Sgt_Markoff
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Bah. Back in the day, you drove one of these cars if you commonly and routinely did a full day's work in the course of your life. Working men--that's who these vehicles were made for.
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Way to hustle there, Jimbo! That's ore-ida!
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Gah! The whole cheap, insincere, plastic tradition of front-yard displays simply screams crass bad taste. These 'big display' people don't partake in a single Christian-minded or charitable act all year long; and probably are the very same cold, cell-phone scumbag rationalists who rail all year long against religion because its 'backwards' and 'regressive'. Holiday extravaganzas are the last refuge of the bourgeois. They need a grenade launcher response from some passing Muslim.
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sidebar: 'Cagney and Lacey'? How is that a recommendation? I had hoped to end my days on this planet without ever hearing that show mentioned aloud again in my presence...
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And Douglas blows him off the screen in every scene they have together.
--scsu
Anyone playing the bad guy is usually more interesting than the actor playing the side of the right. Burt Lancaster could easily hold his own against his pal Kirk anytime the casting permitted. Its just the way movie roles play out. Not telling you anything you don't already know, I'm sure...
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I'm shocked to find gambling going on in this nightclub...
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You remind me of a man ...a man with the power of hoodoo.
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I hope he was gazing raptly into his cell phone --at the very last second --right before that one took place. At least Mary, Larry, and Deke were really livin' when their number came up
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To make your cultural Utopia, how would you instruct young people today?
--Det Jim McLeod
I don't have an easy remedy to address the 'runaway individuality' described above. I don't have glib answers ready to rattle off. I don't carry around a prescription for success written on my shirt-cuff. Nor do I pursue Utopia. All I'm doing tracing the outline of a problem (as I see it) in a tentative, preliminary, and hesitating way. I don't want to set off making rules for anybody. Hierarchical, 'top-down' planning, usually fails.
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If memory serves me correct, ole Tommy Lee is a 'Harvard man' himself. He's got an Ivy league degree from somewhere.
Fave performance: starring as 'Brick' opposite Jessica Lange as 'Maggie the Cat' in Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
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Uncle Joe:
QuoteWhy even care? As a good buddy of mine used to say "What planet are you smoking?"
Or like the scene where Jodie Foster scoffs at Bobby DeNiro because Travis Bickle is not hip to her lifestyle of prostitution and drugs. He's the square, from where she sits.
The answer is that of course I care. How could anyone --anyone possessing a conscience or a spine, that is --not care? Its a vital quality-of-life issue. This is supposed to be a nation; not 300 million zygotes swimming around alone. Intellectual heritage and cultural heritage should matter to all of us.
Concepts like 'good manners', 'citizenship', 'samaritanship', 'responsibility', 'safety' --these ideas and many others, form the civic realm in which we all take part. The history of USA spells out --to a reasonable extent--what our values and what our duties should be. We learn these values in school; at no point is vagueness or wiftiness an excuse for not knowing them. Naturalized citizens must study and pass a test on such civics, right?
While to very great degree we are free to think whatever we please, there is still plenty which is not open to 'subjective' interpretation. If you back your vehicle over my foot and cause me pain and injury, its not for you to shrug it off with a "yeah, whatever, dude". At some point, pop culture, marketing, individualism, and consumerism ends ...and shared, public reality in which we all alertly participate in, begins.
Therefore yes--I expect people to know what things like 'Watergate' was, what the 'Emancipation Proclamation' was, I expect my neighbors not to own grenades or assault-weapons, not to beat up Native Americans, not to play on smart gadgets when they cross a street, and yes I insist they know who Jimmy Stewart was.
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Further slide down the slippery slope that started with the "let's expand the number of nominee slots" and then "Dark Knight should've won for its year" movement I applaud his reaction. The restriction should be implemented. Screw everything Netflix, they're the last outfit I'd ever want to see a movie from.
They don't allow plastic kazoos in symphony orchestras, right? If they did so, then eventually no one would even know what a symphony is; or how to tell when its being played correctly.
Keeping film criticism sharp is one way to keep filmmaking sharp. Don't lower the bar for these digital troglodytes.
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there's a TV movie starring Jan-Michael Vincent you have left to do too. At least someone should. He, his father, and his father's two best friends are hunting elk in the Pacific Northwest and they discover the missing loot of DB Cooper.
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"give out"
"make with"
"give out with the bass on those ole 88's!"
"make with the do-re-mi on that guy"
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There is no such thing as noir fiction, noir literature, etc. No such genre exists. There's crime fiction in many different varieties; there's detective fiction; and there's mystery fiction...all of these are substantial literary genres going back to the middle of the 1800s. But 'film noir' is a cinematic term and has no counterpart in prose. It is a visceral and involuntary sensation--not a cerebral, thoughtful, or contemplative one--it cannot even be presented to us, as 'words on a page'. Exploring the idea at all, is an exercise in obfuscation, hokum, and higgedly-piggeldy.
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the James Coco flick is very good
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just joshin. its that ole reprobate dargo, he's a bad influenza on me
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...gotta agree with venerable TCM forum poster "Miss Tiki Soo". Caught a bit of Billy Wilder's "The Spirit of St Louis" tonight whilst ordering some fries to go from a hipster bar where this movie was airing. I was standing up --awaiting my order --and it almost knocked me out on my feet. Astounding sensation of lethargy. Who ever had the audacity to believe a guy cramped alone into a cockpit this small, just looking at the dials on his control panel, could carry a plot?
But the other thing which struck me is--as I watched these trendy losers around me quaffing brewpub ales and dipping their fried cauliflower florets into oxygen-infused dijonnaise--how bizarre it must be to gaze up at the screen where this movie was unreeling and probably not even know who Jimmy Stewart is?????
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Seems like this is a longstanding burr under your saddle, pod nuh
Tell me, when did you ever see a woman give away anything for free? And y'know Jesus did a lot of trampin' around the Holy Land. When did you ever see a woman walk when she could get someone to carry her? Come to think of it, when did you ever see a grown woman who wasn't a man-hater? And what female would renounce all worldly goods? The theory fails outright
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Indeed I am a fan of that legendary squad. The spirit of those four guys puts todays Americans to shame. However, I believe 'Hibi' or some other arch, eyebrow-raised poster round these parts was foist to mention that Glen Ford movie title in the Andre Previn thread. He was johnny-on-the-spot. Much praise goes to 'Hibi' for his film knowledge, and I say that sincerely. To direct our attention to Knut Rockne, now ...that is something else again. Truly an American icon. Even when the sports-loving Zucker Bros parody that Pat O'Brian movie in 'Airplane!' it makes me mist up. Is there a more powerful movie sequence in American cinema? Leslie Nielsen did a take-off of Pat O'Brian and it still makes one choke up! Zowie!
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hey! I resemble that remark! An' for your elucidation smart guy, the word is 'gauche'. That's me all over!
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the next thing ya know, they'll be saying Crippen was mad
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Its a world of nit-pickers, hair-splitters, smart-alecs, and bean-counters today. You guise wear me thin. What are ye gonna give me next, universal solar time? We all gotta get new wristwatches? 24 hour days is good enough for our nation's military and its good enough for me. 1300 hours get me? Audie Murphy endorses the 24 hour military clock! Go home and tell your momma she wants ya!
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I think it was moral cowardice to shy away from showing graphic physicality between the Suidae family and the Araneae order in Charlotte's Web, (1974) animated. Petty taxonomic distinctions have got to go!
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Darg this was another star you almost dated eh?