Dargo
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34 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Very sad watching the Bourdain segment, I don't know, never made any sense and a little part of me thinks there might be more to that story.
Yeah, in fact there IS "more to this story", lav! And coincidentally because another story on this week's edition of CBS Sunday Morning featured that actor who played Sonny Corleone, there's a mob connection to Bourdain's demise.
Nope, Anthony didn't commit suicide like you've led to believe. Nope ya see, because he once served a bad cannoli to the present head of the Gambino crime family Lorenzo Mannino which made Mannino sick, Mannino had him wacked and had it made to LOOK like suicide. See what I'm talkin' 'bout here???
Don't believe me, huh?! Well, this info is right out of the QAnon website, and so check it out for yourself.
(...oh and btw, if anyone asks, you didn't hear this from me)
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14 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Dargo - I wasn't being sarcastic about your Pisces comrades, lol. I mean, come on, Albert Einstein and George Washington! They're not chopped liver! Oh, I forgot to mention -- Lou Costello!
Lloyd Nolan (Leo)
I'm going to look up Bugs' "creation" date and get back to you on his sun sign. I'll bet this bunny is an Aries!
WAIT! How can a bunny be a sheep???
Well, you DID just mention "Lou Costello" here, now didn't ya?!
Get IT? Sort'a playin' off his old "Who's On First" routine with Bud here, ya see. Although actually, this might be more akin to another of their classic routines here...
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3 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I want to be the Dragon.
Wait! Doesn't Bruce Lee already have dibs on this, speedy???
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On 7/8/2021 at 5:52 PM, Bronxgirl48 said:
Pisces people are indeed interesting. You're in good company, Dargo, with (to name but a few of course):
Jerry Lewis, Jackie Gleason, Albert Einstein and George Washington
Well THANKS, Bronxie! YEAH, I'd say that that's pretty good company there, alright!
AND, do ya know who ALSO usually lead very innnn-teresting lives? And even if they might not be a Pisces?
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monsters.
(...well, according to Lloyd Nolan...ahem...I mean Bugs here anyway)
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1 minute ago, Moe Howard said:
It's understandable if you consider the competition.
Yep, good point Moe.
(...btw, and you probably know the following, but for years '58 Chevys were worth a lot less than '57s, but in the past few years they've come to be valued to near "Shoebox" levels at auctions)
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And now...
Did anyone watch that turkey of an Elvis movie Spinout last night? Whoa, what a lame flick.
BUT, there WERE at least a lot of "nice cars" in that one, anyway:
IMCDb.org: "Spinout, 1966": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles
Funny though how Shelley Fabares' 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet here and which is now a big ticket item ...
...turned into a Triumph TR4 after it ran into Malibu Lake and got wet here...
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9 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Wow. And I thought Ford overdid the redesign of the Thunderbird with THIS!---
Sure was a big change from THIS!
Sepiatone
Yes, they DID "overdo" it for the 1958 model year Sepia, but then again, other than perhaps the Mopar cars of that year and the next couple of years, ALL cars from FoMoCo and GM were WAY overdone, over-styled and looked a lot heavier and more chrome-ladened to the extent of gawdiness than they were in 1957.
And thus this would be one of the reasons I've always liked the '61-'63 "Bullet Birds", as their design was much less cluttered and more sleek in overall design than the previous '58-'60 models, aka "Square Birds".
And yes slayton, as sleek and clean a design as the first generation little two-seaters were, but were just a hell of lot bigger, that's all.
(...and yes, perhaps a tad TOO big, but then again the Thunderbird was never a "sports car", but was always more a "personal luxury" model and even when they had only two seats)
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33 minutes ago, ElCid said:
It's called evolution and satisfying what the buyers want. The Thunderbird was on shaky ground until Robert McNamara (Ford CEO) directed that it be made into a four passenger car. Sales skyrocketed and the T-Bird stayed around.
As for appearance, Ford was satisfying what purchasers of NEW cars were looking for.
I had a Nissan 300Zx - very nice car. I had once considered a 240Z, but it was pricey, not comfortable and actually pretty bare bones. Got a Dodge Challenger instead. As for the Miata, I don't see where current models are "bloated, steroidal megamorphs." Just evolved reflecting changes in safety requirements and what the market wants on NEW cars.
Car companies that do not improve their vehicles and respond to the market go out of business.
Thanks, Cid. This would have been my reply to slayton.
(...and almost verbatim)
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2 hours ago, Thompson said:
Woke up this morning and decided the bartender at Buffa’s had every right to 86 me, but he had no right to confiscate my five spot on the bar along with a full Budweiser. The full Budweiser really stuck in my craw. So I took the bus down to the Quarter to square things up. I grabbed him by the arm and gave him a rope burn. He tried to twist away but I roped burned even harder. I said, “Look here Hubsby (that’s what he’s called), I wouldn’t mess around with me these days if I were you, I gotta bunch of new tough customer friends just itching for a fight.”
Saaay, I think I remember reading this very thing in one of Ross MacDonald's books?!!!
(....suuure, it was in 'Lew Archer Gets a Hickey' if I recall correctly!)
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9 hours ago, TomJH said:
...Those were the days when Bruce Willis gave a performance.
Didn't know getting Alopecia affected some actors this way sometimes, eh Tom???
(...yep, sometimes after the hair goes, that whole "I just don't give a crap anymore" attitude rears its ugly head, alright!)
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8 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
I'm corn-fused. Which movie we talking here?
C'mon now, REALLY???
I was talkin' about the movie that the guy shown here should have won an Oscar for pretty much playing an over-the-hill
Errol Flynn in it...
(...guess maybe you didn't know Richard Benjamin directed this one, eh?!)
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6 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
My favorite year.
Hey, and speakin' o' which here, Moe...
YOU said THIS, and then I mentioned Paula Prentiss here and because of what you said the other day in another thread about her, right?!
And so, who directed that very entertaining 1982 movie titled what you just said here?
Uh-huh, Paula's lucky as hell husband, huh.
(...oooooh, eerie huh!)
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9 hours ago, slaytonf said:
But are there any nice cars in it?
1963 Ford Thunderbird.
I might say it's nice, if it weren't called a Thunderbird.
Yep, love the "Bullet Birds" (as they are called) too, slayton. Probably my favorite of all the T-birds. In fact, in my "man cave" otherwise known as a "den", one of my 1:18 scale model cars is one in this red that looks like the one you posted this pic of here, although unlike this one, it has the tonneau which covers the back seat,
And btw, what is it about the name "Thunderbird" which you apparently dislike?
6 hours ago, Moe Howard said:My favorite year.
Looks like besides likin' the same babes (such as Paula Prentiss), we like the same cars too, eh Moe?
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3 hours ago, 37kitties said:
All of that is on point...but
What choice did the Kid have but to go for it? He had to know that Yancy had a straight or flush considering how big he was going. But the kid was showing 2 pair which the straight or flush would beat thus indicating the reason Yancy was pushing so hard. What the Kid had to be thinking is what Yancy doesn't know is what's gonna kill him - the Kid has a tight! The odds of the straight being a straight flush (literally the only thing that could beat the Kid) was astronomical considering only 10 cards in total had been dealt.
Of course the Kid had to shoot the moon - as the voice overs clearly said - the Kid had the Man. Everyone was thinking it, not just the Kid.
Kid had no choice but to play it like he did. If he'd backed out with that tight against a straight (or flush), he'd have never been the same again.
Well, I suppose I can kind'a see his rationale for his going for broke mentality in that situation and besides the thought that it had already been estashlished in the film that The Kid was geared to that sort of mindset anyway, but once again because The Kid was up quite a bit at the time and thus because he didn't have an absolute lock on the hand, the smart move would've been to just call Lancey's (not "Yancy", btw) bet, and especially because with Lancey being the very experienced player that he was, he wouldn't have come out swinging after The Kid checked and because Lancey had put The Kid holding the Aces-Full hand at best and so would have just checked his own hand IF it were just a straight or a flush and knowing that his bet would automatically be called by The Kid at the very minimum.
(...you see 37kitties, while I may be "interesting" because of being a Pisces, when it comes to the game of poker, I've always played somewhat conservatively and which usually has worked out in my favor, and which may NOT be all that "interesting" of course)
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2 hours ago, 37kitties said:
By the way, I wonder what the water sign movies will be. Pisces are such interesting people. Cancers are calm and Scorpios mysterious.
Why THANKS, 37kitties!
(...I've always thought of myself as being that, anyway)
LOL
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5 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I forgot about the 1979 movie SWAP MEET. → It features a 'kidnapped' car in its plotline. I think most of the movie was filmed in and around Torrance, California. Looks like some of the scenes were filmed at a place called THE ROADIUM where the swap meet takes place.
I remember the old VCI video box says this across the top: "IF YOU'VE GOT IT . . . SWAP IT!"
I'll have to see if I can find this one, Mr.G.
You see, some of my first recollections as a tyke of watching movies at a drive-in theater were while inside my family's 1956 Chevy station wagon and took place at the Roadium Drive-In Theater. This of course being in the late-'50s and before they stopped showing movies there sometime in the mid-1980s and it then becoming solely an open air market and swapmeet location...
(...although according to this link, during the pandemic they began showing movies there again for a short while)
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1 hour ago, txfilmfan said:
There are quotes of Anthony Holden's book floating around the internet that state the odds of a full house losing to a straight flush in a two-handed game are 45,102,781 to 1. And the odds of those two particular hands being dealt are 332,220,508,619 to 1
I'm sure McQueen was thinking just this at the time, but even with these odds in this much of his favor in that particular hand, because as I recall he was so far ahead money-wise at the time it was dealt, it's still always felt to me that he had committed a major mistake by his check-raising tactic and then further compounding his mistake by use of the marker which would put him in debt IF Eddie G. might have the card which filled in his straight-flush.
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55 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Yes, this has to be one of my least favorite themes of all time. When I first saw that kook talk, I believed in was a parody. But no!
I turned to something else.
Like maybe Game-1 of the NBA Finals, James?
55 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:Also, The Cincinnati Kid has some fine acting but the actual poker playing scenes are so unrealistic that those scenes come off as a parody to someone like myself that actually plays the game.
I've played a bit of poker in my life too James, but have never found the scenes being all that unrealistic in this film. Well, except during the final hand scene and when someone supposedly as adept at the game as McQueen made the major mistake of check-raising while thinking that Eddie G. couldn't possibly have had the straight-flush.
(...so what else seems phony to you about the poker scenes?)
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3 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I don't see it. Each had their own unique personage.
And both are still high on my list of favored character actors.
Sepiatone
Gotta say I too had never thought of these two as having a similar look, Sepia.
(...this is UNTIL I saw your post here, and now I gotta say I'm kind'a seein' it here)
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Oneeyeopen wrote:
Burt Lancaster - Another New York guy you could not pigeon hole him either and he took chances. Elmer Gantry, Sweet Smell of Success, Trapeze, The Swimmer, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, From Here to Eternity, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Airport, Seven Days in May and The Gunfight at O.K. Corral.
QuoteNipkowDisc wrote:
was not in Stalag 17, sunset boulevard, picnic,
And yeah, Nip. Good point.
(...evidently it takes TWO eyes being open for someone to not confuse Burt Lancaster with William Holden, huh)
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1 minute ago, NipkowDisc said:
John Wayne
America's hero
Don't know if one could say Mr. Morrison here always excelled in his craft as an actor, but he certainly always excelled at playing John Wayne, anyway.
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13 minutes ago, NoShear said:
By the way, Dargo, I'm having to practice tremendous self-control here: I almost went lookin' for a photo of McQueen on a Husky!
LOL
I know what you mean.
I myself almost posted a pic of McQueen sitting on his Husky from On Any Sunday, and along with his two "costars" in that film, 1969 Grand National Champion Mert Lawwill and m/c racing great Malcolm Smith.
(...good thing cooler heads prevailed here, huh)
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2 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Dargo,
Thank you for the welcome!
Eucalpytus P. Millstone (which could also have well been a euphonious appellation for a W.C. Fields character) is my variation on Jubilation T. Cornpone -- the marvelous, melodious moniker conjured by cartoonist and satirist extraordinaire Al Capp.
Aaah, yes!
Ya know I think the Al Capp character's name did kind'a vaguely roll around inside my head in association when I first spotted your choice as a handle around here, and what with their mutual number of syllables and the middle initial.
(...and good point about it also sounding like a W.C. Fields character too)
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5 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Perhaps best left to rest, Dargo: Otherwise, you'd have some nostalgic jerk who'd get all Mushman about MX and take the thread completely off-road. (Not me, of course.)
Yeah, good point I suppose, NS.
But, which now might prompt the following question, and considering you just brought up Steve McQueen's racing pseudonym here:
Did McQueen ever race CARS under that pseudonym, or did he strictly use it while racing motorcycles?
(...I dunno, but perhaps you do?)
"EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS FROM BEN MANKIEWICZ"
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Well first here lav my old friend, I'm sorry to see that you're unable to see the humor in my previous post, and even though, yes, it is about a tragic subject. FWIW, I really liked Anthony Bourdain too and really got into many of his various programs, AND think it's a damn shame about how his life ended at such a reasonably young age.
Guess I should just chalk this up to the ol' "Too Soon" thing here, huh. YOU know, like when someone does a joke about Abe Lincoln's assassination that it doesn't go over very well either.
(...and btw, OF COURSE I knew that you don't nor would ever visit that dumb conspiracy theory-laddened website...you see, THAT part of my previous posting was in order to assure that you'd know everything that came before it was supposed to be a joke TOO and just as that website is and would be to any THINKING person such as you and I)