DownGoesFrazier
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I first heard that SONG long before ever seeing the movie it came from, and as a kid wondered if it had something to do with Huckleberry FINN!
I'm still not real clear on the meaning of it in terms of the song's lyric, the best I can find is in that case it would refer to a very good friend, or a friend who's always the right person at your side at the right time.
And that real huckleberries are closely related to blueberries, and even have a similar look. OR it could just BE another name for blueberries.
However, it seems lyricist JOHNNY MERCER was using 19th century lexicon.
And incidentally, I used to work with a guy whose name was Huckleberry. Some of us, in fun would call him "Huckleberry Hound", but Huckleberry was his last name.
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Not to change the subject, but can you do the hucklebuck?
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she had a famous father
Guessing Nancy Sinatra. Was the event Frank, Jr.'s kidnapping?
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Did anyone mention *Wallace Beery in his underwear?
or how abouit *Marie Dressler & *Victor McLaglen as well?
I recall they each did at least 1 entire picture with wearing them & the entire film too
Ed Wynn was another
Beery stole his underwear from the set.
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Are you saying the website is imbibing or the patrons of it, Nip?
I know that I have been drinking a lot less than usual for a weekday personally.
How many **** of the vanilla have you had while posting?
**** = n-i-p-s
Apparently, the TCM Wine Club is having some unforeseen drawbacks.
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'40s film that yielded a memorable song. Recently on TCM.
Hint: If you have to crash a party, that means you are_____________.
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This was a favorite of mine from that era. I think the beginning instrumental is pretty and haunting, filled with such anticipation:
Heatwave was a great group. "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Star of the Story", and "Sho Nuff Must Be Love" were terrific.
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Is it a Philco and do you get the Dumont Network on it, Down?
If so I'm coming over tonight. Have some snacks ready!
Plenty of Screaming Yellow Zonkers and Royal Crown Cola
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Professional party crashers
'40s film that yielded a memorable song. Recently on TCM.
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OMG, I love Max [aka Casey]!
Wasn't he great in his later years in "16 Candles", Down?
You are the first person on these boards who has liked him. Did you like him as a cigarette-smoking Ward Cleaver in the Beaver pilot?
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Okay, answer yes or no to the following, Down:
You refuse to watch the colorized version of "It's a Wonderful Life".
If the answer is yes, you are a true movie buff.
If no, get out of my sight!
The question is irrelevant to me, because I have a black and white TV. I got it on sale for $2.99.
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Ring-a di.............................
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I don't do the FB thing anymore due to what it looked like to me made me realize why I vowed, once getting out of junior high 50 years ago, to never go back!
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I think one should focus all one's attentions on one particularly fan club. Right now, I am the VP of the Max Showalter (AKA Casey Adams) Fan Club.
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Sure, to us longtime viewers of TCM, it just wouldn't be the same without him.
Maybe they can consider, if he's still alive( can't find out anything about it) bringing AMC's old host BOB DORIAN in to fill in for Bob, if an old geezer movie host is your preferrence. He seemed affable and handled the probably "spoon fed" trivial info about the movies he presented with a natural skill that made it seem as if he already knew it all first hand.
In jest, I wonder if TCM will instead of calling an undertaker upon the misfortune of Bob's demise, contact a taxidermist and have Bob stuffed and on the set, displayed in a glass enclosure?
It's unbalanced(so am I, so what?) that Bob will have to either retire or die before he's replaced. The inequity is that there's some of the station's programmers need replacing, and before they reach retirement age or death before they are replaced wouldn't bother me in the least.
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Gee, I'm amazed you didn't get a lot of "likes".
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Your thread, DGF.
Professional party crashers
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Canadian SNL alum who died tragically of cancer.
GILDA
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The dog's funniest role had to be in THE AWFUL TRUTH.
...and in a 1940 interview, he agreed.
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How often do you ask yourself “Am I watching too many movies?” Could it be that I’m a celluloid addict? Is it okay to base all life decisions on lessons learned from the MGM, Warners, RKO, Universal, Cinecitta or Gaumont studios?
To answer these burning [like a strip of hot nitrate] questions, one need only take the quick and easy 21 step quiz below, that I created in my spare time, when I was not watching, discussing or reading about movies. Feel free to substitute the names of actors or films which are more in your wheelhouse or specialty, in perusing the questions. Also if you have additional questions which you think would add to the revised edition for 2017, please submit them here.
Now, Number 2 Pencils up, answer all questions with a Yes or No, and begin!
1] When you read a glowing or crappy review of a new film, do you immediately make plans to see it?
2] If there is a video or dvd store you spot while driving somewhere else, do you make a beeline to check out its stock and always buy something?
3] Whenever you are trying to describe to the fuzz, a potential felon you spotted behaving like Jack Lambert or Ted de Corsia, do you use movie personage descriptions like “Well, Officer, he was as beady-eyed and shifty as Charles Middleton or Arthur Hunnicutt” or “She was as cheap looking a tart as Mary Beth Hughes or Veda Ann Borg and had brassy blonde locks.”
4] Have you ever challenged 20 or more people to a game of Trivial Pursuit:The Silver Screen Edition and won?
5] You find a thousand dollars on the Capri drive-in snack bar floor and instead of making your house payment you spend it on a poster from the original showing of the 1931 film of James Whale, “Frankenstein”?
6] You take a date to see the Bergman/Lynch Festival showing of “Persona” and “Eraserhead” and your date talks throughout the films. Later they say they found the films depressing. Do you tell them you never want to see them again in this lifetime?
7] Relatives drop in unexpectedly at your house while you are watching the newly discovered and digitally remastered Criterion edition of Lon Chaney’s “London After Midnight” and they ask you to change the channel to watch “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion. Do you tell them to hit the bricks and never darken your door again or do allow this travesty?
8] You are at a revival showing of “The Buddy Holly Story” and they forgot to show it with the anamorphic lens which makes the people in the roller skating rink scene look 12 feet tall. Do you get up and angrily complain to the projectionist or just sit there like a bump on a log?
9] In a local newspaper there is an ad that a neighbor will be selling 100 of the finest films by Criterion for a buck apiece on the day you were to elope to Hazard, Kentucky with your beloved. Do you postpone the wedding to another day so you can be first in line at the garage sale?
10] There is a fire at your house. There’s time to either save your family photo album or your prized 8x10 autographed glossy photo collection of stars like Turhan Bey, Maria Montez, Alan Hale [both Senior AND Junior!], Whit Bissell and Franklin Pangborn. Do you go with the glossies or wimp out for sentimental reasons?
11] You’re travelling cross country and Monument Valley is way out of the way. You go anyway?
12] You take a film course and realize that your professor is a sham not being able to tell the difference between Doris Dowling and Gloria Holden or even Patricia Morison and Gale Sondergaard. You report them to the administration and stage a protest to deny them tenure.
13] You own the unreleased soundtrack with alternate takes for music for “Thunder Road” plus an autographed copy of the Robert Mitchum album with him singing calypso tunes. You were offered three-thousand smackeroos for it, which will pay for your long delayed dental crown. Do you take it?
14] You get a new puppy and your significant other wants to name him Rover, but you insist that his name should be Sidney Falco or at least Mrs. Danvers [in case he is transgender]. Do you win?
15] You’re on your deathbed. The attending nurse asks if you have any last words. You debate as to whether saying “Klaatu, barada nikto” or “Death is hard, but comedy is harder” would be more appropriate than saying “I’m sorry I was so whiny while dying”?
16] A trip to the grocery is not complete without buying some Little Debbie’s Snack Cakes since you think they support the John Ford Film Foundation which is rereleasing “The Searchers” in high-definition?
17] As a Hitchcock fan and purist, you refuse to see “Dial M for Murder” until you can see it in its original 3-D form? You feel the same way about “House of Wax”?
18] Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom” is you favorite film. You find it unforgivable that anyone not know that Karl Boehm’s real name is Karlheinz Bohm and that Anna Massey is Raymond’s daughter?
19] The students at Jim Stark’s Dawson High School in “RWAC” seem to have only one major course of study. If you know it was astronomy and not knife-play or chickie runs, say yes!
20] On the sixth viewing of Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space” you noticed that they used the same chairs for the indoor and outdoor scenes, that the tombstones are cardboard and they’ve used a shower curtain in the cockpit scene plus you’ve written a thesis on what constituted the previous eight plans from outer space that were abandoned. Give yourself two Yeses, if your answers were affirmative.
21] When invited to attend the Bud Cort Film Festival with all expenses paid at Radio City Music Hall, you only have to answer one question. Name his three most famous films. Did you say “Harold and Maude”, “MASH” and “Brewster McCloud”?
Scoring: Count up your YES answers!
1-3 You might be normal as a human being with average movie yearnings.
4-6 A chronic film condition is progressing. Keep an eye on it for now.
7-9 Movies have now become a gateway drug. Institute rehab recovery plans asap!
10-12 As a seasoned movie buff you are past the point of no return. Take two Excedrin, call a shrink and sell your tv or monitor before it’s too late.
13-15 It’s now too late!
16-18 The darkness is overcoming you and noir hallucinations are beginning. You see Anne Shirley and you're not in Kansas or even Green Gables anymore.
19-22 It’s finally over and you may consider yourself a cinema junkie, a movie nutjob, a bonafide film fan and certifiable. Your only joy in life is watching the color sequence with the red blood in the sink, from “The Tingler” with Vincent Price but that is okay by you.
Please post your scores here, unless you are being held in a strait jacket or similarly indisposed. Thank you for participating!
Come up with a much shorter test, and get back to me. My concentration span is as short as my posts.
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It does seem that the day is coming, very soon, when Bob will no longer be the official host of Turner Classic Movies. He has already had two no shows at the film festivals, which he loves, and this is the third prolonged absence he has had from the channel since the first one starting in July 2011. When it happens, though, he has had a good run. How many of us will been able to keep up his frantic pace until we are 79 years old (his age in 2011)? I believe he was the only host until 2004 when they brought Ben in to handle the weekend days. By that time Bob was 72! I do hope that when he goes they have an aired tribute to the guy. He really has made the channel what it is today, and there is none like him to take his place. I would hate it if he just disappeared one day without a grand exit.
The big question is, when Ben moves into Bob's slot, who will be the new Ben?
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The Driver (1978)?
Yes.
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I believe I've complained a couple times on the message board about one of my pet peeves - when Ben fills in for Bob during a "Bob's Picks" lineup of films and doesn't explain why Bob has made a particular selection. Imagine my surprise this evening when for multiple films Ben made a point of stating right up front why Robert selected the film! Can I take credit for this?
Anyway, thanks to TCM for making my day, regardless of how it happened.
Aren't there ever "Ben's Picks"?
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I happily thought of this thread Saturday when Madeleine Stowe mentioned that Asta was a star in The Awful Truth. I had previously seen this movie and of course the Thin Man series, but had not realized that both featured the one and only.
The dog's funniest role had to be in THE AWFUL TRUTH.
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The Bat
Nobody has ever hit a home run more than 600 feet. Next Guess. Late '70s film.
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Yes, mine sure did. PILLOW TALK is considered kind of revolutionary due to how it circumvented the production code with its "sex" scenes.
That's because Doris Day was considered a professional virgin.
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I prefer LOVER COME BACK, too. But many film critics and film professors (at least the ones who taught me) consider PILLOW TALK the more distinguished offering. Probably because LOVER COME BACK is recycling plot devices that were established in the earlier picture.
Film professors actually discuss Doris Day comedies in class?
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Hint: The male star of the film would win a best actor Oscar very soon.