DownGoesFrazier
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Wow! And here I thought EVERYBODY liked Marty Feldman?! ESPECIALLY in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN!!!
(...seems you're kind'a "abby normal" here, dude!)
Apparently just more shallow than most. I'm currently looking for a new trophy wife.
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Hmmm...all this latest talk of "personality" has now got me wonderin' if Lloyd Price's 1959 hit is IN that "Great American Songbook"???
Ya'd think it WOULD be, wouldn't ya.
(...and I wonder if Feinstein ever tickles the ivories while croonin' THAT one?)
A free membership in the TCM Inner Circle to anyone who can name anything else that Lloyd Price has ever done record-wise.
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Sure, leave me out.
Say what you will, I may have me flaws but lack of Personality sure isn't one of them.
As opposed to me. I am absolutely flawless. Anyone that wants to argue this point, I will go into my room, shut the door, and cry.
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Finally! Someone with a personality!
Are you referring to Dargo, or yours truly, or both?
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Oh no! Not THAT!
Gotta say though, the only time I ever get THAT while watchin' TCM is after my wife makes that lentil soup of hers.
(...and then it's, ooo-WEE, "somebody strike a match time"!)
The Great American Songbook sometimes gives me G.A.S.
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I dunno 'bout that, DGF. I wouldn't necessarily think this would be one of those mutually exclusive type propositions, anyway.
(...many people have eclectic tastes, ya know)
You're right. I have a friend who will listen to nothing other than the Sex Pistols and Pavarotti.
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he knows a WHOLE lot about music though- especially "the great american songbook" of the 20th century.
So what? This is TCM, not the GASC.
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As Robert Osborne's leave of absence stretches into its sixth month, it was announced yesterday that Michael Feinstein, a friend of TCM and of Osborne personally, will be substituting for the ailing TCM host on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in August.
Feinstein, a Grammy-nominated recording artist and renowned archivist and interpreter of the Great American Songbook, will surely be a familiar face to TCM fans. Feinstein was previously the channel's guest programmer in January 2015, appearing alongside Robert Osborne. He subsequently hosted TCM's March 2015 Spotlight devoted to 1960s roadshow musicals. Additionally, Feinstein has attended the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood on several occasions, notably performing a rendition of "The More I See You" at Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute in April 2014.
No indication hat he knows anything about classic films other than musicals, is there?
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The Grass is Greener
Robert Mitchum
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I'd guess the primary reason Leslie Howard was used in that video was because whoever produced and edited it together was/is probably a big Leslie Howard fan, and probably just picked that particular ZZ Top song for its soundtrack because that song's basic message is one about a guy with style and class.
(...once again guys, this shouldn't be all that complicated, 'n you's jus' be thinkin' too hard 'bout it)
This guy may be the only person in the world who's a big fan of both Leslie Howard and ZZ Top.
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How about the handsome face of Marty Feldman?
Or Richard "Jaws" Kiel?
And here's a lead actor, Adrian Brody.
I find it disturbing to even LOOK at Marty Feldman. I can't even watch YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. That's me, Shallow Hal (which is my real name). Incidentatlly, I never saw the film with that name.
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I only look at Esther's movies two ways...above water, below water. I suppose I could add bathing suits so that would be four ways, in bathing suit, out of bathing suit. That's the same way I look at George Brent; with moustache, without moustache. There I've said it and I'll say it again.
You apparently look at George Brent differently from many others on these boards.
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In which case, allow me to set up camp in this obscure past of which you speak. It sounds like a little Slice of Heaven.
The next thing you know, Trump will be taking shots at Joe E. Brown, making fun of the size of his mouth.
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Thursday, July 28
12 hours of Joe E. Brown movies. Is there a prize to sit through all of these?
4 a.m. Let’s Do It Again (1975) with Bill Cosby.
With Trump's news conferences and the Dem Convention going on, anyone that chooses to sit through 12 hours of Joe E. Brown movies is truly living in the past, and a fairly obscure past at that..
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They're both from Texas.
(...oh...wait...no they weren't...never mind)
C'mon ol' boy, THINK about this. The YouTube poster was showing the British actor at his dapper best there WHILE we heard that ZZ Top hit being played, RIGHT?!!!
(...this isn't really all that complicated here, ya know)
..but why use Leslie Howard? Any actor can be at his dapper best. I would first think of Adolphe Menjou or Marlon Brando. Wait, scratch Brando, although it would be cool to play "Sharp Dressed Man" while Stanley Kowalski is cavorting about.
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I've only seen DESTRY RIDES AGAIN once, and it was online a few years ago, but if ANY OF YOU ever get the chance- WATCH IT.
It's every bit as important (and good) a western as STAGECOACH.
I'd like to join the party, but I've never been able to get into Westerns.
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Well, in the immortal words of STEVE MARTIN....
"ex-CUUUUUSE ME!"
The thread title mentions "in movies", NOT specifying "lead actors".
CG, that "ugly vein" you mention had already run dry by the time I posted, so WHY beat a dead horse? OR...
A dead EDNA MAY if you will...
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You completely missed my point. What I am saying is that character players generally aren't that good looking. Leading actors often become leading actors because they ARE good=looking.
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"Body and Soul"??
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They were old. Pusses don't do well with age.
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I doubt whether Beery and Dressler in their '20s would have turned heads.
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Correct -- your turn.
Elle Macpherson and Aretha Franklin
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I heard that someone tried to get into the VIP area of the Democratic Convention by showing that he was a member of the TCM Inner Circle.
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I always give the same answer to threads like this; June Allyson.
NOW, she clearly isn't the most unattractive but like some of the gals are saying related to Victor Mature, I find June to be the 'most unattractive actress playing characters that according to the script are very attractive'.
With that face and voice, Allyson had an unbeatable combination of unattractive traits.
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How about NED SPARKS and EDNA MAY OLIVER?
or...VICTOR McLAGLEN and MARJORIE MAIN?
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Most of the people that you guys are suggesting were character players. Beery and Dressler, with those pusses, were actually lead actors.
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Sorry for my tardiness --
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TCM Announces August 2016 Guest Host for Robert Osborne
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