Dargo
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Update to follow:
It wasn't the Scotch, it was that bottle of Kirkland brand Anejo Tequila callin' out to me.
(...and believe it or not, that Costco tequila IS pretty darn good!!!)
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Bin drinkin' a little tonite, Dargs?
No, actually. BUT, now that you mention it, that bottle of Balvenie 12 y/o Single Malt sittin' over there on my bar is now callin' my name, I think!
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How about "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" by Duke Ellington?
YEAH, that'd work, dark!
(...are ya LISTENIN', Vautrin???)
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Maybe Holden needs glasses?
LOL
Yeah, maybe.
BUT I gotta say his vision DOES usually appear to be good enough to post on some very inSIGHTful comments around here.
(...WHICH is more than I can usually say about MYSELF!!!) LOL
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HEY now, Vautrin! Whaddaya think you're DOIN' here by postin' this song by Clapton & Company AND that was recorded just about the time the "hallowed" movie Studio System was becoming dead and buried, HUH?!
I mean, couldn't you have AT LEAST found a song and video by, say, Jimmy Dorsey or Harry James to make your point here, dude???
(...as there seems to be a few folks here who might MUCH prefer THAT sort'a thing, ya know!!!!)
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Yes that is Rock Hudson.
I know. And I DON'T know why there was ever any doubt about it bein' him.
(...'cause even though his HAIR is wet and little mussed-up, it looks just LIKE him!!!!)
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Well said. You are right.
NOPE, Fred!(yeah, like he'll see this)
What you SHOULD have said was:
"Well said, and I AGREE with you"...NOT "you are right."!!!!
AND because the former implies that you "know" what is "right" and to the exclusion of those who might disagree with your opinion , and thus such a tact in a discussion where exists a disagreement, exposes oneself to the charge heightened egoism.
(...OR to bein' "a cranky old goat"!!!!)
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Fred, you are a cranky old goat .Who doesn't make any sense half the time.
I can say this because I know you won't be able to read it. Hey, this is fun!
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And he's had ME on his ignore function for over a year now too(and since I "dared" disagree with him about somethin' or other) , and so I gotta say I LOVE your post here MissW, and he won't be able to see MY appreciation of it EITHER!!!!
LOL...some more.
(...though you DO know that it's not "very nice", doncha MissW?!)
LOL...some more AGAIN!!!
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That's a great story (Guy Gabaldon) -- I wish it had gotten a better treatment
I dunno Doc. Other than perhaps the miscasting of Hunter as the Hispanic Angeleno Gabaldon(another issue entirely of course) and Hunter being quite a few years older than the teen-aged Gabaldon, I thought it not only presented his struggles against the racism of the time reasonably well, with him being a "double target" for bigotry due to his being both Hispanic AND raised by a Japanese-American family(though of course with Hunter as the lead, the first of this is downplayed quite a bit), I also thought the battle scenes were well done and seemed fairly realistic in that "pre-Saving Private Ryan" era.
(...and also considering what I would guess was its relatively meager budget, not a bad film at all in my book)
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I should have said-----I wouldn't take the theoretical kids to see that.
I know, ol' buddy. I was just kiddin' ya about your occasional talk of dating much younger women, that's all.
(...you know me...can't let a set-up like THAT go by without SOME remark, RIGHT?!)
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Well I didn't know but that explains a lot. Otherwise I was going to ask if Fitgerald's father was a traveling salesman!
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OR, if perhaps the "Shields" and "Fitzgerald" families might have had the same milkman at one time or another?
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Yep. That was his best big screen movie - along with 'Warning Shot' (1967).
And yeah, dark. It's been a few years since I've watched "Warning Shot", but as I recall I thought it a fairly well done movie, too.
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Gerard was kind of a jerk. Even some of his fellow LEOs thought he
was a pain. In one of the last season episodes, even his wife was
getting sick and tired of ole chrome dome and his constant search
for Kimble.
Quite a few of the actresses played in more than one episode. I
believe Lois Nettleton was in two episodes in the last season.
I think Suzanne Pleshette was also in two episodes. There were
a number of others too. And a lot of the usual suspects from
the mid 1960s TV world show up too.
Wiki says Suzanne gave the eulogy at his funeral.
And yeah, LOL, I do remember that episode near the end of the series' run when Gerard's wife seems to get sick and tired of her husband's whole "Inspector Javert" shtick.
And didn't Kirk Russell once play Gerard's son in one episode?
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Dondi! You know what Leonard Maltin has had to say about Dondi? It has always cracked me up. He said "see this film and you'll know why Janssen became a fugitive."
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Truly a funny line, and pretty much accurate. I caught that turkey years ago on TV(might have been TCM), and it really just goes nowhere and is neither funny nor touching, and which I suppose it was aiming for.
And while Janssen's big screen filmography isn't impressive, I thought he turned in a pretty good second billed performance as Jeffrey Hunter's Marine Drill Sergeant and friend in the WWII movie, HELL To ETERNITY.
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Again, as I said, most kids are not going to understand the context of Hitler being spoofed (especially when they know more about Lady Gaga than they do about the second world war). But if TCM is to persist with this theme, of Hitler and WWII, then truly THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK is a much better choice and more easily defended as an Essentials Jr. selection.
Eeh! I say throw the little tykes into the deep end and have 'em watch Kapò !!!
(...jus' kiddin')
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Yes, Darg, but there was more than that in the blender.
I kept thinking it was a fascinating smoothie (to continue the blender analogy) of , yes Pygmalion, but also Vertigo (the second half), Hollow Triumph (also known as The Scar ), A Woman's Face, and maybe even a hint of The Seventh Veil.
Oh, and maybe just a tiny touch of Dark Passage.
But especially Vertigo. Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar) has Paul Henreid as the facial surgery patient, playing the double role.
Yep, good points, MissW...especially the VERTIGO thing, as Jimmy Stewart pretty much does and has the same motives for his actions in "pygmalion-izing" Kim NOVAK as Henreid had with Scott in this one.
(...ya know, I KNEW I was missin' a few key "ingredients" in my little "recipe" here....thanks!)
***edited due to changing Kim from a "Hunter" to a "Novak"...just caught this while re-reading my post***
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Yeah, well, I DIDN'T know that finance even HAD kids! I just thought he tried to DATE 'em!!!
(..."kids" of course as in "25 year old young ladies" that he meets in that gym of his!)
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You like that hoity-toity brunette, eh, Dargo? Well, as someone once said in some movie, "Nobody's perfect."
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I can't top THAT one, Tom.
(...'cause of course THAT'S the last line in the picture, AND one of the all-time great ones in ANY picture!!!)
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Re STOLEN FACE...
Did anyone else who watched it last night feel like maybe the screenwriter might have taken a copy of Shaw's PYGMALION and a copy of Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE, placed them both in a Cuisinart, set it on "blend", and then poured the results on a clear sheet of paper? Or was that just me???
Actually, not a bad movie at all...well, except for the much too "convenient" ending, anyway.
I'm not a big Lizabeth Scott fan, but I thought she was as good in it, and especially when playing the cockney bad girl who the always reliable(well, when he's NOT tryin' to play a pirate, anyway) Henreid settles for.
And I thought of all the Terence Fisher directed films shown last night, THIS one was his best effort with the camera.
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What is your problem, anyway, Dargo?
Hey, everybody, let's hear it from all those who love a good cheap peroxide floozie!
Will I do?
Sorry, a little TOO cheap.
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No, of course not, Tom. That cheap blonde floozie WON'T do at all!
Now haven't I made myself clear here? I MUCH prefer Brunettes, and like the one that cheap blonde floozie is traveling with here in this picture...
(...uh-huh, THAAAAT'S right...the one that looks AND sounds a lot like Eve Arden!!!)
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I'm finding it hard to believe that the same director, Terence Fisher, made MAN BAIT, STOLEN FACE, and THE UNHOLY FOUR...the last one being so much more stodgy and stage-y than the other two. Perhaps the budget for the latter was substantially less than for the other two, because it certainly feels to me as if the production values are quite a bit lower in it, and with the very scant use of a musical score in many scenes giving me this impression in particular.
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Well, the Ruskies didn't have jet engines in '42 and when Howard's plane first hit the drawing boards, Ham, and as I'm sure you know.
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Yes, but, good sound, wot?!...as the Brits might say!
And forget Diana...Marguerite Chapman was the REAL babe in this one!
(...but then again, I never got the whole "Diana Dors Brit Sex Goddess" thing to begin with!...what...err..WOT?...take an average lookin' girl, bleach her hair platinum blonde and VOILA, you're NOW supposed to have some kinda "sex goddess" or somethin'???!...NAY, I say!!!)
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I assume you're talkin' bout a song that Harry Champion sang in 1911?
Well son-of-a-gun! I had NO idea that that bloke Peter Noone had ripped off an old English music hall song for their hit!
And not only THAT, but all he sang was the chorus! I feel SO cheated now to discover this!
(...thanks for settin' me straight here, Swithin!)
TCM going 'blah'?
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Nice llama.
(...wasn't he once married to Esther Williams???)