Dargo
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So TB, with an attitude such as that about a director's continuity in style, are ya sayin' that maybe Agee might've been somehow instrumental in early on promoting this whole idea of the "Auteur Theory" and years before it became fashionable?
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That's very true Janet, but you DO know who we can thank for all that, don't ya?
The great Tex Avery, who I believe brought more of this irrevent and often adultly risque humor into WB's product when "Termite Terrace" was fairly newly established, than did any other WB cartoon director.
In fact, even though the following cartoon linked here is an MGM cartoon which was made after Avery had jumped ship over to there from WB, the beginning of it is makes fun of this issue you've brought here about how Disney's product usually varied from those of WB's and MGM's at the time.
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> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote}Retirement---It's wonderful..Once in a while I miss running around San Francisco chasing news as a camerman, but that's once in a great while..I do miss those paychecks however and the people I worked with especially my women reporters. It was interesting covering fires, police actions, parades, interviewing famous and not so famous, but I enjoy my retirement..... B-)
And, what a beautiful town it is(or I guess was) to do that in too, eh fred?!
My wife and I have just purchased a house in Sedona AZ, another absolutely beautiful place, as you may know.
(...okay everyone not retired here...BACK TO WORK!!!...hee hee hee)
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}Darn it, I want to be at work now, but I am still waiting for a required pkg from FedEx that was to be delivered by 10:30!! I have to sign for it, and it is for my work!! I am trying to figure a way to be paid for my waiting against my will!
Well Charlotte, in THAT case, ya DO know there IS a way to have that happen, don't ya?!
Uh huh. Just be arrested, stand trial and be convicted of a crime you didn't commit. And then once the DNA evidence comes back to prove you're innocent of all charges and that there was some prosecutorial misconduct involved in the whole shebang, sue the life out o' everybody and VOILA!!!
Hey, just tryin' to help here, THAT'S all!
(...oh and btw, I've been retired since age 55, about 5 years ago, and I now LOVE havin' the time to play tennis and/or ride one o' my motorsickles and/or drive my 550 Spyder around any ol' time I want now...oh, and to crack these lousy jokes of mine on various websites TOO, of course!)
Edited by: Dargo on Feb 24, 2012 2:02 PM
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Which reminds me, Joe. Why did Tony Curtis in drag in that movie always remind me of Eve Arden???
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OR, maybe it was REALLY Leslie who was DEpressed because Robert seems to ME to be so freakin' REpressed!
Nope, that dude sure never seemed to be a "real ball o' fire", except for maybe his seemingly REAL "desire" to work that plantation o' his and make more money, instead of "stokin' the home fires", if ya know what I mean!
(...yep, sorry, but from what I hear, that there "classy" British upperclass accent will ONLY take a girl SO FAR, ya know!!!...hey, like you expected maybe some "classy" comment comin' from ME around here???...BUT, deep down inside, you folks all know that this IS the crux of the thing here, DON'T YA???!!!) :^0
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Actually, I don't think I would change a thing about his character, as I do understand his motivations and his reactions to finding himself betrayed.
And so not to kill or hijack your thread here, let's just say it's my limited ability to totally empathize with characters of whom I feel somewhat refuse to see their world and the people in it in more of a circumspect manner until it's too late.
However, as I said earlier, I think it's a well done piece with some excellent acting.
(...and now back to Herbert Marshall, folks!)
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Yeah, I do, and I also understand your point here. You're right. Without the trials and tribulations expressed which these sorts of characters go through in long-formated story construction, there wouldn't be much of a storyline at all to 'em, would there?!
Maybe this is why I've always slightly more preferred and appreciated storylines expressed in more of a comedic fashion or at least maybe in a mixed Comedy/Drama format and where a character or two is being "stepped on" and a little "clueless" before they come to their "epiphany", such as in the two examples I earlier supplied, and instead of in these more dramatic or melodramically presented storylines.
(...but then after all this time, I'm pretty sure you know me by now and know how I pretty much like to find the humor in the most unlikely of places and the darkest of ideas)
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Yeah maybe, so let's just say that my idea of a "story construction" is that the sooner somebody who's expressing a thought about themselves such as say Sugar Kane in *Some Like It Hot* says, "Always get's the fuzzy end of Lollypop", OR as C.C. Baxter says in *The Apartment,* "That's just the way it crumbles, 'cookie-wise'!", wises the heck up and stops lettin' people step on 'em, than the better I can appreciate their plight in any "story construction"!
BUT, I suppose THIS all just goes back to my "lack of grace" again, huh!
(...btw, I hope you realize I'm just half-joking here, as I DO appreciate how good a movie *The Letter* really is, and how well done all the performances are in it)
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Yeah, I knew that was your inquiry there, but that's a good point about him expressing something so subtlely and so soon after the war.
(...which in a way I suppose took a little guts, 'cause heck, there's STILL people around ya know who get their noses out o' joint when somebody attempts to crack a "Natalie Wood/wood doesn't float" joke, LET ALONE a freakin' "Other than THAT, how'd ya like the play Mrs. Lincoln" one-liner!!!)
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Well then, I guess I have no "grace" at all in THAT case, 'cause I would've kicked her sorry butt off MY plantation!!!
(...btw, I don't exactly know why, but Marshall always kinda sorta reminded me of Alan Mowbray, who I would've hoped if HE would've played that part, would've kicked her sorry butt off HIS plantation TOO!!!)
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> Hum, I wonder if he was the first to invoke Hitler.
I know you didn't ask me, Charlotte, but my guess would be that he probably wasn't. BUT, isn't that a great line?! "Didn't see eye-to-eye!" :^0
(...yep, Agee was "great wit expressed with brevity" personified, alright!)
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Thanks dark. I appreciate the info. B-)
(...hmmm...I must be watchin' way too many reruns of *The Big Bang Theory* on another channel lately, huh!)
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She also starred in one of my favorite independent films of the '80s, *House of Games* , screenplay written and directed by her then husband David Mamet.
(...though unfortunately in the case of this film anyway, I always thought Ms.Crouse over-played the whole repressed aspect thing of the psychiatrist/con game "mark" character in it by how she affected what I felt was an excessively halting speech pattern and monotone voice)
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*The Journey* (1959)- This all-star cast in a film about vacationers being detained by Soviet Army officers during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 includes Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.
I don't think it's been shown on TCM for quite a while and since I discovered this fascinating film when I think it was last shown on TCM about 3 or 4 years ago.
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Yeah, THAT one, and *Singing* ...err... *SINGIN' in the Rain* .
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Nah, MissW. Even IF Sepia might be suggesting that at all, I'll blow THAT idea right outta the ol' water here.
Does the name Betty White ring a bell???
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Here ya go, Joe. I'll give ya a little assist here today....
SHELDON LEONARD (1907-1997)
"Okay, DAT'S it! OUT youse two pixies...trough da door or OUT da windah!"
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Yep finance. I guess some people never learn that it isn't very nice pickin' on people smaller in stature than themselves, huh!
(...which, I suppose, makes it a very good thing for a certain movie star today that Mimi Rodgers, Nicole Kidman AND Katie Holmes have aways seemed so pleasant!)
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Yeah, but you folks DO know where this whole thing started back in the day, don't ya?
(...uh huh...Intercourse Pennsylvania, THAT'S where!)
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Yep, very true, VX. Good point, and I'm sure Mr. Hugo wanted you feel this way.
(...yep, it's certainly a story about how sometimes it's not "those people" bein' the ones ya have to be wary of...sometimes it's just yourself, Jake...err...I mean VX!!!)
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YEAH! Now THAT'S the joke I SHOULD HAVE gone for, VX!!!
(...well, it's late...I'll use THAT as an excuse)
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}How many people know that "Pard" was played by Bogart's own dog, named Zero? Funny, Bogie's pooch got in the film, but not his wife Mayo Methot.
Well, YEAH Mr.R., THAT'S 'cause Raoul Walsh from the very beginning was supposedly "hot" for the "dog" bein' in the picture, but he wanted Bogie to "Hold the May...........
(...NO!!! I CAN'T finish that!!!...THIS is even beneath ME!!!...but thanks for the set-up here anyway, Mr.R)
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Well, thanks for lettin' me know this about ya, VX!
Ya see, if Alexander Pope was right when he famously said, "He that would pun, would pick your pocket", then the next time I'm in Ann Arbor Michigan, I'll be sure to keep a keen eye on my wallet!!!
(..."implied" or NOT!!!) :^0
The Bernard Hermann month was great, now how about____________?
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Randy's uncle, Alfred....Newman, of course.
Talk about a body of work!