Dargo
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I think I read somewhere that once a year at Camp David they would watch HELLCATS OF THE NAVY-- their only film together.
Okay then TB, how about THIS instead here?...
"Yes Ronnie dear, you're right! Arthur Franz had even less on-screen pizzazz than Bob Cummings had!"
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"Yes Ronnie dear, Bonzo DOES bear a striking resemblance to George Burns, doesn't he?!"
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Calling a phone "The Ameche" became popular after the release of The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1938),
Hmmmmm....then I wonder why askin' somebody to, "Please turn off all the Tracys before you leave the house", never caught on???
OR maybe, "Would you PLEASE turn down that damn Tracy?! I can't hear myself THINK!!!"
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But I would have sworn he did a cameo on Two and Half Men around 2007-2008 with Holland Taylor, playing one her many quickie bed partners in the series, yet the IMDB didn't list it.
Just a guess here Char, but I think you might be referring to a cameo done by another of TV's Private Eyes from the past...Mike Connors.
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When I was a mere babe in swaddling clothes I found The FBI and him very boring, but I was fascinated by his name -- both by its strangeness for a TV star, as well as its very rhythm: "efremzimbalist". It sounded like a magic incantation.
You weren't the only one, RK.
You might remember that Cliff "Uncle Charlie Weaver" Arquette had an initial on-going joke answer of "Efrem Zimbalist Jr." on the "Hollywood Squares" game show whenever host Peter Marshall would ask him a "Who is known for such-and-such?" question.
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I have heard it called: "jumping the shark."
I believe it is most often in response to ratings becoming stagnant or beginning to fall slightly. They can boost ratings for at least part of a season by having the two consummate their relationship. It is sad to say that it is only a delay of the inevitable and the ratings quickly resume their downward spiral.
While I most often associate the term "Jumping the Shark" with sitcoms and more the idea that the quality of writing on this type of program has deteriorated and/or the idea that the storylines in such have appeared to become extremely far-fetched(and due of course to the term having been coined after the episode of the by then long-running "Happy Days" program where Fonzie actually does just that on a pair of water skis) and much less associate the term with the idea of characters consummating a relationship, I suppose it could, in a loose manner anyway, also be apropos here, but probably only in regard to the "ratings" issue which you mentioned.
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There is a timelessness, grittiness, and mystical/mythical historical quality to B & W which color often does not have. B & W is like being outdoors on a moonlit night with no other lights about. No color in the moonlight especially in the snow. In the colorless moonlight Time ceases and just the moment exists and a billion other moments stretching backwards into history. That is what B & W movies are like for me. A moonlit history of days gone by. B & W is not depressing to me. Rather it is infinite and yet timeless. Surreal and dreaming. Novels are in black and white on the pages, black on white. Beautiful.
Wow, rr! I had NO idea that you were such a poet!
(...well said, sir!)
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I've been told that most people dream in black and white.
Dorothy Gale didn't! But then again, her drab little life in Kansas WAS in B&W.
(...well okay, actually sepia tone)
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Maybe it would have, if I had spelled it right. If your name was Joey Buttafucco, I think you could have forgotten about the possibility of ever being a Supreme Court justice.
Well, after some of their recent rulings, I think the guy would've fit in very nicely with that bunch, finance ol' buddy!!!!
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Yes, and related to Flynn & de Havilland, I think if they had started having dressing room dalliances, the spark would have diminished in their later films.
Yep, or as the ol' saw goes: "Familiarity Breeds Contempt"?!
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Of course, what do the fans know?-- but I always felt Flynn and de Havilland probably did not have a sexual relationship in real life. She seemed a little too reserved, and it likely was not her style to mess around with a married man. Though I do think he was constantly trying to get her to have an affair with him, and as a result, he is pouring on the charm. So in a way, while he is trying to knock the socks off her, he is also charming the audience that is watching their 'romance' play out on screen. At least that is my theory. LOL
I like your "theory" here, TB. Makes sense to me, anyway.
Ever notice on most long running TV series that whenever the two leads are presented during the early run of a series as fighting their mutual attraction for each other there's much more of a "spark", but later on and after their relationship has been "consummated", not only does that "spark" seem to wane, but the audience seems to loose interest in the program and their series' ratings start to slip?
I'm sure you have.
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A movie shot in B&W which I would think has to be considered among the "most beautiful" and which I believe has yet to be mentioned here would be "The Night of the Hunter".
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Adam Driver (Emmy nominated for his role on GIRLS)
So, this Adam Driver kid....any relation to Sam Waterston???
(...when Sam was but a pup TOO, of course)
(...AND which reminds me...I've GOT to re-start that "Lookalikes" thread soon)
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Well, I still remember the name "Joey Buttafucco". I may have forgotten how to spell it.
Yeah, well, what I find truly amazing here is that this new word filter around here didn't do THIS ---->********** to Joey's last name!!!!
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Both released in 1998 and tell the story of an imminent collision between Earth and a celestial body:
"Armageddon"...an asteroid
"Deep Impact"...a comet
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Tony Randell was originally cast in the Martin role, but MCA pushed for Martin and they won. Martin needed a hit, his first film without Jerry Lewis "Ten Thousand Bedrooms" was a major bomb. Everyone said Martin's career was finished. But when "The Young Lions" came out to excellent reviews Martin was on his way...
So Fred, any word if the producers of this movie might've been "swayed" to pick Dino over Tony due some horse head/bed thing too???
Hey, supposedly it worked once before for ANOTHER Rat Packer, RIGHT?!
(can't believe this word filter censors the word "P-a-c-k-e-r" too...sure hope there's not any avid Green Bay fans around here, 'cause they'd be out of luck in Jake's "Sports" thread!!!)
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Perhaps only semi-relevant, but it's always intrigued me that in 1964 James Garner made not one but two films whose plots hinge on the fact that D-Day was postponed by 24 hours.
Yep, and with it taking only 12 MORE hours than THAT for Garner to figure out that he's being had!
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New York Times
March 31, 1861
SOUTHERN STATES FREELY GIVE UP SLAVE OWNING
Hollywood Reporter
March 1, 1940
"STAGECOACH", "OZ", "NINOTCHKA", "MR. CHIPS", "MR. SMITH" SHARE OSCAR WINS
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And then there was always "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail-Safe".
(...yep, '64 was GREAT year for The Bomb)
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Well, I thought it reasonably well made and it interesting to hear Bettie's own voice tell her story, but felt it didn't really cover much new ground on its subject.
Maybe because being a Bettie fan for years, I pretty much already knew most of what was covered.
(...and what wasn't "covered", if ya get my drift here)
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Hey Multi. Ever notice you never saw Bettie and Nancy Olson in the same place at the same time?!
Yeah, I always thought they looked a lot alike, and with the bangs being the only difference.
(...and speakin' of Bettie...my wife and I recently attended a local screening of the 2013 documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All")
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Well.. we don't actually see him die, but yeah.. in true Hollywood fashion, our imaginations are led down that well worn plot device of a path. So no. Coming Home wouldn't work for me either.
Yep, Dern took the March/Crawford/Mason way out, alright.
(...don't think any of 'em ever made it to Hawaii!)
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Thanks, Richard.
Love Me Tender wouldn't qualify for me as I'd prefer the hero(?) to have lived and walked away with nothing but memories. This is a timeless story that I'm sure will continue to pop up as time goes on.
Yep, and so I'll bet "Coming Home" doesn't meet your criteria here either, huh.
It wasn't exactly a real laugh-riot either, ya know.
(...though maybe this one wouldn't really qualify here, as Fonda doesn't marry Voight)
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"Killed 'im a b'ar, when he was only 3".
Still got your coonskin cap from back then too, finance?
(...my mom threw mine out when I got my first apartment, dang it!!!)
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(...you beat me to it here, Tiki!!!)