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LOL Why Sans! It's the very same sort of "Harley" as what your boy Stevie is astride here... ...and here... ...and here... ...and here... (...yep, these "Harleys" were/still are manufactured by those superfluous-u spellers over there across the pond, ya see...AND even though the letter 'U' is NOT superfluous in the name of this motorcycle brand or "marque" as those superfluous-u spellers would call it)

Nice writeup here, Mr.G. In fact, it was so detailed that I could almost envision it exactly as it sits in your carport, except for one thing. You failed to mention its color. And nope, can't say I ever remember hearing Leapy Lee and his recording. I guess none of the Top 40 DJ's on 93 KHJ Boss Radio in Los Angeles (who can be heard on DiCaprio's '66 Cadillac convertible's radio in the film Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood) ever played it during that time.

Yep, and just before his big breakout Sweathog days.

THE DEVIL'S RAIN aka...MARTY'S EVIL TWIN And who always knew exactly what he was going to do on Saturday nights...and did it. (...and it wasn't ever good)

Btw here Sans, your mention of "motorcycles" above inspired me to push myself away from this keyboard, hop on my oldest machine, a 1970 Triumph Bonneville...and one very similar to the one Dino is on here... ...and go for a little half-hour jaunt on it. Haven't ridden this one for a while. (...and so thanks)

LOL Ya know Sans, I've been waitin' for your return, and especially so to see what you'd reply with here in regard to your boy McQueen. Welcome back. Now first, you're a little off with your "WWI" returning war veteran becoming motorcylists thing here. This social phenomenon actually became most pronounced among the WWII returning war vets. Motorcycle "clubs" such as The Boozefighters began in the immediate post-WWII era, In the 1953 film The Wild One, Lee Marvin portrayed the leader of a fictionalized version of that group. The Hells Angels m/c "club" was also started during this time. Yep, it was the immediate post-WWII era in which motorcycling had its biggest increase and until its even bigger boom began with the Boomer generation and the "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" sales slogan of the 1960s. Secondly, and re Mitchum...well, I guess you'll never appreciate how cool he was, and so I'll save my keystrokes here, as we've covered this little debate in the past many a time. And thirdly, Dean Martin wasn't an "obnoxious drunk". That was mostly part of his "act" and not of his real life. And in fact, when he DID play drunk ("play" being the operative word here) he seldom played the obnoxious or "mean" drunk but mostly the happy or funny type.

Didn't these two move up to Vermont and start an ice crea.... (...oops, sorry...never mind)

Anyone see Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings' funny little "dad joke" reference to Dino the other night? In the category of something such as "Sea Creatures", the question asked what this was... ...however, not only did none of the contestants get it right, I don't think any of them got Jennings' joke, either. As he answered the question for them he said, "As Dean Martin would say, that's a Moray!" (...I loved it, but then I would, wouldn't I...and even considering that I'm not a dad)

Quentin Tarantino was on Stephen Colbert's show last week promoting his new book which is a novelization of his own film Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. (...the director pointed out that his book includes many of the scenes in the film he wanted to shoot but didn't because they would have made it many more hours longer)

In my very best Jim Backus impression... "You're welcome, Ray oooool' boy!" (...although I assumed you meant "Magoo" here...and you DID look like Weatherly back then, ya know...at least in your wedding pic here, anyway)

Can't say I've ever watched this Lydia movie, and so tell me: Does it explain why she got all of those tattoos??? (...sorry, couldn't resist)

Okay, and now WHAT was this thread supposed to be about again HERE??? Oh yeah. Somethin' about why some people would in essence "Throw the baby out with the bathwater" (saaay, when's the last time you heard THIS old sayin' TOO???) and decide or even contemplate the thought to "never watch TCM again" and JUST because they showed a movie in which a word was bleeped out of it! (..well, THIS is what I THINK this thread was/is BASICALLY about anyway...OR in other words, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!!)

True again. And thus he being perhaps yet another example of the ol' "Peter Principle" (saaaay, when's the last time you heard THAT old phrase, HUH?!) which said "People rise to the level of their incompetence", and 'cause ol' Bob SHOULD have just STAYED in Detroit and run car companies instead of involving himself in the business of our country's national defense!

True. I guess in his defense (as the Sec. of that Dept., ironically ) he was just goin' along to get along and was just prescribing to his president the policies his boss wanted to hear, huh. AND, doin' his level best to sell his boss's policies to the American people. (...the gutless little yes-man)

So basically here gentlemen, what you're sayin' is that McNamara should have stayed in the Detroit car biz and never should have moved to Washington D.C. AND if he had, then we might not have been drawn into that mess in Southeast Asia. Well okay! At the very LEAST anyway, he then wouldn't have had to write that book which was his mea culpa about his involvement in that mess just before he died, anyway. (...btw Mr.G...first generation Falcon or second?)

Ya know who you look like there, Ray? Actor Michael Weatherly, who's presently starring in the CBS television series Bull.

Check out the following link, Lily. The opinions expressed within it agree with your thoughts here... Color Film Noirs - Film Noir (classicfilmnoir.com)

Which now reminds me... Yep, Bogie was also cool alright of course, and then and as I said earlier in this thing, I've always thought Mitchum really was the "King of Cool". Now, both Bogie and Mitchum besides effectively playing hero/antihero roles, they both were also able to very effectively play the crazed or psychotic murderous villain in some of their films too...Bogart in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Conflict and perhaps most notably in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear. But, with the possible exception of The Getaway and in which he really is more the "antihero" than "villain", did the so-called "King of Cool" McQueen ever play that type on screen? (...can't think of one right off here, anyway)

Oh how I'd NOW love to joke here that John Huston's The Bible was better than the book...but I can't and 'cause I've never really read the thing cover to cover. (...yeah yeah, I know...see ya in Hell)

Poor Troy. Poor poor Troy. But then again and on the OTHER hand, the luscious Suzanne Pleshette must have seen SOMETHIN' in him in order to agree to marry him... ...for all of eight months anyway. (...poor Troy...poor poor Troy)

And, he played a fictionalized version of famed 20th century American journalist Lowell Thomas named Jackson Bentley in Lawrence of Arabia, and in a manner of speaking this film's narrative is a recollection of his characters impressions of the film's titual character. (...another of my favorite Arthur Kennedy roles)

Yep, gotta admit the best thing about Palm Springs Weekend is all the cool cars in it, and like this '63 T-Bird Roadster that Robert Conrad, who plays a real jerk in the movie, drives around the Coachella Valley... Oh wait! AND of course, the OTHER cool thing in it is the cute as all hell Stefanie here... (...how could I forget THIS?!!!)

But you're in Florida now, right Bronxie? (...thought you were, anyway)

I've said it before around here. In my view, it's always really been Robert Mitchum.

Just for clarification purposes here James, the correct and full name of the channel you're referencing here is: "Movies!", and with that exclamation mark at the end. (...take it from someone who some might say uses WAY too many of 'em in his posts around here!!!) LOL