Dargo
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I have the 1927 silent "King of Kings". It's unique in that all the title cards are passages taken directly from the Bible with nothing else added. It's like a forerunner of literal Bible videos made in modern times.
Bit of trivia, Jesus is played by H. B. Warner. He is Mr Gower in "It's A Wonderful Life" (1947)
Hmmmm...ya know Ham, this has got me thinkin' here...
If like George Bailey for a short while, Pontius Pilate was never born, would there ever have been an Easter at all???
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I am sorry to say that I believe that you have overlooked an important matter. It should be possible to hook your keyboard to a motor-generator with a heavy flywheel. You may have to spin it by hand at the start of each session but a shock to the keyboard each time you display your personality will surely be sufficient to keep the motor turning and by that generate electricity for your home. I believe that you could by that reduce your electricity bill to nearly nil.
Ya know Sans my ol' friend, what with your chosen nom de plume around here and now this very interesting idea, I'll bet you think a lot about the concept of Perpetuity in your free time, doncha!
(...cheers, and nice to see you made the transition here, too!)
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These character actresses have a similar look to them and all performed similarly too. Elly Malyon and Edna Mae Oliver in film and Nancy Culp and Jane Lynch on tv. Perhaps someone can provide a photo gallery of these "grand old dames"?
What say we add Flora Robson to this list here, and who I admit I used to occasionally confuse with Edna May Oliver.
(...and yep Im4, her middle name is spelled with the 'y', not an 'e'....but don't feel badly, as many many people have made and continue to make this slight error)
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Welcome back, Dargo!
Thanks, TB!
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I think I could have easily envisioned a younger Harrison Ford as Rhett, if say a remake had been done some 20 years back, as many of the film characters with which Ford is most associated in his career have many a common trait with Butler...irreverence probably being chief among them.
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I agree! I actually thought he might have returned, in another guise, but the poster I suspected isn't nearly as witty and creative. Also since Dargo once returned as Dargo2, one can tell that he values his legacy -- as we do!
"Witty and CREATIVE"???!!! My, but you people sure hold a very low bar for people to jump over around here, doncha!!!
(...thanks all...it's great to be back here...and now where was I before this here keyboard shocked me into that unconscious state???)
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Looks like an old photo of "The King of Cool" when he was a kid in the Marines there, Joe...and when the guess is he might have unfortunately been first exposed to the asbestos that many believe led to his early death at age 50 from Mesothelioma.
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Hmmmm...now THAT'S funny! I always thought that "old Southern maxim" went like THIS:
"If'n ya's can't say somethin' nice, then don't say nothin' at all."
Of course, then there's the California version of that:
"Dude! Be cool!"
And then there's the New York version:
"Shut your freakin' piehole, why don't cha?!"
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Well finance, don't forget that back in the day there WAS a certain acerbic-tongued, chain-smoking little pianist who claimed he knew Doris BEFORE she was a "virgin"!
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Speaking of von Braun...
You folks have probably heard this one before, but word was that one day in 1930 there was a short and somewhat bitter exchange between the then 18 year old Wernher and his instructor at the Technical University of Berlin that went somethin' like this....
Instructor: "Wernher! Do you know you missed school three times last week?!!"
von Braun: "Yah, I know, Herr Instructor, BUT ONLY by a few hundred meters or so...and by next week I think I'll pretty much at least have the parking lot zero-ed in on!"
(...of course, this was all very loosely translated from the original German transcripts, and so your guess is as good as mine if it ever really happened)
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Very true words there, dark. And yeah, I understand the lesson of the film, and truth be told, was only half-joking about about how I would've reacted to that moron in the movie.
(...actually, make that more about a 75% proposition of me still doin' that to the moron)
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Ah c'mon now, Jake! Would you FOR ONCE in your life "eat a little crow" about the JIM freakin' CROW laws down there back in the freakin' day????????
SURE, I admit not every southerner was a racist through-and-though down there, AND YEAH SURE, there were and STILL ARE racist SOBs scattered THOUGHOUT this country of ours, BUT DUDE, the laws down there back then were INSTITUTIONALLY racist for decades AFTER Harry Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 19 freakin' 48!!!
(...sooooooo, for ONCE, as I said, would you PLEASE admit your hallowed little South wasn't a freakin' "Shangri-La" and for ONCE admit it had and has as many freakin' societal problems as "Hollywood" did and does?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!
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Btw folks,and just for the record, the ONLY problem I ever had with the"Mockingbird" movie was that one scene where that backward southern freakin' **** spit in the Atticus' face, and Atticus just stared at him.
Uh huh, that THAT'S 'cause if I WAS Atticus, I would've KICKED that backward southern freakin' **** RIGHT in the freakin' NUTS for doin' that!
(...ah, but I suppose that was all meant to "show what a bigger man Atticus was, huh!...and THAT'S the freakin' problem with "good guy moderates"...they'll NEVER understand that SOMETIMES ya JUST gotta play as dirty as the morons in the world...I mean "good ol'" Atticus LOST his freakin' CASE, didn't he?...and MY guess as to why he DIDN'T win was 'cause he DIDN'T play DIRTY enough!!!)
ROFL AGAIN!!!
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Well, there ya go, VX!
With a "persuasive argument" like Jake just had here, I'd say all ya gotta do is send Jake down here to Austin Texas and let HIM straighten out all them there disconceptions those Good Ol' Boys there have about dear ol' Thomas J!!!
(...yep, problem solved!)
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Hey Michael, would it be okay if I just say that it appears that...ahem...Obamacare(s) about "To Kill A Mockingbird", and just leave it at THAT???
(...hey, I mean I really don't care one way or the other how the Supreme Courts rules on that whole thing...I was just goin' for the pun here, Bro...and you should know by now how I just can't resist those lousy puns, RIGHT?!) ;-)
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Mitali77 wrote: "LOL! He always had trouble showing expressions on his face, like he had a lot of botox work done."
Yep! And thus perfectly suited to go into the Diplomatic Corps(U.S. Ambassador to Mexco, 1981-1986) after it finally became apparent he couldn't act on screen. ;-)
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
(...I always especially enjoy the repartee between Colman and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in this one)
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Swithin wrote: "I guess characters have their reasons. I remember Bette Davis appearing on a talk show later in her life. She criticized her character in Beyond the Forest, saying "Who would want to leave Joseph Cotton?"
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Well, Alida Valli for one!
(...though admittedly this seems a case of her just not being able to get over that despicable Harry Lime fella...but you know how some women just always seem to go for those lowlife bad boy types, right?!) ;-)
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JIMBOSS wrote:
"Whatever happened to the movie closeup? You dont see it anymore, much at all. Do you suppose it is the modern screen formats? Or is it that todays actors and actresses lack the "chops" to pull it off in a "believable" manner?"
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I haven't noticed that before Jim, but if that's true I would say you might be onto something there. Yep, it could be the very same reason why in the last 20 years or so whenever there's a dance scene in more modern movies the editing in those scenes usually consists of quick-cuts from different cameras and angles in order, I would assume, to make the actors/dancers appear to dance better than they actually can. And, the ONLY reason I can draw from this is that nobody today has the ability(i.e.: "chops") that Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly possessed back in the day, and when the dancing scenes they did most often involved one long continuous take.
(...btw, just as Andy pointed out earlier in this thread, I also think it's great that this showing of "Casablanca" in theaters has seemed to have spawned a lot of "new blood" here at the TCM.com boards!...WELCOME to all the "newbies", and I too hope you'll all stick around for a while!)
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At'sa much-a better! Grazie, mi Paesano! ;-)
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Hey! Whassamatta for u, eh Giuseppe?! Why you'a call me by'a my brother's a name on my birth-a-day, eh???!!!
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Yep finance, that's what I've always heard, anyway. Well, there was that AND all the associated sponsorship of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" with the Dr.Scholl's people of course.
What's that you ask? The "Dr.Scholl's people"??? Yeah! That was for all the people who suffered from..ahem.."The agony of de feet" on that program!
(...you may now begin your groaning in three, two, one....)
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> I never thought of Natalie Wood as a sex siren. Beautiful, yes. But she isn't remembered for her bikini shots.
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Well, maybe so slaytonf, BUT I gotta say ever since I caught the first 25 seconds of the following Roddy McDowall home movie on YouTube a while back, I personally have NO problem remembering the sight of the gorgeous Natalie in a bikini!!!
Classic yes but is it essential?
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Hmmmm..."Classic Yes, but is it essential", you ask TB?!
Well, yeah, offhand I'd say "Owner of a Lonely Heart" IS pretty much an 'essential' on any classic rock radio station!
(...now are you REALLY glad I found my way back here, ol' buddy???)