Dargo
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Hmmmm..."Poutine", ya say? I'm not familiar with this stuff.
I'll ask "Ma", my Canadian birth-mother, about this stuff the next time I'm up in Kelowna BC visiting her and see what SHE thinks about it. But, just from what Wiki is sayin' about it, it sure doesn't sound too healthy for ya at all, and in fact sounds pretty darn fattening.
(...well, I suppose if enough Canadians ate that stuff, they COULD become more like us "Mericans after all...and I DON'T mean "more independent"!)
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Well, Dargo, my friend, the only person off-hand I can think of who still feels connected to Britain and the Queen and all that is my mother-in-law. And she's 86 years old.
As for spelling, more than half of all Canadians do not use the "superfluous "U" ", and otherwise spell words the "American" way.
But let's say we did drop the "U" and started using American style spelling. All of us. Wouldn't that just be transferring our "dependence" from Britain to the U.S.?
I sort of like that fact that we're half and half about this spelling business. Kind of makes us unique.
Okay then, just FORGET about all that "British" stuff here, then.
Then MAYBE it's this thing that YOU'VE just pointed out here...that there seems to be no "continuity" with you folks up there that's leavin' those scheduling fellas in Atlanta so seemingly unimpressed with you guys. HUH?!...okay, okay..EH?!
(...hey, I'm JUST tryin' to help ya out here and throwin' out ideas that I think might be the cause of all this, ya know...and THIS is the THANKS I get???...just see I ever try helpin' around here AGAIN!!!)
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Well MissW, here's what I think.
I THINK those fellas down there in Atlanta who schedule(pronounced "SKED-u-al", NOT "SHED-u-al" btw) TCM's programming are probably just waitin' 'til you folks up that-a-way to TOTALLY cut those ol' British apron strings and stop doin stuff like spellin' certain words with that...well, YOU know...and begin to show how truly "Independent" you folks up there can be, and just like we 'Mericans are. I mean, what good is havin' "your own" country when ya still are kind'a sort'a tied to that old country sittin' off the coast of continental Europe? I mean, what's with this whole "Commonwealth" thing anyway, HUH?..err, I guess, EH?! This IS the 21st Century now, ya know!
And then once you folks up there start doin' THAT sort'a thing, and show some TRUE "independent thought", those aforementioned folks in Atlanta MIGHT just be impressed enough which ya to throw you guys up there a bone and do what you're askin' for here.
(...yep, that's what I'M thinkin' here!)
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Loved the insights into movie scoring and other aspects of movie making that Quincy Jones covered so eloquently in his guest programmer role this evening.
I guess that's pretty much all I wanted to say here.
(...well, other than if you didn't tune into TCM Monday night, you REALLY missed out)
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But Darg, you missed my compliment to you a few posts back.
Are ya talkin' about THIS one, MissW?
Well now, that's not pritty. I think you should quitty.
(God, I'm worse than Dargo. Much.)
Well, a bit "lefthanded" wouldn't ya say???
(...wait...what am I sayin' here?...I'll take ANY compliment I can GET...I can't afford to be "choosy", ya know!)
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The movie.
I know, I know.
(...jus' couldn't resist playin' off my earlier misunderstanding of primosprimos' post, that's all)
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I wonder if the great old Hollywood movie "factory" was the only art "factory" that actually produced better art than non-factory movies?
Hmmmm...well...not according to some Irish guy who was around here a while back, anyway! LOL
(...I think?...you people remember?...that guy?...don't ya?)
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I don't wish to see it again.
WAIT! The movie OR this THREAD???!!!
(...here we go AGAIN...I SO wish you people would be more succinct around here!!!)
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To pick one movie made before 1963 and have it be His Girl Friday stikes me as odd. Of course often one's reasoning is very simple; He just found the movie flat out funny!
OR...in a case of extreme irony, Tarantino HIMSELF is really into "name-dropping", and thus really appreciates movies where one of the characters drops HIS actual given name into the story at one point.
(...OR, Tarantino just likes the name "Archie Leach" for some reason)
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Yes I know that it is just a legend but it is a rather fun one to share.
Yep, I agree.
(...and besides, always makes doin' a Tony Curtis impression REAL easy to boot!)
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What was that film again where the usually dependable Tony Curtis went "her is da castle of ma fatha"?
Close obrien, but it's..."Yondah lies da the castle of my fadah"!
(...though as you probably really know, Bernie Schwartz never actually said that...it's one of those "urban legends")
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You are one cool dude Fred. I read those remakes and I was surprised after our discussion about calling someone's POV 'silly'. But I did see that the post was done a long time ago. Regardless you noticed your reply wasn't consistant and apologized. That takes a big person!
As for birds not being scary enough; To me that is key to the entire plot. Rats and snakes have a built in fear factor but not birds. So to have these generally friendly creatures attack mankind drives the suspense.
My problem with a remake is that the producers might feel they need to up the death, violence and gore. Hitchcock's version had just the right about of that. Otherwise the film is just another boring violence and gore type movie.
Now James, I gotta say these thoughts of yours were just silly.
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Hmmmm...
"Joy Bang"
'ALMOND Joy Bang"
"a slow-poke"
(...glad to see you guys have been holdin' down the fort for me while I was out today)
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I guess Treacher must've already been covered by Blue Cross, eh Ham?!
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"and introducing clint eastwood" - that put me away
Hmmmm...considering the era THIS particular "Superman" would have been shot in, like maybe the late '50s, shouldn't that have read: "And introducing Clint Eastwood, "Rowdy Yates" from television's RAWHIDE"?
(...AND, Big Duke by THIS time would've needed even a LARGER sized hairpiece than he NORMALLY wore AND with that little curl across the forehead to even BEGIN to pull off THIS Superman, now wouldn't HE???)
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Doc, if you haven't seen this yet, you(and maybe others here) might then be interested in this 1990 interview with Easton.
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What do thread views mean?
That countin' beans is much funner.
Really, ND?!
Why, I've never noticed accountants being a particularly "fun loving" group!!!
(...what?!...are you NOW gonna tell me that those with engineering degrees are usually "the life of the party" TOO?...'cause I KNOW that AIN'T usually true...no offense to any engineers around here, however)
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Those brunettes are much more desirable than poor old Angie, Dargo. On that we agree completely.
The last time Angie Dickinson actually looked good to me was in 1965's 'The Chase'.
For as little as Angie always did for ME, I gotta admit the last time I watched "Point Blank", she had me thinkin' she was a little "smoldering".
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I don't know, Dargo, but I think he's the same student in the classroom scene where Substitute Teacher Betty Smith (Angie Dickinson) makes her first appearance, the guy to whom the girl says "Dig that figure" (talking about Substitute Betty's figure).
OH yeah, I remember that now. And, for some reason at the time I thought it kind'a strange that a female student blurted that out.
(...not that there's anything "wrong" with "that", you understand!)
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Hammer horror, 1960s family and Don Knotts comedies and 50s sci-fi.
AND, don't forget movies about Genghis Khan, starring a certain tall drink o' water actor TOO, pilgrim!!!
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. . . and then with the student who sat next to her at Tiger's "funeral"
Yeah, who IS that guy, anyway? It KIND'A looks like Maxwell Caulfield(of "Grease II" infamy...err..I mean fame, LOL), but I don't see his name shown anywhere on even the extended cast credits in the IMDb webpage for this movie, nor for that matter anyone at all even shown for the part of "Teacher Betty Smith's funeral consoler".
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But he left poor Angie Dickinson in the lurch that one scene . . .
Yeah, but I guess SHE was somehow too old for his tastes! I mean she WAS "all of" 40 years old in this baby, remember?!
And besides, for some odd reason, Angie never did much for me, and I thought the hottest females in this thing were Barbara Leigh who played his wife...
...and Joanna Cameron who played one of the "Pretty Maids"...
But then again, you know me and MY thing for brunettes, doncha?!
(...wonder whatever happened to THOSE two luscious ladies?)
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YEAH?! Well, what about the PRIEST'S eyes, HUH?! Any "vapors" THERE as you recall??? LOL
(...though maybe we should keep this thread focused upon Ms. Laemmle's long and most interesting life, eh?!)
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What an amazing long life she had. TCM should do a tribute to her. RIP
After reading Ms. Laemmle's biography, I have to agree with you here, Ham.
AND, after reading primosprimo's following comment in this thread...
Does anyone in your family have a signed photo of Bela Lugosi? He was my very first crush.
...I THINK I'm startin' too see where that whole "bad boy" fixation of hers germinated!
"Bela LUGOSI"???!!!
LOL
(...sorry primos, et al...I just couldn't resist)
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You're welcome, CG.
You probably remember Easton as the character Dusty Acres, the cowboy movie star, in the dark comedy "The Loved One" (1965) then.
(...though IF Easton helped Robert Morse attempt to do a British accent in THAT one, unfortunately Morse would turn out to be a poor student, as he makes Dick Van Dyke's ridiculed cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" sound like Dick was a born and bred in London's East Side by comparison)