slaytonf

From the Antiques Road Trip front, a 1997 HMC Mk 4: Yum.

Say it as it's spelled and you can't go far wrong. Just ignore the dieresis.

You are about the 7,349th poster to have repeated this complaint.

I am waiting in this microscopic examination of apocrypha for the inevitable discussion of how many Beatles can dance on the head of a pin. In the meantime, we normal folks can enjoy true entertainment:

How'd we get from Sammy Davis Jr.?

I'll have to wait till it airs on 2 Feb. as I don't have a recording of it.

Wasn't Alec Baldwin monster of the month?

🎶 It was fifty-one years ago today. . . .🎶

Read my post above.

Well, I'm certainly not trying to kid you. Or convince you, which is likely only a little more difficult than convincing the Pope to turn pagan. In the wild hope it will make a difference to anybody, I offer the distinction between the music, which the Beatles had, and performance, which was Sammy Davis Jr.'s. Evidence the music, coupled with their appealing personas, was the source of the Beatles' popularity is that their greatest success came after they stopped performing in concert. Sammy Davis could take the stage with only a straw hat and a microphone and not just entertain an audience, but captivate them. That is showmanship.

The Beatles were the biggest pop music phenomenon ever. And coming out of Hamburg, if you take John Lennon's word for it, they were the best damn rock group on the planet. As performers on stage, without their music, there was nothing eye-popping. What I mean by entertainer is wow, pizzazz, razzle dazzle, searchlights and fireworks lighting up the stage. Here's an example of what Mr. Davis Jr. could do: Watch it? Ok. Now I know you're thinking to yourself, "Hey, those weren't good impersonations!" And that's my point. They didn't need to be. He kept the audience rapt with his performance, with his command of the material and his ease on stage. And thinking about it, I'd add another name to those of Mr. Davis and Janis Joplin for the best entertainers: Judy Garland. I haven't seen many of her live performances, but from the ones I've seen, she had the same ability to grab an audience and give them a rocko-socko show.

I, Claudius, with Charles Laughton.

Since You Went Away (1944) is shown every once in a while, particularly during military themed holidays. It doesn't look like it's going to be shown any time soon. You can check it's TCM Database page here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90225/Since-You-Went-Away/ If it does get scheduled, the air date and time will show up under the title. Check every month or so.

Maybe western movies are called something else now. And don't take place in the West.

It is a spoof, meant to validate the traditional values of westerns, except with an inverse methodology. His continual put-downs of the conventions of westerns was a satiric highlight of their absurdity and overuse. He was giving voice to what was in the minds of candid movie watchers.---Oops, I plead guilty to explaining a joke

What's the world coming to when you can't string a wire to make a horse tumble?

James Garner is the man:

I don't know about Bela Lugosi, but Boris Karloff's career would certainly have been different.

Well, for starters, your avatar provides good inspiration. You can start with Baby Face (1933), starring Barbara Stanwyck. It's got a kinda cop-out ending, but in the meantime, she's a hellcat, using her sex and her wiles to beat down the men. Then there's Annie Oakley (1935) where she out-shoots the men. And there's The Lady Eve (1941) where she outwits the men. I don't know if you want to stay very early in the sound era, but if you want lively action and adventure, plus eye-popping Technicolor, you can't get better than The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and just a whole host of your favorite character actors.

Amazingly, it seems TCM has never shown El Cid (1961). It doesn't show up on MovieCollector's invaluable list. You can see it on YouTube, if you want, or--ulp!--buy it from somewhere.

Looks like her blondness was an artifact of her time in the Ziegfeld Follies:

The Dawn of Reason:

I meant to ask if TheCid or anyone could post a pic of the Nash they were talking about. I didn't see that my post wasn't below theirs.

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Can you post a pic of it?