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So James, sorry but I have to ask... Okay, fess up. Now WHAT in the world did you do OR say in your work environment that caused the people at HR to send you to this session, HUH?!!! LOL Yep, most do. It's been proven scientifically that the majority of people have almost a primal inclination to associate a strong, deep and especially resonant voice with that of those in or "should be" in positions of authority, or with those who are more likely to be or become more successful in life.

Yes, BUT do you think you'll feel this way about Randy forever and ever (ahem), Mr.G??? (...btw, don't pretty much ALL country music singers "sing through their nose"?...I've always thought most of 'em do, anyway)

Yeah, and ESPECIALLY "pretty stunning" whenever Laura Harring here is on-screen... (...oh mama!)

Actually here James, for some reason which I've never been able to quite put my finger on, Scott Brady has always reminded me of Lawrence Tierney. And maybe ALSO surprisingly, this same sort'a thing always happens with me between Dana Andrews and Steve Forrest, between George Sanders and Tom Conway, AND between Peter Graves and James Arness. (...I know, go figure, huh)

So is that Tara or Twelve Oaks across the street from the church??? (...oh wait, those were in GA not NC, huh...never mind...all that antebellum stuff looks the same to me)

You mean it wasn't because he once heard Dwight D. Eisenhower talking and said to himself, "Now THAT'S a guy I wanna sound like!" ??? (...ya know, there was quite a similarity between the sound of these two men's voices, don't ya?...but then again, you're probably not nearly old enough to remember how Ike sounded, are ya)

Ah HA! So THIS explains that "confused" emoji response you just gave me today in that earlier post of mine and where I went on that tear about how I'm sick and tired of people comin' on here and grippin' about the hosts supplying what is in REALITY is more a case of historical context, EH Shank?! So then I take it comments about their VOICES is still alright then, RIGHT?! (...and 'cause ya know, both Ben AND Alicia DO kind'a talk through their noses, don't YA?!!!) LOL

It helps if you think of Mulholland Drive as Lynch's take on Carnival of Souls. (...reportedly, Lynch has even cited the earlier film as his inspiration for his film and which is considered a "surrealist neo-noir")

It was in Fellini's Ah, You Car'a Is'a Molto Bene (...starring Mario Mastroianni...Marcello's little remembered younger brother...and which of course can also be said of this particular Fellini flick too)

OH, and btw... And btw, one of the key reasons I recently purchased one of these newer Fiat 124 Abarth Spiders and exactly like THIS one here... ...instead of a Mazda Miata, and which share the same chassis. (...and because "them there eye-talians" who styled this car just seem to design better lookin' cars than the Japanese do in general. and 'cause the Japanese for some reason tend to over-style their cars by putting WAY too many design elements on theirs and thus needlessly cluttering up the look of them)

Ghia...Pininfarina...Bertone...Zagato...ItalDesign...... (...yep, them there eye-talian design houses suuuuure know how to style some mighty nice lookin' car bodies, don't they)

LOL Well, I dunno about YOU here Sepia, but I started turnin' grey at just about this same age TOO, ya know. But yeah, I suppose there's now a bit of a resemblance between LaVar and Joe Seneca, and especially if you look at him (Mr. Seneca that is) at about this same age in 1982's The Verdict...

EXCELLENT!!! Well overeasy, yeah sure, I suppose I COULD have just simply said what you've just said here in order to make this same point about Ben and instead of goin' into that whole long story up there about what he said after showin' Paths of Glory that time, huh. (...but you know how I am when I get on a roll, don't ya?!) LOL

Au contraire oh learned scribe, but my aforementioned "Sigmund Freud" referenced offering in the Alicia Malone thread was actually the very first reply posted within it. Yep, right there on page-1 and right after the OP began his gripping about the Aussie lass. And heck dude, I even posted a big ol' pic of the guy, Siggy that is, holding his signature cigar in his right hand while looking straight into the camera, AND even made it seem as if the famous shrink was offering up some good mental health advice to the OP of that thread while supplying a phonetically spelled Viennese accent. And so how you missed that is ANYBODY'S guess! (...however and with this being said and other than THIS point, yeah, I guess I have to admit goin' for the ol' "sorry dude, but I think you need to see a shrink in order to get over your troubles here" gambit would most likely fall into the realm of Public Domain, and so please disregard and dismiss in your mind any thoughts of my being perturbed with your earlier posted offering in this thread, kind sir)

And NOW as we take a little side excursion away from the subject of "Ben" here (and because HELL, I just GAVE the OP of this thread a good damn reason to like Ben up there...well, UNLESS they happen to come from FRANCE anyway), so lavender, what did you think of LaVar Burton's stint as guest host of 'Jeopardy!' ? (...I thought he was very good and wouldn't mind at all seein' him becoming the permanent host of the program)

Gotta say here Okay laffite! WHEN did I give you any permission to "borrow" my "Sigmund Freud" shtick from that "(I can't stand) Alicia Malone" thread that ANOTHER newbie recently posted their dislike of another of TCM's hosts, HUH?! (...what...do I have to now COPYRIGHT ever damn thing I post around here or somethin'???!!!)

Okay! HERE'S one! His deep, resonant and soothing voice is as pleasing to the ears as the sound of a brook as it slowly cascades down a..... Okay sure, maybe not THAT, but I DO think Ben can be rather witty sometimes and DOES occasionally offer up a little tidbit of info about some old movie that even I (someone who has SO damn much knowledge about classic movies tucked into the deep recesses of this brain of mine that my wife will sometimes tell others that her husband "has a mind full of useless information") didn't know! Take for instance, the very DAY that I started to warm up to Ben. This was probably ten years ago or so and when there were only TWO hosts on TCM. Yep, just Bob Osborne and Ben. So anyway, Ben is doing the wraparound for Kubrick's Paths of Glory, and at the end of his outro for this flick he said, "The French Government banned the showing of this movie in France for many years and due to what it said was this film's "denigration of the French Military." And ya know what Ben said NEXT? Well, THEN he said, "You're now free to think of your favorite French Military joke here!" Now, do you think OSBORNE would've had the balls (although some might say "the bad taste") to say somethin' like that? NOOOO, of course not! And so THAT, as I've said, was the very MINUTE I knew TCM had hired themselves a guy to introduce these old movies who had a HEAD on his shoulders, AND was pretty damn balls-y TOO! (...there, might THIS answer your question here, DUDE?...or dudette as the case may be?)

Now, I have a feeling that all the hosts, with the possible exception of Eddie who will occasionally make some sort of offhanded comment about it, side with the whole "woke-ness" issue. And personally I have NO issue with this. Nope, the ONLY "issue" I have with this whole thing is with people who get THEIR damn noses bent all out of shape because one of the hosts have attempted to provide what is ACTUALLY some short of historical context and who as I have noticed are NOT supplying "revisionist history" to those viewers out there who might NOT be familar with the era that these old classic films were made and released. OR in other words, I'm getting PRETTY damn SICK and TIRED of "One Post Wonders" coming on these boards and complaining that they were "offended" that their strongly held beliefs were being challenged by something one of the hosts have said during one of their wraparound segments, and as if what the host has said will somehow lead this country down some "path to ruin" and/or will "poison the minds of the young and impressionable". (...YEP, pretty damn sick and tired of THIS and NOT with any of the hosts personally...and yes, okay, even though I WOULD prefer that both Ben and Alicia possessed a little more resonance in their voices and were a little less nasally, and say, had as mellifluous a sounding voice as MINE, but hey, one can't have everything they want in life, RIGHT?!) LOL

Frances McCann...gorgeous woman who looked like a cross between Suzy Parker and Rhonda Fleming, and evidently was possessive of a singing voice good enough for opera. But, while watching her in this film tonight, I think I've just found my new number-one worst actress of all time. (...and probably the reason this little low budget flick would be her only movie credit ever)

So, sort of sounds like a prototype of the relationship between the Wayne-Tom Doniphan and the Strode-Pompey characters which took place three decades later, eh Mr.G?

Yes yes, Toto. I agree with everything you said here. Still though, isn't it a shame that Ben and Alicia (wait for it here...and I KNOW you know what's comin' here, don't YA) both talk through their noses???!!! LOL

LOL Naaaah, looks more like George Brent to me, Dan!

And, who... ...is very hard to tell apart from Rod Cameron... (...or at least I've always thought so, anyway)

Go to the exact moment on the YouTube video you wish to direct attention to and then hit 'pause'. Then, right click while within the video's body and in your pop-up you'll see 'Copy video URL at current time' and left click that. And then, right click and paste it within the Reply field of your post. (...and re Mel Gibson...I just view him as just another example of how religion can unfortunately often screw up the minds of some people, and with emphasis on the word 'some' here...and which is something I believe you touched upon a bit earlier in this thread, didn't you Lorna?)

LOL Yep, I remember this too, Mr.G.