JackFavell

Oh btw, Goddess and Frank, I just got Ryan's Daughter in the mail, both discs for rental, but I haven't watched yet. I hope to tomorrow.

> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:} > Happy Easter to you, Spunky! My family Easter was yesterday, that's why I'm around today. What's your excuse? Ah, i had a moment of relative peace while the dinner was cooking....that's why it took me 3 hours to get back to you! We just finished eating. It was a nice dinner, nothing too difficult to cook. > And what instrument did you play? >PS: Miss Jackie.. here is how "up" I am on Herb Alpert.. I have heard that song LOTS of times in my lonnnnggggg life.. ha. but I never realized it was one of his! ha. Way fun for a band song, I'll bet! Oh lordy, I was a real band geek... I played oboe. At basketball games I could either play oboe or sax. They have the same fingering. For marching band, because the oboe has an open reed that would break off in your mouth if you jostled it, they made me play the celeste or for a while I did flag core. We were all such geeks we actually thought Tijuana Taxi was cool. We played that one mostly at basketball games. > That music reminds me of the 70s game shows. I mostly like it. It DOES sound like game shows! That's funny! I like it unabashedly. It just reminds me of childhood, it's happy and just so kicky. Ro - re: Mr. Lucky... NOOOOOOO! I love the ending(s)! I think they couldn't decide where to end it.... or maybe they got audience preview feedback and decided to make a 'happy ending' but I think they did it just right, even as they were trying to hedge their bets. but I do see what you mean. I don't think I could stand it if he had not made it.

> > HA! Happy Easter, White Hat! We played this in band:

Glad you liked it, Sansfin! It hit the right spot for me this week. Oh my gosh, THE PEEPS! Love it! Sending it to everyone I know.

If this was my dog Lily those poor chickies wouldn't have a chance. She'd happily wring their necks and then wonder why they weren't playing with her.

Which is on right now!

Thanks for the info on Drum Beat next weekend! I probably would have missed it if you two hadn't mentioned it.

Oh golly, I love Dick Dale! Come on summer!

OMG! I never noticed him! Now I have to go back and watch it again. giggle

Good times! I'm still fairly new to westerns, only a few years now as a big fan, although some of them I've known all my life from seeing them on TV. But I always loved classic films as a kid, and so folks like Edgar Buchanan, Claude Akins, John McIntire, or Arthur Hunnicutt literally feel like a part of my family, they showed up so often. It's funny how Lee Marvin, James Coburn and Charles Bronson became such big stars, when sometimes in their secondary roles they don't seem at all like heroes...as the movies changed, we looked for something different in our leading men, more anti-heroes.

Gorch, hi! You've got that right, all of those guys were sooo talented... I'm thinking Royal Dano, Robert Wilke, Tim Carey, Ernest Borgnine and Richard Boone could be added to the list, but we could probably go on and on with that. I always love the background players.... my favorite parts of most movies are little bits done by character actors.

I'll have to see if I can find it! I have been having a hard time catching up on movies around here lately. By the time I get a copy, everyone's done talking.

Awesome! I was surprised how much I liked Charles Bronson here. I forgot how he was before he became a big star.

I didn't see the movie, but Colcannon is potatoes and cabbage cooked with butter. And the Gaelic quote reads as: "Broken Irish is better than clever English."

Faith n' bejappers, if it isn't himself, looking a fine cracker thing. And me here as useless as a chocolate teapot, after cookin' Colcannon all day. Is fearr Gaeilge briste, n? B?arla cl?ste. Happy day, everyone!

Alvin Lee had a wonderful voice. So sorry to hear of his passing.

And George Tobias! Since you didn't post it this year, I will -- you first posted the clip some years ago but it stuck with me:

I was going to write that I am very up and down about Rebel, I have to be in the mood for all that torture. The acting is excellent, but I don't always want to see it. Sometimes it seems too much of a polemic on adulthood.

Annie Hall? WHat they wanted was freedom, something different from what their parents had, but just because Ben is different, doesn't mean that marriage is different. It's pretty much the same no matter who is in it. If you are dissatisfied with the old institutions, you don't buck the system by joining it.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}Valerie French (Mae) was also in "Decision at Sundown." Oh! OK... she must have been the one I liked from that one, because it certainly wasn't Karen Steele....she must have been the one who loved the bad guy. That's cool! I've discovered a new actress I like.

> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}Here is the latest group of flix that I have watched: > > Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion > Assault on a Queen > As Young as You Feel > The Baron of Arizona > Black Widow > Boomerang! > Brigham Young > Bullets or Ballots > Cash McCall > The Country Girl > Crack-Up > Desperate Journey > The Flame of New Orleans > The Girl from Missouri > The Greatest Show on Earth > Hold Back the Dawn > Journey Into Fear > The Killer Is Loose > La Collectionneuse > Legend of the Lost > Le Notti Bianche > Le Plaisir > Merrily We Go to Hell > My Favorite Brunette > The Parent Trap > The Prisoner of Zenda (1938) > Perfect Strangers > Reap the Wild Wind > Rebel Without a Cause > Ryan's Daughter > The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle > Term of Trial > The Unsuspected > Vacation from Marriage > Virginia City > > > So how do you (and anyone else) like those films? Can you rank them? Can you guess my top ten favorites? Here's how I like the ones I've seen. The first two were really tough for me to choose between - But I give it to Zenda because I saw it first and it has such nostalgia attached: 1. Prisoner of Zenda 2. Hold Back the Dawn 3. Vacation from a Marriage 4. Bullets or Ballots 5. The Parent Trap 6. Reap the Wild Wind 7. The Baron of Arizona 8. The Unsuspected 9. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 10. Virginia City 11. Rebel Without a Cause 12. Assault on a Queen 13. Term of Trial 14. Ryan's Daughter 15. The Greatest Show on Earth 16. Cash McCall 17. The Country Girl 18. Boomerang! 19. Black Widow 20. The Girl from Missouri 21. Perfect Strangers My favorite brunette I remember liking a lot, but I haven't any memory of the actual movie.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > I have 6 of those and many more. I still have all my 45s and a turntable as well. I have a few from the mid 60s. Beatles and Monkees but most of mine are from the eary 70s. Bread, Badfinger, Nilsson, most of The Beatles solo 45s and some other odds and ends. I have bought many again on itunes and still enjoy them. Oh I got my sister's Nilsson albums, and you KNOW i love him. I REALLY REALLY like *Badfinger*. But that's sort of in retrospect. I liked their songs on the radio, but I was a little too young to understand they were all from the same band. I like every song they ever did, but I have none of their albums or cd's, as we like to call them now. Edited by: JackFavell on Mar 9, 2013 7:46 PM because of the stupid stupid way that rich text works

> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote} No, not the "Dance of Joy"! > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042841/ > > > I'm off to dinner at my brother's. Seeya later! > Oh, I've seen that one! Have fun!

> They were calling for 4-8 inches of snow for Harrisburg and we ended up getting nada. I was shocked. How much snow is on the ground up there? Oh we only got about four altogether, but wind for about 2 or 3 days straight, and the snow fell all night and all day on Friday. After the 24 inches, scooping up that 4 seemed like nothing. It took me ten minutes to shovel. Heavy stuff though. > Way to stick with it! Thanks! My temptation was to cut and run away. > Like usual, I can't recall the music. I'll have to toss the film in again to listen to it. I only noticed it at the beginning, with the sweeping mountain vistas. David Raksin is a name I've noticed before. I guess I must like his music. > That's a superb point. I was very surprised to see Shep (Ernest Borgnine) just lose it and force a horrible decision on Jubal (Glenn Ford). It really does happen all so fast and there is no turning back. You just wish someone could reach Shep, but no one could. His trusting ignorance made him a fool, and what he feared the most was being taken as a fool when it came to Mae. I wanted so badly for him to realize it wasn't Jubal's fault. I agree, the insinuations Pinky made really hit Shep where it was tender. That's the Othello part. What you said to Ro about Shep is something that I think most women feel at some time or another... that their date or mate is vulgar or embarrassing at some point. I think many women seeing this film would be like, "Yes, you see? That's how we WANT to be treated, like Glenn Ford does." It almost made me laugh, that scene where Shep asks him how to treat Mae. It was endearing that he asked, most men would have remained clueless. So I didn't blame Shep at all...because I felt that Mae didn't love Shep. She could have told him how she felt, but she didn't really care that much to change things, at least with Shep. She wanted an out and this was her excuse, he's an animal. That would make it all the worse over time for her, having him be this way, though. At the beginning, she could say to herself, "He's got a ranch, I don't mind him pawing me" but over time, it must have been awful. If a woman sometimes has trouble dealing with the vulgar things a man she loves does, imagine how much worse it is when she doesn't love him.... it must have been horrible to allow him to touch her. But Mae brought it on herself, so I had no sympathy for her or very little. She was just a user, so she pretty much deserved what she got. > I can see where someone could be left cold with Glenn Ford because he does have a steely presence. I just love how quiet he is. I love his brand of strength in westerns. Have you seen *The Sheepman* ? I can't remember if you said so or not. Glenn plays a completely opposite kind of character in that. And he's terrific. I haven't seen it. I stayed away from Glenn for years because I just couldn't stand his persona from when I was growing up. He was in that rugged, 1960's and 70's phase, he had a tv show that turned me off completely. I think I disliked him almost as much as I disliked John Wayne's persona. And just like Wayne, though not to the extent, I learned that I was wrong about him. I just don't like him in movies like The Big Heat or Blackboard Jungle, where he's playing tough guy. I like him wounded as in Jubal or Gilda, or thoughtful and humorous, as in 3:10 to Yuma. > I loved the spot Jubal was placed in. He has trying his darnedest to make it all work, to keep everything under control. Although, he did look to push Pinky (Rod Steiger) back, which was his undoing. I didn't think it was his undoing. I thought his letting Pinky push him was his undoing. > That's excellent! Great comparisons. And you're very right, it's very much a "50s" film. What can you do when you're put in a spot like Jubal? You can't win. Even when you do win, you lose. Can you imagine doing in Shep, a guy you owed a lot to and cared about? No I can't, it would be awful and I'm sure I could never forgive myself. I would replay it in my head all the time. The only way to win is to stand up and take responsibility. Running away never solves anything. I know! Confront the fear that's the only way to get over it. > You had a crush on Chuck? Really? I would have never guessed that! I like Noah in roles like this. He's so good and likable. I really did, though not in the Death Wish movies or anything.... young Charles Bronson, as in The Great Escape. He's so vulnerable there, and I think he was a tremendous actor, though I guess he was a tremendous pain in the neck. > I never heard of her, either. And you're certainly right, she was good. She played that "kind of woman" perfectly. Yes, I agree. There was a lot of nuance to her performance, but not so much that she took the focus off of anyone else. > I'm going to reply to your other words on *Jubal* later on. . OK. > But there is one movie your *Jubal* comments brought to mind for me. It's another Glenn Ford film, actually. He starred in it just two years prior. It's *Human Desire*. The set-up is fairly similar, it's just the characters are different. Gloria Grahame plays a married woman who wants out of her marriage. Glenn Ford is attracted to her, but he also likes a "good girl." The big difference between the two films is the husband. Broderick Crawford is an abusive husband, unlike Shep in *Jubal*. I get the feeling that Mae and Vicki (Gloria Grahame) married for similar reasons and then found themselves trapped. I know Vicki wanted to be saved from the streets. I can't remember if Mae states why she married Shep. Wow, that's a really GREAT comparison, one I never would have come up with. I haven't seen HD for a really long time, it was one of my first noirs and I liked it a lot. Yes, I see it completely! I think the situation and especially the women are very VERY much alike. Mae did say she was left alone by her dad in a mining town or something, left to work and fend off the men there, so she waited for and married Shep, because she thought she'd be a big woman then, and could show all the people who gossiped and talked about her back home. I think Vicki really played on the abuse angle, far more than Mae did. But probably only because Mae didn't think of it. It would be cool to do a triple feature of Clash by Night, Jubal and Human Desire sometime.

> I was always someone who liked singles but never really bought albums. I didn't do that until I got into rap music in the mid-to-late 80s. With the 80s, I was all about the weekly top 40 countdown and MTV. I loved all of that. I really loved MTV at the beginning. I can remember the first time I saw it. We went to a friends house, and they had it on, and everyone gathered to watch the videos. > I'm trying to think of what the first album I ever got would be. It would have to be a cassette. You know, it may actually be Olivia Newton-John's greatest hits. I was infatuated with her. I know I got Hall & Oates' "Big Bam Boom." I also had a girl in school record their "H2O" for me. That was in fifth grade. I also had the *Breakin'* soundtrack and Janet Jackson's "Control." I can't remember if my brother bought "1999" or I did. I loved that album. I know he bought "Thriller." I wasn't into any of those except Thriller. > Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League > The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band > Poison Arrow - ABC > *The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats* > Another One Bites the Dust - The Queen > *De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police* > *She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby* > The Curly Shuffle - Jump n' the Saddle > Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia > *Rock the Casbah - The Clash* > The Eye of the Tiger - Survivor > Magic - Olivia Newton-John > *Thriller - Michael Jackson* > *** on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot > *Our House - Madness* > *Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant* > *Funkytown - Lipps Inc.* The bold ones are the ones I really liked off of your list. > Do you remember your first album(s)? I am not sure. I remember getting the Beatles blue and red albums early on, but I don't think I bought them myself. I remember my first 45's, I think I was about ten: Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe Lean on Me - Bill Withers I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers Cher - Gypsies Tramps and Thieves (but I bought it for the B side, He'll Never Know) Alone Again Naturally - Gilbert O' Sullivan Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient Brand New Key - Melanie I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash Black and White - Three Dog Night I got all my sister's hand me down records. I had very few of my own. There was a Roberta Flack one I know I got for my birthday one year. I was a real geek and had oddball things like a collection of THE MARX BROS. comedy skits from their movies, and my parents cast off broadway albums full of showtunes. I believe I begged for a John Denver greatest hits album one year and wore it out. I don't think I really bought my own albums until much much later. I remember saving up for London Calling by The Clash and Elvis Costello's Punch the Clock. They may have been the first albums I ever bought myself.