Dargo
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And btw, and speakin' of "When You Meet a Star", AND for those folks either residing in or visiting The Big Apple...
...word is you are best advised to NEVER pull out your camera(and/or cellphone) if you might happen upon the oldest of the Baldwin brothers while out and about in that city located upon the Hudson River.
(...just a friendly warning here)
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And I'll offer up the name King Vidor here for consideration, and especially his work in "The Big Parade" and "The Crowd".
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AND speakin' of "Los Angeles, California"...
As a boarding gate supervisor for Northwest Airlines(now of course merged with Delta, but thank GOD I retired before going through yet ANOTHER freakin' airline merger...ah, but I digress) at LAX for many years, I would come into contact with many a celeb, and here's what I seemed to notice about 'em. They usually fell into three distinct categories:
(1) "I'm a 'very important person', and so you must recognize this 'fact' and treat me as such because my, ahem, doesn't stink!"
(2) "I'm a very insecure and extremely shy individual, and so please keep your distance because I just might freak-out if you don't."
(3) "I'm a down-to-earth person who feels lucky to have achieved some measure of success in The Biz, and so if you walk up to me and ask for my autograph, I'll be happy to oblige you and with a warm and welcoming smile on my face."
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I would see alone at a corner table Jack Webb drinking a Bloody Mary. I never approached him either, but one day I was in line getting some food and I glanced over to him and he happen to look in my direction at the same time. I just nodded and he did the same, smiled and directed his gaze back to his drink..I just though it was sad, he looked so alone...
Well Fred, as Jack himself might've said...
"This is the city, Los Angeles California. It can be a lonely place sometimes."
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TB, the name Lyle Talbot springs immediately to mind when you mentioned "middle class actors". Now there's a guy who as a young actor was groomed by Warner Bros to be a matinee idol/leading man but when that never materialized, he continued to work steadily in first B-movies and then early television in order to support his family.
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Hey Dargo, at least the 1953 film had our gal Audrey Dalton in the cast.
Yep!
(...or was that Jean Peters???)
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Ummmm...okay Jake. That appears to be Kate Hepburn with Joel there. And so if I'm right, what movies did those two star in together?
(...'cause I don't remember any that they did, and even though I agree that these two close friends in real life would have made a great movie team)
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I'd say you summed it up pretty well there, TB.
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Ooooh...I just can't WAIT to see the reactions to THIS one from all the people around HERE who think American movies all went to hell after Louis B. Mayer bit the dust!!!
(...must've felt like this place needed some "action", EH Palmerin?!)
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Orson Welles' final feature film is airing on TCM right now-- SOMEONE TO LOVE. I find the picture tedious and contrived, barely made watchable by Welles' charismatic presence. It is a most unworthy end to an illustrious film career that stretched from the early 1940s until the mid 1980s.
Edit:
Someone on the IMDB seems to agree with me. After I posted the above blurb, I came across this comment:
"the only redeeming factor was the time that orson was on the screen. this movie made me wish my dentist was open 24/7."
Yep TB, and I lasted about half an hour into Jaglom's "Eating" before I couldn't take the superficial banter(and the lousy direction and editing) any more of those women gathering for that collective birthday party of theirs and switched to watching that lunkhead Chumlee's antics on "Pawn Stars"...'cause AT LEAST the idiot Chumlee never comes across as PRETENTIOUS!!!
(...YEP, I'm pretty sure THIS will be MY "swan song" for any further viewings of Jaglom's flicks!!!)
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My favorite Yul and Deborah collaboration is 1959's "The Journey". I wonder if that second photo of them together might have been taken during that shoot or while promoting that film, and instead of the better remembered "The King and I"?
(...would you know, Jake?)
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You're tellin' me that with his arms bound in that wooden yoke, lettin' out to his mortal enemy Kum-lek "I regret that I cannot greet you O'Kum-lek the way I wish...I am bereft of spit!" You tellin' me that ain't good? Hell, I think it's great, Pilgrim.
Well...okay. Seein' as how you put it THAT way, I suppose I'll relent here.
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I hope that laughing smiley is signifyin' that you were kiddin' about Muni as Pasteur here ND, and just like I was about Big Duke as Genghis.
(...'cause I've never seen ANY milk carton in MY fridge that says its contents has been "Muni-ized"!!!)
Actually I meant it.
How can anyone seriously argue that Wayne's performance as Temujin is not far, far superior to Omar Sharif's? Personally, I like Sharif as Genghis Khan but Wayne's approach is more plainly spot on. Genghis Khan was after all a warrior and not a diplomat so Duke easily gets the nod. A guy like Wayne could play Genghis Khan in his sleep. "When I want to know how to act tough, I just look at the Duke." -Steve McQueen Yep. While his famed public persona of "gettin' to the point" might of course mirror ol' Genghis, sorry ND, once Big Duke opens his mouth and SOUNDS like, well, BIG DUKE, the few times I've attempted to watch this baby, I JUST can't get past that!
(...I'm always waitin' for the guy to say the word '"Pilgrim" in every freakin' scene!!!)
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I got one: Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur.
I hope that laughing smiley is signifyin' that you were kiddin' about Muni as Pasteur here ND, and just like I was about Big Duke as Genghis.
(...'cause I've never seen ANY milk carton in MY fridge that says its contents has been "Muni-ized"!!!)
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Sepia, my opinion regarding Technicolor and the "unrealistic" tones and hues which this process brings to the screen is and always pretty much has been that I don't find anything objectionable about it when it comes to the more "fanciful" stories in film such as Adventure/Legend(example: "The Adventures of Robin Hood"), and/or Musicals (example: "Singin' in the Rain"), and/or "Outdoor Adventure/Westerns(most of this genre containing archetypes), because these sorts of stories almost by demand contain larger-than-life and less than realistically drawn characters, and thus filming these sorts of stories in vivid Technicolor in my view often enhances the "make-believe" aspect to these tales for me, and makes them even more enjoyable to watch.
I suppose, in a matter of speaking this format calls attention to the fact that these sorts of movies are in many if not most instances to be enjoyed primarily as lighter fare entertainment and less so for any profound comments about "real life".
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While I loved your walk down memory lane here rohanaka, I gotta question this comment of yours here...
...that he made way back in the mid 70's. I was about 11 or so, (I think)... it was a long, long time ago and I am an old, old woman now.) ha
Your's Truly,
Methuselah...aka, 62 y/o Dargo
(...btw, Alice is presently hosting a Classic Rock syndicated radio program weeknights here in AZ...he's very funny and has great stories to tell about his years in the recording industry)
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How about John Wayne as Genghis Khan???
(...juuuuuus' kiddin'...couldn't resist)
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The song was about Kodachrome.... but nothing is going to change my opinion about technicolor, I just don't care for it, sorry. Its along the same vein with me as 48 fps, 3D, etc., etc.
Yep, I knew Simon's song was about Kodachrome of course, Joe. And, I wasn't attempting to change anyone's mind regarding enjoying the vividness of classic Technicolor, either.
My point in posting that was more in the vein of how I believe Paul Simon meant his song to be interpreted...in the vein of sardonically commenting upon how an appreciation of Kodachrome, vis-a-vis Technicolor in THIS case, is an example of the human tendency toward romanticized memories and images, and in general far less so for realism.
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Something about the name; "Technicolor"...makes me think that the claim is the color will be technically correct. As a photographer, I've never seen a color film that delivers this. Even images caught on digital cameras have that medium react to certain colors and lighting that don't ring true to what was actually captured. Video tape does this, too. I recall that there was a news crew taking footage in my old Detroit neighborhood one day, due to some breaking story, and when I saw this footage on the newscast, it was remarkable how nice and CLEAN the neighborhood looked! Not like "real life" at all.
Saaaay, didn't Paul Simon once say pretty much this same thing in a hit song???
You remember?! "They give us those nice bright colors..They give us the greens of summers..Makes you think all the world's a sunny day."
(...and btw, speakin' o' which...If YOU took all the girls I KNEW when I was single and brought 'em all together for one night...well, I'm pretty sure the talk would turn MIGHTY nasty once MY name was mentioned in THAT crowd!!!)
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Thanks for that story.
For young people:
Flak shells are filled with shrapnel and are set to explode at the altitude the bombers are flying. These shells are designed to damage aircraft and the men in them. We see the shell smoke in the movies, but we don’t usually see all the shrapnel.
Flying through German flak....... An airplane can't dodge the flak because it must stay on its straight bombing run course to the target......
Or as Dana Andrews calls the stuff in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES..."Little black flowers that grow in the sky".
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The point was to simply post something I thought was kind of fun from a newspaper in 1938, something that might evoke a few comments. That's sort of the point of a forum, isn't it? Not everything has to have a terminally serious edge or point, does it?
While I know exactly and agree with what you said here ginnyfan, I ALSO have to say I hope some of the reactions to your thread didn't surprise you much, as whenever the concept of "Decency" is mentioned in some quarters, SOME folks WILL unfortunately take it as "terminally serious" and as an opportunity to pontificate on the subject, and as has become very evident by now in this baby.
(...what a shame, EH?!...and it started out SO well with some of mine and a few other's little humorous and lighthearted replies)
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Definitely a great and well made film, and still my favorite Greg Peck performance. Yep, even more than in Mockingboid!
(...and Char...how about a TRIPLE bill with COMMAND DECISION ?...another great USAAF movie!)
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Aw heck, I guess you better tell it to me, then, seeing as how I'm so out of the loop.
Okay then Kay, here it is...and it's another story of two actors conversing just before a scene is shot with them, just like the Olivier/Hoffman "Marathon Man" story I told ya the other day...
In the 1972 film THE COWBOYS, Bruce is once again playing his then typical "psycho" role, in this case, an Old West psycho and of course the villain. John Wayne, as usual, is the hero, and toward the end of the film..
***SPOILER ALERT***
...Bruce shoots Duke in the back and kills him. And, just before this scene was shot, Duke turns to Bruce and says, "Well ya KNOW, America will HATE you for this!"
Bruce quickly replied(and remember the Vietnam War era this movie was made and the extreme political divide at the time...say, ya know, kinda like NOW!!! LOL )...."Yeah, but they'll LOVE me in Berkeley!"
(...whenever Bruce tells this story he IS quick to add that Wayne, to his credit, broke out laughing and THEN said to the cast and crew standing around that heard it, "Now see?! THIS is the reason this S.O.B. is workin' steadily, while the rest of you can't find any work!")
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My mother once told me about the time she went to see THE EXORCIST during its initial release, and there were protestors outside the theater. She said she hurried in lest any of her fellow parishoners were part of the protest.
Man, am I old. Your "mother", eh Holden?! Well, AT LEAST ya didn't say "GRANDmother"!!! LOL
I went to see THE EXORCIST the second day of its initial release at the Avco Center Cinema in Westwood CA, and I TOO remember seeing a few of these protesters while waiting in that long line to see it.
I was 21, kinda sorta a Methodist at the time, and so I had NO idea what to expect from this flick with this title, 'cause I had NO idea what all that "exorcism" mumbo-jumbo was all about.
After the movie I walked out thinking that it was THE scariest movie I had ever seen, EVEN scarier than THE HAUNTING!
(...fast forward about 25 years and the night I watched it on broadcast TV for the second time, and I remember chuckling to myself about how hokey and overblown I THEN thought the thing was)
How can anyone seriously argue that Wayne's performance as Temujin is not far, far superior to Omar Sharif's? Personally, I like Sharif as Genghis Khan but Wayne's approach is more plainly spot on. Genghis Khan was after all a warrior and not a diplomat so Duke easily gets the nod. A guy like Wayne could play Genghis Khan in his sleep. "When I want to know how to act tough, I just look at the Duke." -Steve McQueen 
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Yep, and just like some of Alan Ladd's and Bogie's leading ladies back in the day, whenever Sephora was standing next to him, Moses would very often have her stand a little trench TOO in order to make him look taller.
(...I think this is stated somewhere in Exodus 20:8, but don't quote me on this)