Dargo2

>Otherwise, why is Person X watching TCM and why is Person X choosing to be a guest on TCM's Message Boards. Y do you ask, TB??? (...c'mon, ya HAD to know THAT was comin'!) Well, here's ya a possible answer to your query here. 'Cause maybe said "Person X" actually enjoys watchin' classic films, IS fairly knowledgeable about the subject(though of course not NEARLY as knowledgeable as YOU are about it), and maybe has the feeling that a strict and concise and to-the-point examination of each and every topic at hand posted within this website might be somewhat engaging leavened with the occasional flip remark. (...btw, you might have noticed that I seldom interject any of my distasteful attempts at humor within your academically-themed threads around here, haven't ya?)

"Excuse me here Joan, but ya see I'm auditioning for this part in an upcoming movie, and was just wondering where you got those fabulous frocks of yours here!" (...sorry Tom...couldn't resist!)

Yeah, I suppose the whole "height" issue MIGHT come into play here, also. (...though I suppose he COULD have always just slumped his shoulders over a bit like I unfortunately see a lot of beautiful tall young ladies do when they're needlessly embarrassed about THEIR height!!!) LOL

LOL Well, yeah, I suppose. But, Jack's character in that movie is basically the worrisome sort, and I've always pictured Dan as more the under-control type. (...btw, you didn't answer my question of if Dan was ever in any wild comedies)

WHOA! Allow me time to wrap THAT thought around me little brain for a while and get back to ya later! That's a supposition that's never even remotely crossed my mind before. Mmmmm..."Duryea in a wild comedy", huh?! So help me out here. Was he ever in one at all before? I can't think of one, but maybe YOU know of one, eh?! (...though I gotta say, replacing the great Jack Lemmon, especially in THAT role, would offhand seem like a pretty far-fetched idea)

Ya know Tom...Why is it I can never find anything to disagree with you about around here?! You've pretty much taken the words clean outta my mouth yet again! Since my recent viewings of "Winchester '73" and this "Burglar" film, I TOO have noticed that I'm gaining a new-found appreciation for Duryea's acting and how he could so effectively use that lined and character-filled face o' his. (...and so in closing, PLEASE just once say somethin' that I can find off-the-mark in its evaluation!!!)

Yep, and what I thought was kinda funny was that when his character is asked how old he was, he replied "35"! (...remember?)

Ahem...wrong ship, James. Our friend here was stationed aboard the Reluctant not the Caine! (...and he's told me he hid those clippers right under his Captain's nose in some kinda potted palm tree)

Yep, from the insignificant to the extremely pertinent. And the responses within that spectrum usually consisting of about 99% ridiculous to about 1% sublime. (...and thus the reason I don't even bother to peruse that section of those websites anymore)

>Yes, that was a terrible story., but the book may have hastened Bette's demise, I don't think having a cruel tell all book was good medicine prescribed by her drs. Just sad all the way around. When I think of Bette, I think of the great performances she left us with. That's all we really need to know. Right? Right! When I watch the greats in classic films, I never think the thought of if I liked what I've heard about their personal lives...it being "true" OR not. (...and I think anybody who DOES is short-changing themselves)

Btw Andy...this IS a spot-on observation here! (...though I have to wonder why you didn't post it over in the "Lookalikes" thread in the "Hot Topics" forum)

Sepia, didn't you start a thread a while back which was about actors and actresses who while maybe not looking THAT much alike, people tend to confuse together? I thought that was a great thread! (...say, I wonder if it died because some jokers started sidetrackin' it...those darn jokers, them!!!) ROFL

Hey, then look at it THIS way then, Lavender... At LEAST BD didn't go the route of those two Menendez boys...'cause THOSE two idiots blew away(pun DEFINITELY intended) ANY chance of ever havin' THEIR parents pay for any possible future nuptials, RIGHT?! (...to say nothin' of any inheritance!)

Well then, I'm certainly glad we have one here now, 'cause if you've ever had the misfortune of viewing any of the "Feedback" sections of any of those UN-moderated News websites, then you know that they are populated by an enormous amount of "Neanderthals" spouting their hatred by means of very questionable levels of education in the English language.

No, it was definitely "bad form" on her part, alright. But once again, things usually don't happen for no reason, and I still say IF the great actress was maybe even HALF as good a mother as she was an actress, then MAYBE that book would've never seen the light of day. (...this all I've been sayin' here all along, ya know...though I hate to wallop on that proverbial deceased equine here)

So Fred, you're sayin' here that these boards HAVE "evolved" since those days, right?! And even THOUGH this apparent societal "Neanderthal" here(me) evidently is occasionally slowing the advancement of human civil interaction??? LOL

>Because BD was SOULESS when she wrote the book. anyone who would write a tell all book about their mother when they were old and sick, had no soul and probably wanted money and attention. Shame on her. Ah, BUT to her "credit", Lavender, word is BD is NOW buying back and burning every copy of her book she can get her hands on now. (...seems she got the idea from some Floridian "minister" a while back!)

>I will not let you put the onus on an OP or other members to come in and reorient a (new) thread after some have effectively written graffiti all over it. Yeah, that DOES sound like a whole lot o' "work", doesn't it. (...though by the time I WAS 13, I learned a little "work" was usually worth the effort...in fact I purchased my very first motorcycle by working at delivering newspapers at just about that time in my life)

>Even those who have had "conjones to DO it!!!!!" have often been outnumbered by the posts of the jokesters telling them to get over it and let us get back to having fun. If this wasn't an ongoing problem, it wouldn't keep coming up. Well, tell ya what Iz my friend. The next time some joker around here does THAT, then you just send me a little PM advising me WHO it was and WHERE it was and WHEN it was, and I'll give 'em a good smackin'(figuratively speaking, of course) upside their keyboard by use of my extremely sharp wit! 'Cause there's certainly no cause for THAT! (...well, that IS of course UNLESS the person who wished to return to the original topic comes on and says somethin' like, "Will you sophomoric ones get lost so we more refined people can discuss the original topic", instead of somethin' like say, Excuse me here, but to get back on topic"...'cause ya see the FORMER approach WOULD have a tendency to bring out the anarchistic Marx Bros response in "those" jokers)

Now, see how easy it is to "get back on topic", ladies?! It wasn't all that hard, now was it. (...spread this around, if you would be so kind...smirk)

Excuse me here Kyle, but I would like to divert your attention for a brief minute back to my recent "News Flash" posting down there and before you continue on with this line of your argument.

>Damn it, Dargo - this is serious! C'mon dark. Fess up. You're feigning "outrage" here, aren't ya! 'Cause the idea that these boards have: (a) "Deteriorated in content or civility" or ( "Are so serious a matter that the very world hinges upon the orderly and earnest exchange of ideas in regard to the topic of classic cinema" ....are...well...both a rather humorous proposition in and of themselves.

AND, btw...here's a "News Flash" for those around here who somehow have gotten the impression that SOMEHOW they'll be viewed as "Wet Blankets" by "some" of the jokers around here... NEWS FLASH: The jokers around here DO not and WILL not EVER view ANYBODY who would like to revisit the ORIGINAL topic in ANY thread around here while said "jokers" have momentarily sidetracked the puppies to insert their brand of humor, as a "Wet Blanket"!!! Just have the conjones to DO it! (...yep, believe it or NOT, I've done this very act of going back on topic MYSELF around here, and never thought a THING of it...but then again I guess I'm not the "sensitive type" as people may have noticed) LOL

Don't worry Kyle. finance and I have ordered flowers be send to obrienmundy as a measure of our "sympathy" and show of contrition for our obvious lack of breeding and good taste there! **** (...btw, I was MORE than a little disheartened to discover that after I said, "Are you gonna call "the police", finance didn't retort with somethin' like, "No, but I'm gonna watch "every move you make" from now on!") Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 20, 2013 8:32 AM

>You CAN Buy My LOVE, LOL PLEASE don't now break into a rousing rendition of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" here, OKAY?!!!