was drunk as a hook, *Fate Is the Hunter *also is a character study of the late pilot. McBane recalls a base visit from Jane Russell (playing herself) and an earlier air emergency with Savage. He also meets Savage's former fiancee and his current girlfriend (Nancy Kwan, *Flower Drum Song*), each of whom adds a perspective on the pilot. An early impression of him as a wild man who could be drunk and irresponsible—the one reporters and lawyers are pursuing—gives way to the reality of the man.
Two performers associated with comedy—Wally Cox (Underdog) and Suzanne Pleshette—get dramatic moments. Cox gets to be terrified in the flashback air emergency, while Pleshette plays a traumatized stewardess who reluctantly joins the reenactment.
The black-and-white picture is crisp, without visible flaws, and the sound quality likewise holds up. The musical score does place it in the Sixties, even as it adds the haunting note of tragedy.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 26, 2011 3:47 PM
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When I read about these mansions over a decade ago, the one that most impressed me was Harold Lloyd's Greenacres. His was adjcent Jack Warner's and each of them had nine hole courses, and they would play each other's to make it 18... no fooling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd_Estate
When you see it in Benedict Canyon, you do wish they could've preserved it as a landmark for the public. Even as it sits behind a wall and gates, it is stunning.
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Eddie Money:
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Lovin' Spoonful:
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Pour vous:
The Proclaimers:
and higher energy version from Live 8 in Scotland:
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 22, 2011 8:44 PM
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*All Time Low,* Play it LOUD:
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>*..Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up will rejoice. But still the place you live in is that much more drab and empty when they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.*
Morgan Freeman
The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
a CANADIAN thread
in General Discussions
Posted
To the delightful MissW- to quote her:
4) I added a 4th misconception: that Canadians are dull. Even the polite thing has been exaggerated. As for dull, that's why I started this thread in the first place - to debunk that notion. There are many many famous entertainers, comedians, actors, actresses, directors, writers, painters, journalists, etc. etc. in your country ( as well as ours' obviously ) who are or were Canadian.
That is one misconception I have never held. You folks just aren't boastful and proud as some of the individuals south of your border.
I am studying French currently. I loved Montreal and Quebec City (which the locals just call Quebec). I have found that Canadians are, without exception, polite, kind and good-natured.
One of my absolute favorite Canadian is Paul Gross. Loved the man ever since I first saw him in the TV show Due South and later series Slings and Arrows.
His imdb.com page:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343472/
Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 5, 2011 12:53 PM -because I typo too..