flashback42
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*Scaramouche* ??
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*267*
"All I can do in introduce you, Pet. Anything you want from the old goat, you'll have to pull those teeth y'self."
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*Hell on Frisco Bay*
*Islands In the Stream*
*Key Largo*
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*Slap Shot* (of course)
Athlete's comeback
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*Billy Bathgate* -- 1991 title role for Loren Dean
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WOW! Down in ten minutes. I thought it would last a while. For the purpose of this production, the Continental Op was given the name Hamilton Nash. I thought of that as deliberately using sounds that were echoed in Dashiell Hammitt's name.
Liam Casey's thread.
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For comparison: British novelist Len Deighton wrote a series of spy novels with a hero-agent-narrator who was never named. He narrated the stories, had conversations with other characters, etc. But was never named, or addressed by name. When some of the novels were made into several films, the hero was given the name Harry Palmer and was played by Michael Caine. *Funeral in Berlin* is probably the best known of these.
In a similar manner, a well-respected American novelist wrote several stories narrated by a private detective who was never named. In this miniseries, sourced from one of these novels, the detective is given a name.
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*The Buccaneer*
Cavalry scout
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1970s miniseries, aired in three 2-hour episodes. Now listed as a TVM. A private detective is involved in solving a homicide and in protecting the interests of a fragile woman client.
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Yvette -- Dominique Blanc in *Indochine* (1992)
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*267*
♫ Welcome to my world,
Won't you come on in... ♪
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Thanks, Swithin.
Got nothing interesting right now. Open thread.
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*267*
♫ Consider y'self AT 'ome,
Consider y'self part o' the furnachure...♪
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*267*
LOL!
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*Cockeyed Cowboys*
*Cocaine Cowboys*
*Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County*
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*Night of the Lepus*, then. ??
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Tallyrand -- Anthony Perkins in the TV miniseries *Napoleon and Josephine*, launched 10 Nov 1987
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Correct, Edythe. I'm not sure of the context myself. It may have been just self-deprecating humor. He did not have have an inflated ego, but it's my impression that he was aware that his impact had been largely positive.
Edythe's thread.
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*Violets* (1908)
*Violets Are Blue* (1986)
*Rambling Rose*
*The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady*
*Violet & Daisy* (2011)
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Ach: "Now you know who you are fighting."
Hec: "I thought it was you yesterday, and I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved."
Ach: "You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight. You will roam the Underworld blind, deaf and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles."
...Brad Pitt as Achilles and Eric Bana as Hector in *Troy*
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*Flower Drum Song*
*The Rose Tattoo*
*Tampopo* ("Dandelion")
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Thanks, skipper. Next up:
"I've been as bad an influence on American Literature as anyone I can think of."
...novelist and scriptwriter.
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Pickwick, Nathaniel -- James Donald in *The Pickwick Papers* (1953)
Favorite line from movie.
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"A man with a wife and six children plus a schoolgirl for a mistress can be called many rude things, but "coward" is not one of them."
...Robert Stevens in *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* (1969)