Dargo
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45 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The main street in Santa Barbara is State Street. I.e. most everything branches off of State Street.
Although I'm pretty sure the parade you see in this film went down the other main street in Santa Barbara...Mission Street.
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16 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Powerful. Technologically sophisticated. Intimidating. Obscenely expensive. But, no, not nice.
Sorry slayton, but I agree with Moe here in regard to the Countach.
The original Countach was a VERY "nice" (as in "nicely styled") car UNTIL they cluttered up its "niceness" and began adding all that aero-crap to its exterior and then needlessly giving this nice looking car that cartoonish "boy racer" look during its later run.
(...and have thought this since the day I first saw one back in the early-'70s)
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2 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Just because one car is nice doesn't mean another car can't be nice--or wouldn't be nice if it were in a movie.
Now, why in the world does this thought sound like it could've been a Beach Boys song to me, I wonder?!
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27 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Actually.....there are two sorts of Pisces.
One is dedicated to selfless pursuits involving volunteerism on a global scale, the arts, and anything dealing with creativity. They are angelic souls who love to help other people, are modest, humble, and sweet-natured. They have a natural, organic discipline which keeps them balanced and in harmony with all human beings and nature. This is a fully evolved Pisces who has his or her feet on the ground even as the head might be in the clouds, dreaming of a perfect world yet shrewdly acknowledging its harsh realities.
The other, well...lives only for pleasure and might even be tempted to....shall we say....explore the shadier aspects of human existence.
So then, lemme get this straight here.
This OTHER sort of Pisces might, say, yell "FIRE!" inside a crowded theater when there is none, OR maybe even yell "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THE GIANT ANTS ARE HERE!" inside a crowded Costco, RIGHT?!
(...well then, I guess I know which sort of Pisces I am, don't I!)
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24 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
You are a fish! Live with it! LOL
Okay, OKAY! Alright then. I WILL!...
(...happy NOW???!!!)
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8 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
Living close to the border has a few advantages, circumventing the DOT regs on grey market imports is one. Of course I'm not suggesting our Figaro drivers employed such illicit means, but a few high performance cars and bikes have snuck in. You might remember those old GSXR precursors the 2-stroke RG500 ? The bikes were insane, lift the front tire at 100 mph by just rolling on the throttle, 4 time GP winner! I've only seen a few and they were all just driven across the border.
Another example, the R5 Turbo 2. It was featured in a Pink Panther movie -I think, Son of- and the red head stepchild of Bond films Never Say Never Again. Some of these came in the same way.
Yep, those little mid-engine Renault pocket-rockets have become very desirable in the collector car market of late alright, Moe. I think they're at about $100K presently, if of course they're in excellent condition.
(...and yes, every Suzuki Gamma I've ever run across here in The States have been spirited across the Canadian border somehow...there's a couple of guys who ride into the Hansen Dam British Meet in SoCal on 'em every year...crazy fast bikes, like ya said...don't know how they get 'em registered, though)
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3 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Okay, this is good to hear. So if it says Sag, then that indeed is your rising sign.
Now, there are two "types" of Sagittarians -- 1) scholarly, intellectual, even visionary people who find satisfaction with careers in education, travel, the law, or publishing. They are natural-born teachers. Their quest for knowledge has them seeking out life's truths and mysteries. 2) larger-than-life, good-natured individuals with great senses of humor who love nothing better than partying and having a lively time. They are usually big spenders, extravagant and love to live "big" . Studious pursuits do not interest them.
WAIT! Now, according to my birth certificate, I was born in early March and thus makin' me a Pisces and NOT a Sagittarius, RIGHT?!
So Bronxie, are you SURE you're readin' that chart of yours correctly???
(...you wouldn't be accusing the County of Los Angeles' Hall of Records of slipshod work, now would you?!!!)
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And in keeping with the earlier mentioned western genre...
Considering this ongoing and lengthy major drought presently taking place across the American West, might I suggest you have the kid watch The Big Country, as this film is basically about water rights and how water in the western states is so often viewed as preciously as gold is and historically has been the cause of conflicts since the time the west was first being settled by those of European descent.
(...Jerome Moross' stirring score for this film will probably help him get right into this one too...does ME every time, anyway)
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1 hour ago, misswonderly3 said:
Right, Dargo, it wasn't you who reminded me that noir was "supposed to be dark". I think I did clear that up a little later in my post.
But I'm a little disappointed that the most interesting thing to you about my post was my "confusion" as to whether it was you or Sepiatone who made that comment to me (regarding what I'd said about "The Postman Always Rings Twice".) After all that trouble I went to to make a point about a certain type of storyline in film noir, I'd like to hear more from you as to what I said, not who I quoted .
Well, in THAT case, and in MY case, and seein' as how my attempt at humor in the above posting apparently didn't tickle your funny bone at all this time MissW, AND if ya wanna get all serious about this here...
I personally have no problem or at least don't hold it against any noirs that show "innocent people" getting bumped off somewhere along the way, as this sort of thing unfortunately happens in real life all the time, and so might make the narrative in such a noir seem even more true to life and reflect and expose an even darker aspects of the human condition.
Now, I DO agree with you and took note of it myself while watching The Bitter Stems the other night that the MOTIVATION for the Alfredo character to commit the murder that he did, did NOT seem all that well presented and seemed to be truncated in its presentation and questioned why he --and who btw I do NOT think was "evil" or "horrible" but just more an extremely frustrated and desperate man with and about his own life--would take such a drastic step and instead of just confronting Liudas with his suspicions.
(...there...is THAT better?)
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1 hour ago, misswonderly3 said:
This has come up before, I think it was either Dargo or Sepiatone who pointed out the obvious to me, as though I didn't already know it: it was a comment I made about the murder of Cora's husband Nick, in The Postman Always Rings Twice. I'd said I found both Cora and Frank unsympathetic because they cold-bloodedly murdered Nick -- even after their first attempt didn't work, when you'd think they'd have taken that as a sign and changed their minds ! I also said that while Nick was obtuse and dull, he didn't deserve to die.
This observation prompted a reply from one of our regulars here ( I think Sepiatone) who said something to the effect of, " Of course Nick didn't "deserve" to get murdered, that's the whole point, it's a noir ! " as though I was unfamiliar with the trope of the murder of undeserving people in film noir.
Anyway, I will state this clearly, and I know it might generate a lot of disagreement, or even revulsion (kidding) from the hard core noir fans here.
I love film noir, it's pretty much my favourite type /style of movie. And I'm very familiar with noir, I've seen a lot of them, many times. "That said", the type of noir in which an innocent person gets killed, especially not by accident but because the main character(s) wants that individual dead and has planned the murder, is NOT my favourite type of noir. Yes, noir is meant to be dark and iterate that life is unfair, blah blah, it's all about crime and death and the dark side of human nature.
But there are actually many noirs in which there are no murders of innocent people (hey, I didn't say "no murders, period", I said of innocent people. People who do not deserve to die. ) And I prefer that type of noir story to the ones where some poor sap gets whacked for no reason except the protagonist has decided they want that person dead.
Of course Alfredo is a horrible person. He decides to kill someone, based on false information. So, first, he should have, as you say, have done "due diligence" to make sure Luidas really was lying to him and cheating him (which it turns out he wasn't.)
But even if Luidas had been scamming him, that's still no "justification " for murdering the guy. As I said in my earlier post, why didn't Alfredo just confront him about what he'd heard? He seemed to have the upper hand, from a physically daunting angle, so he could have threatened to kill or at least seriously hurt Luidas unless Luidas returned all the money he'd taken from Alfredo. They could have worked something out.
I guess I'm betraying some kind of noir principle here, but yes, I think anyone who murders another person like that is "a horrible person". So sue me.
Tweren't ME, MissW.
However, I CAN understand your confusion here though, and seein' as how that SEPIA guy STOLE my whole overuse of the uppercase in order to imply conversational inflection grammatical shtick around here YEARS ago! BUT of course, HE'LL never admit this!!!
Nope, all I ever remember tellin' you about The Postman Always Rings Twice was that MY mailman NEVER rang twice!
(...oh, and MAYBE that I never thought Lana Turner was all that hot UNTIL I watched this flick for the first time...yeah, maybe that too)
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59 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
It's a shame that LIFEBOAT (1944) wasn't remade with Elvis in the cast. So Elvis just happened to survive the sinking boat -- AND -- he managed to save his gee-tar as well so's he could sing "SPLISH, SPLASH" with the other survivors.
CARRIE NYE could've played the Tallulah Bankhead part.
ARTE JOHNSON could've played the Nazi. 😀 It coulda been a BIGGGG hit!
LOL
I LIKE it, Mr.G!
Say, maybe they could've also worked into it a magician and a parrot as two more of those survivors?!
I assume you've heard the following old joke here before, haven't you?...
There was once a magician on a cruise ship who performed mainly slight-of-hand tricks. He had a regular spot on the ship's evening entertainment. He was actually quite a good magician, but his routines were regularly ruined by the on-board parrot who would fly around squawking out and giving away his secrets like: "IT'S UP HIS SLEEVE, IT'S UP HIS SLEEVE!", or "IT'S IN HIS POCKET, IT'S IN HIS POCKET!", or "IT'S IN HIS MOUTH, IT'S IN HIS MOUTH!" The magician was getting pretty sick of this and threatened to kill the parrot if it ruined his act one more time. That evening right at the climax of his act, just as he was about to disappear in a puff of smoke, the ship hit an iceberg and sank in seconds. Amazingly, the magician and the parrot were the only two survivors. The magician was lying on a piece of driftwood in a daze. As he opened his eyes he could see the parrot staring at him out of its beady little eye. The parrot sat there for hours just staring at him and eventually said, "OK, I give up, what did you do with the ship?"
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6 hours ago, Citizen Ed said:
It's not a movie or fictional either but there are some very fascinating documentary miniseries from James Burke that your son might like.
Connections aired originally on PBS in '79 I believe. It had two follow up miniseries, Connections 2 & 3 and a similar series the Day the Universe Changed, that aired on Discovery or the Learning Channel in the '90s before they switched to the Honey BooBoo tripe they're known for now.
All of them follow the same theme. Burke starts with an object and then shows all the other inventions, theories and scientific findings/mistakes that lead up to the original objects invention. He also published companion books to accompany each series also.
I've watched all of them multiple times and still find them endlessly fascinating.
2 hours ago, EricJ said:Connections 3 is pretty bad (not a bad watch, just reduces the concept to a Kevin Bacon name-game), but Connections 1 & 2 and Day the Universe Changed are entire high-school science/world-history tutoring sessions in themselves-- 😄👍
The eminently watchable James Burke walking us through the cosmically-interconnected scientific history of inventions, and, in "Day"'s case, Renaissance philosophical ideas.
Not sure if your library system has the disks, but worth tracking down anywhere.
Well HECK! If we're gonna go all academic/documentary here, then allow me to suggest THIS miniseries:
The Story of English episode 1 - An English Speaking World - Part 1 / 7 - YouTube
Now, a few of its aspects and details might be a bit dated as it was first broadcast back in 1986, but I still remember quite well being highly fascinated with and by this Emmy Award winning series while watching it on PBS back then.
(...of course I WAS "a little" older than the age of 14 at that time, 34 to be exact, but still I think any kid interested in bettering his understanding and knowledge of the world and some of the people living on it, might find it "fascinating" too!)
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4 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Trivia ♦Nugget♦: Is there another actress besides Michelle Carey who featured in movies with three of the biggest stars in history? With JOHN WAYNE (El Dorado), FRANK SINATRA (Dirty Dingus Magee) and ELVIS PRESLEY (Live a Little, Love a Little)?
3 hours ago, Shank Asu said:Anne Margaret is what i am guessing
Can't think of any films Ann-Margret might've costarred with Sinatra, though.
(...with his fellow Rat Packer Dino in Murderers' Row, but can't think of any she did with Ol' Blue Eyes)
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28 minutes ago, lydecker said:
You're close. I'm a Libra (whatever that means!)
REALLY?! Then why weren't you able to find the FIRST thread done about this thing, lydecker???
(...Libras are USUALLY known to be VERY good at doing computer searches, ya know!)
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34 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
WHAT?!?! Allow me to introduce you to the WORLD FAMOUS OKI-DOG. Two hot dogs, cheese, chili and pastrami, wrapped in a flour tortilla.
If it wasn't for this place, countless no talent musicians would not have a place for their stripper girlfriends to buy them dinner.
https://thetakeout.com/we-ll-see-you-all-at-oki-dogs-the-story-of-l-a-s-le-1846561092
Yeah! And in fact here Moe, I've heard that there's talk of a neo-noir movie being made about this very Los Angeles eatery here!
Its working title at the moment: To Live and Die (from Arteriosclerosis) in L.A.
(...no word yet if they're gonna be able to get Dean Stockwell to reprise his role in this one...he's gettin' up there in age now days, ya know)
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22 minutes ago, sagebrush said:
But the films they are showing are still a good watch (my opinion, of course.)
So sagebrush! Evidently you haven't noticed that on the last week of this gig, that astrologer lady is gonna tell us about the chart she did for Ed Wood.
And YEP, they're gonna show his Plane 9 AND Glen or Glenda flicks!
(...and so ya better enjoy these GOOD movies while ya can, dude)
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1 hour ago, yanceycravat said:
You must have missed our earlier discussion expressing the same exact sentiment!
Yeah, but this is probably because lydecker is a Scorpio, and they're usually the last ones to the party ya know, Yancey.
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WHAT?! No love for THIS one here???...
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11 minutes ago, Citizen Ed said:
Yer determined to go down with that ship ain't ya cap'n?😂
LOL
Eeh! My bilge pumps are workin' JUST fine here, Ed!
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Hey Moe! IF ya show the kid my favorite propaganda film of all time, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, you'll then be able to cover The Boer War, WWI AND WWII with him.
(...although you DO run the risk of him becoming a big anglophile, but there ARE worse things in this world he could become, ya know...just be sure you don't allow him to start spelling certain words in this language with that oh so needless superfluous letter 'u' and he'll turn out okay, I'm sure)
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20 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I imagine Costco makes up their cost not only with the "membership" fees, but by the money those places make since I've never noticed any Costco or SAM'S CLUB that wasn't crowded. And to be sure, some can beat that thrift Darg, by(if they'r members) going to Sam's Club and trying out all the SAMPLES of different food products the place always hands out. Some people probably go there more often for LUNCH than to pick up their 5 gallon bucket of pickles or gallon size jars of peanut butter.
Sepiatone
Yeah, I'll do this at Costco too Sepia, and especially if I haven't eaten before I step into the place.
But you know the old sayin', don't ya? "Never grocery shop on an empty stomach", or else you'll end up buying a lot more than you originally came for.
(...and of course exactly what those people who give out those samples are hoping for)
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
Sorry to do this(NOT!
) but I'm throwing ANOTHER Brian into the fray! ------
Sepiatone
Well Sepia, I WILL admit that there's a little more of a resemblance between Brian Donlevy and to our mystery man here than there was/is to Brian Aherne, anyway.
(...still stickin' with my Brent Theory here though)
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21 minutes ago, Citizen Ed said:
I have wanted to do this for so long! It's not Stella but I think I could make it work.
Go to the opposite end of the aisle from my wife, grab to different boxes of an item, glance furtively look from one to the other and howl, "SAVANNAH*, repeatedly in anguish.
This goes a long way towards explaining why I end up having to shop alone.
LOL
Ya know Ed, I came THIS close to finishing up my OP up there with this very thought of yours here and instead of having my epilogue mentioning that Costco snack bar thing.
(...so, it seems your wife might be a lot like MY wife then, eh?...being much less of an extrovert than their husbands)
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Noir Alley
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In that case here Lorna, I must note that Nina van Pallandt who played the cougar who Bridges has just bedded in the opening scene, I thought was also pretty darn fine...
(...still with us at age 89, she seems to have led a very interesting life after I checked out her Wiki bio page)