flashback42
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Coming back from Page 3, and holding it until mudskipper or Aranxa shows up to reboot it:
Who said this, doing standup as a guest on someone else's show; --
"Georgie Jessel was supposed to be here tonight, but he got called away. He's on a special mission to Israel to explain Sammy Davis."
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In fact, quite a wet military setting.
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Those character names line up respectively as:
Roger Moore
Clint Walker
Chill Wills
That would be *The Gold Of Seven Saints*, at least, if no other title.
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Action -- Tony Mordente in *West Side Story*
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Jerry Stiller is correct, finance. The "caregiver" situation played out in the episode matched news reports that circulated about Groucho Marx during the last few years of his life.
finance's thread.
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Info as to the medium? Biography? Autobiography? Interview? In performance? Gossip columnist? Planted in the columns by a flunkey? Wha?
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Okay, I only got it part way there, but I'll try one:
1990s. A series; 1 hr episodes, about cases handled by a small, full-service law firm. Usually ran at least two plots per episode. One episode, one of the plots;
A famous, aging comedian, in his dotage, and handled in his day-to-day life by a young, beautiful woman who dealt with him firmly. Fans gathered to meet the famous man, and he would go into his old routines. She would be beside him prompting when he fumbled a setup or a punch line. The firm was hired by the comic's son to help take over the father's estate, and negate the control of the young woman. The guest star was a name comedian in his own right, with many film credits, who had worked many years teamed with his wife. They have a son who is active in the Biz also.
The guest star? The real-life personage whose career and later years had certain parallels to this story line?
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Not that opus. Military setting.
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Thinking right, metz. Milt Josefburg, Mr. Benny's Producer/Writer/Biographer was present at the event, and he is the source of the story.
metz44's thread.
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Yo, skipper;
Before I spend any time researching, does this hook up anywher with Randy Newman?
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=flashback42 wrote:}{quote}Barbars Streisand and Jane Fonda et al in *A Walk On The Wild Side* (1962)
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> > Male hustlers River Phoenix and Kennau Reeves et al in *My Own Private Idaho* (1991)
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> ...you mean Barbara Stanwyck. Streisand did play a hooker in *Nuts* (1987). Very underrated performance.
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> Yes...the one with Phoenix and Reeves is a wonderful (and quirky) movie about male ho's.
:8} Oopsie! My bad! The *Private Idaho* also had a droll subplot: The Phoenix character was narcoleptic, and would sometime go to sleep in the middle of a trick.
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A favorite of mine: Not roll in the isle and howl, but a sustained scene of charm and whimsy. *Benny and Joon*, a story with some serious issues, but humor is included. Insanity is not funny, but this script brought out some giggles where it could.
A group of friends gather to play poker. These people have little disposable income, certainly none for gambling. They bring the items one might donate to Goodwill or take to a church swap meet. (Approximating here), they ante up:
"Box of 30-ought-6 ammo, one round missing."
"Soap-on-a-rope, slightly used."
"Salad shooter."
...the pot builds, and the ribbon clerks have dropped out. Only the Whales left:
"Clean and grout my bathroom. That's a call and a raise, Got it?"
That's met with, "Give room and board to my useless cousin."
That last player has the better hand; a brother and sister have a third person now living with them, and a plot is launched. Stephen King (I think quoting someone else) said, "A story begins when an order is disturebed."
Not slapstick, and not the humor of putdown or insult. It's a sustained thread of charm and humor, set among people who can handle whimsy.
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 8, 2012 12:52 PM
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Barbars Stanwick* and Jane Fonda et al in *A Walk On The Wild Side* (1962)
Male hustlers River Phoenix and Kennau Reeves et al in *My Own Private Idaho* (1991)
...*corrected
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 8, 2012 5:10 PM
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deleted. wrong thread
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 8, 2012 6:05 AM
Long-standing star, big in movies, bigger in television. An incident near his show's studio, outside the building. A woman fan fainted. After help was summoned, a woman approached and began pushing her way through the gathered bystanders. Some had the impression that she was a nurse or something, there to help the fallen fan. Getting to the center of the press, she addressed the star and asked, "Mr._____, can I have your autograph? A man famous for his tolerance and amiability lost it completely and really let the autograph hound have it, loudly and at length. For most of the people who worked with him, this is the only time they know of such behavior on his part.
Who???
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 8, 2012 7:21 AM
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The "early 60s" film -- *It's a Mad (4) World* ???
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Okie dokie...
"Yeh...you college guys. You're always makin' a big deal outta keepin' your word."
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Logged on without looking it up; right source, wrong speaker. It was Myrna Loy
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*139*
"You know I need music filling the studio when I'm creating. Now who swiped the Bat Out Of Hell tape!?
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uuhhh, skipper's thread, right?
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William Powell in *The Thin Man*
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"Farmers! They talk of nothing but fertilizer and women. I never understood their interest in fertilizer, and as for women, I lost my interest when I passed eighty."
"Why should two men in our profession worry about people like these. It may even be sacrilegious. If God did not want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep!"
From *The Magnificent Seven*
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Xuncax, Rosa -- Zaide Silvia Gutierrez in *El Norte* (1983)
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Yo, lavender; ?:|
All these clues are quite generic, and most likely to be meaningful to those who read a lot of fanzine stuff and who keep track of offscreen relationships and kinships. For those of us who read critics and commentaries more than gossip columns, perhaps something like the genre of the major film and of the series?
Aside from that, How You?
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Valentine, Billy Ray -- Eddie Murphy in *Trading Places* (1983)
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Don't It though. But not Rickles.