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WHAT DO THREAD REPLIES MEAN?
Obviously it depends on what is said in the reply. Each reply has its own meaning or lack thereof.
I've found that most of the threads you author receive mostly replies that don't say diddly-squat. As for counting replies, there's plenty of evidence that its a meaningless activity in that it takes only a couple or three members simply bumping continually with "nothing" posts to run up "artificial" numbers.
Quantity does not equal quality and sometimes it doesn't really even equal quantity. Your thread creations are great examples of this. Don't quit your day job.
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Whenever I get a notice that says someone liked my post in a certain thread, I go to that thread to see which post it was that was liked by them.
Twice only have I been unable to find the post that the notice was in reference to. In those cases I figured the "liker" had clicked "like this" in error and immediately realized the error and cancelled it.
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Still, as I said Sepia, find me a YouTube video of Jerry(the apple) singing and dancing as well as Danny(the orange) did, and I'll gladly rise my OPINION(the operative word here) about the first mentioned "rubber-faced" film comedian here.
(...and remember, it was not I who brought Danny into this conversation, if you will)
Yeah, but are you one of them there "experts", Dargs?
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In all seriousness, is there a contest?
There is no contest.
I took your question as being sincere and so have answered sincerely.
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Although I must have seen him first in 'Fast Times', the movie I first really noticed him in was 'Easy Money' in which he had a sizeable role. He plays the part of Julio, who lusts for a young Jennifer Jason Leigh and is forever trying to get her to give in and do it. She, however, is a good girl virgin because her father (Rodney Dangerfield) has always preached that to her. So poor Julio just suffers waiting for their wedding day, when he'll at last be able to go all the way with Jennifer.
So what happens? She wears him out! She turns out to be positively nymphomanic once she's married. I remember cracking up at a scene where she finds him hiding from her in the back of a car and as she gets in and starts up with him we hear him moaning in anguish, "no-ooooo".
His bit on Seinfeld where he tries to get the stink out of Elaine's hair is something I've seen many times now.
Gonna miss him.
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Very sad to hear of his passing. He was a unique and instantly recognizable actor - every comedy was made that much funnier if he was in it.
News here:
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A newer movie but the ending of ROAD TO PERDITION (Tom Hanks and Paul Newman) always chokes me up. Several scenes in the whole movie do but the ending with Tom Hanks with his son after they think they may finally be safe after six harrowing violent weeks on the road gets to me.
Great movie. Tom Hanks is superb in it.
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This is what a kewpie doll looks like - in HELL!!
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The Long Riders is available on Netflix. I've zoomed it to #1 on the list. I like James gang movies, looking forward to this.
I'm sure you'll enjoy it. While everyone is good in it, it's David Carradine's movie all the way. One of his best.
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Old Yeller.
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No question that Rod's "heyday" was the 1960's. He was the lead, usually the hero, in movie after movie - many of them quite high profile. And yet he remained one of the most peculiarly un-idolized of male stars. After 'The Time Machine' and 'The Birds' he should have been huge - and he did keep getting those lead roles - but something unquantifiable just seemed to prevent him from clicking at the Sean Connery / Michael Caine level one might have expected.
The movie I most remember him in (my usher experience again) was this odd western called 'Chuka' (1967) where he plays a gunfighter trapped in a fort under siege by Indians. The movie has an over the top performance of John Mills as the fort commander and an even more over the top performance by Ernest Borgnine who appears to adore the commander (to put it mildly). It's almost a template for Borgnine's adoration of William Holden 2 years later in 'The Wild Bunch'. Boy, that Ernie can be a hoot to watch!
Anyway, once the 70's rolled around Rod Taylor found that television was the venue where he'd find work most of the time and his "heyday" was at an end. But, while it lasted, I found him to be a most agreeable actor to watch.
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Kevin Coughlin was a child actor (he played Cara Williams' son in 'The Defiant Ones'). In the 60's he was in a slew of youth dramas like 'The Young Runaways', 'Maryjane', 'The Gay Deceivers' and, most famously, as the young genius bass player in 'Wild in the Streets'.
Not sure if he'd have made a comeback in movies at some point, but I liked him and he died very young - hit by a car in 1976.
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Steve McQueen would've eventually won an award for best actor. Maybe in an Eastwood movie.
Marilyn Monroe would've starred with Brando in a serious role and gotten a best actress nomination, setting her up for more respect from then on and bringing Brando's box-office losing streak to an end years sooner than 1972.
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Oooo, I never knew about this. Too racy even for pre-code, hmm? Sounds hilarious!
Been reading up on this. They weren't originally too racy. But in 1935 the Hays Office demanded they be excised if the movie was going to continue playing in theaters. Problem is, those 3 minutes are now lost.
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Difference of opinion is to be expected in any discussion.. Bad manners is not!
Yeah, but I have no class.
I write the way I speak and I don't say anything in a post that I wouldn't say in person.
I'm kinda real that way.
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When it happens to me I'll go to Google and try getting in through a link in the search engine. If it doesn't work I'll try my bookmarks again, if that still isn't working I'll try Google link to TCM forums again - and so forth. Sometimes all I can do is wait for 5 or 10 minutes if the problem seems bad.
It happens at night a lot (midnight to 3am) but it can happen anytime and there've been some noon hours and supper hours where it's seemed to happen repeatedly.
I believe the TCM servers have their limitations and those limitations show up at certain times.
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Why don't you conduct a TCM poll. I vote for WW and you vote for EP. The score is now 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth.
Because TCM posters are a bunch of old f*rts who actually know who Warren Wilbur is. I'll do my poll out in the real world and let you know how it comes out.
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Elbo Parsley or Elbiss- A laughable actor in silly movies.
Yeah, but there's still more interest in watching his acting than in William Warren.
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I was reading the comments for 'Miami Connection' over at IMDb last week and was surprised at how much love there was for this admittedly 'so bad it's good' movie.
Not sure who it is that's searching out movies for Underground now, but I think they're doing a pretty good job lately. Not that the movies are good, mind you - that they've been rarely seen is why I think they're doing a good job.
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sure but lara croft ain't my idea of a competent director.
And yet she is! Which means you don't have any idea what you're talking about. Again.
Guess what? Drew Barrymore is a director as well - and a pretty good one, going by 'Whip It' (2009).
Darned supposedly dumb women anyway, making fools out of chauvinist slow-wits. Damn.
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I think planktonrules over at imdb says it best in his review - "On what planet do they actually talk like this? It sure ain't on Earth!!" In the U.S. people do not want others to "submit their will to that of the masses". Americans love individualists, those who walk on the wild side and get away with it. Thus the premise of the entire film is false. Given that, I think Coop - heck the entire cast - did a good job with a film based on a goofy concept. I now expect to be pelted with eggs and tomatoes by Ayn Rand fans. Except that might be considered altruism because I might actually eat the eggs and tomatoes and receive benefit by them. Ayn Rand fans detest altruism.
Ayn Rand's thinking was very limited. She had a limited mind but enough vocabulary to express it with an illusion of surety. That's why so many simple minds adore her. She sold her limitations to them while they thought she was speaking for them.
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I'll grant you that I'll bet more people have seen Elbiss movies than Warren "Wilhelm" movies as well. One of TCM's missions is the education of people about classic movies and classic actors such as WW rather than the unclassic and simply awful Elbiss movies.
I have no quarrel with what TCM shows. At all. As for its "mission", well I have no idea if the education of people is part of it or not.
However, to say that Warren Williams deserves to have a special day IF Elvis does is laughable. Elvis was the top star - as an ACTOR - in 31 movies over 13 years. How many times did Warren top a marquee in his 25 years? Ever? The box office receipts for Elvis movies is a thousand times greater than all of Warren's movies put together. As for acting, Elvis' performance in 'Flaming Star' alone is better than anything Warren ever got a chance to do as an actor, I think. I'd also bet that whenever TCM does an Elvis tribute, it gets more viewership than anything it'll ever get for this WW guy. Elvis and Warren aren't in the same class at all - Elvis is so far above Warren Wilson it's mind-blowing.
So, yeah - by all means have a Warren day and enjoy. But any statement of him being more deserving of it than Elvis has zero credibility.
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The channel is Turner Classic MOVIES not Turner Classic SINGERS. As a singer WW undoubtedly stunk. As an actor Elvis stunk and his movies even more so.
As an actor I bet Elvis has way more fans than Warren Wilson has.
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Warren William (a real actor, an interesting actor) deserves a SOTM a thousand times more than Elvis. Every time I see Elvis movies coming on I cringe and roll my eyes. Elvis made such horrific absurd movies even though he was a star singer and national icon of great renown.
Still is. Warren Willam not so much.
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ADDING to conversation has NEVER been one of her accoutrements, Dargs. Her chief device is merely to EXIST on these boards and to do so with as much aggravation and negativity as possible. As to why she's taken so recently to talking to herself, it's probably because so few people are bothering with her anymore.