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1 hour ago, midwestan said:
According to the moviecollectoroh.com database, "Hatari" has been shown 16 times on TCM, but the last airing came in February, 2007.
Thanks. How about the Hugh O'Brian flick, midwesty?
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13 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Well, after all, you ARE faster on the draw, Dargo...
With my dropping COWBOY in AFRICA into this thread, has TCM ever screened films such as HaTaRi! or AFRICA-TEXAS STYLE!??
Yes, I'm pretty sure TCM has shown both of those sometime in the past. Definitely the John Wayne flick which I believe they've shown fairly recently, and I think the Hugh O'Brian starring movie as well, and with the latter one here of course being the inspiration for the short-lived Chuck Connors starring TV series.
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34 minutes ago, NoShear said:
I'm blowin' smoke off of mine:
I know, Dargo: I had access to way too many toy guns growing up!
Yep, and very similar to the following Mattel "Shootin' Shell" Fanner .50 that I had back in the late-'50s/early-'60s here, and which predated yours by a few years...
(...the Mattel Company, which was located in Hawthorne CA along Rosecrans Ave and very close to my boyhood home at the time of Lawndale, sure made the best toys back then, didn't they NS?!)
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1 minute ago, NoShear said:
I noticed you slipped in one of your Buntline specials there, Dargo.
Saaaay, YOU'RE pretty quick on the draw here TOO, NS!
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5 minutes ago, NoShear said:
That laughing emoji I attached here just ensured future cracks from Mr. jazzguitar: Do you think I have time to recant , Dargo?
Yeah, maybe...and while James might be off in some other thread for awhile and lookin' at somebody else's semantics.
(...but I'd say don't take any more than five minutes to do this...he's pretty quick on the draw with that computer of his, ya know)
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1 minute ago, laffite said:
Yeah, well, i guess I was sort of mesmerized myself. Or perhaps just numbed.
Yeah, I get what you're sayin' here laffite, but in the case of this Lynch film, I wasn't so much "numbed" while watching it, but felt more "pulled into it" you might say.
(...btw, I do have to admit that after my first viewing of it years ago, I was immediately compelled to do an internet search of what others thought the meaning of the film might be, and because like yourself, I too was a bit perplexed by it...but then after reading someone's idea that it would make a great double feature with Carnival of Souls, it suddenly all came together for me)
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5 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Hey, Dargo: Could you get jamesjazzguitar to cool it with the Jennifer jokes??
Eeh, sorry NS, but that James dude NEVER listens to a thing I say, ya know!
(...wait, I take that back...he listens sometimes but THEN he's inclined to get into some big debate about the semantics that I've used, and so........)
LOL
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6 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Jen's youthful look is all due to Aveeno. For being their spokesperson, Jen receives a gallon of the stuff per day!
Courteney Cox had to ration a one quarter bottle for one year.
I dunno, James. I use some of my wife's Aveeno almost daily, and I sure don't look like I did when I was in my thirties anymore.
Think it'd help if I started also usin' some of that Just For Men stuff on my hair and on my goatee, it might help???
(...Walt Frazier and Keith Hermandez always seemed to think so anyway, right?!)
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13 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I wouldn't call it reverse racism as much as giving whitey a well-deserved dose of his/her own medicine.
Yes, but DO "two wrongs make a right", Vautrin???
(...and now of course, this is where YOU say, "No, but three rights do make a left")
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20 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Hey, jamesjazzguitar and Dargo: Driving and Jennifer Aniston are serious business! - a tweak of the John Milner line in American Graffiti
Gotta say here NS, that while Jen has never done that much for me, I DO have to admit she's somehow held onto her looks by far the best of any of her old Friends costars, anyway.
(...it's almost as if she's got some kind'a portrait of herself that she keeps up in her attic)
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Now see, I'VE always believed she died as a result of Tony Curtis holding her down while Billy Wilder force fed her a whole bottle of her sleeping pills.
And 'cause even after 4 years since she ticked 'em both off so damn badly by her unprofessional conduct on the set of Some Like It Hot they STILL were holding a grudge.
Well?! Is THIS one any less plausible than any OTHER damn "theory" about this whole thing you're likely to hear? HUH???!!!
(...and btw, of course I was only kidding about messrs Curtis and Wilder here)
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22 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Oddly too, I notice more of a slight( mind you) resemblance to that shot of Brady and ROD TAYLOR. But maybe it's more the hair........? and besides,
Once finding out their connection, I STILL can't see any family resemblance between Steve Forrest and Dana Andrews. But then many couldn't see any resemblance between me and MY brother. I once mentioned that to my Mother and asked for some opinion of it and she merely said, "Watch your STEP!"
Sepiatone
Funny here Sepia, but when it comes to the brotherly resemblances of all those I jokingly referred to above, I have to say the Andrews/Forrest one has always seemed the most pronounced to me.
(...and then with the Sanders/Conway one a very close second)
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18 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Could be, but dig----
Most will say blacks can't be racist because they don't have the leverage of "power" which as a Detroiter I find a useless argument for these parts as for the last forty years Detroit had had black mayors, black DAs and an 80% black municipal employee rate and an 80% black police and fire department. And an almost 100% black city council. How anyone who's black here can make the claim that they're suffering from "systemic racism" at the city's hand is ridiculous.
And which it seems, according to Shank Asu anyway(didn't see this myself), was the basic premise that Alicia expressed after a recent showing of The Crimson Kimono, but with the example in this case of the Japanese-American community of the Los Angeles area substituting for that of the African-American community of Detriot.
(...gotta say here though that this conversation is now gettin' a bit heavy...can't we just go back to the subject of what a terrific voice I have???!!!)
LOL
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10 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Silly Dargo..... ANY black activist will tell you....
There's NO SUCH THING as a "black racist".
Try telling them otherwise and they'll argue semantics with you. I myself distinguish a difference between a "racist" and a "bigot". And by my reckoning, I understand what you're saying, but to me it would be more fitting to claim Roy Glenn's character as making BIGOTED views. Which I've long felt he clearly was doing.
Sepiatone
Like your post here Sepia, and in return I understand what you're saying, too.
(...but it also sounds to me as if you were/are splitting as many semantic hairs as were your aforementioned black activists)
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Shank Asu, while I agree absolutely, positively and UNEQUIVOCALLY agree with the thought you expressed in this first part of your above posting...
1 hour ago, Shank Asu said:Yesterday I watched a DVR recording of The Crimson Kimono from about a month or so ago on TCM and must say Malone's comments at the end of the film actually ruined part of the film experience for me. She claimed the film's story was great and progressive up until the end when it decided to show reverse-racism. For her racism is about power (her words), but i hate to break it to her, racism is racism, hate is hate, bigotry is bigotry. There's no such thing as 'reverse-racism'.
...AND which was a point that I actually brought up a few months back when our "woke" TCM hosts presented their opinions on the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and when THEY failed to mention ANYTHING at all about the out-and-out racist views which were expressed in THAT film by Sidney Poitier's father character.
However, what I can NOT understand is the thought you THEN expressed within the SECOND half of your above posting here...
1 hour ago, Shank Asu said:Don't know what she's actually trying to describe, but it isn't a theme that is at play in this plot. I liked this story and liked how it showed how Japanese Americans viewed Caucasians and their struggles they deal within their Japanese culture to be able to marry a caucasian partner. Malone's views honestly took me completely out of the film once it was over and could only think 'Huh? Why would she even say that?'
...as I have to THEN wonder, and as I do every time someone comes these boards (and who usually turn out to be as I call then "One Post Wonders") states their displeasure and disgust with something they've considered as "woke" which one of the TCM host have said about some film.
And so MY question here is: Why would you allow ANYTHING that the cute Aussie lass with the nice smile and an overall pleasant appearance(but who once again, does tend to talk through her nose at bit) OR for that matter ANYTHING that ANY of the TCM hosts say while they're expressing an OPINION about the film you've just watched, AFFECT you to ANY degree at all, and ESPECIALLY to the degree to which and as you YOURSELF here have just stated in which it "took (you) completely out of the film once it was over"???
You see, I don't and never have allowed ANYTHING that ANY of the TCM hosts have ever said after THEY have given us THEIR opinion about a film affect ME in the damn LEAST, well, at least NOT to the degree to which it would affect ME and take ME "completely out of film once it was over", anyway.
(...see my point here?...so what is it?...are you worried that whatever the TCM hosts say and when they offer up their OPINIONS about a certain film's content or "message", that this might go on to heavily influence too many people with as yet unformed opinions of their own out while they're listening to them, and say such as the younger viewers out there?...well, at least this has always been MY guess as to why I occasionally read posts submitted to these boards with these sorts of laments, anyway)
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1 hour ago, txfilmfan said:
And yet they always seemed so happy on Tattletales!
Yep and as I recall, so did Patty Duke and John Astin, Brett Somers and Jack Klugman, George Hamilton and the future Alana (Rod) Stewart, and well...a number of other married (at the time) celebs on that program.
(...although I did always have the feeling that the cute as hell Elaine Joyce would've been married forever to Bobby Van if he hadn't died so damn young)
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46 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
Nor Ken Berry (at least until they divorced). And Ms. Joseph is still with us, at 87.
Yep, and I seem to remember when this happened, it wasn't exactly amicable.
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
I watched Mulholland Drive about 15 or so years ago and didn't really understand it. I usually cover my arse by saying that well it was a long time ago. I am old enough now to realize that it most probably would not make any difference, although it might (to be absolutely fair to myself). I don't particularly like cryptic movies, which might serve to sabotage the understanding of them. Or perhaps I just lack the perspicacity. Ah, that's it, no doubt.
Well laffite, like I said earlier:
"It helps if you think of Mulholland Drive as Lynch's take on Carnival of Souls."
And I'll now add that this film "mesmerized"* (I guess might be the best word for it here) me.
(...and not just 'cause of the hot as hell Laura Hassing bein' in it either)
*mesmerized-past tense of mesmerize..def: hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfix them.
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10 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I think this type of voice would scare any animal away more so than a voice like Orson Welles.
LOL
Well, it certainly didn't "scare away" one Ernest T. Bass anyway, RIGHT?!
(...nope, it actually attracted that guy, and HE would often ACT like a wild animal)
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10 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
When you worked for the airlines, were the "voice" that the passengers would hear? I assume so and that everyone liked your voice expect for Kirk Douglas.
LOL
I gotta admit he ESPECIALLY didn't like it when I did that impression of him to his face, anyway!!!
(...naaah, not really...but I COULD have...ya see, my Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda and Clark Gable impressions I do sometimes in that aforementioned van are ALWAYS a big hit, ya know...and primarily because the demographics of those passengers tend to skew to the, well lets just say, those in their "golden years" and so they're old enough to remember these guys)
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I agree that most people are biased toward a deep and resonant voice as being more authoritarian (i.e. most trusting, more likely to take seriously etc..), but I assume this is a learned behavior. I.e. it is not "primal" but learned based on experience. I.e. most announcers had such voices so our expectations were set that this was the "right" (or "best"), voice for the job.
Okay then, here's what might be another example of why this sort'a thing might be "primal" in its origins.
Say you run into a wild animal somewhere that seems threatening. In order to attempt to scare the thing away, do you think it is more likely to BE scared away by the sound of a loud, deep and resonant voice than it is by a voice that is merely loud?
(...funny, isn't it folks, how a thread that supposed to be about a TCM host has somehow segued into a discussion about what kind of voice is most likely to scare away a wild animal???...hmmm, maybe THIS is why I like spendin' so much damn time on these boards...ya never know WHERE this stuff is gonna lead to!)
LOL
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And btw, and in regard to this issue of "voice", AND while the following is sure to sounds as if I am once again "blowing my own horn" here...
I had THREE different passengers in my van who I was transporting between Sedona and Phoenix yesterday, once again tell me that I had a very nice voice and sound as if I should be a "radio announcer".
(...just sayin')
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29 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The company of over 800 employees hired an outside HR consulting firm and everyone is required to participate. This video was only the first step.
It is my understanding the majority of corporations are doing this in either 2021 or 2022.
George Floyd is the reason.
I was just kiddin' here of course, James. Yep, I pretty much figured your participation in those sessions was mandatory for all the employees at your place of business, and as were the ones that became mandatory for all to take when I worked at Northwest Airlines and at the time the issue of "sexual harassment" came forefront during a certain Supreme Court Justice's confirmation hearings.
29 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:As for "primal inclination": I find that hard to believe; what you're saying is that people were born to be sexist.
No, not necessarily, and because if you go back and re-read what I wrote, you will find I made no mention of "gender" in it. And because, and as you yourself mentioned in your previous posting of that female sports announcer who possessed a deep and resonant voice. And so in effect, you yourself admitting that females are capable of possessing such a voice too.
(...and also btw, why do you think you hear so many younger females doing that whole "vocal fry" thing with their voices and which entails an attempt at lowering their voices in order to sound as if what they're saying has more "gravitas" to it?!...are all these, and yes primarily it seems young women, being "sexist"???
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Silly Dargo..... ANY black activist will tell you....
Frank Sinatra believed Marilyn Monroe was murdered, former manager claims in book
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Right with ya here, Doug.
Now, bein' the agnostic that I am, I've always been of the mind that IF there IS an afterlife, one of the very first things I'd do once I've arrived to those Pearly Gates (or at that other place as the case may be and where it's supposedly a whole lot hotter) I'd ask the person in charge who really killed JFK.
(...the whole MM thing I'd save for some later time, as this one has never really been that high on my list of things to know, and 'cause frankly I never cared much for that little breathless baby talk way she had of talkin' anyway)