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And like I was sayin' about ALICIA's bright, sexy and slightly crooked smile here, guys....
(...hint...hint)
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11 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I'll just add that the Taliban wear more voluminous pants than anything Alicia would.
Back to AM.
Yeah maybe, but neither of 'em can, ahem, "touch this" when I came to THIS guy here...
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"Good morning, Mr. Graves. Your mission, should you decide to accept,
is to take over the lead role of this televsion series from actor Steven Hill
after season number one. As you might know, his character's name as
leader of the IMF was 'Dan Briggs', but yours will be 'Jim Phelps'.
This recording will self-destruct in five seconds."
(...now ain't it clever how I did this one?!)
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26 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
It's an improvement. What do you think the odds are of those slacks ever seeing the light of day again Dargo? I'll bet those went straight into the Goodwill pile.
Possibly, but then again when it comes to Alicia's appearance, I tend to concentrate more on her very attractive face, and especially on her beautiful eyes and on her bright, sexy and slightly crooked smile (and where her slightly nasally voice emanates from) whenever she appears on my TV than I do on whatever she might be wearing.
(...and so you're askin' the wrong guy here)
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5 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
They say the camera makes you eat 10 or 20 pounds or something.
But her head does seem especially rotund. Here. . .
Oh that's. . . much. . . . better?
Original pic of Alicia posted with her blue pants...
...and now the latest and what looks like a more CORRECT aspect ratio of this same pic of her which you've posted...
Yep, Moe. I'd say that that's...much...better, alright.
(...well, at least it DOESN'T make her look that she actually has that "extra 10-20 pounds", or even 40-50 pounds in THIS case, added to her appearance that the camera supposedly adds to people's images anyway)
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2 hours ago, Katie_G said:
I can never get enough of Mitchum. So far his SUTS day has made the rest kind of a bore for me. I'm looking forward to Gloria Grahame though. I guess them being related by marriage was the reason they never had a love scene? Or did they? Maybe family gatherings would've been awkward, but no more than Ray family get togethers.
They look pretty chummy in this shot here anyway, Katie...
(...I think this still is from Not as a Stranger)
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58 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
Split Second was one of my favorite game shows as a kid. Guess you didn't pick the winning key to the car?
Yeah Tex, I always thought the premise of this one with every question having three possible correct answers made this quiz show especially unique. And as you may know, there was a revival of this show done about a decade later in the mid-'80s and which was hosted by Monty Hall.
And nope, the week I was on it the five cars were Pontiacs. And so being 22 or so when I won that game, I of course walked over, opened the driver's door, sat down and turned the ignition key on the most desirable one that any young red-blooded American male of 22 would love to own...the Firebird. But of course, the one that was wired to start up that day would turn out the be the LEAST desirable one that said sort of male would want...the Safari Station Wagon.
58 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:You'd never guess that Couch Potatoes was an 80s game show. Look at all those pastel colors on the set and the clothes! The set looks like it would work on The Golden Girls.
Great point, Yep, pastel colors were sure the rage back then, weren't they.
58 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:I don't know why daytime game shows died out. They're dirt cheap to produce, generally. Guess people who watch today prefer listening to talking heads all day.
Another good point here.
58 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:Our next-door neighbor when I was growing up was on The Price Is Right in the late 80s. I videotaped it as she called and told my Mom that she was going to be on. I hadn't seen her since I moved out of the parents' house. Odd/surreal to see her and her family in the audience. She played the Safecracker game and won a full set of kitchen appliances. Didn't make it to the Showcase though.
Do you still have the VHS cassette of this, or has it also gone missing like mine has?
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1 hour ago, Katie_G said:
In the sweet summertime summertime
I remember ... Lord, I remember
💋
So Katie, it sounds like a '60 Chevy might hold some special memories for you too, eh?!
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6 hours ago, Citizen Ed said:
Hold up.
The "very first" game show you were on? 😳 How many were you on? Is there a Dargo's Greatest Hits disk tape floating around out there buddy?
Yep, four of 'em, Ed.
After The Dating Game, a couple of years later I was on the 1972-75 quiz show titled 'Split Second' hosted by Tom Kennedy, and on which I was the champion for one day and won as I recall about $600. Here's an example of the show:
The next one was in 1980 and on another quiz show titled 'Bullseye' (1980-82) and hosted by my ol' Dating Game buddy Jim Lange. I was the champion for 3 games and won $10,000 on that one. Here's an example of this show:
And the last one being in 1989 and on another very short-lived quiz show titled 'Couch Potatoes' and hosted by Marc Summers. And here's an example of this one:
Didn't do too well on this one, and because the two guys who worked with my wife and who asked me to be their third team member and who told my wife that they were really good with television trivia...weren't.
(...and btw, I actually had an old VHS cassette of my appearances on "Bullseye' and on 'Couch Potatoes', but a few years ago noticed that I had somehow lost that cassette somewhere along the line)
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16 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Looks like she was finally allowed to show her belly button 15 years later.
The appearance of Wayne Rogers makes me think of his departure from M*A*S*H and his replacement by Mike Farrell. This was in fact a show full of actors levaving and being replaced and in my opinion continuing on unabated in quality.
I'll go a step farther here, sewhite.
When Larry Linville's cartoonish Frank Burns character got his transfer papers out of the 4077th and was replaced by David Ogden Stiers' Charles Winchester character, the show's quality actually increased.
(...ya know, when ANY TV series replaces a TWO-dimensional character with a THREE-dimensional character, it's always a good thing, don't ya)
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1 hour ago, Fausterlitz said:
-even though the whole point of the aria is that those clichés are themselves completely absurd (and of course Bernstein himself was famously progressive politically, especially for the time). It's a similar problem to some viewers today being unable to recognize Blazing Saddles as one of the most potent deconstructions of the absurdity of racism ever made (rather than as a movie with "racist stuff" in it). Sigh.
Well Fausterlitz, as that old saying goes:
"Subtleties are always lost on the Uninformed, and even when those subtleties might be presented overtly."
(...and no, I don't know who first said this, but someone most certainly MUST have said something like this at sometime in the past wouldn't ya think, and because it's SO damn true, isn't it...btw, sounds like something Oscar Wilde might have said, doesn't it)
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On 8/8/2021 at 12:41 AM, MovieCollectorOH said:
Thread jump - I realize this is a Ben thread. I have never met the guy, I wouldn't want to belittle him as some anonymous poster, I'm just not wired that way.
However
I just watched the Dating Game episode of John Ritter and Sandra Sieden (January 26, 1949 - July 12, 2007) - had to look into it for myself. (circa 1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iujirt09fYHey, smile, at least you are still alive, and that is nice.
Seiden obit
https://www.johnfry.com/pages/Obits67.html
Ritter
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000615/Looking through the comments section, they went to a supposedly "cheesy at the time" destination, Lake Havasu AZ (all the way from sunny CA), while other guests supposedly went to places like Italy. Since you are from AZ, maybe you could elaborate a bit on that... 😁
Yes, and as a matter of fact here MCOH, I can elaborate on this a bit for you here, as yes, the very first game show I was ever on WAS 'The Dating Game' back in 1971 and when I was but a kid of 19.
The "Lovely Bachorette" as they were called, ended up picking me out of the three guys, and when OUR "romantic trip" was to another location across the California border...lovely. picturesque and where there really wasn't much there at the time, Ensenada Mexico, and which as you probably know is situated along the Pacific Coast about one hundred miles south of Tijuana.
Btw, if you've watched that old Dating Game episode with Mr. Ritter and Miss Seiden, then you might also want to catch the one with a very young Steve Martin and with the lovely bachelotte in this case, Dean Martin's daughter Deana, who would pick him out the three young men seated beyond her sight. Now THEY were sent to the Amalfi coast of Italy.
(...and re your "Hey, smile, at least you are still alive, and that is nice" comment up there...yep, very good point here, my friend)
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13 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
In the US, it started to die when the federal government and the FCC decided there were enough "diverse voices" in the media in the 1980s to support multiple viewpoints and removed things like the Fairness Doctrine. It was seen as the "magazining" of the electronic media: stations programmed to a particular interest, much in the way that you have magazines that appeal to a rather narrow audience.
The demise of the doctrine in 1987 led to the rise of (mostly conservative) talk radio shows and stations, and then polarized cable news networks, and that led to where we are today, carrying the polarization into "new" media (FB, Twitter, etc.) The associated rule regarding personal attacks and political editorial rules remained in place until 2000. An appeals court struck those down in 2000 when the FCC did not defend its position regarding the rules.
Conservative talk radio took off because Rush Limbaugh's program was offered to radio stations for free, as long as they carried 4 minutes of national ads that were sold by the company that owned Limbaugh's program. The stations were free to sell the remaining ad time to local advertisers. Most AM radio stations at that time couldn't turn down an offer of free programming, as they were struggling to compete with more popular FM stations.
Aaaah, yes! How I miss those halcyon comedic days of yore when Mr. Aykroyd would say to Miss Curtain, "Jane, you ignorant ****..." and when EVERYBODY who saw it would know that this was a parody of 60 Minutes' old Point/Counterpoint segment!
(...aaah yes, those sweet days of my younger self...how I miss them sometimes)
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14 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Actually I think Alec would drop everything to be a TCM host.
I really do!
He loves old movies and cherishes RO's memory.
Yeah, you're probably right. And yes, I also always thought he did a very good job when for a while he hosted on TCM. He's always seemed very knowledgable about classic films too.
(...btw, and re my previous little jab at his game show hosting...it's not that I have anything against games shows mind you, as I myself have been a contestant on four of 'em in my lifetime)
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37 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I say get rid of Ben and bring in Alec Baldwin.
Isn't Alec too busy right now being the second coming of Gene Rayburn? And, asking questions of celebs such as: "When Johnny went to the little boys room, he wound up hurting his 'blank'?"
(...yeah, Alec is probably MUCH too busy now days to do this TCM hosting gig TOO, wouldn't ya say, Bronxie?!)
LOL
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1 minute ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Oh wait I remember -- "Feel free to insert your own French military joke"
Meh.
Ben thinks he's cutting edge or something.
Please.
Well Bronxie, as I said in that first post of mine, the primary reason I found it funny was more the idea that when Osborne was the sole host and before Ben came on the scene, you'd never expect even any irreverent ATTEMPTS at humor to come from this channel.
(...see what I mean?)
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2 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Refresh my faulty memory on the French Military.
It's on page-one and the sixth post in this thread.
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1 minute ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Yep, Vautrin, he does do that all the time.
I never find it funny.
Well, I certainly hope you AT LEAST found that thing he said about the "French Military" that I brought up earlier in this baby was funny anyway, Bronxie!!!
(...or else EVERYTHING I've always thought about your keen sense of humor would be washed away as so much sand across the...well, you get the idea here)
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23 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Cheese and Rice, I've got TCM on in the background and Mankiewitless just said "There's no way that two-time Academy Award winner Fredric March would appear in something like ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE"
What a putz.
Wow! Gotta say here Bronxie, I never knew you held such reverence for Messrs. Abbott and Costello!
(...so, wanna do their old Baseball routine together here?...which part would you like to play?...I'm probably taller than you, and so how about me playin' Bud's part?)
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8 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
It would have been feeble and dumb but at least somewhat relevant.
Aaah, and so then by association, might you THEN be saying that I.......
(...oh, never mind...I don't think I wanna know the answer to this)
LOL
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14 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I might try to watch the entire film online at TCM's site.
Can't imagine Charlotte Rampling being better than Claire Trevor.
Nope, Bronxie, I think you'll find Charlotte Rampling (or as I've always thought of her: "The 1970s Lauren Bacall") isn't going be as good as Claire Trevor.
(...but then again, and as much as I've always liked Lauren Bacall, I've never thought she was as good an actress as Claire Trevor was either)
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2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Simply put, I have come to the end of my rope with Mankiewicz and from now on will put this pinhead (excuse my French) on mute wherever and whenever he appears.
Why do I say this?
Tonight was the last straw. He was introducing ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN: "Starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March". Oh, ha, ha ha, how "cute". I was livid! Never mind that Bud and Lou were thought enough of as stars by Turner Classic Movies to be celebrated today as part of SUTS -- Ben just had to be "irreverant". But to me it automatically came across as disrespectful. I didn't have to "think" about it -- it just WAS.
I'd be happy to see this guy go. And I believe some of you know that I'm not a cancel culture, sensitive snowflake type in the least.
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So Bronxie, lets say if Ben would have used that line in an intro for Abott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and INSTEAD of using it as you said in his intro to their "Meet Frankenstein" movie, would you still have thought this as "disrespectful" to the comic duo as it appears you are here? Now you see, I think THAT would've been...yes...funny.
(...but then again, I'm sure by now YOU have a pretty good sense about MY sense of humor, don't ya)
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10 minutes ago, Cigarjoe cellph said:
PS. There is no tacked love story like in Murder My Sweet, no blinding gun flash, no mention of the gambling ship anchored off Lido.
The real revelation in Farewell My Lovely is Jack O'Halloran's Moose Malloy, in Farewell My Lovely version Moose actually becomes more than a cartoon bad guy. You really feel sorry for the big lug and the torch he carries for his lost hooker girlfriend. Moose doesn't care that Velma fingered him for the job and took off with the loot. He just wants to be back in that sweet spot. O'Halloran gives off a Laird Cregar vibe, if we had been in a full blown Noir revival both Jack and Sylvia Miles would have been two of the major new stars, out of this cast only Harry Dean Stanton went on to really make a name in Neo Noir.
Yep CJ, I was going to mention O'Halloran's performance in the remake and after Bronxie said she thought Sylvia Miles was the only one with any "spark" in the film.
(...good point)
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41 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
You know, I am detecting a distinct strain of irreverence in your recent posts, Dargo. I looked up the movies you cited and not one of them was a real movie. I am at a loss to explain. Not knowing otherwise, I'd say you were deliberately making up movies to titles solely for the satiric effect. It would be difficult to say how disappointed I'd be, and you would certainly decline some two fifths in my estimation. Fortunately, I know it isn't true, but it still leaves me at a loss.
Anyway,
Baby Face
1933. Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris. A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
2017. Matthew Booker, Coco Clarke. A group of friends reunite at a recluse cabin in the woods. Their fun is cut short when the local legends of a Baby-faced killer become a reality.
Wait! Now slayton, ol' buddy, ol' pal! SURELY you're not accusing ME here of being "irreverent" and posting stuff in this forum merely for "satiric effect"?!!!
Why, I MUST say that I've NEVER been SO insulted in my LIFE!!! (yeah yeah, I know...it's early yet)
Okay okay, Yes. I must admit in this last case I made up the whole "Wisconsin/WisconSIN" thing for, yes, comic effect and was "inspired" to do so by playing off of LS's "California" movies offering. AND, that this case would certainly not be an isolated one, to be sure.
However you see, the way I've always figure this sort'a thing is that because this here forum isn't exactly supposed be any sort of a "reverential exercise in the academic pursuit of cinematic history", why not OR what's the HARM in having a little fun around here while we're here.
BUT, if this sort'a thing tends to bug you a little too much, then tell ya what I'm gonna do. From now on I'll try my very best to refrain from inserting any of my jocularity into the threads you have started.
(...remember here though, I SAID "try my very best", and which in any court of law OR within the halls of Academia, could NEVER pass for any kind of ironclad guarantee, ya know)
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Alicia Malone
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LOL
Love it, Moe!
But the wife might frown upon Alicia sittin' in my car, and even though she knows she can trust me.
(...well, for the most part anyway)