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Sepiatone

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    If you ever saw *The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas* , Mr Durning showed he was amazingly light on his feet for a man of his size. He managed dance moves that would be hard for even the most "in shape" dancers. Also loved him as FR. HUBLEY in *Everybody Loves Raymond* . One of the best all around character actors in the business.

     

     

    He WILL be missed.

     

     

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    I was always fond of the car driven by the Kirby's in *Topper* .

     

     

    Don't like Corvettes, TCMfan? Well, all I can say is that I started disliking them from 1968 on. I'll take a '63 "split window" any day!

     

     

    the '55 Mercedes "Gull Wing"

     

     

    ANY 1960's Jaguar XK-E

     

     

    An honest to goodness Tucker

     

     

    The '68 Dodge Charger

     

     

    Or MY first "real" car, the '65 Dodge Coronet 500! (damned thing had an azz-kicking 383 four barrel!)

     

     

    Early '60's Morgans

     

     

    A 1972 Olds 442

     

     

    There's too much DROOL on my keyboard. I'll have to stop!

     

     

    Sepiatone

     

     

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    No problem, Marlowe.

     

     

    Sorry, but I'm not THAT Sepiatone. I'm known as "Whitefang" on other forum sites, but while registering here, was informed by the site that "Whitefang" was already in use.

     

     

    But I've yet to see a post by that OTHER Whitefang! What the HELL?

     

     

    Anyway, welcome to this forum. Hope to hear a lot from you.

     

     

    Sepiatone(the remake)

     

     

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    Back in the '70's, while watching "ONE LIFE TO LIVE" with the ex, I thought, "This Tommy Lee Jones guy deserves better than this!".

     

     

    Thought the same about Morgan Freeman while watching "THE ELECTRIC COMPANY" with the kids.

     

     

    I was happy to see the right people thought so, too.

     

     

    I personally don't know ANYBODY who doesn't like Morgan Freeman!

     

     

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    My guess is the whole experience with the brothers was so unpleasant that they refused to be a part of the documentary in an effort to keep it behind them.

     

     

    Incidentally, I STILL have a poster-sized copy of "STONED AGIN!" hanging on a wall in my house!

     

     

    One funny part of the film(out of several) was when several other cartoonists claimed Crumb, by the way he depicted African Americans in his cartoons, was a RACIST. And then Crumb declaring that the only people who called him racist because of them were WHITE LIBERALS. Several black guys I knew then who SAW those cartoons knew where Crumb was coming from and thought them funny.

     

     

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    Off the top of my head, after NO MORE VAMPIRES and NO MORE DOOMSDAY CRAP is the wish for AMERICAN characters in movies and television shows to be played by AMERICAN actors, instead of British and Australian actors.

     

     

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    Well I hope your knee gets better VP. My brother in law had that surgery earier this year. As of now, you wouldn't know he was ever ailing. So you've THAT to look forward to.

     

     

    And I thought "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding" was ELVIS COSTELLO. Maybe HIS was a cover?

     

     

    VP, you also reminded me of one of my favorite "FAR SIDE" cartoons: A fence surrounding several lifeless looking BLOBS with feathers and beaks prodtruding from them and a sign on the fence declaring it the "BONELESS CHICKEN RANCH"!

     

     

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    TCM UNDERGROUND showed this documentary last night(or this morning?).

     

     

    Robert Crumb was an artist/cartoonist who was iconic in the late '60's. I myself, once boasted a mighty stack of "ZAP COMIX". A unique individual who seemed to have come from a troubling childhood environment and stoicly lives within his personal principles, his style of art/cartooning was the influence for many who came after, including GARY LARSON of "THE FAR SIDE" fame. His two brothers were shown to have had an equal talent for art and cartooning, but lacked the self discipline to go anywhere with it.

     

     

    At the time this doc. was made(1995), Crumb was shown to be highly critical of then modern popular culture. Voicing the same dismay with it that I, too, voiced at the time. But HE moved to France to get away from it all.

     

     

    An irratic person with an odd sense of integrity, Crumb had plenty of opportunities to really cash in with his talent, and turned down many lucrative offers feeling they jeopardized that integrity.

     

     

    Surely, a level of integrity that is sorely missing this day and age.

     

     

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    I always thought it was kind of silly. But still, a better animated version than Disney's that had McScrooge as the main character.

     

     

    However, they finally made up for it with the newer recent animated version in which Jim Carrey, never one of my favorites, provides the voices for Ebenezer and other characters. With several other time stretching embelishments, it follows the ALISTAIR SIMS version pretty closely. Another clever trick it employs is to have Bob Cratchet, voiced by Gary Oldman, animated to RESEMBLE Oldman, and Scrooge's Nephew Fred, voiced by Colin Firth, animated to RESEMBLE Firth.

     

     

    Although it relies too much on the "flying around" effect, it passes muster.

     

     

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    PANIC IN YEAR ZERO! I didn't know Milland directed this until watching the closing credits.

     

     

    I have a fondness for this movie, despite how campy it now all seems. Went to see it with my parents when it came out. I remember my Mom commenting that it never occured to HER to wear one of her BEST DRESSES when we took off on OUR camping trips!

     

     

    And HEY! Did any of you notice those little CON-L-RAD icons on the car radio I mentioned in another thread recently? TOLD ya!

     

     

    What I found disturbing about this movie was that, as I earlier stated, I went to see this with my parents when it came out, and THAT was FIFTY YEARS AGO!!

     

     

    Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have to attend to the CRICK in my back!

     

     

    Sepiatone

     

     

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    What cracks me up about the late '60's version of DRAGNET( and I remember watching BOTH incarnations. OY!) was that both the cops, AND the "hippies" were based on cartoonish stereotypes. I particularily liked how all the "bags" of weed were gathered at the top, and held closed by "twist ties".

     

     

    But I also noticed that the show used a regular rotating roster of "ensemble" actors. One week's crook would be next week's victim, fellow cop, or witness. More recently, LAW AND ORDER would employ the same method.

     

     

    CLINT EASTWOOD would also rely on many ensemble cast members in many of his earlier movies.

     

     

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