DownGoesFrazier
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Hmmmm...yeah...seein' as how I understand they might have just found water on that planet, I suppose there IS the outside chance there might ALSO be, ahem, "watering holes" up there TOO, huh.
(...with dance floors, of course...and maybe one of those ol' Pac Man and Donkey Kong tabletop games like there was in that Disco I used to frequent back in the day...and used to play...and when the "prospects" looked kind'a slight on some evenings)
A disco I used to frequent was big on backgammon. I always found it odd that people used to sit and play backgammon while Anita Ward was singing about having people ring her bell.
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HEY now, Dude!
Hasn't it become clear to you by now that I, DARGO, have grasped sole responsibly in assisting our lovely lady here in perfecting her already very fine command of this here language???!!!
(...and so, bug off, ol' buddy!!!)
I am much sorrowful.
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Presuming of course the Martian in question wasn't of the "H.G. Wells" type o' Martians, eh DGF?!
I understand THOSE type are the "shoot first and ask questions later" type o' Martians.
(...good point though...yep, SNF's gotta be the best movie ever made about all those times back then when people like you and I would hit that ol' dance floor in hopes that the girl you just asked to dance might later on, ah, well, YOU know)
Also presuming of course that there was no "disco era" on Mars, which there very well might have been.
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I am resurrecting this thread because: EugeniaH's excellent thread re: why we are on this site made me think of how many posters have found this forum of recent.
My original post in this thread stated:
we share much in our posts but it is always in bits and dabs here and there so it is difficult at times to assemble a complete image of our fellow posters. That this is true is evidenced by the fact that it happens often that a person will mistake the gender of a poster with whom they have discussed many things.
Some posters have introduced themself when first coming to this forum but it is nearly always very bare-bones and hesitant as they feel they are coming into a group of strangers.I can not and will not ask nor expect any other person to provide information about themself and I surely will reveal no secrets about myself but I think it may be handy to have a single place with as much information as some posters are willing to share.Some wonderful posters shared their history. I resurrect this thread so that more recent arrivals might have a place to share with us.Found this forum of recent? I know you apologize for your English, but this has got to be a typo.
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I'm very much looking forward to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, which airs to tonight (July 21) on TCM as part of the America in the 1970s theme, with the focus tonight being New York in the 1970s.
I don't think TCM has aired this movie since it was an Essential during (I think) Alec Baldwin's stint as a co-host.
I'm not a big fan of John Travolta, but he is great in this movie.
And the movie has one of the best opening sequences of all time with Travolta strutting down 86th Street
Plus, it produced one of the greatest movie soundtracks.
My mother had this album (I think it was a double album) on vinyl.
If someone showed up from Mars and wanted to know what the "disco era" was, I'd just advise them to see this film.
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i knew none of this.
thank you for illuminating me.
seriously adding your version to my workout mix...
I could give you songs that would make you want to work out 24 hours a day.
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I did a little googling and there are two theories about Zangara.
One, he was trying to kill FDR but missed and hit Cermac instead.
Two, he was a hit man hired by Frank Nitti to knock off Cermac and
did hit his intended target. Guess we'll never know for sure. If
he had killed FDR, John Nance Garner, he of the warm spit/pee
quip would have become president and moved up to ice cold
spit/pee. But that didn't happen.
"We have nothing to fear but me succeeding to the presidency".---John Nance Garner
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I don't know that much about him. Maybe he was. John Wilkes Booth
is a bit of a hybrid--he alone shot Lincoln, but that assassination
was part of a larger conspiracy to kill other top government officials.
Zangara was supposedly shooting at FDR, but he hit Cermac. Walter Winchell was the one who tried to connect him to the mob.
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Wow, someone who digs Lee J. Cobb!
He is kind of a boiler room ****.
I think that his category would be with guys like Paul Douglas, and Broderick Crawford who had some kind of masculine appeal, but I'm just not sure how to classify it with a title.
I will say I find all three more appealing than that boring Paul Newman, Dargo!
Cobb's characters seemed to get PO'd very easily. Many find anger to be sexy.
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Most of the political assassins in U.S. history have been
lone killers--the men who killed Garfield, McKinley, MLK,
RFK, the man who wounded George Wallace. So in this
respect Oswald is nothing out of the ordinary, rather he
fits a pattern.
Are there any who weren't lone killers? Joe Zangara, who wound up killing Chicago mayor Anton Cermac, was rumored to be a tool of the mob.
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Thanks, Miles.
On the "Honeymooners", since it was filmed in front of an audience, what did Jackie Gleason do when he forgot a line and need a prompt?
Hint?
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John McEnroe could play in a remake of "Anger Management"
You are the pits of the world.
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Why, thank you.
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oh hell yeah, the MELVIN VERSION is awesome!
really takes off ca. 1:53.
This of course is the group that had Teddy Pendergrass as the lead singer, before he went out on his own.
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Better watch out, Down!
Though some might think that movies in general are about off-topic subjects which can lead to interesting conversation, others are more restrictive in their approach.
The Movie Police might pick you up for an illegal topic land change felony, if you are not way more cautious in your postings.
No worry. I've also gotten to know the movie police better. This includes payoffs.
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I'll go along with that. And another thing...
I'll usually recuse myself from threads that discuss movies or other topics that don't or have ever interested me. Sometimes I'll "pop" into one to see what aspect about whatever is being tackled. There ARE some members who, if a thread is about a movie THEY don't like, will go in to rant and vent about how much THEY don't like it and why, and insinuate that those who DO like it are somehow mentally defective.
If I happen to reply in one of those threads about a movie or actor/actress I don't care for, I'll simply say I could never get into it, or them and leave.
Sepiatone
Others may, in that instance, derail the thread,
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I miss the old days.
A reason we all gather 'round classic movies.
What I notice about these message boards is more "non topic" threads than in the past.
It used to be when an interesting or controversial movie was shown, a thread about it would appear & everyone could discuss what they just watched while fresh in their minds.
Now General Discussions are full of SPAM daily and littered with simpering attempts to impress others with banal observations. Far fewer film discussion.
Classic Newbie Revolving Threads:
Any Movie Made After 1970 Isn't Classic
Why Don't They Show _____ Movie?
What's Wrong With Robert Osborne?
Your List Of Essentials?
As members get to know one another better, it's more natural to want to discuss more off-topic other things.
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I think I missed how Diane Keaton's character (Theresa) knew the older man that she went to the gay bar with --- the one that she told about her hook-up with the out-of-towner who mistook her for a hooker and her later hook-up with the detective who stole her hooking fee.
Maybe there was no explanation of how they knew each other.
I believe it was the scene at the gay bar where we get our first glimpse of Tom Berenger's character.
It was the scene in the gay bar where Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" was played.
Theresa sang a bit of the song when she and the older man came back to her apartment.
Great song!
This song was originally done by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. I like the original better
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Ellen Burstyn
SAME TIME NEXT TEAR
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A few others...I thought these actors were good looking, but not sexy:
James Cagney
Richard Widmark
Paul Newman - one of the best looking, but his physique was too thin
..then, if you are a woman, I'm not the guy for you.
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Well, I am sorry if I started a firestorm here over the Kennedy Assassination, but I actually did relish reading both points of view from you, Bogie and Vautrin.
One of the reasons I am more aligned to the side which does not believe in the single assassin theory, has to do with information in the Warren Report which mentions doctors at Bethesda removing the brain of Kennedy, in a simple lifting out of the object. The inference was that the brain had already been in a state of removal since it is no easy task to just disengage the cranium from its moorings. Since the Parkland doctors had not done any such thing in their time with Kennedy's body, then this carving out of the brain from its surroundings must have occurred at some time between Dallas and the Bethesda landing. Also it has been ascertained that the body of Kennedy was covered in two different ways as if wrapped at one location in sheeting and at the other location in a body bag. How does this occur if there is not some kind of intervention between leaving Parkland Hospital and arriving at Bethesda? There are many other examples of things that don't add up, that are detailed unwittingly in the Warren Commission report, and though I cannot say with certainty that I know what happened, I can say with certainty that those saying they do, are a bit delusional, like Posner and Bill O'Reilly, Bogie.
Kind of eerie that Parkland Hospital has again been in the news recently as the hospital to which the shot Dallas police officers were taken.
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1) I want to see how many threads CaveGirl posts in one day.
2) I would like to see the end of the only blog on the message board.
3)I like to read a DGF post because it doesn't take very long.
4) I like to read the From Around the Galaxy.
5) I like to post about a movie every month or so.
6) I like to read clever and cryptic posts as well as abstruse inside jokes that i don't understand and about which I am forbidden to ask questions (without appearing stupid).
7) I like to read endless conversations about politics and tcm programming because I like to take tranquilizers.
8) I like to read anything Swithin has to say.
9) I like to avoid talking about music except for the stuffy kind.
10) I like to pretend not to like LIKES because I'm above all that.
11) I like to look at pictures.
12) I like to look at lists because I like to take tranquilizers.
13) And hey, I like to read Dargo too!
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I have received several PM's from very busy executives telling me that my posts are the only ones they have time to read.
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AND of course all this COULD have been avoided if only the plumbing of the El Rancho Hotel hadn't been on the fritz that one fateful day!
Not necessarily. In an interview, Tracy said that he regularly **** over balcony railings. It gave him a thrilling sense of freedom.
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Okay, we've had the very heartfelt and politically correct posts concerning why we all come here to the TCM Message Board.
But now let's get real and tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I admit, I lied. The real reasons I come here are as follows:
1] To see what Dargo has posted
2] To start up fights about the Kennedy Assassination
3] I want to get out of macrame class here at the center
4] I am a glutton for punishment
5] I have no friends or even a dog to occupy my time
6] They shorten one's sentence for good behaviour on the internet
Your turn.
Don't lie this time!
The "they" who shortens one sentences is yours truly. I am the king of short sentences. I'm sure you've read that in a few of Dargo's posts that you so heartily read.
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