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Reagan WAS an actor, swithin, that's correct. But that doesn't always mean it will serve well in the political field, especially in speechmaking. KEVIN COSTNER, for example, is at his BORINGEST(if that's a word) when he narrates. Some of the stiffest overvoice work ever on film. Imagine him in office, giving a speech. He would sound, as usual, like a high school student reading an assignment off of a piece of paper. Which makes Costner a WORSE actor than HE thinks, or REAGAN a better actor than OTHERS thought! Wilson(HA! Back to the movie in a way) was somewhere in between. I've heard recordings of his speeches(a few of them) and he spoke well enough to keep it interesting, but not enough to whip up a crowd. Knox captured this quality nicely I thought. Sepiatone

Hey, I complimented one, but slammed two, so don't start thinking it's all YOUR fault. Sepiatone

In response to MissW and finance, I would MUCH rather swim in VERONICA LAKE than ARTHUR LAKE. Is that enough of an interest, MissW.? Sepiatone

Yeah, I do fine with pre-packaged rices like MAHATMA'S yellow saffron rice, or Vigo's yellow rice, but rice from scratch gives me a hard time. Mostly the sticking of it to the bottom of the pot. No matter how low the flame. The parts in *Seven Samuri* I hate are when people are shown eating rice that looks far fluffier and tastier than I can mamage on a modern cooking range and new pots. Sepiatone

In spite of any misgivings I have about Ronald Reagan as president, I have to admit he was, so far, the LAST republican president to ever give an eloquent speech. He did possess a well tempered delivery and had a keen sense of humor and sharp wit( Note: the remark about Mondale in reply to the question, "Do you think age is a factor in this election?"). Woefully, the two Bush successors were not speechmakers. Papa Bush, whenever about to give a speech, had people setting their alarm clocks and fluffing their pillows. The younger Bush only proved that EBONICS weren't so bad after all. Sepiatone

As a Polack, I'd like to thank you, heuriger, for differenciating between the two....paczek and paczki. (my keyboard either can't do that little tail, or I can't figure it out). I have to keep reminding my wife...ONE dumpling is a "pierog". TWO or more are "pierogi". NOT "perogies"(arrgh!). Sepiatone

Shari Lewis, Willie Tyler, and today's Jeff Dunham. Then there's that guy that was on TV's "SOAP". Other than that, not a whole lot of names on the "Made it big" ventriloquist list. Ventriloquist List. Good name for a rock band(apologies to Dave Barry). Sepiatone

Personally, I couldn't take more than two and a half minutes of it. Thought we'd seen the last of this kind of swill when MAX HEADROOM thankfully fell out of favor. I had__I had___I-I-I-I-I-had-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad Ihad___Ihad___had-d-d-d-d-d-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-turn it____turn it____turn-turn-turn-turn-turn-turn_______________Had-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-ad-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-turn it OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sepia___Sepia___Sep-sep-sep-sep-sep-iatone

Re: *Captain Blood* The only complaint I ever had of this movie was that it's over too soon. NOT that the ending comes too abruptly or leaves too many loose ends. Just it's that GOOD one doesn't WANT it to end! I'm always left wondering...Since Rathbone was an expert fencer, how much technical input to the duels did he ever give? And how did he actually FEEL about losing so many of them? Sepiatone

I agree with heuriger. Sepiatone

Val, ALL my pots are aluminum, but with non-stick coating. Are you saying the coating doesn't help? And how did you know I wasn't KIDDING about my rice being bitter(I wasn't, y'know). Sepiatone

Yeah, speed'll DO that sometimes! Sepiatone

Yogi, since you posted that info(Silvana being Giada DeLaurentis's Grandmother), I went on a search for Silvana images. Not only was Ms. Mangano a KNOCKOUT, but I DID notice some of the same features in both Grandma and grand daughter. SOME of the photos I saw made me think of "Giada in costume". Sepiatone

THANKS, guys. Now I REGRET having missed it! I just kept thinking ANY rice I cook is "bitter rice". Sepiatone

Thanks, Fred. We've come a long way from my just wanting to know what that technique is called just so I could further say I never liked it. If it was meant to bring MORE comedy to some scene, it failed miserably for me. Sepiatone

I too last saw this movie many years ago BT( Before Turner). I've often wondered...was there any truth to the segment that had Wilson and his wife serving coffee to departing soldiers? Would be cool if it was. But what makes me wonder...how can ANYONE in the 21st century NOT know what an amphetamine is? Sepiatone

Leonard Nimoy? Sepiatone

OK! One of you clever guys take that photo of Mahoney and post it next to a still of Brando from "Waterfront" and TELL me I'm wrong! Sepiatone

Funny you'd mention that. I DON'T see it, but that doesn't mean YOU don't. I suppose everyone has a "bad angle". The "funny" part was that you reminded me of when I first saw *On The Waterfront* . I at first thought Brando looked like PAUL WINCHELL'S dummy JERRY MAHONEY. I HAD a Mahoney dummy when I was a kid. Came with a book on ventriloquist techniques that I never COULD learn! Sepiatone

OK. So? NOW do you know what I mean? WHAT! Sepiatone

WHAT advertising? WHERE? Sepiatone

And I STILL think the best send-up of Deitrich was done by Madeline Khan in *Blazing Saddles* . Sepiatone

How does my thinking Deitrich is NOT attractive and sings like a sleepy walrus translate into my being "anti German"? Fred, unless you think an ostrich is PRETTY, I fail to understand your response. Yes, while an amature photographer, I've looked at many old photographs of pre-war Berlin. It WAS a hoppin', beautiful city. Such a waste and shame. Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 8, 2013 6:51 PM

While it does seem to be insulting of sorts to farmers in general, what comes forward in these "Ma and Pa" movies, as it did in the television show "The Beverly Hillbillies" is that no amount of money or "sophistication" can supercede plain "down home" wisdom and decency. I've always thought that the insult was actually aimed at us "uppity" city folk. And a well deserved come-uppance it is. There can be a certain amount of weakness at the foundation of ANY self importance. The Kettles, like the Clampetts, saw through all these facades and noticed all the flaws in the core of whomever they met, eventually. Sepiatone

OK. OK. If any of you saw the "Pete Smith" feature *Water Tricks* that was shown after *Anne of A Thousand Days* , you'd have seen what I'm referring to at the end of it when the cinematographer was climbing down the rope from the helecopter. Sepiatone