DownGoesFrazier
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I think SEND ME NO FLOWERS, which airs fairly often, is less expensive to rent than PILLOW TALK, which is usually recognized as the top Day-Hudson entry. And the reason it is shown on TCM is because of its star power. There are many very good Universal films that are probably not on the programmers' radar, because TCM's themes are driven by household names and critical favorites.
"Usually recognized" by whom? I think LOVER COME BACK is MUCH better.
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This question seems kind of subjective, but are you referring to Richie Havens from Woodstock?
Apparently not THAT subjective. Yours
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Vautrin is correct.
Since he passes, open thread.
This artist was never that famous, but his appearance in one of the rock festival films was one of the highlights of the festival, and the film. Who was he?
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And a great Nazi he way, GP I mean.
..and his Jewish antagonist in BOYS FROM BRAZIL, Olivier, played a better Nazi in MARATHON MAN.
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Be sure to keep up these Asta titles, Arturo.
I love them.
Arturo is too busy with George Brent rear end limericks.
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I thought "Miss Short Subjects" was a diminutive beauty pageant.
Why does Randy Newman come to mind?
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In all my years of going to the show and movie going as I advanced in age, I never saw a "short subject" at any time in any movie house.
Well I remember seeing WB cartoons before the feature in the mid 60's. I recall 3 Stooges, Our Gang type shorts shown before a kid's movie, but they were obviously already "old".
Don't confuse these with the "promo" type shorts shown on TCM that were made as informational movies for vendors, not for theatrical release. (like Cotten's corderoy & Tupperware)
In the 30's, 40's and into the 50's Travel shorts, studio promo shorts (like Passing Parade) and especially "newsreels" (like Pathé) were much more common in theaters.
Remember- no TV, so newspapers were the only way the average person got this kind of entertainment & information.
(my favorite illustration of this is in ZELIG when the Dr spots Zelig in a newsreel about Hitler! Also in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, the girls spot their soldier Dad in a newsreel)
Short series like Joe McDoakes, Robert Benchley, 3 Stooges were "training ground" for actors & crew before being signed to a big feature and are great audience warm ups for the feature presentation.
I collect shorts and especially enjoy the classroom instructional movies as well as the short promotional films made by vendors & companies to show all the benefits of their modern commercial wares.
I once recorded a chef promoting a specialty kitchen tool on TCM UNDERGROUND and was shocked to see I HAVE THAT TOOL in my kitchen!
Even more shocking, you are certain that neither you nor anyone in your household ever purchased this tool.
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Right. He pioneered underground rock radio,featuring album cuts rather than singles. All FM radio stations today which play music we owe to Donahue. Your turn.
Lavender?
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Terry Melcher and the Beach Boys are just lucky they weren't around when the Manson gang went searching out those who dissed the singing abilities of Charlie!
Even now, on these boards, I would be afraid to diss the singing abilities of Charlie.
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Yes, I've seen this pic, but it looks like his head may have been photoshopped on someone else's body!
This is obviously a beefcake day for you. Grant and now George.
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I remember a story of Terry bringing Sly (of the Family Stone) home once and meeting Doris back in the 70s. They got on well....
I don't think Doris ever got to meet Charles Manson.
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I was going to guess it was Jan Murray (no relation AFAIK) who hosted Queen For a Day, but apparently Ken did host the show briefly at the beginning of the show's run on radio in 1945. Most of the run was hosted by Jack Bailey.
Jan Murray hosted the original Treasure Hunt and was a celebrity panelist on a whole bunch of shows in later years.
Ken Murray was a Gentile (that was probably his real name). Jan Murray was a Jew whose real name was something like Murray Janowitz.
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And here I thought it was about Conway Twitty for all these years!
Conrad Birdie's name was a takeoff on Twitty's. If Twitty had gone in the Army, nobody would have given a **** except his family.
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Hey, Down if you liked that film, I'm wondering if you also like "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent?
Didn't see it.
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Sayonara, actually. The white guys playing Chinese in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness are Robert Donat and Curt Jurgens. And you've got Ingrid Bergman playing British.
THE DRIVER---latter-day noir starring Ryan O'Neal and Bruce Dern. This film may have had the most nourish dialog and characters of any noir I can recall. Not a remotely redeeming character in the lot.
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Especially if Doris had anything to say about it.
I can see Morrison being drunk and getting handsy and Doris just flat laying. Him. Out.
You don't mess around with Clara Bixby.
Morrison passed out on stage and allegedly exposed himself. Bowie never did that.
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It is a little-known fact that Beethoven stole that particular piece of music from Liszt, who stole it from Queen.
Can you list your favorite stuff by Liszt?
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Ok. But that's exactly what I'm saying, that just a list, let's say 3 movie titles, plunked down in a post, without any "further elaboration", does not impress me the way it seems to impress you. I can read a list of 3 movies (whatever the theme or topic of the list, no matter), but unlike you, for me that bald 3 title, nothing personal or anything at all added to explain why they're on the list, has the opposite effect. It does not "manage to provide amusement" at all, and especially, it does NOT "illustrate the thoughts of its author without further elaboration."
How can it? The list just contains a few movie titles, nothing more. I am left to guess, to infer, what they meant and why they put those choices on their list.
On the music threads in off-topics, I tend to list my favorite songs by an artist, without elaboration. I'm not quite sure how I WOULD elaborate on why I like these artists' songs better than their others. I tend not to intellectualize my musical taste. I come from the home of Bandstand, where regulars gave a song a 95 because they liked the beat.
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How many mixed-race Chinese-Flemish actresses were there in 1955?
Maybe there was one who played dinner theatre, so I guess she should have been given the lead in this film.
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FM Radio became popular because of him
Right. He pioneered underground rock radio,featuring album cuts rather than singles. All FM radio stations today which play music we owe to Donahue. Your turn.
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congrats.
you totally had me going there.
(i mean, Bowie performed with Bing Crosby once and Elton John was married to a woman once, so outlandish pairs have happened.)
Bowie is closer to Bing than Morrison would have been to Doris.
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Nowadays, Billboard lists individual songs on their charts, by number of downloads in a given week. Every song on the new Beyonce album made the chart. Not the same as single.releases,.I know.
I.wanna.say that.I read that Moby Grape had eight singles released on the same day, from their debut album. If any made the charts, who knows.
Peter Lewis of Moby Grape was Loretta Young's son.
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DownGoesFrazier's real name is Ecnanif.
My friends call me Ec.
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That song was written by Eden Ahbez, which of course is a pseudonym, and they guy was wearing long hair and sandals way back in the 1940's so was quite the oddity in 1948, CF.
His life definitely was an influence on the hippie generation and if you own an original Eden Ahbez album it is worth good money.
To enjoy a performance of him on Youtube go to:
His real name was actually Nede Zebha. He just reversed it.
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