Sepiatone
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Just one, huh?
Can't do it. List is too long with too many tying for first place. Many mentioned here before me.
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I can only think of THREE.
And movielover, that "belt under the armpits" comment reminded me of something an oldster told me years ago...
"I'm at the age where my KNEES buckle easier than my BELT!"
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I'm still trying to figure out what showing the wrong version of a movie has to do with producers being on dope.
Or if the OP was implying the government had something to do with the mix-up.
Or how TCM showing the "wrong" version on TV on late Sunday night affects movie ticket prices?
Or how producers drug habits affect them. Or anything ELSE about the OP, for that matter...
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So THAT'S who they were talking about on the radio last night! Couldn't hear clearly because the car behind me thought I wanted to hear his "rap" crap as much as he did!
Bummer. Ms. Funicello probably kicked more young men's hormones into high gear than anyone else. This is not being disrespectful. Seeing her over the years on some talk shows and reading interviews, she seemed to be very grounded and likeable, with absolutely NO sense of ego.
Rest in peace, Annette. You've earned it.
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It was my understanding the main reason Tracy didn't divorce to be with Kate was becaue he was Catholic, and felt he couldn't . Which is just as dumb of an excuse, if you ask me.
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A few...
I already mentioned the girl a buddy married( eventually) who was the spitting image( strange phrase. Never ONCE saw her actually spit ) of VIRGINIA MAYO.
My one buddy's Grandpa looked just like BURT MUSTIN.
My older daughter's fourth grade teacher looked like JOHN GEILGUD. In DRAG! :0
A good friend of mine at the Cadillac plant I worked at could have doubled as a young REX INGRAM.
And also while not a "classic movie" actor, the buddy who was married to the VIRGINIA MAYO double was the mirror image of ROBERT POWELL from *Jesus of Nazareth* .
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In able to answer that question about how it's portrayed in movies, you'd have to ask why it happens in real life. You must be aware that what attracts a woman as far as men are concerned is based on a far different criteria than what attracts men to certain women. To most men, beauty IS only skin deep. But often, there's more to it. I've known buddies to cheat on their wives with far less attractive women, and those women also not being very likeable persons. For most men who cheat, it's a sexual matter. Anything more substantive is a bonus. With women, it's the SEX that's the bonus. Their reasons for cheating are of a deeper nature.
Of course, I'm hugely generalizing here. The reason's why women OR men cheat are as varied as the people who do the cheating.
As stated here by someone, being attractive isn't a gaurantee that the man isn't a louse. Add that the same thing goes for the woman not being a harpy. Remember when the question was posed to JESSICA RABBIT about why she married a goofball personage like ROGER, she answered, "HE makes me LAUGH". Well then, for the woman who cheats with a less attractive man, the answer might be the same. However, in the movies, one must not assume the "less attractive" man the woman is cheating with is found to be less attractive by the rest of the audience.
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I used to think *Theme From "A Summer Place"* was the schmaltiest, syrupiest piece of whitebread nonsense ever written. Maybe it is.
But in recent years, I've resolved to holding it in a higher regard as part of the "soundtrack of my life" ( can't believe I actually used that expression!). I have it on a CD collection of old instrumentals. But hearing it in high fidelity glory on my "state-of-the-art"( whatever that means) sound system doesn't do it justice. To me, it doesn't sound proper unless heard through a tinny 2" speaker in the kind of clock radio I used to have as a kid and used on the timer to help get to sleep at night. That's probably where the latent fondness for that tune comes from. That, or one of those old, cheap cigarrette pack sized transistor radios. Remember them?
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I can understand that. Barrymore seems to "gush" over old movies much like the girls back in the day used to "gush" over Paul McCartney.
It can get pretty irritating.
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Whaddya mean "we"? I prefer *The Maple Leaf Rag* myself. As far as Joplin goes. I usually leaned towards EUBIE BLAKE.
Oh, and bOb? The fact you still read a newspaper indicates you're old!
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You mean "soar-ee", don't you?
Tell me "aboot" it.
I wonder about sibling rivalry in the cases of James Arness and Peter Graves( and why the different last names). Or the Carradine brood. The Bottoms bros. or the Fiennes. Since we don't hear much about them in this light, they all must have been OK about it all.
Anyway, none of it could have possibly been as scathing as the sibling rivalry that goes on between my wife and her FIVE SISTERS! It's kept things lively around my house for 25 years.
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Considering what's assumed about most comic's personal histories, that room could have been considered the "Office of Homeland Insecurity"!
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Sorry to disagree, willbe, but both the movie AND the song *Love Is a Many Splendored Thing* are hokey.
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*UPDATE:*
The television show *Shannon* starring George Nader as an insurance investigator ran from Sept. '61 to June '62 for only 36 episodes.
I remember seeing it on late night in the summer of '63, so I was obviously seeing it in syndication.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Apr 6, 2013 2:34 PM
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Hibi, I don't know how long that show was on. It was the very early '60's when my stepbrother turned me on to it.
I'll have to Wikify it.
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I'm always tickled by the scene in *Monkey Business* when Groucho, responding to the young lady who stomps her foot in disgust with him, stomps his foot TWICE, grabs her and does an impromtu TANGO. In fact, it's done TWICE.
But then, much of what's in that movie cracks me up.
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There were a LOT of movies where people left the theater, seeing displays of social injustice, economic injustice, racial disparity and the like and thought, "SOMEBODY ought to DO something about that!", and that's as far as it ever went. Sure, the movies made more people AWARE, but rarely (if ever) spurred them on to action.
Anyway, I never liked "Corn" that much. How that kid never bashed Bette's head with a poker showed more restraint than I think actually humanly possible.
My preferrence goes to *How Green Was My Valley* which my Grandmother had me watch first when I was very young, explaining that it appealed to her personally as she grew up in a Pennsylvania coal mining town. I preferred the way the people were characterized, the performances, the story, and who would sit through two hours of Bette when Maureen O'Hara is available?
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I kept wondering if they got Cher to sit with Robert Osborne in an effort to make HER look younger, or HIM?
At any rate, I thought she did a fine job as co-host. You gotta admit, we've seen WORSE get a shot.
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I'm reminded of a scene in a movie called *America's Sweethearts* where Stanley Tucci, brilliantly playing the archtypiclal studio head, claims, "The only genius in this business was *Senor Wences!* A little lipstick on the hand and bah, bah, bah,(while imitating the Wences puppeteering style) and he had a career for 85 years!"
I wouldn't call Brooks a genius, but he IS extremely creative in his humor. His insticts are even better. He always manages to get the right people in the right places to get it all to work. With getting Richard Pryor to work on the *Blazing Saddles* screenplay, signing Wilder, Mars, Khan, Boyle, Deluise and Korman for their parts were major coups. With other people in those parts, none of them would have worked as well.
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Dothery, it's been years since I've heard that "lumber" one! Always thought it was cute.
You sound as if you don't appreciate Hallmark's "Maxine" that much. She reminded me of my Mom so much( in looks AND attitude) that I'd give Ma a Maxine card every birthday for years! She LOVED 'em!
The world's oldest joke?
*Adam*: Knock, Knock!
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What Siskle and Ebert did for film criticism was to give it in a "movie viewer's" level of discussion. Too many critics over the years would critique movies as if they were conducting a college film class. S&E displayed it as would the guy on the street. Mostly Ebert, in my opinion. No, I didn't always agree with him, either. But I couldn't dismiss his critiques as being stupid. OR bloated.
Thumbs down on this news...
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Last night on PBS's "History Detectives", one investigation went into finding out if some guy owned an actual saddle once owned by movie stuntman and rodeo circuit extrordinaire *Yakima Canutt* . Turns out it did, but what I found interesting was this man's connection to old Hollywood. He did stunt work, mostly in westerns, in what must have been well over a hundred movies. He stood in often for John Wayne, even in *Stagecoach* . He did work in *Cat Ballou*. It was Yakima driving the wagon through a burning Atlanta in *Gone With The Wind*. Many of the safety proceedures still practiced in this line of work came out of his insistance.
No big deal, mind you. But it was a reminder that in spite of our here pining and swooning over the contribution to old movies by the STARS, that many in the background make most of that magic happen. And Yakima was a top-notch magician.
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Yes! Laurel and Hardy----At the end of *Helpmates* when Ollie tells Stan to make a fire in the fireplace while he goes to pick up his wife from the train station, only to return to find his house completely burned down with Stan holding a garden hose amid the charred ruins---
In *The Music Box* while attempting to clean up while the player piano plays, going back and forth dumping and picking up refuse and only managing to keep moving the SAME trash back and forth!---
In *Be Big* when trying to remove the boot from Ollie's foot, Ollie falls into the tub full of water and emerges with the sweater down to his knees!
In another L&H, which title I forget, they are the owners of a food catering truck. The truck is closed with an "Out to Lunch" sign on the door. When they return and open the door, about 20 cats scatter out from any possible exit!
In another movie, NOT L&H, *His Girl Friday* at one point in the background, there's a reporter who keeps looking out the window of the pressroom as ladies go up the staircase just outside the door. Clearly trying to get a good glimpse up their skirts.
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*The Village* Most villages have only one idiot. THIS village only has one who isn't. SHE'S the lucky one because she's blind, and won't be able to see this swill!
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Too many repeats!!
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James is right, but he's also familiar with the "too many repeats" gripe here in these forums. The complaint comes up often.
Hope you finally get to seeing *Cover Girl .* I watched it Sunday and thought it was an OK movie. Of course, it's not hard to watch Rita Hayworth in glorious color.
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