Dargo
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6 hours ago, Fedya said:
Have you seen the 1970's movie Juggernaut? A baggage check mishap is a key plot point there, too.
No, I haven't seen this one Fedya. however after just now checking out its synopsis and a few reviews of it on the IMDb website, it sounds as if it's worth a look.
(...thanks)
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3 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Silent screen comic Max Linder and Francis McDonald:
Allow me to throw Raul Julia into the mix here too, Rich...
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4 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Dargo, if you excluded the posts in which you made reference to superfluous U's, you'd be tied with Sewhite with 5,000 posts.
LOL
Ain't THAT the truth!
(...and remember, you can't spell the word "truth" without that letter 'u'!)
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1 minute ago, Swithin said:
Congratulations! And many more profound posts to come, no doubt!
I was going to mention that I celebrated my 15th anniversary on the Board on Thursday, July 1, but didn't get around to it. But I will certainly celebrate St. Swithin's Day on July 15.
Hmmm...in that case Swithin ol' boy, maybe I'll honor you on this day by spelling certain words in my posts with that...well, YOU know, like the word "honor" here, dude!
(...seems the least I could do to honor another one of the stalwarts around here)
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And now in the same vein as the topic I brought up in this thread a few weeks back and where I questioned the sexual appeal of Van Heflin...
While watching Eddie and Ben's wraparound for Point Blank last night and where they both, but especially Ben, seemed infatuated with her, I have to say personally I've never gotten the whole "Angie Dickinson is hot as hell" thing at all. Sure, the point they brought up about her "being one of the guys" and maybe her being "down-to-earth" might be valid, but other than that, nope, she's never done a thing for me.
(...anyone here care to enlighten me about her so-called "appeal"?)
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2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
...Wasn't impressed with HARPER. Paul Newman seemed to be slumming somehow. Trying too hard to be "cool". Robert Mitchum is cool. Steve McQueen is cool. Lee Marvin is cool. Elliot Gould is cool (THE LONG GOODBYE). Paul has always come across to me as a nice suburban kid playing at being a tough guy in a lot of his movies. Shelley Winters and Strother Martin were just....embarrassing. Poor Janet Leigh with -- what did Ben call them -- her "nerdy" eyeglasses.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, but the question STILL remains here Bronxie: What ANIMAL did Paul Newman always remind you of, HUH???
LOL
(...btw, I have to say I'm in a whole different camp from you about Newman...ya see, I'VE always thought he was just about as "cool" a customer as Hollywood ever turned out...uh-huh, just as much so as your aforementioned Messrs Mitchum, McQueen or Marvin, and way WAY more so than Elliot Gould ever was...Gould always seemed to me more the, lets say, "zonked out" type than he was "cool")
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
If it means anything to anyone, the novel on which the film THE KILLING is based is called CLEAN BREAK, And I actually kind a like that title better. But at the same time, I also prefer the book to the movie or at least I did when I read it a long long time ago.
And here I always thought an even better title for this movie (and maybe the book) would have been, How Not To Pack Your Checked Baggage !
(...of course and then again, having been an airline baggage handled myself at one time, I would probably think so, huh)
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Whenever John Wayne is teamed with almost any other actress than Maureen O'Hara.
(...the chemistry just isn't nearly up to the same degree)
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2 hours ago, Thompson said:
Thanks Dargo. But what about the film noir coming up on Saturday night? My ex friend the bartender and Miller High Life drinker turned me down, doesn’t want to have anything more to do with me, when I suggested we share a bottle of Jameson and watch the film at her place. Called me fresh, which is better than stale I guess. So now I’m on my own and by 12:30am Saturday night you can forget it.
Ah, so then you were referring to this coming Saturday night's edition of Noir Alley earlier, eh Thompson?!
In that case, it was Tom who earlier mentioned that Guilty Bystander was available on YouTube, not me.
(...btw, I guess you're the only regular at the bar who didn't know Glenda the bartender abhors Irish Whisky...well, at least now you know better, huh)
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3 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
As Dargo alludes to, Milestone was the director of that early Best Picture-winning war flick. It was an u;nderstandable screw-up, and I'm willing to cut her some slack. It may have read "Milestone" on the cue cards.
Well, not to split hairs here sewhite, but I think you really meant to say "that early Best Picture-winning ANTI-war flick" here, now didn't ya.
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11 hours ago, JoeMastro said:
In Alicia Malone's opening comments on this movie, she comments on the main characters and states that Andy's father, Judge Hardy, is played by Lewis "Mile"stone. Er, afraid not Alicia, he is played by Lewis Stone...you missed this one by a "mile"
It appears you just couldn't remain (all) quiet (on the western front) about this mistake of Alicia's here, eh Joe?!
(...yeah yeah, I know...ain't I the clever one here too, huh)
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2 hours ago, Thompson said:
Dargo, you said the Saturday night movie is on YouTube . I’ve got YouTube on my smart **** TV, I should be able to pull it up, right?
If you're referring to the Albert Finney movie Thompson, yes, it's available on YouTube.
(...and so yes, you should be able to watch it on your Smart TV)
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6 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Well sure sewhite, there was this ONE time when Olivia "slummed it" a bit here, but with the vast majority of Mary Woronov's roles being what they were AND with the vast majority of Olivia's roles being what they were, I STILL say they were "the polar opposite" of each other in almost all other cases.
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On 6/29/2021 at 7:23 AM, TikiSoo said:
We were talking in another thread about Shelly Duvall:
and I realized how much she reminds me of MacKenzie Phillips:
They both have those big doe eyes & full lips over prominent teeth. I have always liked both gals work and appreciate what tough times both have endured.
Probably have mentioned this before around here, but a few years back I had the pleasure of having MacKenzie Phillips sitting shotgun for two hours on the shuttle van I was driving from Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport to Sedona.
She was very personable and open about herself. We talked about her career starting from one of her first roles in the film American Graffiti, her sitcom One Day at a Time and many other subjects. Yes, even her personal issues which had become quite public over the years.
She was then currently and I think still might be a counselor at an addiction clinic in southern California.
After offering to autograph it if I'd drop it off with her hotel's desk clerk, she signed my little 1:24 scale model of the John Milner character's yellow '32 Ford Deuce Coupe hot rod featured in AG, the car in which she shared most of her screen time with Paul Le Mat who played the Milner character and who had previously autographed my scale model.
(...one of my more memorable shuttle runs I've had over these past seven years now)
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Former 'Jeopardy!' Tournament of Champions winner and recent guest host of the quiz show Buzzie Cohen...
And, silent film great Harold Lloyd...
(...and no, not just because of the glasses here, either)
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4 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Y'know, I don't do too bad answering along with the show. But not that great either. My wife once asked why don't I try to get on the show, and I told her, "Would be just my luck that if I did, most of the categories would be math and science, and most of the science clues would involve the periodic table!"
Sepiatone
So, pretty much the opposite sort of thing that one Cliff Clavin ran into the time he was on the program, eh Sepia?!
(...well, in his case, in an imagined sort of way, anyway)
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Well first of all here, chaya:
1 hour ago, chaya bat woof woof said:Even as an English Major, I sometimes have to question my American English spelling.
Never EVER "question" your continued practice of spelling certain words exclusive of that oh so useless and extremely unneccesary superfluous letter 'u'. You're doing just fine as you have been doing lo these many years. And also, never EVER question your spelling of words such as "center" and "theater", as I hope you know that the manner in which the Brits spell them with the 'e' and the 'r' reversed makes absolutely no sense at all either and never has!
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1 hour ago, chaya bat woof woof said:Dargo, you would probably make a good host/guest host. As for digressing, some of Jeopardy must be scripted, because the guest hosts have been adding little tidbits of info whether the contestants guessed the right answer or not.
Thanks for the compliment here.
And re your "digressing" comment, it has reminded me to say here that I've become quite appreciative whenever I hear some of the guest hosts mentioning and adding the first names to the contestants' answers of historic figures after the contentants answer the questions correctly by use of only the figure's surname, and which as you know in most cases they are only required to do.
(...and which has not always been the case, and even when the irreplaceable Alex Trebek was hosting)
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
PAULINE KAEL described WURONOV as "innately kinky," and I have to agree.
Yeah, I'd say that that's a pretty good description of her.
(...sort of the polar opposite of the little blonde Aussie gal you also posted a shot of up there, huh)
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On 6/29/2021 at 5:59 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
What is it about Mary Woronov that always makes it impossible to take your eyes off of her in any of these cult films she's ever been in?
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Saaay, and speakin' o' which...
Are there any British "kitchen sink dramas" that could legitimately be called a "film noir"??? Seems to me they share more than a few aspects, don't ya think?!
(...Gee, I wonder what Eddie would say?...too bad the guy doesn't hang with us folks around here anymore, ain't it...aah, but I think we covered THIS subject a few pages back in this thing, didn't we...damn Facebook and Twitter!!!)
LOL
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16 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
We are talking about how TCM shows movies. Are you purposely being dense? You purposely mixing up Hitchcock's leading ladies was bad enough. It showed a lack of respect and disregard for classic film stars. Now you are taking issue with someone's post who is disappointed because the Sunday 10 am noir is not being shown. For your information, TCM considers the 12am Saturday NIGHT showing just that. NOT a Sunday morning showing but a Saturday night showing. The 10 am showing on Sunday is the Sunday morning showing. Got it now?
Well, I dunno about Thompson here lavender, but I think I'VE got this all straight now anyway and thanks to you.
And NOW if you could explain the plot of this British flick to me, I'll be even MORE in your debt...
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22 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
A national ad can be quite lucrative for an actor. Minimal work and residual pay.
Even A-listers today do them. Some only do print ads. Some of them only do ads for non-U.S. markets, because they are afraid it will hurt their image here.
Oh yeah! Lost in Translation.
(...good movie)
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Maybe I'm not being critical enough here, but I think all the guest hosts have been good. Well, at least I've never found myself thinking any of them were ill-suited for the gig, anyway.
I thought Buzzy Cohen (or as I think of him "The Modern Day Harold Lloyd"...am I RIGHT or what?!...and NOT just because of the glasses...saaay, maybe I'll put these two in that "Lookalikes" thread...but I digress) was especially good at it and showed a lot of personality when he hosted.
(...and yeah, I think it'd be fun hosting it myself...well, as long as I wouldn't "digress" too much anyway, and which of course COULD be a problem...well, besides pronoucing all those foreign words and phrases and which Alex was always so good at)
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14 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Y'know, coming across it first without seeing the beginning, I first thought it was MAURY POVICH! I couldn't understand it. I thought his show was still doing well.
And now JIMMY "JJ" WALKER is doing one for the same product.
LAVENDER: I can understand probably needing the money, but after such a celebrated career I think those stars deserve to be seen more respectable.
Sepiatone
Actually Sepia, I'm with lavender on this Ann Miller soup commercial. And in my case, because I've always loved it whenever I see older stars satire themselves and their image, and that's exactly what Ann was doing with those series of soup commercials she made back in the day.
It shows me that they don't take themselves too seriously.
And besides when this commercial was made, Ann could still hoof it up pretty darn well and certainly didnt't embarrass herself at all in this regard, don't ya think?
(...and in this one of 'em specifically, I always thought Dave Willock's last line in it was perfect and funny)
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Noir Alley
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If you're talkin' about El Segundo here Stallion, then you probably know this city was often referred to as "Des Moines by the Sea" back in the day, don't ya.
(...this old fellow South Bay boy here clearly remember this)