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22 hours ago, Dargo said:
Yep, really, and for the reason I gave you above.
I also think if it WERE supposed to be Aherne, the caricature would have been drawn more like that of how Ronald Colman and Errol Flynn's were drawn in this cartoon, and by exaggerating those long straight noses of theirs.
(...and like how Aherne's nose was)
Ah, well, looking them both over I only notice Aherne's nose being a bit thinner, but not really straighter than Brent's. And too, since the caricature was a profile, AND a caricature, chances are the nose really doesn't resemble either person's. And both Flynn's and Colman's caricature's weren't really profiles. But at least we can agree on one thing....
It SURE AS HELL isn't Ameche!
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Ok, so was THIS one listed previously? I really haven't kept up with this thread that well....
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I still can't understand why either TCM or my cable service would list an Olympic documentary as featuring Nadia Comaneci and CAITLYN JENNER, When surely Caitlyn Jenner never attended. However, BRUCE was phenomenal!
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Looking ahead on my cable's "guide" option, (or WAS it TCM?) listed the 1976 Olympics with CAITLYN JENNER, not BRUCE!
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Really, looking at the image pages of them both I see more similarities than differences between the two.
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I'm still(like a dog with a bone) holding out for THIS guy. Scope some of the profile shots and recall his co-starring with Colbert in a 1941 movie, who is supposedly the woman the man in the cartoon is sitting with, and..... remember too, the cartoon IS more or less a CARICATURE!
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18 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Thanks, Lorna.
My television set is dying. First green vertical lines all over the screen for two weeks, then about a half hour ago, the picture went black. I still have sound but who knows for how long. Had a Comcast repair guy in when I first noticed the lines and he quickly figured out it was not their cable causing the problem. Oy!!
Have zero money in my budget. And I'm not exaggerating. A friend says she might be able to secure a used, "old-fashioned" one (i. e., not a flat screen) so I guess beggars can't be choosers.
Am very depressed right now.
Had I known this would happen, I would have been more conservative with that third stimulus check. It doesn't look like we're getting a fourth.
I know, TMI.
The "good" news is that now, not diverted by Turner Classic Movies (sob!) I can concentrate on watching all these noir channels on YouTube. Lots of movies.
But I just can't conceive of not having a television constantly on in the background.
I'm getting very anxious also.
The silence will be deafening.
I went through a similar thing a few years ago with a rear projection HITACHI of mine. GOOD looking picture, but started getting green lines(horizontal in my case) and wide ones too. Replaced it with an LG "smart" TV that can't give me the aspect options the Hitachi did.
But for a second the beginning of your post reminded me of how my Dad used to joke that we needed a new TV set because; "I've already seen all the shows on this one!"
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21 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
I haven't seen it. . .
Nissan Figaro?
Nope. Cute little b u g g e r though.
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But still not sure what was in that ENTRESTO commercial.
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On 7/16/2021 at 11:21 AM, kingrat said:
The cartoon is from 1941. Colbert and Ameche starred together in Midnight in 1939. That might be a reason for putting them at the same table. But the guy looks more like George Brent to me.
But, as I stated a bit earlier, Colbert co-starred in 1941's SKYLARK with BRIAN AHERN, who the cartoon kinda resembles too.
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20 hours ago, uncle charlie said:
I missed “Body Heat” but did catch “To Live and Die in LA”. It was my first time seeing it. I feel like if I had seen it when it was released (and I was twenty years old), I would have enjoyed it. However, watching it last night I found it to be a laughable parody of eighties movies. It was chock full of cliches right off the bat. In the first scene, the older partner actually says “I’m getting too old for this sh$t”. We then find out that he’s only got 3 days left ‘til retirement so we know he’s gonna die. I enjoyed Eddie’s comment about throwing a chase scene in there. It felt like the chase scene from “The Seven-Ups” that was so epic you thought the movie was ending already. I also had a hard time taking John Pankow’s character seriously based on the types of roles I’ve seen him in. I made it through most of the movie but my general lack of interest caused me to miss most of the end other than the very last scene and the “outro” with Ben and Eddie. (I looked up the plot on wiki to fill in the gaps).
I nominate this movie to compete with “Lethal Weapon” as the ultimate ‘80’s-defining flick.
A few things here, maybe a bit off discussion, but I saw both and felt BODY HEAT was way better. And you mention the chase scene in THE 7-UPS, in which I anger many sheep-headed people when I say I thought it WAY better than the one in BULLITT. And as for that movie in general, IMO, it should be "Bullitt" with a capital "BULL".
And really, you can't have just ONE movie as an " '80's defining flick." due to there are many that define that decade GENRE-wise. Like VALLEY GIRL for the "coming of age" genre, or the Indiana Jones franchise for defining the ACTION/ADVENTURE genre, etc. And each member here too, will have what they consider any decade "defining" film picks. And I doubt there will be any conscensus.
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11 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Actually I never bought into Mickey as a small town teen who sought out heart-to-heart talks with his father. The only "authentic" aspect to that role I guess was Andy's penchant for sniffing out every female (young or a bit older) in Carvel.
Well, if it's "authenticity" you want, dig up any late '30's-early '40's documentaries on teen-age behavior that might exist.
But nobody(I hope) ever watched an Andy Hardy movie to learn how "kids" really behaved in those times. But if you're looking to spend a couple hours or so with warm hearted and amusing escapism, it's hard to beat Andy Hardy.
Or, in the spirit of, and to paraphrase Andy; "Put on your OWN show!"
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Yeah, I too thought that caveman was a Jack Benny parody.
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Sure, I liked that show. But the theme wasn't anything special(or memorable, really) . Play it to a roomful of folks without telling them what it's from and I'll bet nobody jumps up and shouts the answer!
And Harry O's theme sounds too "TV cop show" generic.
But ONE TV cop show theme, that was probably already posted, but bears repeating(and was more memorable.
) is---
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4 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Why did I get the feeling that we were watching the real Mickey Rooney in PULP? That was a truly frightening "performance", lol.
Yeah, it's still difficult for some to accept Rooney in anything else but an ANDY HARDY flick.
2 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:Eddie and Ben never mentioned Richard Crenna's performance (as Kathleen Turner's husband) in BODY HEAT. I've seen this movie dozens of times and never fail to be impressed by him.
Crenna's performances in most thing's after THE REAL McCOYS are impressive. Like his "way out of type" role in WAIT UNTIL DARK.
BEN's not mentioning him surprises me, but Eddie's always been so full of his presumed "knowledge" of all things noir(and himself), that his not recognizing a good peripheral performance is to be expected.
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9 hours ago, slaytonf said:
But, is it nice?
Hard to tell, going by that crappy photo MOE posted.
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On 7/11/2021 at 9:47 PM, LuckyDan said:
Sorry to hear this. I remember liking Laredo when if aired in syndication in the early 70s. I thought the trio of William Smith, Peter Brown, and Neville Brand looked like a fun bunch of guys to hang with, body builder "Joe" was exactly the kind of guy you'd want beside when things got rough.
Yeah, I remember him from LAREDO too. Seeing him pop up from time to time in all kind of TV shows(KUNG FU, and MANNIX once too I think). Long time another favorite of mine. Was thrilled when he showed up in that Eastwood flick.
RIP.
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7 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
Look at a list of Cugat's film appearances up to 1940. Sparse.
Very unlikely he would be a subject for lampooning in the same frame as Colbert, Grant and other very recognizable movie actors, of which he wasn't even.
Isn't it possible it's just not a good likeness of it's intended subject, which would most likely be a recent co-star of Colbert?
Yep, there's that. And cartoon or not, if Cugat was to be caricatured in a Warner's cartoon of this type, he'd probably be seen on the BANDSTAND, directing his musicians, not seated at a table a Ciro's hobnobbing with the big name "stars".
And your idea Dan, of Colbert being seated with a recent co-star is sound. And it being 1941 would be throwing BRIAN AHERN into the fray. (SKYLARK, '41).
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Well, ERIC, one disappearance I noticed even way before streaming came about were the "Dollar shows". Movie theaters that were once legitimate first run movie houses until the advent of huge, multi screened hulks. There used to be several within a short drive from my house, but only a couple remain. Surviving mostly by patronage of civic minded loyalists, as the two are theaters that were centered smack in the middle of their city's busy downtown business district. And also, I imagine, patronized by the "forgotten".
You know, those who(and there's more than you think) don't have cable service, satellite service, home computers, just regular cellular phones and even maybe just land lines. And maybe not even once owned a VCR and now not even a DVD player. Yes, they do exist, not being sheep-like enough to be beguiled by the electronics market and never in their lives have lemming like chased trends over the cliff at the ends of common sense. 
And did someone bring up the AMC theaters? Well, in my area only one remains. Across Eureka Road in Taylor, MI. from the Southland Mall. The theater in the mall just reopened after being shut down at the end of the '90's. And the one in the Sears shopping center is long gone too. So are the rest of the stores in that center(they were razed) and the Sears store is closed up too. They mostly had all their customers swallowed up by either the MJR theaters or the EMAGINE theater chains.
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I kept seeing a great looking red auto in an Entresto commercial. But while investigating, couldn't find the commercial, but THIS instead.
As of this entry, I haven't seen the commercial since the previous night. After seeing this, I'll peel an eye(eeek!) to notice if they're really the same, or just similar.
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6 minutes ago, hamradio said:
Samsung’s Bonkers 292-Inch ‘Wall Luxury’ TV Is Set to Be the World’s Biggest
Yeow!
I suppose after buying a house with walls BIG ENOUGH to accommodate it, then being able to afford the set is another several years off.
Anyway, I really don't see the average "Joe the plumber" type shelling out hard earned bucks for it. So it seems movie theaters aren't threatened much by it.
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Sure. Like your workmate I was long used to THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD in black and white, never owning a color TV set until I was 21 and eventually bought my first house with my first wife. And too, really liked those Flynn swashbucklers since I was a kid. But of course, for different reasons than what I still like them for.
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I think it's part of the Rush Limbaugh estate Nip, him acquiring it years ago because it was the only mic that could accommodate his way oversized blowhole.
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7 hours ago, skimpole said:
The Silent Partner (1939) An Italian film about a man who creates a fake business partner.
The Silent Partner (1978) A Canadian film about a bank teller who takes advantage of a robbery to take some money for his own, getting the robber's displeasure.
That sounds familiar to me somehow.....
See the post I placed on Monday.
Only my other one was a 1923 silent(no pun intended).
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Every source I've found says this caricature (the gent in profile you see sitting at the table) is of Don Ameche, but I say it's supposed to be George Brent. What say you?
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Sorry to do this(NOT!
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