Sgt_Markoff
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real airports only need one lung!
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Where's my white privilege?! I want some reparations to make up for not getting enough.
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Excellent. Yea @Bogie56 this: "nauseatingly repetitive narrative". Too true!
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What about women playing prostitute characters in films of this era? Murkier waters eh? There were plenty of them, that's the first thing we can observe. These working girls --female business entrepreneurs, if you will--had their economic independence recognized by the studios, producers, and writers. Right? They weren't ignored.
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'When Time Ran Out' starring Paul Newman. It ran 00:1:20:30 too long.
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'Triumph of the Will' by Leni Rifenstahl. They didn't triumph.
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Wince! Now that is humor in a jugular vein....
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Do they still have the Snufflopagus? Wasnt there a flap where they realized 'invisible friends' are no good for modern kids?
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A crony of mine is on the crew for that show.
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Doesn't make any sense. Little early for an April Fool's joke isnt it? Sunset Boulevard is a movie which specifically works based on the handful of famous, still-surviving silent-era stars who were alive in the early 1950s. Any other way of doing it is moronic. On both sides of the camera.
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'Black Narcissus' --there's not a single flower of any kind in the movie at all, is there? Story takes place in the Himalayas.
'Pygmalion' - no character is named thusly, in this story.
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Some finish on that bad boy!
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I don't know about the TCM program you refer to --but in general, as applied to the state of things around us generally--these are sage insights. The sanctimonious tokenism and lip-service sweeping this land of ours, deserves a mount with the Four Horsemen.
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Awk. I really hope someone good --someone he liked and trusted --appears at his services to play Toccata in Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
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Wait, why did Christians have red devils removed? Anyway I heart Pennsylvania Dutch country. Its a really wonderful area. I used to go on hayrides and into corn-mazes there in the autumn; Pottstown PA for classic car shows...and Amish food anytime. Really good eatin'...boy lemme tell you wut! Its the kind of place where you can buy "shoo-fly" pies right from women standing on the side of the road selling them from card tables in their yards. And any deli in town has German potato salad and 'Lebanon' -style Bologna, so rich its almost black in hue.
The thing about swastikas (NOT to get off topic here!) reminds me of that kook and his theory on how our pledge-of-allegiance was originally coined by a grassroots socialist group here in America, then got transported to Nazi Germany by Lucky Lindy to become the Hitlerian salute; all of which somehow proves that there are socialists in our very midst right now, here, today --or some such nonsense that only the ole reprobates on the 'off topic' forum here would ascribe to. Nuf said.
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I think we should rename all our national airports according to the style of our former WWII forward bomber group bases in England, like the '306th' or the '302nd'. That's the way Duke would've wanted it!
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'Bunkie' was the name of Frank Buck's German Shepherd!
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Wha? You mean titles like 'The Scent of Green Papaya'? There could easily be another movie about papaya somewhere. How to determine uniqueness here pray tell?
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'you're faded' --from shooting dice
'cup of mud' = coffee
the 'makings' = pouch tobacco and papers
flop, flophouse, fleabag, etc = temporary lodgings
a 'right guy' = someone in the rackets
a 'citizen' = a square, someone in legitimate business
'sad sack' = lazy, goldbricker (service phrase)
"sez you"
a "jane" = female
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Darg I'm thinking you're the kind of guy who still has a stack of 'Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit editions' piled up in a corner somewhere
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It may look presentable elsewhere around this great country of ours; but strictly speaking for myself (and what I see in my neighborhood) it looks mighty crass. I wish there was a zoning code against it--seems like there oughta be. These are religious demonstrations, after all. And it makes a residential area look cheap --like a seedy commercial strip.
Why, on some blocks--get this--a new trend for some homeowners is even going so far to incorporate advertising signs into their holiday displays. I'm not kidding. They let companies add signs on their yard. Not just a sign advertising the company who designed and installed the display (the homeowners don't even do this themselves, they hire it done) they solicit signage for any business who wants to take advantage of the location.
They oughta be horsewhipped and run out of town on a rail.
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Totally agree that Liz & Dick were the biggest news-getters of the era; in fact as far as paparazzi feeding-frenzies might ever somehow be rated I wouldn't doubt that theirs still eclipses any in history. Even to this very day. I've heard as much said somewhere by some journalist during a petty Tom Cruise scandal. Today's scandals are truly picayune. Whoever it was speaking (which I'm now recalling), reminded us of the vast difference in scale between then and now. For 'Cleopatra', governments and state departments and embassies were involved; the League of Decency or whatever it was, League of Women Voters, everybody was agog, the whole world was yapping their fool heads off. Even the Vatican weighed in on that story as it was exploding. Nothing Tom Cruise does will ever come within a country mile of the worldwide gape-fest Liz & Dick generated. Epic. Colossal.
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Liz could have been outshone by any number of other stars at the time, if they really wanted an exotic sex bomb in the part. Her face was already beginning to look too fleshy and pouchy. She could have really 'looked the part' maybe ten years earlier.
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"They knew what they were getting into when they got aboard the plane. I say...let 'em crash!"
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Can We Agree That a Movie Is a Thing of Its Own Year?
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An earth day starts at 6am? Since when?