DownGoesFrazier
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Dick Shawn was in "The Opposite Sex" with June Allyson.
Allyson was in GOOD NEWS with Peter Lawford
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When you take yourself home, do you invite yourself in for a nightcap and do you allow yourself to be kissed?
When I take myself home, I get a copy of Glamour Magazine, and pretend that I'm George Costanza.
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You are dating yourself?
Don't most people want to date another person before resorting to such auto-****, Down?
I like dating myself. I'm a cheap date.
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Take your pick, since I'm bored and really don't care.
Now we all love Dub Taylor I'm sure and "Could This Be Magic" was a great tune, but my first intent was to focus on movies that had great dubbing, not only in different languages but for stars who maybe could not sing.
I know for many years, I was unaware that Rita Hayworth was dubbed in the vocals, and did not find that out till I was at the advanced age of about nineteen. I was surprised since the dubbing was so superior to most I'd seen that I never would have known and later found that the studio did try to keep it a well kept secret, not wanting to spoil Rita's image as a musical star. But when one can dance that well, who cares I say.
So your task is to bring up some great dubbing which does not have to be in Dolby, or bad dubbing or favorite scenes with Dub Taylor or even movies which contain doo **** groups that are dubbed, like the Dubs.
Just don't bring up any movies with the line, "Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub" since it might be offensive to some here and you will be reported.
"Could This Be Magic" was the theme of my high school senior prom. I'm really dating myself. I even know that Richard Blandon was the lead singer of the Dubs.
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Patrick McGoohan was in "Silver Streak" with Gene Wilder.
Wilder was in THE PRODUCERS with Dick Shawn
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Did Jim Brown have to give up his career and face a five year prison sentence in the process?
Many have speculated that the reason Ali fought Joe Frazier as soon as he did after his 1970 comeback (with only two fights under his belt, one of them a short three rounder) was because the Supreme Court was coming down with a final decision about his conviction as a draft dodger in June of '71. If convicted, he would have gone to prison, therefore the fight was on with Frazier in March.
I didn't say he spoke up in the same magnitude. I just meant "in general terms". One could also mention the black power salutes on the Olympics medal stand by Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
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Muhammad Ali stood apart from all other athletes, no matter what their tremendous accomplishments may have been because of what he did outside the sports arena. Talk about your Jim Thorpes and Gordie Howes and Wille Mayeses all you want, but how many of them became civil rights icons who gave up the peak years of their careers (and all the money that went with it) because they protested against a war (being vilified by much of the American press and public at the time in the process). Ali, as it turns out, was on the right side of history but he couldn't have known it then, particularly as he is trying to scrape money together to live on.
Don't forget, too, that when Ali refused to go to Viet Nam (many calling him a coward for doing so) he gave up, on principle, a sweetheart deal in which (just like the Brown Bomber during WW2) he would have only had to fight boxing exhibits for the troops. Ali would not have had to pick up a gun and actually be in the conflict.
Later, even with his parkinson's disease, he travelled to Iran in 1990, saw Sadam Hussein (much criticism in the American press and White House for doing this) and brought 15 American hostages home. Even with his crippling disease, he was remarkable as an international goodwill ambassador.
So no matter what you say about the Tiger Woods or Michael Jordans, Ali was bigger as a man, and, I suspect, the impact he will have on history, than them all.
The only other athlete of his magnitude who spoke out like he did was Jim Brown.
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My father would have said, " Say, hey"-- Willie Mays for the greatest baseball player and maybe the greatest athlete of the latter part of the twentieth century. In the field and at bat, at a place called the Polo Grounds.
Of course, and he missed two years at the prime of his career while he was in the Army.
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Stage Struck
Henry Fonda
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JD's stuff would have been perfect for the Downtown NYC clubs ( such as the Mudd Club), circa 1980, which I habituated. I honestly don't recall them playing much of the band.,
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Hey, had not looked it up yet but I'm a fan of Wajda too and in college got into a period of reading almost anything by Dostoevsky so this should be right down my alley, my dark alley, SF!
If Walter Neff had known that Phyllis had killed her husband's first wife, I wonder whether he would have gone along for the ride.
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I would nominate our new SOTM Marie Dressler. Despite her age, heft and looks, she was every inch a star in the last years of her life. She commanded the screen with that indescribable something you mention, that elusive, and in this case, unexpected, "star quality".
There is NO WAY she could be a star today. She belongs to the '20s and '30s.
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I checked this morning. There was updated information now for June. Also, there was a new activity, but I believe I am not allowed to disclose its contents publicly. Others who are members can log in and learn more about what TCM's Inner Circle is doing/offering this month.
Inner Circle secrets may not be divulged to outsiders.
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Y.A. Tittle was a Hall of Fame quarterback, but he's never been ranked with the true greats of the game -- the Joe Montanas and the Johnny Unitases. He'll probably always be remembered for the famous 1964 photo that showed him bloody and on his knees on a football field.
Tittle's most memorable achievement was his name.
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In my case, it was last night and after the gorgeous Madeleine Stowe mentioned in passing the name of Bill Hickman while introducing THE SEVEN-UPS.
During the showing of this film, I grabbed this PC and googled him, and while I already knew he was a stuntman specializing in high speed car chases and perhaps best known as the hitman and driver of the black Dodge Charger RT in BULLITT...
...I discovered that James Dean died in his arms after Dean's wreck of his Porsche 550 Spyder in 1955. Hickman had been driving the Ford station wagon that was a support vehicle for Dean's racing venture to a central California racetrack and was just a few miles behind Dean's car when the accident happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hickman
(...and so, what little tidbit of cinematic information have YOU recently learned after something you've just watched or heard on TCM intrigued you enough to research it on the internet?)
Unfortunately, my laziness usually trumps my intrigue.
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A Farewell to Arms
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Damn. I was just about to post the same thing.
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DIck Powell was in GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 with Ned Sparks
Sparks was in LADY FOR A DAY with Warren William
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Picnic
Susan Strasberg
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Are we forgetting the track-and-field star Jim Thorpe, who dominated the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm and was praised by Sweden's king as "the greatest athlete in the world"? He also was a legendary college football star -- and played baseball as well.
..or Red Grange, who was second only to Babe Ruth and maybe Jack Dempsey in popularity during the '20s.
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Tony Curtis
BOEING BOEING
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Manson
Next: Dennis, Don, Nancy, and Marie
Wilson
Next: James, Harvey, Marsha
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I might add GORDIE HOWE and Y.A. TITTLE to that list, but I'd rather let the sportswriters fight that out.
I remember all the hype and pre fight funny and clever poetry before his title fight with Liston. I was behind him in every fight that followed, and on his side during all his Viet Nam troubles.
He made the sport of boxing more interesting, entertaining and exciting.
There'll never be another like him, and surely wish him to rest in peace.
So, relax and have a fine trip home, Cassius.
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Y.A. Tittle? Are you serious? Football could be represented by Jim Brown or Johnny Unitas.
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I very much enjoyed the relationship between Ali and Howard Cosell. These guys made a great team. Cosell would make verbal jabs at Ali and Ali would make fun of Cosell, jabing him right back. This was fun to watch. Even when it appeared some sensitive subject was touched upon, they quickly regrouped and left me smiling.
R.I.P. Muhammad Ali
Ali made Cosell a star.
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Uh, I dunno 'bout that.
You did a pretty damn great job in your post.
when you open up, you open up.
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