DownGoesFrazier
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Lafitte?
OK, here's one:
A proposition regarding the p e n i s.
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Thanks, Lawrence.
This very popular leading actor portrayed three male lead characters originated by Alfred Drake on the Broadway musical stage. Name this popular lead actor and the three lead characters he portrayed.
Howard Keel? In KISS ME KATE, KISMET and ?
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Correct.
Your thread, feet.
Lafitte?
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I did always think you were cute in high school, Down but you were too fast for my set.
I really WAS on the track team.
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Naaah. I was never smart enough for that!
This "intellectual" you've come to know and love and respect here was, let us say, "a late bloomer"!!!
LOL
And which now reminds of ANOTHER little story of mine...
Some 26 years ago I walked into my 20 year high school class reunion. After a few minutes I heard a voice calling my name. It was coming from some guy who looked kind'a like Jabba the Hutt sitting across the room.
Turned out it was a guy named Tim. Now, Tim was the captain of the varsity football team. Tim, at the time, was kind of a "man among boys". Tim looked like a 35 y/o James Garner IN HIGH SCHOOL, and so the dude had ALL the girls after him. Always figured he was a shoe-in for the NFL, but he never made the pros.
And so I walked over to him and he says, "You're lookin' pretty good there, dude!", and so somewhat taken aback as to how he had let himself go these last 20 years I replied back, "Ummm, yeah, so are you".
Well, he just laughed and took a swig of his beer and said, "Naaah, I'm a fat pig now, man! But that was nice of ya to say anyway".
That also was the night that 5 different women came up to me and told me they always thought I was really cool and wished I had asked them out on a date, and to which I would reply, "Well then, why the hell didn't tell me this BACK THEN?!" Seems I could've been much more popular than I was.
(...or as that old dude says who's sittingon his porch and watches George Bailey ineffectually woo Mary Hatch, "Youth! It's wasted on the wrong people!")
There was a guy I hung out with in my twenties. He was quite the stud and the girls always gravitated to him rather than me. I ran into him recently after over 30 years. He recognized me--I didn't recognize him. He had put on at least 100 pounds. If we had gone together to a singles bar at that point, the winner would have been (you know the rest)
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Yeah, well, I doubt I would've been all that popular(not that I ever was anyway) with that aforementioned "circle of friends" of mine IF I wouldn't have been able to stifle the truth at that moment.
(...probably would've been branded a "narc" afterward, ya know...would've been sure social death during those turbulent times and when you "couldn't trust anybody over 30")
You could have always hung out with the nerds.
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misswonderly3--Regarding John Ford and humor: Ford's major fault. When he tried to be funny, he laid on the humor with a trowel (too many films to list), used unintelligible accents ("Judge Priest" (1934) and "The Plough and the Stars" (1937, to name two), mixed ethnic accents to disastrous effect (1934's "Judge Priest mixed Irish and Southern accents to disastrous effect--everyone except star Will Rogers and the Ingenue tried that).
Even in the rare cases where he lets the humor grow out of the situation (1952's "The Quiet Man") he lays on the Blarney from the Auld Sod too thick, and I wince instead of laugh at Victor McLaglen.
The rare cases where humor Did work--See Edna May Oliver in "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), and Thomas Mitchell in the first half of "Stagecoach" (1939), to name two actors who were funny in his films.
Fords' many other strengths make up for this weakness, I think. The cinematography in his films was almost always at least good, if not exceptional. The music in his films was always good, especially in "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), "Rio Grande" (1950) and "How the West Was Won" (1963) (I know, only a third of HTWWW is his but the films' score is exceptional).
Ford was trying to lighten a serious film; "The Searchers" is about racism, and how it has no place in the civilized West, as is shown by the door closing in Ethan's face and his walking away. I can't fault Ford for trying to insert a little humor.
As Princess of Tap said, Ford made "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964) as an apologia for his film treatment of the Indian; I second her recommendation of the film.
"The Searchers" isn't perfect, but it's a dam good film, and Ford's filmography speaks for itself.
THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING is a good Ford comedy with a light touch.
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THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE
Uh, Fred Astaire
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Michael Callan, what a cutie!
He probably would look good as a woman, just like Tony Curtis did. I've seen that film but totally have forgotten any scene with him in drag.
Thanks, Laffite!
Michael Callan went to my high school, where MOST guys were cuties.
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Well on air personalities mean nothing to me. I'd be fine if they did away with them altogether once RO leaves.....90% of what they say about the film I know already.
I have no preference of RO over Ben. After that there's a pretty big dropoff.
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I was just kidding about that of course, CG. My father was mostly responsible for my staying on "the straight and narrow" in regards to any drug use his son might have been tempted to experiment with at the time. Pop and I had a talk about it, and his usual well reasoned arguments against it would make sense to this then teenager and would pretty much succeed in its goals.
BUT, your question conjured up the following little episode in my life about this very issue which I'll now relay. It happened when this then high school student happened to be over at a friend's home.
After sitting down at my friend Tom's home along with his father and watching not the Dragnet "Blue Boy" episode of which you speak but the "The Big Prophet" episode where actor Liam Sullivan plays a character based on Timothy Leary and engages in a drug use debate with the stalwart Sgt. Friday, my friend Tom's father, a big blustery in-your-face type, turned to me and in his typical "macho" manner said, "Well, I know MY boy here isn't using drugs, anyway. And 'cause I've told him that if I EVER catch him using them, I'd kick the crap out of him!"
(...you have no idea how hard I had bite my tongue to keep from telling the big blustery fool that his son was one of biggest potheads and occasional acid droppers within my circle of high school friends)
But Pop was only interested in catching him red-handed. Hearing about his drug use from you would have barely raised an eyebrow.
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exegesis
extrapolate
buzzkill
We need you in Words.
Request indulgence for the interstitial nature of this post.
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The other inhabitants of the cave refer to her as the Human Dictionary.
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Yeah, that mean old Down had to spoil all my fun. I can't speak for Miss Wonderly who may not have been enjoying the exegesis of the Ford ouevre as much as I.
How often does one get to extrapolate on a John Wayne film at length anyway in the real world.
It's not like we were chatting longer than the filibuster of Jimmy Stewart in that movie, about Mister Smith.
Down is being a buzzkill. I learned that word yesterday while on the Sid Vicious Memorial Site.
As someone who went through college reading cliff notes, you should see where I'm coming from.
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Granted, you make a point, Down,
A silly one, but a point nevertheless.
P.S. I just sent you a private message but since you don't know how to open your messages, it shall remain a secret between me and me.
Remember----"A silly point is better than no point at all"( I forget who said it first-----I think it was Captain Beefheart)
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Now if Ken Jennings looked like James Coburn he would give Dargo a run for his money though, Down.
You sure you don't mean Charles Coburn?
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Is this a competition for who can do the longest posts? It's a competition in which I would have my head handed to me.
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You just know everything, Dargo!
Speaking of "doodles", do you have a recipe for Snickerdoodles?
I think they would be a very patriotic accompaniment to the usual 4th of July menus.
Dargo makes Ken Jennings seem like an uninformed dolt.
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Well, we haven't seen the December schedule yet. So it's possible they are planning to give him a 24 hour marathon on his actual birthday. They did those for Danny Kaye and Vivien Leigh.
Neither Kaye nor Leigh had the extensive and impressive filmography of Douglas....Nor did they make it to 100.
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I heard also that Grant was offered the lead in "Miss Grant Takes Richmond" but said that he wouldn't even go to the film unless Lucille Ball was given the the part.
Why should the producers care whether Grant goes to any film? They're going to give Harrison the role in MY FAIR LADY just so they can get an additional $2 in box office receipts?
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Yeah, well, don't get me wrong here as I usually like Greg Peck whenever he's cast in a role that fits him, but I've seen ARABESQUE, and sorry, besides that whole arthritis thing you mentioned, I believe that movie would have been better if Grant had taken the role.
And the reason I believe this is that Grant was much more capable in delivering little "throw away" lines that help create comic relief in suspense/adventure films like this Donen film is supposed to be than Peck ever was.
(...and re DGF's original thought here...nope, while I have heard Grant was offered the Henry Higgins role in the MFL movie version, I too have never heard that he was also offered the Harold Hill role, and so I wonder if Ben or whoever wrote his intro last night might've gotten their wires crossed a bit and confused the story between these two films...although I suppose there is always the possibility that this did take place with the casting of THE MUSIC MAN movie too)
Post -1940, did Grant ever want a role that he did not get? Did he want to do VERTIGO?
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Odd, that it's not....
I guess he's no "friend of TCM".
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So does Ah, Wilderness!
AH WILDERNESS has more than a July 4th scene. That is a major component of the film.
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True!
(...Sire)
I should have said, the thread STARTER, not the threadholder.
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Whatever ya say!
(...it's your thread, ya know)
In the land of TCM message board posters, the threadholder is king.
Why no "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for the 4th this year?
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Actually, my uncle, who was very smart, was rejected because he had a personality like a dishrag. They worded it a bit more diplomatically.