Dargo
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When it comes to movies about these sorts of teacher/student"interactions", there's this one too from 1971...
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5 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
Hey! I'm hot!
Well SURE, and thanks to all this off-topic banter that's been goin' on in your thread here these last few hours!
(...and it would've been even HOTTER if you'd just break down and allow MOTORCYCLES to be discussed in it TOO, ya know)
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Gotta say when I see or hear the name of "Van Nuys", it sometimes brings to mind watching Lawrence Welk on TV when I was a kid,
What, am I the only here who remembers him saying after his orchestra finished a song, "Van Nuys, boys. Van Nuys!"
(...now THERE'S ya an old joke, huh!)
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10 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
*Sigh* Well, I guess you hadda get your bike fix in. I'll just have to bide my time. Discussion will come back to the center of gravity, which is cars, which are nicer than bikes--except maybe Triumphs or Indians. (Oh, maybe I shouldna said that).
But to trend back to movies. We have one movie with cruising, American Graffiti (1973), but are there more? Wasn't there a movie titled Cruising?
Yeah, there was slayton, but this NYC-centric movie starring Al Pacino had nothin' at all to do with cars. "Cruising" meant something completely different within the context of this flick.
(...and no and in the case of this movie, not just because the extensive public transportation system of NYC makes owning an automobile a nonessential commodity)
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43 minutes ago, cinecrazydc said:
I must have been misinformed by the dialogue in White Heat, where "The Trader" (Fred Clark), dressed as a fly fisherman, wanders into Cody's (Cagney's) lair in the Sierra mountains and says to Edmund O'Brien that he's there to catch "bass." O'Brien tells Cody that he thinks the man is an impostor because "this is trout country. There ain't no bass within a 100 miles of here !" From the name of the lake, guess that can't be the case !
I'm not an angler myself cinecrazydc, but I've always been under the impression that fly fishing is done mainly to catch trout located in streams and rivers, and not bass located in deep lakes which is done using bait.
And so, with the Fred Clark character dressed as a fly fisherman in White Heat and with him saying that to Edmund O'Brien, I would think that this was meant within the script to imply there being another reason for O'Brien's character to question the veracity of the Clark character.
Now, I can't remember the mountain location of where Cody and his gang were said to be holed up for a while in this film, but after checking White Heat's filming locations in its IMDb web page, there were no locations listed that were anywhere close to the Sierras, and with the only somewhat rural outdoor filming location shown being Chatsworth and which in 1949 was still fairly rural and a reasonably undeveloped part of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley at that time.
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4 hours ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour are being shown on Peacock, the NBCUniversal streaming service.
Does anyone know why the two episodes featuring Steve McQueen -- Man from the South and Human Interest Story -- are not being shown on Peacock?It's because Steve McQueen was WAY too cool to be on ANYTHING known as "Peacock", THAT'S why!
Any other questions???
Well in that case, I've got one.
This "Eucalpytus P. Millstone" name here. Love it. It sounds like a character Groucho might've played in some movie, but I know it's not or at least I don't think it is, anyway. And so, what's the genesis of this?
(...and btw...welcome to the boards)
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Just now, NoShear said:
Are you sure, Dargo? I question your observation because the photo is said to have been culled from Rick McCloskey's summer of '72 shoot...
I'm confident. though, that the photo was taken next to June Ellen's on Van Nuys Boulevard which is where the cyclists congregated...
At the risk of further burying myself with slayton, Dargo, here's support to my contention - the Van Nuys Boulevard side of June Ellen's, and also a good excuse to slip in another sexy Valley girl:
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bikers-at-june-ellens-richard-mccloskey.jpg
Yeah, you're right. That shot could have definitely been taken a little earlier than in the "late-'70s" and as I suggested it was.
And as you also stated, yep, that overhead Ventura Fwy onramp sign could have also been sitting above Van Nuys Blvd and not Ventura Blvd.
(...but hey, I was CLOSE anyway, RIGHT?!...but as they say, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"...oh, and in dancing TOO of course)
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Just now, NoShear said:
Uh, oh...
LOL
Eeh, don't worry about it.
I'm sure you'll hardly feel that little rap on your knuckles that you're about to receive.
(...slayton is actually a pretty gentle soul overall, ya know)
LOL
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21 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Laughing, Dargo!
Sometimes the biker girls would sneak a smile at some unsuspecting youth. This one looks like she would've had to have been extra careful:
Nice choppers there, NS. Due to these Harleys being Shovelhead and Panhead powered, this shot looks to have been taken along Ventura Blvd (note the overhead Ventura Fwy onramp sign in the background) in around the late-'70s and before Harley introduced their Evo engines.
(...but I hope you know that slayton doesn't allow motorcycles in his car thread here, and so don't be surprised after he sees this one, if he'll correct you for your little faux pas here...right slayton?!!!)
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32 minutes ago, kingrat said:
.. I also find Stanley's voice weak and unattractive, as is true of many a Method actor (Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando).
While I think I know what you mean in this regard KR and which is probably a decent point, I gotta say here that I've NEVER thought of Rod Steiger having a "weak voice".
(...nope, perhaps "unattractive" sometimes, but the way the guy very often bellows his lines was certainly never "weak")
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16 minutes ago, NoShear said:
At one point recently I had been thinking of "riffing" off your "Favorite films that take place in the summer " post on American Graffiti - good catch by the way, Dargo, but since this thread on Van Nuys Boulevard and cruisin' is already under way here...
Here's an interesting twist - no pun intended - on the carhop gals of yesteryear, leaving little doubt as to the primary demographic of early-1970s cruising - a Mobil attendant:
Dargo? Dargo?
Gotta say I don't remember any of the gas station attendants from yesteryear ever being shapely young lasses like this one here, NS.
Nope, in my neck of the woods they were either craggy older dudes or high school boys.
And in fact, it seems to me by the early-'70s, most gas stations, and especially in California, had converted to being of the self-service variety, and thus making this job pretty much a quaint relic of days past. and never again to hear the ring of the bell as your tires would run over that pneumatic hose which would activate it.
(...I do know though that some states back east still have attendants by force of their state laws...I think New Jersey is one of them)
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14 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Well, obviously, I was taking the proverbial Hollywood license there, Dargo: Didn't mean to needlessly age you!
LOL
That's okay, NS. No harm, no foul, here.
I didn't take offense to it.
(...or in OTHER words, at MY age presently, the whole idea of "needlessly aging me" is pretty much a moot point anyway, wouldn't ya say?!)
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On 7/5/2021 at 11:22 AM, jamesjazzguitar said:
Curious why you mention Bass Lake. E.g. was that lake featured in Out of the Past? The only lake I recall was Lake Tahoe where Douglas lived.
On 7/5/2021 at 11:25 AM, Fedya said:No; Bass Lake is the first location I think of when I think the California mountains and movies. I saw you mention Bridgeport, and I was curious how far it was from Bass Lake.
So Fedya, then it appears you might know that Bass Lake, CA (a place where my family would often rent a cabin for a week every other couple of summers back then, and not to far from the southern entrance to Yosemite N.P.) was where many of the scenes in Leave Her to Heaven were filmed, and perhaps most notably the one where Gene Tierney allows little Darryl Hickman to drown in that lake.
(...and coincidentally, another location used in this film would be here in Sedona AZ)
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7 minutes ago, NoShear said:
A pre-American Graffiti scene:
Dargo's sister: "Doncha just love the Beach Boys"?
Dargo: "Rock 'n' roll's been goin' downhill ever since Buddy Holly died".
LOL
You know AG's tagline: "Where were you in '62?", don't ya. Well, Diana would have just recently graduated high school that year, and at 10 years old, I would've been even younger than Mackenzie was here.
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38 minutes ago, NoShear said:
I don't recall this, Dargo, but can easily imagine you were once a regular on that strip of street...
Btw NS, I forgot to add above that supposedly it was at this very A&W stand was where Brian Wilson was inspired to compose the song 'Fun, Fun, Fun ('til her daddy took her T-Bird away)' after overhearing a story about one of the regular young ladies who frequented the place during those cruises.
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27 minutes ago, NoShear said:
I don't recall this, Dargo, but can easily imagine you were once a regular on that strip of street...
Actually, my eight year older sister Diana was more into the cruise scene along Hawthorne Blvd back then than I was.
One of the major hangouts along that boulevard during the late-'50s and early-'60s was the A&W Root Beer stand in Hawthorne, and I remember Diana telling me that she saw Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys hanging around there a couple of times and during the time their songs first began to get radio airplay.
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14 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Speaking of June Ellen's DONUTS in the context of film, the establishment's space eventually was occupied by a BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO at one time.
The best pictures I've seen of Van Nuys Boulevard cruising - LA Observed
(...btw NS...down in my neck of the L.A. woods back then, the South Bay, the cruise scene was up and down Hawthorne Blvd)
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23 minutes ago, 37kitties said:
Anything with Richard Benjamin in it is good. Anything.
Yep, OR for that matter, anything with his tall, leggy and gorgeous wife of 60 years Paula here, and who always had THE sexiest voice!
(...although she's not in The Last of Sheila, I'm SURE she would've been a hell of a lot better in the role that Raquel Welch had in it, as I've always thought Welch was one of THE worst actresses ever)
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32 minutes ago, Stallion said:
You don't see a romance between Democrats and Republicans these days?
You mean like this?...
(...nope, probably not anymore now days, huh)
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14 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
...Although I just borrowed SISTERS '72 & THE LAST OF SHIELA '73 from the library to catch up with the 70's, since I was still when they came out in school & never saw "adult" or "horror" movies either.
Hey Tiki. Let us know what you thought of The Last of Shiela after you get around to watching it.
I happened upon it a couple of years ago on TV, and thought it one of the better who-done-its I've ever seen with a great group of actors doing very good work delivering smart dialogue from a well written script, and with beautiful cinematography of the French Riviera.
(...and btw, and speaking of the earlier mentioned "Shelley Winters being tough to work with in WTMWH"...I remember reading that Raquel Welch turned out to be the very same way during the filming of TLOS, and also didn't make any friends to put it mildly during its filming)
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23 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
Could you please direct me to a film where there was chemistry between Ford and anybody? And NO Chewy doesn't count!
I've always thought the chemistry between these two in Raiders was palpable...
And for that matter, I've always thought it was there with Ford and Kelly McGillis here in Witness too...
(...of course then again, maybe its just in the hats he wore in these two flicks, eh Moe?!)
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2 minutes ago, Stallion said:
What part of Out of the Past was filmed on the strand in Manhattan Beach? I remember the movie being in three main places: Bridgeport, Lake Tahoe and San Francisco.
No, its remake Against All Odds (which starred Jeff Bridges in basically Mitchum's role from Out of the Past) had a few scenes filmed in Manhattan Beach along the strand.
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28 minutes ago, Stallion said:
I lived in the next town south, Manhattan Beach. El Segundo had worse references on Sanford and Son.
Ah yes, Manhattan Beach. The town where many a scene in Against All Odds, that inferior neo-noir remake of Out of the Past, were filmed along the strand there.
(...there ya go, Cid...see how I so effortlessly got this baby back on track for ya here?...happy now?!)
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Irene Dunne
Fredric March
Never saw a bad performance given by either of 'em.
(...ever)
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That's a nice car!
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So slayton, I take it this comment was directed to both me AND Eddie Muller, RIGHT?!