JakeHolman

Alice Cooper was recently inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame...I remember him well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z7I022m5GI Till the next time...

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Oooh, one of my favorite songs! Thanks Jake. Glad you like it JF...think I'll take some Traffic with me while I'm on the road tomorrow. You take care...

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > As a kid growing up in Oklahoma, I watched Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy films, and Rin Tin Tin was my favorite TV show. I'd guess that most of us of a certain age saw B westerns, when we were kids. Perhaps we liked them then, perhaps we didn't. But, they defined the western for most of us. They were simple entertainment, at best, and rarely anything more. So, it is hardly surprising that many people don't like westerns, or had to discover that some were worthwhile. > > If we put aside our prejudices, a western is good if it has the same elements that make a film of any genre good. Indeed, westerns can fit in many genres, from the screwball comedy-like *Destry Rides Again* to the intense and affecting drama of *The Ox Bow Incident* to the psychobilly *Johnny Guitar*, to noirs like *Blood on the Moon*, and *Pursued*. > > My tastes have changed considerably since I was a kid. Gene, Roy, Hopalong and Rinny no longer appeal to me. I have no great love for westerns as a genre, as I do for film noir. But, I have no prejudice against them, and recognize that there are many great ones. > > Lots of good films have been mentioned already, so I'll just mention a couple of unmentioned favorites that come to mind: > > *El Topo* > > *Hombre* with Paul Neuman playing a half-breed > > *One-eyed Jacks* the only film Brando ever directed > > *The Appaloosa*, starring Brando, John Saxon, and Anjanette Comer > > *Forty Guns* directed by Sam Fuller. His other westerns are good, too *The Appaloosa*, *starring Brando, John Saxon, and Anjanette Comer*. A very underrated Western...I like it...

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > Coming up on TCM this Tuesday is one of my favorite Gary Cooper performances in > a rarely seen, not available on American DVD western by Delmer Daves, The Hanging Tree. > > > > Maria Schell costars with Karl Malden in a story about a complex and unusual "triangle" of > relationships between a stagecoach hold-up victim (Maria), the doctor that treats her > resultant sun blindness due to exposure, and a young man (Ben Piazza) the doctor has saved from > being shot for stealing. Lest these deeds make the doctor sound like some kind of good > Samaritan, Coop actually plays "Doc" Joseph Frail as a mysterious, somewhat dark and > forbidding character with a past who isn't about to explain himself to anyone...or > acknowledge any obligations beyond those he can control. > > > > > The movie presents us with a small collection of characters who wear different masks > and seeing the true person underneath seems to be a possible theme of the film, along > with the importance of trust, particularly when the young woman (Maria) enters the little > mining settlement stricken with blindness, and who's vulnerability places Frail in a compromising > position. It seems even in a make-shift mining camp, gossip and suspicion are always your > neighbor. > > The ghosts of Frail's past are in constant jeapordy of being revealed partly because the doctor's > own temper threatens to undermine his position as the community's position as healer. Most > eager to try to expose Frail are Malden's "Frenchie" who goes down as one of the most aggravating > and despicable of varmits and a particularly looney appearance by George C. Scott as a fanatic > who also holds a personal grudge against Frail. It appears that Frail views himself as the only man allowed to keep secrets, for he does not hesitate to put these two men roughly in their place for > their own dubious characters. > > More an adult psychological mystery and character study than action shoot em up, this western deserves to be better known, particularly as "Doc" Frails is for Cooper one of the three great western characters of his career (along with Will Kane in High Noon and Linc Jones in Man of the West) because he is something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery...and a mighty attractive form. > > Enjoy!! > http://www.tcm.com:80/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=77288 > Turner Classic Movies > Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 1:30 p.m. EST You nailed it Goddess...

Some Traffic... Till the next time...

> {quote:title=exapno wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > I agree. > > > > Technicolor in the old days was fantastic. > > > > > > > > Cars from the 50s were great. They were large, comfortable, and fast. They had plenty of power and room for 6 passengers. And they looked good too. No electronics in them at all. 99% American made and high quality. > > > That statement is SO much BS! cars from from the 50's were gas guzzling, poorly made death traps! Currently I drive a 2005 Mitsubishi Galant - and before you rant on THAT, it was assembled in Illinois by UNION workers, and contains more American made content than most so-called 'American' cars. > > Let me count the ways cars are SO much better now: > > Safety: American roads used to be gruesome 'trails of death'. Remember that back in the late 50's, *50,000* people a year used to get killed on America's roads. We have cut the road fatality rate from almost 6 per 100,000 miles to almost *1.5* per 100,000! A lot of that is due to safer roads and safer cars. Thanks to seat belts and air bags, nobody gets impaled on their steering wheel anymore, nobody gets thrown through the windshield anymore. Only the idiots who do not wear their belts have this happen to them. Anti-lock brakes, better suspension systems and a hundred other things make today's car a safer thing to entrust your life in. > > > Whats wrong with electronics?? GIVE me electronics, PLEASE! GIVE me electronically controlled fuel injection, which saves me gas. GIVE me the electronics in my Galant that gives me push button cruise control. GIVE me the electronics in my car that gives me variable speed power steering, that gives me SUPERIOR steering on the road than your 57 Chevy ever had. > > You want quality and durability? My Galant has about 90,000 miles on it - it probably now is JUST getting broken in many ways. My mechanic, when I was looking for a car acouple of years ago, basically told that there are no really bad cars these days. There is variances in quality of course, but just about every car out there now is better than any built 30...40..even 50 years ago. The reason? COMPETITION. There are too many choices out there for the consumer, so you BETTER make a good car, otherwise you lose. > > PLEASE get your rose colored glasses cleaned...OK? You might actually see what is really happening out there. Ditto... I once owned a used 1957 Chevy. It was a wonderful car but in no way was it the car I presently own: 2004 Honda Accord with over 200,000 miles on it. It still purrs like a kitten every morning morning I start her up...

The King doin' some pickin'.... Till the next time... Edited by: JakeHolman on Feb 5, 2011 7:10 PM

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Jake, knowing you are a fan of Westerns, I was hoping you'd participate here. Thanks for posting that list. Hope you don't mind, I copied the film part of the article for here. Le voila : > > > > *Best 10* > > *Best Western Films* > > Shane > > High Noon > > The Searchers > > Dances with Wolves > > Red River > > The Shootist > > Stagecoach > > Ride the High Country > > Unforgiven > > The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Not in the least do I mind... And the truth is Canada is our master since we are very dependent upon them for our energy needs--oil imports... Also, I do believe there were and are some very famous actors and actresses from the great country called Canada. Till my next post...

Another list... http://www.westernwriters.org/best_westerns.htm

Led Zeppelin...from the album Led Zeppelin... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-p5ZQDjNtQ Till the next time... Edited by: JakeHolman on Feb 4, 2011 8:15 PM

Rod Stewart... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxYu0IU9gdg Till the next time...

We love 'em in New Orleans and they belong in the R&R Hall of Fame, too... Till the next time...

Ethan scalps Scar in the Searches... The Immortal John Wayne

Steppenwolf belongs in the R&R Hall of Fame or Shame... Till the next time

The Beatles with one of their great riffs...Paperback Writer... Till the next time...

Ten films with hanging scenes 2 off the top of my head... An Officer and a Gentleman...you dumb Oakie... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...Hey, Blondie! You know what you are? Just a dirty son-of-a-b-!

Rush belongs in the R&R Hall of Fame... Till the next time...

The Moody Blues belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame... Till the next time

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > MM being Marjorie Main? Hardly, feenance, lewyer,,,why did you think it might be her? heh heh heh

In no particular order...just as they come to mind... 1. Martha Hyer 2. Elizabeth Taylor 3. Joann Woodward 4. Lee Remick 5. MM 6. Jeane Crain 7. Joanne Woodward 8. Maureen O'Hara 9. Doris Day 10. Susan Hayward fine lookin' women...Mmmmm...

Pink Floyd... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo Till the next time...

A good tune from the 80's...played in a lot in the night clubs... Till the next time...

Two good ones from one of the best bands of all time...The Kinks... Till the next time...

Gene Pitney...a great song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYya-hIus-U

Spirit...1984...a band that had a lot of influence on other bands but never cashed in on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzITqBcRnY Till the next time...