wouldbestar
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I remember Mr. Haskell for his wonderful voice and many varied roles. Didn't he also do some narration for documentaries like Monte Markham and Edward Herrmann have for The History?
I also remember Bracken's World and how art imitates life. The show was never a big ratings hit and was "on the bubble" in season two. An news article described how they were led to believe they would be renewed for a full season but instead got cancelled just after everybody involved blew the family fortune on Christmas/Hanukah goodies. Who says Hollywood folks arn't like the rest of us?
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These photos confirm my opinion that Lana was most beautiful and realistic as a redhead or soft blonde rather than the icy white color she became known for. Sticking to your natural color band whether lightening or darkening, is always best as I?ve found out from long experimentation.
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I can?t believe it but I found a CD pack with 8 episodes of the original Lone Ranger TV show and 8 of Stories of the Century, another Western which starred Jim Davis and won an Emmy. This was the real find as I remembered this show and liked it but had no idea it was so well regarded. There are some good actors like Richard Webb and Lee Van Cleef in the episodes. Anybody else remember this or Davis?s other pre-Dallas show, Rescue 8 which was 10 or 12 years ahead of Emergency and based on true stories?
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A few months ago, a letter to my paper commenting on somebody else?s letter was printed with just my name and city. That other person got my address from wherever and sent me a very nasty snail-mail letter. The paper swore she did not get it from them. See how easy it is to get to a person now? I said nothing rude in my letter; she was just put out I disagreed with her and said why.
I admit to being somewhat computer na?ve. When I signed on here back in November and you asked for a biography, I gave you one that I?ve noticed is much more than others have put in because that was what I thought you wanted. I didn?t understand at first what the user name meant until I checked the board and saw everybody had an obvious nickname they used when posting. I had enough trouble coming up with one, much less more than that. Is there really any need for more?
If you trace my postings you will find my age, gender, faith, city, economic area, and maybe other tidbits about me and maybe somebody savvy might find out who I am. That scares me a little but I will stand by my postings because I thought I had information to share or had questions I and wanted others? opinions to see if I might be wrong. Part of me does not mind identifying myself-I have nothing to hide-but I?m also an identity fraud victim and realistically see the need for caution.
I do agree with FredCDobbs and Izcutter that only one user name is needed; those who are using more trying to fool us don?t seem to be getting away with it. I hope the regulations about keeping it civil are enough to do so.
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Leech Woman looks a lot like the Twilight Zone episode "Queen of the Nile" with Ann Blythe and Lee Phillips. I've not seen the movie in a while but what a come down for Colleen Gray after Red River.
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finance: I know what you mean. A few years ago I found one of those old 3-feet-high cement street corner signs on an old road. You know- the kind they had before the metallic ones on 12-feet poles- with the names going top to bottom one letter under the other. Just looking at it made me picture my childhood neighborhood and feel like a kid. That pole also made me think of Barbosol commercials
and made me wonder what else we have lost to "progress".
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A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You hasn't been listed yet. Stepping Stone and Here Comes Tomorrow are also ones I remember.
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Thank you, I will. And by the next post I hope to learn where all the proper punctuation keys are as the only one I seemed to have mastered as of yesterday was the question mark. Whatever I was down with last week seems to be gone so I should now be back to just one or two per post. Thanks to everybody for not calling me of my goofs.
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There's another thread in General Discussions.
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bOb39: Thank you! I'm a big Paul Douglas fan. To me sex appeal comes from the inside as much as the outside. You bet I'm seen men who stir me up just by the way they look after the initial reaction, I look for the rest of the package. It's like those fancy birthday cakes with all the icing trim and colored roses; beautiful but if the cake has no flavor, too much salt or is burned, that doesn't matter because you can't eat it.
Douglas seems to have entered films in middle age as I don't recall his being really young in anything I've seen him in. All of his roles showed a sensitive, caring side, even in Executive Suite where he is less than honorable. In 14 Hours he makes us believe he is the Joe Average cop who really wants to get that man off the ledge because he cares as well as just wanting to get home to his family. In Solid Gold Cadillac he is an honest man worth having; you know why Judy Holliday prefers him to a glamour boy. You know he's there for the long hall. I'd have taken him but can't believe Jan Sterling would have let him go.
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Valentine: Are you my pesky little brother in disguise or the fly on the living room wall when the TV was on? I'm amazed at how much vintage programing you bring up that we watched.
I remember when Geraldo exposed a facility where mentally challenged people were being housed in deplorable conditions. He became my instant hero. A friend and I decided that not finding the Capone vault didn't matter; we learned so much about and saw so many pictures of the real mob back then that that was the real treasure. It's a shame he sold out.
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To Topsey: In the late 50?s Dennis Morgan was in a Hitchcock show titled Bull in a China Shop where a group of old ladies resort to murder to get the homicide detective across the street (Morgan) to come to their home. I didn?t get him, either. Three years later our high school drama club was producing this play and I was going to make my stage debut as one of the old ditzies. The guy playing Detective O?Flynn even looked a bit like Morgan-poor boy! Then the Senior Class decided they wanted to do it and stole it out from under us. A brilliant career stopped in its tracks! Oh by the way, Kitty Foyle did pick the right man at the end. It sure took her long enough.
As to George Brent or Robert Montgomery-No! I don?t think of Tony Perkins as a leading man; outside of Psycho or Tall Story his roles were mostly supporting ones. Guy Madison was good in the military movie with Dorothy McGuire and one where he was a test pilot but I really didn?t like anything else he did much.
But all this is subjective; an actor one of us doesn?t like another will be wildly appealing to another. I?d like to hope any actor-male or female-has at least a small fan base of appreciative folks.
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A whole bunch of them get to show Robert Taylor just who is the "weaker sex" at 12 noon on April 21st when Westward the Women is on. A lot of us have been wanting this one and saying so on various threads; now we've got it.
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We've forgotten Danny Kaye!
Watching him in Hans Christian Andersen this morning brought back memories of his dancing across the stage in tights to that bouncy theme, with and without his little partner, Victoria Myrick. The show was always had his sense of fun and warmth. Its being on Wednesday nights helped get the slide downwards to the week-end off to the right start.
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Thanks for this morning?s line-up. In Queen Christina, I saw why Garbo was a star and wondered why John Gilbert was. In Hans Christian Andersen, I realized again what a triple threat talent Danny Kaye was.
Garbo was sensational as this early feminist who walks away from power to be her own woman. She shows her love for her subjects by giving up the throne to the cousin who will rule the way they wish a monarch to.
Did she really get away with dressing as a man? The line about the old king teaching her to ?rule like a man? sounded just like Barry Corbin in Nothing in Common. I hope the real queen found happiness in her later life.
I don?t mean to insult Gilbert as his daughter appears frequently on TCM and obviously respects him but I couldn't? get his appeal. I know he was mostly a silent film star whose high voice killed his career when talkies came in but it was more than that. I guess it was the times; would Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio have made it back then? Some actors? sex appeal seems able to transcend generations while others were just in the right place at the right time.
When the opening credits ran on Andersen, I realized. I had been "hearing" this movie for years as all of the tunes were recognizable from Julius LaRosa to Muzak. The rest of the movie was well done and Kaye showed his acting range as well as his dancing and vocal skills. He was also quite handsome in his youth which I never realized. Thank again, TCM.
Just got finished watching A Place in the Sun. The fact that it's a true story made it even more tragic. Have a date with Marty later on. After making some negative comments about John Barrymore it will be interesting to see him tonight when he was young and a top star. I'm hoping this will change my mind about him.
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Dear Hal: We respect your privacy and while it can't possibly as deep as what you and the family are experiencing, we share your grief. We loved her too, as a performer and person. I'm glad she lived long enought to see you honored with that Oscar nomination. God bless you all.
Edited by: wouldbestar on Apr 11, 2010 8:39 PM
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MissGoddess: I've not been my best this week and could not stay awake for Firecreek which I wanted to do. Thanks to your recommendation I'll be looking for it again. The only thing I remember is James Stewart talking to a very pregnant but familiar looking redhead I finally realized was the usually brunette but always good Jacqueline Scott. Oh, and Stewart talking to Fonda in a store or something like it. I want to see the rest.
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Science Fiction Theater: "Hello, I'm your host, Truman Bradley". There was one about a doctor who was trying to use the computer to analyze data so his wife and he could decide whether she should have potentially fatal heart surgery; without it she would die in a year. The thing took up an entire wall and this kind of analysis was still in the future in 1956. This is what the program did, take a kernel of truth and give a glimpse of what could evolve from it. I'd love to see some of them and find out how close to the mark they were. I'm sure the outer space stories have definitely been topped by reality but they'll show how much we've advanced in some 50 odd years.
Garry Moore was one of the most lovable men in TV history, along with sidekick and pitchman Durward Kirby. He was very laid-back and let the light shine on his panel or guests. He was the first host to wear Bermuda shorts with a shirt and tie and crew cut. Carol Burnett probably would have made it without his patronage but it sure did help. He ended his shows with "Be kind to each other and good-bye, out there!"
In addition to his morning show he hosted I've Got a Secret. On one episode, a Tennessee secretary's secret was that she worked for the Memphis Draft Board and processed Elvis' draft notice. Her accent was very strong and some of the panelists started giving her a hard time. Gallant Garry put a stop to it One year he was honored at the Emmy Awards Show and politely but firmly gave the industry hell for being cancel happy and not giving shows time to find an audience.
George Gobel resembled him in hair cut and the shorts suits, but his humor was more country influenced. He got into the sketches and banter more than Moore. Again it was all good clean fun. He tried acting on a Wagon Train episode; the melody from a song he did was used in Universal westerns saloon scenes for the next ten years.
Helenbaby: Red did a Playhouse 90 show with Shirley Jones where he played a silent comic with a sad life who gets led astray by a trampy Shirley. She has said that led to her Lulu Baines role in Elmer Gantry and her Oscar. It was a Red I?d never seen and I was impressed. Maybe somebody knows the show I?m talking about.
Wow! This has not been one of my better days. I watched Judgment at Nuremberg and was just checking the board before crashing. You?ve all opened the memory bank-and how-and I feel fine. Thanks a lot!
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Actor! Watch Suddenly or Manchurian Candidate. You believe that Rosie Cheyney fell in love with him at first sight; he is so charmingly playful in the scenes with Janet Leigh. In Suddenly, he is totally different as an assassin out to kill the President. The greatest recording of all time is It Was a Very Good Year because of his ability to take the lyrics and make you feel the words. His voice blends with the song and the best arrangement of musical instruments ever put on record. A real talent; there will never be another like him.
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If you can get Encore Westerns, beverly garland is doing her thing on Gunsmoke as I write.
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I wonder if Elvis ever thought that the little boy he was introducing to movie audiences in World's Fair would grow up to play him some day? I believe the respect Kurt Russell had for him. as well as what Elvis had for Kurt's father, is what made Kurt's performance so moving and three dimentional.
If Elvis had had someone who really cared for him and his talent as Kurt did this story might have ended differently. He could have been the actor he wanted to be in much better films and his music would have been taken more seriously. He could have been remembered for this, not the drugs.
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Mr. Garner has managed to find himself some pretty good pieces of memorable dialogue throughout the years, hasen't he? One note actor, my ****!
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Primosprimos: Thank you for mentioning Ernie Kovacs; I loved his show. The half-hour went by so fast and you always wanted more. Even the commercials were funny. I just couldn?t believe my eyes when the papers reported his death; it was like losing a relative. It was nice to find out what a decent man and loving parent he was for real. Steve Allen was another; they were what real ?family values? were about.
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Casablancalover regarding The Notebook: What a wonderful quote. If only that was enough for us all, the world would be so different. Add the Seabiscuit and maybe the Chocolat lines and we have quite a philosophy course.
African-Americans in Hollywood: a century of progress
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Thank you for Standing in the Shadows of Motown. I was cheering for these men and their enormous talent and shaking my fists at Motown for not giving them their due while they were alive to appreciate and profit by it as they deserved to do. It also increased my respect for the "Motown Sound" and what went into it.
I've always preferred the Stax sound of Memphis or Muscle Shoals over Motown. Stax was more raucous and real to me. The occasional false or off-key note in the instrumental or vocals gave the records a real spontaneous or "garage band" sound. Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, or Joe Tex's raw vocals could never have made it in the sanded down, polished world of Marvin Gaye or Smokey Robinson's. With Stax, you always felt like you were there in a club with them.
Seeing all of the work and dedication that went into that ?polished? sound has made me rethink my opinion. I'm not going to turn into Murphy Brown as I still like those old Stax recordings better but will listen to the Motown ones in a different light from now on. Thanks, TCM; it's one of the reasons why I love you guys.