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I just read the post on Capra, Vidor and Reagan unionizing the industry. I immediately remembered Reagan's opening comment at that 1964 speech for Goldwater "I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I have recently seen fit to follow another course". I guess he did.
All of this history is what I really want to read about Hollywood, not who slept with who-unless that has a direct bearing on something else that's important in that history. Thanks a lot.
Drums in the Deep South? Is that ever a clunker ! Guy Madison and James Craig were pretty good actors but they couldn't save this mess. And you see why Barbara Payton was better known on police blotters than on screen. It's in color but that's about all I can say about it that's good. I know it played a lot in the drive-ins around Jacksonville when it came out which is another hint as to its quality.
After what happened to Claudette Colbert with It Happened One Night you'd think the ladies would have learned but as Sally Field told us a few weeks ago when Norma Rae was on she only got the role-and her first Oscar-after three other stars turned it down. They would all be her competitors for that Oscar.
I'm a bit under the weather and this thread is proving a great pick-me-up. Thanks!
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I watched the first half of it then had to quit. I came back later and finished it up. I don't think I will be seeing it again; it was too violent for me.
As with Traffic we saw there is no such thing as "victimless crime." Everyone involved paid a price. All Llewellyn had to do when he found the massacre was call the law and a dozen lives-including his own and his innocent wife's-would have been saved. He proved the quote 'The love of money is the root of all evil".
I loved Tommy Lee Jones's narration and how he played the Sheriff. Can we find a thousand or so like him for real? You could see why he wanted to retire at his age but was Wendell ready to take over? Don't think so.
I know why Javier Bardem won his Oscar but he was so murder-happy that it got too intense for me and I had to watch the movie in segments. I see what you all meant about the ending; we don't know what happened to him after the car wreck. Also while killing Carla Jean made sense to him I was angry that Ed Tom didn't figure out what was happening and save her.
This movie certainly didn't glamourize crime as did Scarface. For that alone maybe it rated all its Oscars.
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We are truly thankful around here today! My neighbor's lovable little grey dog, who looks like a mop but has a face that would melt a rock, was very ill earlier this week and we feared she would have to have him put down. Somehow the meds she got for him did the trick and he was walking around her place this morning. I smoked a turkey breast topped with bacon slices on my stovetop smoker for a hour then finished it in the oven per a recipe I found online. I've never had one come out as juicy and tasty. I also did my gourmet cornbread dressing and green bean casserole with carrots and mushrooms for my neighbor and a friend upstairs to rave reviews. In between cooking I watched The National Dog Show; this was the first time I have ever seen one where all seven finalists were so great I didn't care who won Best in Show. I talked to family and finally got the kitchen cleaned up. This is one of the best I've ever had. I'm happy so many of you had a great one too!
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Thanks for the update. I am not sure about Mitch Vogel, but Tim Matheson is still alive...he played Griff during the show's final season.
Thanks, I forgot about Tim. I think he was on The Virginian for a time as well which is where I tend to place him.
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Anybody have any special recipes for tomorrow? I made a "Green Bean Casserole" for a party today but used carrots and mushrooms along with the beans and seasoned it with powdered Cajun seasoning rather than soy sauce. It was well received so I will do this again.
Tomorrow I'm smoking a turkey breast covered with bacon per a recipe with cornbread/pecan dressing and Dutch Apple Pie. My stuffing recipe is:
1 Bag cornbread stuffing
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 large can mushrooms, drained and chopped
1 stick butter or margarine
1 roll sausage
1 cup chopped pecans
3 cups chicken broth
1 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 tablespoon parsley
Brown sausage in skillet breaking it up as it cooks. Add onion and celery cook until softened. Let stand.
Heat broth, butter and seasonings to a boil. Add mushrooms, pecans and sausage/veggie mix. Taste and Increase seasonings if needed. Remove from heat, add cornbread and blend. Let stand 10 minutes. Stuff turkey or put in baking dish and bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes. Stuffing in turkey or dish should be 165 degrees.
I usually chop the veggies tonight and keep in separate containers until tomorrow. You might need more broth if you want moister stuffing.
HAVE A GREAT, SAFE HOLIDAY!
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I saw Black Gold for the first time in 50 years yesterday. While I'm glad to have had the opportunity to see it again my original opinion did not change that much. It was okay but no nothing special.
This was a drama but as with many romantic comedies the secondary romance is more interesting than the major one. The couple is played by James Best and Fay Spain who have way more chemistry than stars Phil Carey and Diane McBain. Claude Akins was his dependable nasty self and Dub Taylor nearly steals the movie as a lovably daffy doctor. An actor I couldn't recognize played the villain's lackey who finally gets the courage to tell the truth about him. This cast deserved better than they got.
The fault is mainly the story. The film moves so slowly during the first half that by the time things get interesting you wonder how many people have bailed out. Carey's character is so snarky you find it hard to believe McBain's would fall for him at all to say nothing of one day's time. It's not at all believable. During the last half it becomes almost a different movie and you are drawn into it. The movie does not end as you might like for couple two but it is realistic.
One thing I remembered was that the score from Silver River was used in the film. The main theme was heard in the oil drilling scenes and the light romantic music that played when the Flynn-Sheridan love story was on screen did the same for the Best-Spain part of this movie. That the two stories have different resolutions makes this choice of theme very poignant.
I didn't save the tape which tells you how I rate the movie. At least now I can forget it.
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David Canary, who played Candy, has just died. Unless Mitch Vogel is still alive he was the last regular member of the cast.
MeTV now has these "lost " episodes running instead of the regular ones. They are simply the last two or three seasons of the show filmed at WB rather than Paramount where the other seasons were made. Unfortunately, MeTV has commercials so they will be heavily edited whereas on Encore we got the whole episode without them.
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The Remembrance Tribute is going to be a long one this year.
Longtime soap opera actor David Canary, best known for his role as twin brothers on “All My Children,” has died at age 77.
Canary died of natural causes on Nov. 16 at his home at The Greens at Cannondale in Wilton, Connecticut, Paul Pyrch of the Bouton Funeral Home said Wednesday.
Canary’s career spanned more than five decades, with appearances in the films “Hombre” and “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” before earning recurring roles on “Peyton Place” and “Bonanza.” In December 1983, he joined the cast of “All My Children” as twins Adam and Stuart Chandler. Playing the brothers — one evil and the other good-hearted — brought Canary his greatest fame and five
Daytime Emmy Awards.
“For more than two decades David Canary defined daytime drama on ABC,” the network wrote in a statement Tuesday. “Our hearts go out to his family and we mourn his passing.”
Despite his popularity on the show, Canary shunned the spotlight and preferred to live in a small town in Connecticut with his wife and family.
“At the risk of being misunderstood, I’m a real private person,” Canary told the Associated Press in an interview in 1993. “I don’t make appearances. I don’t do fan magazine interviews. My wife and our two children live in a little town in Connecticut, where most of the people don’t watch the show and, if they do, don’t make a big deal out of it.”
The actor was at first reluctant to take a role on a daytime soap opera. But after getting a chance to play a madman on “The Doctors,” Canary spent two years on the soap “Another World.”
Then came the opportunity to join “All My Children,” but Canary wasn’t sure it was a good idea. “I
was reluctant to even sign a two-year contract,” he said in 1993. “That seemed like a long, long time.” Canary remained on the show until 2011.
In addition to onscreen roles, Canary also performed on the stage, appearing in Broadway and off-Broadway productions, according to an obituary published in the Wilton Bulletin.
Canary is survived by his wife, two children and a grandchild.
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Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. The rake and the lady. They brought out the best in each other and seemed a great match. Watching Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is delightfully tortuous for this Catholic; God vs. Mitchum. God wins but barely; don't ask me who I'd pick. In The Sundownwers the sparks should be burning down the tent; these two are sexier in clothes than most of today's actors can ever be with it all off.
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"In Praise of Pip", I think from the 1962-1963 season always gets me. I was in high school the night it first aired. When Jack Klugman's character learns his soldier son is dying from battle wounds he roars something like "Where's this Viet Nam?" as if he's never heard of it. I think most of the American public hadn't yet as the monk's burning themselves in protest of the Diem regime had not started and they would not be overthrown and executed until the summer of 1963. (If my timeline is off and Fred C Dobbs sees this I will be corrected). It's just eerie that something that was to have such a profound effect on so many of our lives was almost but not quite known to us.
The ending is also so beautiful in a strange way as we see nobody is completely despicable or incapable of being unselfish when necessary. The man saves the one decent thing his life has produced completely willing to pay the highest cost.
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I'm going to watch if for nothing else than the "handcuff" scene. Some years ago down here two cops with 40 years between them were killed, along with a rookie, when they handcuffed a man in front who had an unseen cuff key on a chain and used it to free himself, grab one veteran officer's gun and kill them. (he had just "accidently" shot a child, was acting sorry and the officers felt sympathy for him). The young officer was killed later when he tried to stop him. The man was later killed in a shootout that made the national news and all those video clip shows that were running ten years ago. Stupidity happens to even the best at times.
Fred C: Had GWTW ended per your idea, we would have missed the most famous line in the book. That "damn" helped brake down a lot of taboos on what could or could not be said on screen and made films more honest. Of course, today it's gone the other way and every other word is unrepeatable.
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I just read Rex Reason's biography. Another man who knew who he was and wasn't afraid to be himself even when it meant walking away from "success". He seems to have found the real thing in his later career. RIP, Sir, and thank you for the great work we did see.
P. S. I wonder if folks in the next world are having as much trouble as I did telling Rex and Rhodes apart now that they are back together.
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The brothers are together again.
Rex Reason, the tall, handsome actor with a lush voice who portrayed the heroic scientist Dr. Cal Meacham in the 1955 science-fiction cult classic This Island Earth, has died. He was 86.
Reason died Thursday of bladder cancer at his home in Walnut, California, his wife of 47 years, Shirley, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor also starred as Adam MacLean, publisher and chief reporter for the Wyoming newspaper
The Yellowstone Sentinel, in the 1957-59 syndicated TV show Western Man Without a Gun, and he played another newspaperman in the 1960-61 series The Roaring 20’s.
Contrary to what one might think, Rex Reason was his birth name, not one dreamed up by a Hollywood executive. Universal Pictures, in fact, had billed him as "Bart Roberts" in a couple of films before he insisted on being credited with his real name.
His younger brother, Rhodes Reason, also an actor, died in December 2014 at age 84.
In This Island Earth, distributed by Universal-International and directed by Joseph M. Newman, Reason’s Dr. Meacham is one of the scientists recruited by a denizen of the planet Metaluna to help in a war against another alien race. Russell Johnson, the future Professor on Gilligan’s Island, also played a scientist in the Technicolor movie, which at the time was hailed for its effects.
Raised in Los Angeles, Reason attended Hollywood High School and then Hoover High School in Glendale. After a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, he began a stage career at the Pasadena Playhouse.
The 6-foot-3 actor was noticed by a talent scout who surely admired his distinctive baritone, and he quickly was cast as the lead in the World War II drama Storm Over Tibet (1952), playing opposite Diana Douglas, the mother of actor Michael Douglas (she had recently divorced Kirk Douglas).
After a few years at MGM and Columbia, Reason landed at Universal and worked alongside Rita Hayworth in William Dieterle’s Salome (1953). He later starred as another scientist in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), appeared with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in Band of Angels (1957) and toplined Badlands of Montana (1957) and Thundering Jets (1958).In addition to The Roaring 20’s, Reason picked up gigs on other Warner Bros. TV dramas like Conflict, 77 Sunset Strip, The Alaskans and Bourbon Street Beat.
Following an appearance in a 1963 episode of Wagon Train, Reason quit show business. He eventually became a real estate broker.
"It was hard to pull away from the only thing I knew, acting, even though I knew that the best of me was still ahead," he said in a 2010 interview. "The internal tug-of-war gave way to my leaving the Glamour City, without really knowing exactly what direction I was going to take. My agent, my mother, my brother and others could not understand my choice, and in fact, my agent was particularly angry, as you can imagine."
In addition to his wife, survivors include his children Andrea and Brent.
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Clu still looks like Clu. He's got better hair than I do. Thanks for the great photo!
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Nobody's mentioned that George Reeves, with an ugly scar down one side of his face, is one of the outlaws. "Clark Kent" he is not. This was made about the time Superman hit out TV screens and put an end to Reeves's movie career. (He was also in From Here to Eternity but was cut out of much of it for the same reason.)
I've always thought that Marlene was too old for the role, especially the younger Altar, as Joan Crawford was too old to play JG's "Vienna". You all are making me reconsider my view. I'll gladly eat crow if you succeed in changing my mind-but not on Friday.
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Let me get this straight. Is 'Spam" the threads written in what looks like an Asian language that keep popping up on the Board? (I saw one just underneath this thread in this Forum). If so, what is the object except to bug the heck out of us legitimate posters? I'm never been certain what Spam is in regard to e-mails or other posting. Can it harm our computers?
That other Spam comes with cheese chunks? I love the turkey, hickory and bacon flavors and will look for this one. Thanks!
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CCerini: THANK YOU!
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Can somebody please download the words to the final scene from Fort Apache where John Wayne as Captain York gives the press that monologue about the "Regular Army" and how it will still be the same "50 years from now" which is now 150? I just heard it on Encore but it went too fast for me to write down. It's perfect for today. HAPPY VETERANS DAY to all it applies to; our family counts twelve.
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Attention Banis 14, Lavender and all interested parties: Get TV is running The Swimmer at 9:20 EST tonight. If you can get it enjoy!
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13 Ghosts is my favorite of those creepy 1960's horror films because it's not really that "horrible". The family is lovable and protective of each other and the ghosts not all that monstrous either. The evil character is the last person you suspect. This is a fun movie.
Herbert was not the usual "cute kid" and that made him more believable. He was younger than I am which makes his death seem really weird. RIP, Young Man!
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The final minutes of The Clock. First there's that shabby little civil ceremony that's legal but nothing else. Then stumbling onto that church still open from a "real" wedding and having their own private one as the candles are blown out. Finally the parting as he goes off to war. The "experts" would tell you there's little chance that two near-strangers could make such a marriage last should he make it home but the reverence they show for what they've done makes you believe they can. I'm betting some of us have parents or grandparents who did in similar circumstances.
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I remember her as the spokeswoman for Hostess Twinkies back in the 70s. She had her priorities straight and the result was a happy marriage and five seemingly well adjusted-children who avoided the usual scandal-plagued Hollywood childhoods. That she was treated he same way as Ava Gardner was in Showboat - both ladies should have been allowed to sing for themselves - is shocking. Thankfully we have a treasure of her film and TV work to prove her talent as a singer and actress. And she's still with us.
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I can't believe it. On the 24th TCM is showing 1963's Black Gold which I saw at a drive-in back then. It's nothing special, just a programmer that WB made to make some of its contract players earn their pay. I've not seen it since and thought it must be one of those 'wasted away in the can" nitrate films. Phil Carey and Diane McBain star and instead of a new score they use Max Steiner's music from Silver River. That's the reason I remember it so well after all this time. It's a b&w about oil riggers. You can't say there's only "old reliables" this year.
The lineup this year looks pretty good to me. My recorder will be working overtime this month.
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Rohanaka wrote: Thanks for letting me chat it all out with you here. I appreciate your friendships, one and all.
That's what we're here for! I was close to my grandmother as well. I know one day soon I will get the call from my Mother's residence that her time has come. She's 92 and I know it will be a blessing for her; in her more lucid moments she has said the same thing. Even though we had many differences I know I will miss her.
My grandmother-her mother-lived to 94. The women in our family are tough old birds; we outlive the men and are the ones who step up when things need doing. We've all been called "crazy"-and we might be-but we have staying power. Maybe Billy Joel is right when he sang "only the good die young".
We are truly thankful around here today! My neighbor's lovable little grey dog, who looks like a mop but has a face that would melt a rock, was very ill earlier this week and we feared she would have to have him put down. Somehow the meds she got for him did the trick and he was walking around her place this morning. I smoked a turkey breast topped with bacon slices on my stovetop smoker for a hour then finished it in the oven per a recipe I found online. I've never had one come out as juicy and tasty. I also did my gourmet cornbread dressing and green bean casserole with carrots and mushrooms for my neighbor and a friend upstairs to rave reviews. In between cooking I watched The National Dog Show; this was the first time I have ever seen one where all seven finalists were so great I didn't care who won Best in Show. I talked to family and finally got the kitchen cleaned up.
Wanted: Dead or Alive & Death Valley Days come to Encore
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Well it looks like I'm finally getting my wish on New Year's day. Encore Westerns is running 36 episodes of the original b&w 50's Death Valley Days with Stanley "The Old Ranger" Andrews. I don't imagine we'll see Rosemary de Camp doing Boraxo commercials. I'm usually glued to the set for the Twilight Zone marathon that day but this rates over that one. They're also starting the original Wagon Train up next year. Might I still hope for Tales of Wells Fargo?