Dargo
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I told myself I was going to start a thread like this, and I need to make good on it. I hope it leads to a lot of nice comments. I have personal reasons for appreciating Kay Francis.
What are your favorite Kay Francis films and why?
Okay then, TB. If you're lookin' for a lot of nice comments here, allow me to get the following mentioned and out of the way for the rest of your thread's duration...
Elmer Fudd
Barbara Walters
Bennett Cerf
...hmmmm...I know there's somebody else but I can't think of 'em right now.
LOL
(...sorry, couldn't resist...but yeah, and for the record, I think Kay was a very good actress and always enjoy watching her movies)
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Cobie, by the way is another one of those dang Canadians, where do they all come from?
I have tried watching that show from time to time, like the characters but the script writing leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. My only comment about Canada and all things Canadian; I love it don't change a thing 
Cobie is lovely, alright. I hope she has a long career. Gotta say though Tom, I thought that sitcom was pretty funny, and especially the running gag about her "Canadian-ness".
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In mycase, I was only three at the time. Sometimes, I wish I was born earlier, as I missed the original releases of all the best films.
Well, I hate to rub it in here kid, but this whole "missin' out on seein' first-run movies of the bygone era" isn't the ONLY reason you should feel sorry for not bein' a "Boomer" like ME!!!!
(...'cause kid, WE had the BEST OF IT back in the day!)
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Not really, one could be a shunned Amish and get their first movie experience at age 20+
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Yeah, that's true, Ham.
(...but how ironic it would be if the first movie such a person would have seen in a theater was "Witness", HUH?!)
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I have a very vague memory of going to downtown Los Angeles(and where primarily most of the old "first-run" movie houses were located in the greater L.A. area at the time) with my parents and seeing DeMille's "The Ten Commandments"(no, NOT his friggin' 1923 version, the '56 version...I'm not THAT old, ya know!!! LOL), and with one scene in it making a particular impression upon me which I remember to this day.
It's this scene where Moses' birth mother is about to be crushed between two enormous stones being pushed together while they're making one of the pyramids...
...but of course, Moses comes to the rescue just in time.
(...I guess prophets CAN sometimes be rather handy to have around, huh!)
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Might this be where the writers for "How I Met Your Mother" got the inspiration for Cobie Smulders' Canadian character to have been the Canadian pop star 'Robin Sparkles' in her younger days on that sitcom?
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...That thing you posted is just jokey.
Yeah...and SO unlike me, huh..err..eh, ol' buddy?! LOL
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Okay dark my friend. Now what's with this hip-hop/rap thing here anyway, HUH...err...EH?
Now, don't you think the following video might be just a LITTLE more fitting here IF you felt like wavin' that there Maple Leaf flag o' yours in our Yankee faces???...
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My favorite QJ scores are MacKenna's Gold and The Out-of-Towners and for TV, Ironside.
I was very impressed with his score for "The Pawnbroker". I never really had noticed before how well it fit this intense story.
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Good post. You stated that well. Thanks for taking the time to reply and address this with me. Let's move on...
Sounds like a good idea.
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Dargo,
In your recent posts in this thread and in other threads, I am sensing a shift in tone from you-- from the more comical to the more whatever you want to call it. I feel as if you have been absorbing the dislike of others towards me, and it is coloring some of your writing. I wish you would own up to that. Just say that you have started to dislike my posts. I won't feel persecuted. I will feel grateful that I know where we stand with each other. Thanks.
Sorry, but that's not the case at all. TB. I STILL very much enjoy reading your very informative posts around here. However, as I somewhat previously just stated, whenever I think you've gone a little too far with some of your "conclusions" you might have drawn in a few of them(the recent "Mankster/Tarantino-namedropping" thing in the Rock Hudson thread as another example) I'm gonna tweak your nose about it, and just like I would anybody else's around here when they do the same.
In fact, and seein' as how you brought up Mr. Dobbs' name here earlier, as I'm sure you know, THIS is most likely the very reason Mr. Dobbs has placed me on his ignore function...because he got tired of me tweakin' HIS nose whenever I thought some of his posts stated an opinion which I thought made it seem he was attempting to become the "Absolute Authority" on some given subject.
(...however, this has not stopped me from enjoying many of his thoughts he expresses in this website, and many of which I think are VERY informative, and just as I find many for yours)
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Dargo,
I think you are trying to be cool with the other posters by attempting to throw me under the bus. Recently, when you were upset that Fred was ignoring you, I had a few PMs with him to see how I could help you. I have done many things behind the scenes to create peaceful and harmonious relations within our community. So I do not appreciate the way you seem to be turning on me here. I am not the villain some people may think. If I had zero self-confidence, I would take these jabs personally. I am not taking them personally, but I am also not going to hide my dismay that there are some unnecessary over-reactions going on in this thread.
TB, allow me to make this a little clearer for you here then...
I have been known to "throw A LOT of people under the bus" whenever I think they state an opinion which appears to me to be so definitively put so as to leave little room for a contrasting opinion. And in THIS case, I thought this was pretty much what you did with your post that ended with "Wrong, Wrong. And wrong AGAIN".
(...so PLEASE don't feel as if I'm personally attacking you here or "jumping on some bandwagon", my friend...I've always been an "equal opportunity people under the bus thrower" since I've been around here, as I THINK you really know)
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Cowboy Groucho Rides Again!
Yaaa-HOOOOO!
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YEAH! What TB said here, folks!
I mean, personally I think you're just misconstruing what he said in his very first post.
Ya see, let's take what the OP said in his initial post here:
July 1st is Canada Day - the anniversary of the birth of our great nation.
Canada has been a major influence on Hollywood from the beginning.
I was disappointed to see no special programming on July 1st, 2014.
Anyone else feel the same way? Thanks. Mark London Ontario
Ya see, there ya HAVE it. THAT post was soooooo "typically Canadian", now wouldn't ya say?! Uh-huh, much too polite and non-direct, and NOTHIN' like many of us Yanks are used to doin'.
Ya see, what I think the OP SHOULD have said was somethin' like:
"TCM was 'wrong, wrong, and wrong AGAIN', in not showing some Canadian themed movies on this special day to us Canadians!"...and NOT that whole wimpy, "I was disappointed" thing.
Yep! You see I THINK TB was just tryin' to point out to you people up there that you should endeavor(OR "endeavoUr" as the case may be) to be as cocksure about yourselves and your opinions when ya have somethin' to say as many of us Yanks usually are, THAT'S all!
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(...sorry TB, but I felt you had this comin' here...'cause dude, I TOO think your initial reply in this baby wasn't as "diplomatically" stated as I know you are capable of...oh, AND of course to pointedly make fun of some my other fellow Americans penchant for occasionally being soooooo freakin' sure about their opinions that they sometimes act and say things in a more direct manner than they maybe should)
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Well, if you'd stop walking around with that gun in your mouth, Groucho, you might actually get somewhere with her. That's bound to be a turnoff for most women, I'll wager (excluding those that are members of the NRA, of course).
Well, don't forget here Tom that I'm no longer a Californian, but NOW an Arizonan. And so in efforts to fit in around here, THAT'S why I'm sportin' that there gun in my Avatar.
(...'cause they surely like their shootin' irons around here, ya know...they think it's still "The Wild West"!)
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Here's are examples of "about" with a pronunciation like "aboat" from a CTV interview with Ryan Gosling (then a 12-year-old from Ontario) discussing winning a spot on THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB.
The "ou" is actually pronounced somewhere between "uh" and "o." You can hear it several times when he says "about" (especially when says "excited about" ) and also when he says the word "mouse" (talking about his friends calling him "mouse boy.")
Interestingly enough, the adult Ryan Gosling now speaks with an NYC-sounding accent, which he admits to having consciously cultivated .
I can't figure out how to embed a non-YouTube video, so I have posted a link.
Miss CTV news lady, you're tryin' to seduce me...aren't ya?!
Okay, maybe 'cause I just watched Anne Bancroft tryin' to do herself in last night when TCM showed "The Slender Thread", but I'm sure seein' QUITE a resemblance with her and this hot lookin' Canadian news lady in this link you provided here, Holden!
(...see it TOO?)
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Maybe when they come up with a more imaginative name
for their national holiday, TCM will go along. Until then......
Now Vautrin! I ask you: Could they legitimately use Freddie's song up there until they wrestle back the Stanley Cup from Los Angeles???
(...or as the Chicago Cubs fans in another sport always say: "Wait 'til next year!")
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He reminded me of how much I'd like to see daughter Rashida invited to be a guest programmer. Whenever I look at her I'm amazed at how much of both her father and Peggy Lipton is evident in her look.
I saw her being interviewed by Piers Morgan some months back as was impressed with her coolness.
OH, yeah, dark. I agree. I think Rashida is not only a doll, but have also been impressed with her conversational skills on the talk shows I've seen her on.
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While that is not my Toronto-centric experience, as I said, Dargo, it's a big country.
I've always wanted to go to BC. Mighty pretty country there.
Well, BC's Tourist Bureau (no superfluous 'u's as far as I can see here, btw) doesn't use the slogan, "Super Natural British Columbia", for NOTHIN', ya know!
(...yeah, you should definitely make it out there to that beautiful part of your country some day...no question aboat..err..ABOUT it!)
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I find that "oot" for "out" to be one of the most irritating of American sterotypes of Canadians since I hear joking references to it all the time and there is, to the best of my knowledge, no basis for it.
At least, from my hearing vantage point in southern Ontario. But Canada is a big wide country. I really don't know for a fact that somewhere some Canadians haven't used that pronunciation. And the only Canadians that say "aboat" might be Maritimers referring to their modes for fishing.
Hmmmm...well Tom, all I can say here is that whenever I'm up there in BC visitin' Ma, most of MY new-found relatives(and I AIN'T talkin' aboat..err..I mean ABOUT any "Newfoundlanders" here, dude!) up that way suuuuuure sound like they're sayin' "aboAt" to ME, ol' buddy!!!
(...and the ONLY water-goin' vessel any of 'em ever had up there and that I remember 'em talkin' about was when my "half-brother" Phil was tellin' me about that sailboat he once owned and used on Lake Okanagan years ago!)
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missW2, hope you don't mind my asking - is '-out' really pronounced '-oot'? As in 'a-boot'. Or is that an affectation down here?
Lemme get this one, MissW.
Once and for ALL here people...it's the SCOTS that say "aboot" and the CANADIANS that say "aboat"!!!
(...I mean, I THINK it's ABOUT time this misconception is put to rest once and for all, wouldn't ya SAY folks?!)
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Hmmmm...I guess either nobody was tuned into TCM last night, OR I'm somewhat alone in my appreciated of Quincy Jones' appearance with Bob.
THIS'LL teach me to stick to just inserting my many attempts at humor into other peoples' threads around here instead of startin' one of my own, I guess.
(...WAIT!...maybe if I would've thread-titled this baby with somethin' like: "NEWS FLASH! Quincy Jones was THE best guest Bob ever had, and I've got the stats to PROVE it!"???)
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AND, Dave Thomas doin' the best Bob Hope impression anyone ever would.
In fact, now that I think about it, on the whole that entire cast of zanies were excellent at doing impressions of celebs better than any SNL cast members, and this would even include the initial cast of SNL.
(...I mean, Chevy Chase, and the ONLY thing he did was fall down a lot, and THAT was supposed to be "Gerald Ford"???)
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Nah, they just wandered into Quebec one day and couldn't find grits and cornbread anywhere!
YEAH! Ya know primos, that could have been it TOO!
Glad to see I'm not the ONLY one around here who's tryin' to figure out the reason for this.
(...but of course, don't expect any thanks from THIS crowd around here, as you can plainly see!)
I have tried watching that show from time to time, like the characters but the script writing leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. My only comment about Canada and all things Canadian; I love it don't change a thing 
'Tis beauteous Maureen SOTM July 2014
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Well, I think the best word I could use to describe my impression of SJ would be, "treacly", James. Gotta admit though that I thought little Connie Marshall was really good in it.
And regarding FS, I was wondering who dubbed in Dana Andrews' really bad British accent in this thing when he played Maureen's first husband? I checked the IMDb website, and a few people there thought it might have been Alexander Knox, but to me it sounded as if his old "Laura" co-star Clifton might have done it.
(...THOUGH I suppose it COULD have been Knox DOIN' a Clifton Webb impression for some reason)