Sepiatone
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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.
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Jake, you seem to be big on NUMBERS, as if they PROVE something.
All RIGHTY then...
More people than listen to Rush Limbarf bought PET ROCKS in the '70's.
WHAT does THAT tell YOU?
An aside: Some years ago, I got in the habit(among many) of when someone would ask what RELIGION I belong to, I'd answer, "I'm a Hedonist". Some of them would look confused. One guy asked, "Is that one of them FUNDAMENALIST religions?" I would answer, "As fundamental as it gets." At least I was having fun!
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 9, 2013 4:39 PM
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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?
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Leonard Nimoy?
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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!
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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!
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But anyway, that's what I meant about Harvey and Buckley. Yeah, they were two vastly different personalities, but as was stated, Harvey was upbeat and concentrated on the positive. I may not have always agreed with his politics, but I DID enjoy his radio show. That distinctive voice and delivery.
Hard to totally dislike.
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I guess the next big drink will be the "Rush Fistpounder". It comes to you aflame, and before you drink it, you have to BLOW HARD!
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OK. So? NOW do you know what I mean? WHAT!
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WHAT advertising?
WHERE?
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And I STILL think the best send-up of Deitrich was done by Madeline Khan in *Blazing Saddles* .
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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.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 8, 2013 6:51 PM
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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.
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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.
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I'm probably wrong, but I'll guess NED BEATTY.
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Ha ha ha! THAT'S funny. And when you really think about it, you're RIGHT! Frankenstein's creations ARE immitations of life!
I'd like to point out that there's one line in "Life" that I haven't caught in previous viewings: When Delilah, listening to the band play at the party says, "Those boys play GOOD for WHITE BOYS"!
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As for WALTER MITTY, although there is little, if any, resemblance to this movie and Thurber's short story, the subject matter is intact. An average guy daydreaming a more exciting life. Who CAN'T relate to that?
I've always liked this movie, but my being a long-time Kaye fan might make me biased. But Kaye's comedy style in this movie is on par with other comic actors of this era. Any Skelton or Hope comedy would have had the same level of comedy, albeit WITHOUT the very good musical numbers provided by Mrs. Kaye. I've always liked "Anatole of Paris" and it's suggestion that it's MYSOGENY that drives the world of women's fashion.
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NOT "singing" like Deitrich is an improvement in ANY film! I'd find it hard to believe that ANYONE would consider it a good time going to a nightclub where the big attraction is an ostrich faced woman who "sings" as if she just swallowed a fistful of quaaludes. *Cabaret* at least made an attempt to make the place look as if it WAS the place to BE. So the PLACE didn't look sleazy. Didn't the sleazy looking WOMEN make up for it?
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I don't know if Paul Harvey was a GREAT American. But he was certainly good at what he did. So was William Buckley. I'm neither a "conservative", nor a "liberal". I have surely heard compelling and intelligent views over the years from either camp on various issues. One idealology doesn't offer the solutions to all problems over another, and to pretend so is childish idolitry. So I don't really subscribe to EITHER idealology, preferring to do my OWN thinking, thank you.
But I mention both Harvey and Buckley in the spirit of my missing "conservative" commentators that use intellect and sound, reasonable arguement to press their ideas, rather than snide, rude and a DON RICKLES mentality, as do too many "right wing " pundits of today.
I feel about it this way...
As the Great Bald Eagle is the symbol of this country, one HAS to realize that in order to get off the ground and soar to any heights, BOTH the right AND left wings have to work in harmony. Exclusively use only one or the other and all that will happen is the Eagle will flap uselessly on the ground and stir up a lot of dust.
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You're very welcome.
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"Agog with boredom"? I don't know...
Can you be "plussed" as opposed to "nonplussed"?
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You'll have to forgive me. I have this nagging insistance that there should at least be some fleeting RESEMBLANCE between an actor and the real person that actor is cast to portray in a movie. Or at least have MAKE-UP give it an attempt. I'll give Korman a pass, but Hackett was WAY off base.
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OK, so WHERE were the HIPPIES in *Cabaret* ?
I must have blinked.
Or were you referring to Minelli's character's bohemian lifestyle?
WHAT?
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That Mike Wolfe/Frank Fritz thing sounds more like iNet "legend" than fact. Just like the web rumor that Steven Segal was going to star as Jimi Hendrix in a bio pic several years ago, or the $500 million divorce settlement that Rachel Ray was supposed to pay out to her non-ex husband.
The TV movie with Korman and Hackett was OK. They did seem miscast, but it was at a high point in both their careers, and movies for TV are largely cast to take advantage of that kind of thing. After his successful turn in *The Last Picture Show* , actor Ben Johnson found more work in TV movies than he did in feature films the previous two decades.
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"BITTER RICE" .......
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THANKS, guys.
Now I REGRET having missed it!
I just kept thinking ANY rice I cook is "bitter rice".
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