Dargo2

I don't know, Twink. You tell me! Here's a pic in another forum I frequent, a Triumph Motorcycle website, and this pic was taken by one of the attendees who came to this little motorcycle rally I've thrown in Prescott and now Sedona every year for the past eight years. We rode to the Grand Canyon this year. I'm the guy on the far right, and that's one of my motorcycles in the foreground... http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=583767&page=0&fpart=9&vc=1 (...I do occasionally get from folks that I resemble James Coburn, but like I said, you tell me!)

I watched the first 15 minutes of it and then started recording it 'cause I left the house for a while. As soon as the this next feature it over, City Streets, which I've never seen before either(looks pretty interesting so far), I'll watch the rest of the this version of The Maltese Falcon and let ya know what I think of it. (...gotta say though, just from watching those first 15 minutes of it, I agree with you guys...the "dames" are MUCH hotter in THIS one than in the Bogie version..but then again, I've always had a mild little crush on cute little Una since I saw her years ago yelllin', "CALLAHAN! CALLAHAN" and cat-fightin' Frenchy in [/i]Destry Rides Again[/i] !!!)

>I wonder if any of it will feature some Carson interviews from BEFORE his stint on the "Tonite" show. He did have a few other TV shows before then, and sometimes certain celebrities showed up. And since his Tonite show tenure began in 1962, several old time "stars" were still alive to wind up as guests. I've always lamented about the loss of the older format, when often some celebrity would be on Carson's show just for the hell of it. Neither to promote a new show or movie, just to be ON. Over the years, these kind of shows changed into commercials with a little entertainment thrown in. Sepiatone. I agree with ya here, Sepia! I especially always looked forward to the "Tonite" show's "Xmas" specials!!! LOL (...sorry ol' buddy, couldn't resist ...but yeah, I DO agree with ya here...no kiddin'!)

Hmmmm...hit and run here, eh Char?! (...ya know folks, I wonder if Char and her new beau are now gonna take Fred's earlier advice and snuggle up together while watchin' Paul Henreid lead a rousing chorus of La Marseillaise on her Nokia 920???)

>The mere fact that you got to talk to her and she DID agree to meet you for a drink, that is something in itself ! You will always have those memories. Yeah, YEAH! That's it....."We'll alwaysh have Los Angle-lessh, Shweetheart!" (...see Fred?!...while my "Jack Webb" might not be so good, my "BOGIE" is pretty much spot on here, huh?!) LOL

>I would have called her anyway, but 'that's water under the bridge' and everything has it's reason. Look at it this way, you probably saved yourself a lot of heartache if she went on to marry 6 times... Yep, exactly Twink. A few years later, I would soon discover that my second live-in girlfriend(who btw looked a lot like Brit actress Glenda Jackson) was an alcoholic, and come to the realization that I didn't need THAT kind of "drama" in my life, and even though I always loved watchin' the drama unfold on the silver screen. Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 7, 2013 4:25 PM

LOL That IS a funny thought there, Fred! (...'cept as I'm SURE you've come to realize after all this time, my voice pattern isn't ANYTHING like the monotoned Mr.Jack Webb's was!)

I don't know. Well, actually I kinda do. I had just broken up after a 2 year live-in relationship with a gorgeous auburn-haired co-worker who looked JUST like British actress Samantha Eggar, and I suppose I was still holding a torch for her. And so, I was probably hoping to eventually get back together with "Cheryl" during that time...hence, not wanting to "burn that bridge". And so, a few months later and by the time it finally dawned on me that THAT wasn't going to happen, I just thought it would probably be kinda "creepy" for me to call Jennifer out of the blue after all that time.

Well, that's IT...I WASN'T thinking! But NOW you're just rubbin' it IN!!! LOL Btw, did I ever tell you a TRUE story about the time I didn't follow through on a date with that gorgeous '70s actress Jennifer O'Neill? Yep, it was around '75 or so, and I was workin' at the TWA call center in downtown L.A. She had called to book a reservation for her young son to fly to Rome to see her ex-husband. I started to kid around with her over the phone(she seemed to have a great sense of humor) and after about half an hour into the conversation I told her that I better take some other calls, to which she said she really enjoyed our conversation and because I had earlier asked for her phone number to put in the reservation's file, she said to give her a call and we'd get together for a drink or somethin'. Well, I never followed through and called her. Don't know why. And now, every time someone mentions the film The Summer of '42 around here, I kinda think of what "might have been". (...but leavened with what I now know of what was to become of her, as she would go on to be married somethin' like 5 or 6 times, shoot herself "accidentally" once, and NOW I understand, has "found Jesus")

WAIT! That's IT! It was that blasted RED VEST! I would always wear that sucker even IF it clashed with my green LEISURE SUIT! No WONDER all those women would give me that "funny look" at their front door when I'd pick 'em up for that first date!!!! (...oh sure Twink...where were YOU when I needed your help with fashion sense back then?!!!...Canada, THAT'S where!!!!)

Yeah, YEAH...I remember that, wouldbe! I always thought that THAT just JUST about the time that show started goin' downhill! (...sorry, just couldn't resist)

I gotta admit Christie is a very likable guy with a great sense of humo(u)r , alright! And, they say a man's sense of humo(u)r IS what attracts most women to 'em, ya know. (...funny, that seldom worked for ME back in the day...yep, I can't TELL ya how many times out on the town I would feel like Groucho, and YET by my DATE'S reactions to my humo(u)r, she would start to seem just like Margaret Dumont to me!!!)

Sorry Twink. Sydney Greenstreet is long gone now! And unfortunately for you, not ONLY is the present New Jersey governor reportedly happily married, BUT you might've heard he's NOW got one of those lap bands inside him TOO! (...note: there's been no recent report about how "nice" HIS "insides" are, but I gotta say he DOES seem reasonably nice from all OUTWARDLY appearances lately!)

So, just not a "snuggler", EH finance?! Hear this, LADIES?! The guy with only 4% body fat doesn't want ya to get THAT close, and just wants ya to admire him from afar! (...ya KNEW there just HAD to be a catch here, DIDN'T YA!!!)

>Maybe they can watch their first-date movie on a single iPhone. They would have to sit close together in order to see the screen. Oh, how romantic! Ya know Fred(you little hi-tech devil you), that ACTUALLY might WORK! I never thought about THAT aspect of it, before. (...might be kinda tough for 'em to see though if our new young friend here decides that the letterbox 70mm version of Lawrence of Arabia will get his date all hot and bothered, huh!)

>Hmmmm, always worked for me in the 70s >That was 40 years ago! Young women are different today. Yeah, they're NOW much too busy to look up from their CELLPHONE screen to see what's happenin' up there on the SILVER screen!!! (...WHICH reminds me here, young jamescagneyfan...IF she does THAT on your date, drop her like a bad habit IMMEDIATELY!!!) **** here! Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 7, 2013 2:11 PM

A while back my wife and I visited F.L.Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, finance. The docent did make mention of Ms. Baxter's familial ties to the great architect while on our tour, and that the actress would occasionally visit the place to see her uncle.

>and, no, it is not about "the colon and the gallbladder" Yeah, that WAS a funny line of finance's there in that thread, wasn't it!

Well, ya know what they say, don't ya Fred?..."There are really only seven basic plot lines to be mined in movies". (...well, EIGHT now, of course...the eighth one is NO plot but a whole bunch of special effects...and as I'm sure your know, THIS one is VERY popularly used today!!!) LOL

>..if she really likes you, she won't give a damn what you show her.....that is so true, it is the person you are with that counts, Not the movie...Twink OH geeez! Are we on this whole "it's what's on the inside that counts" thing AGAIN??? (...heck, I THOUGHT we had THIS all settled in that "Robert Taylor" thread I hijacked EARLIER!!!!) LOL

>Let's see now, where does Van Johnson and MIRACLE IN THE RAIN fit into this picture? Don't they agree to meet somewhere? Maybe at a big clock in New York? Or was that in THE CLOCK? I can see where your confusion lay here, Fred. In "MIRACLE" there is another NYC landmark involved in the plot...St.Patrick's Cathedral. However in this film, and as far as I remember, the only "pact" between the two principals is an agreement for a later marriage between the two as Van goes off to fight in WWII.

>....she must not have had a sense of humor Hey Twink...I gotta ask here. You're Canadian, RIGHT?! Then where the heck is that "superfluous British/Canadian letter 'u'" in the word "humor" here, HUH...err...EH?! (...me thinks we Americans might be rubbin' off on you here...better be careful!...might be showin' just a little too much independence from The Crown, ya know!)

>I remember one lady I dated who used to put two spoons of sugar in my coffee every morning, until I told her that I was not the guy who liked two spoons of sugar. I'm the guy who likes only half a spoon of sugar. And the dame got mad at ME for pointing that out!! Well, I suppose THAT'LL teach ya think twice before dating any more women residing at the "Shady Glen Rest Home", HUH?! (...yep, I hear some of the widows there are PRETTY set in their ways, alright!)

>Is that the one where they were sending emails to each other, but they didn't actually know who the other one was?? Ummm...yeah Fred. And then later on in the movie, "You've Got Mail at The Shop Around the Corner During the Good Ol' Summertime", Van and Judy sing some Hip Hop, and Van starts breakdancing on the sidewalk in front of that little music shop! (...sorry, couldn't resist...yep, in the Hanks/Ryan "email" movie, that's correct)

>Don't you ever make mistakes about movies, titles, and remakes?? I get them mixed up all the time. Hey Fred! I certainly hope you don't this with your dates TOO!!! (...'cause i'd sure hate to think that it WAS Bella and NOT Gloria you used to date!!!!) LOL