Dargo2

**** here!!! (...though I DO believe the FULL title was: What's This Under My Raincoat, Little Girl)

So finance, lemme guess here. Your favorite old punchline would be.."If she dies, she dies!"..then, RIGHT???

"Aaah...NOW'A you catchin' on!"

Well heck, TB! Wouldn't you EXPECT a person who's choice in a TCM site name has its origins in this classic comedy routine filled with malapropisms delivered by the gentleman on the left here... ...would NOT be one inclined to post messages in perfect English??? (...I mean THINK about it, dude!) LOL

Well put, Dark. Yep, this is my second viewing of this film, and both times I kept thinking that Kubrick might have loved or at least appreciated this film, as it definitely reminds me of "Dr. Strangelove", what with its outlandish premise played by all concerned with total straight faces. And WhyaDuck, yes, just as in "Strangelove", I believe there is an element present in this film which mocks the idea of "American Exceptionalism" and American excess, and which the British can often and so effectively present with their brand of subtle humor....though it appears that particular brand of humor is not your cup of tea. (...though after saying all this, I don't think this Tony Richardson film is quite in the same league as the Kubrick film, but it was especially fun for me to see my old hometown of L.A. and my old location of employment for many years, LAX, circa the mid-1960s shown in all its "glory" in this film) Edited by: Dargo2 on May 24, 2013 10:12 PM

Ah, but Dark, hasn't the definition of "geek" evolved since those halcyon days of your high school years to also mean "someone very adept in the Sciences"...particularly the Computer Sciences? I mean, wouldn't Sheldon and Leonard(and no, NOT the guy who played the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life", though I hear these two sitcom characters were actually named after him...but I digress yet again ) be considered "geeks" in the modern sense of the word? (...and they're certainly not "repulsive"...just funny as hell, THAT'S all!!!)

Well then, there's ONE THING for sure here then...and THAT would be if the little twerp ever rings my doorbell here in Sedona and tries to hand me one of those freakin' Watchtower pamphlets, he's SURE gonna get the "extra special bum's rush" from MY door, anyway!!! (...though this DOES remind me of the time I still lived in L.A. and when the group of J.Ws came to my door...I actually invited these poor lost souls into my home and for a while I thought I had two of 'em convinced that my Agnostic philosophy of life was the way to go...uh huh, true story...uh huh, I can be VERY persuasive when I WANT to be!!!) LOL

Okay. His usual boarding procedure was that he and little entourage (saaay...is there one of those superfluous U's in the word "entourage" there???...but I digress) insisted that he be boarded last and always in seat 1A, and he'd always get special permission to walk up the jetway stairs from the ramp, so that the public wouldn't see him. PLUS, the little twerp would STILL wear his little hoodie over his head in order to further make sure he wasn't recognized by the traveling public. And not only THAT, but the little twerp would ALSO stuff towels around whatever part of his face might've still been showing under his little hoodie, so that only his eyes wouldn't be covered. (...now tell me here...wouldn't ya say that THAT is just too freakin' weird for words???...and remember, THIS was all goin' on YEARS after his hits had dropped off the charts in his '80s heyday!)

Aaah, so THAT 'splains it then, EH?! Sorry 'bout that, Chief(ette)!

Well good. Now that we've established THAT, I suppose we can move on to the NEXT issue....which would be... What gave you the impression that I was a "dudette"? Okay, a "metrosexual male" MAYBE, but NOT a "dudette"!!! LOL (...btw, I had NO idea that "twerp" could be spelled with an "i" instead of an "e"...so thanks at least for THAT, anyway...though I think I'll still continue to spell it with the "e", all things considered) Edited by: Dargo2 on May 23, 2013 11:38 PM

Well, OF COURSE I don't like short people! And ya know WHY?! 'Cause... They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People `Round here (..uh huh...so ya think YOU are the only person who can post song lyrics 'round here?) LOL Though of course, while I DO actually like a few of Prince's songs, his diminutive stature has little to do with why I think he's one crazy little twerp.

Well, in THAT case heuriger, what say we leave those superfluous "U"'s to the Brits and the Canadians! (...why you ask?!...so they can spell words like "color", "labor", "flavor", "favorite" and a whole mess of OTHER words that of course really don't NEED 'em!!!) LOL

Yep stayton, it appears you're correct from what I can find over the Net. Brian Wilson's "Amusement Parks, U.S.A." was released in '65, and P.O.P. ceased operations in '67.

Dude! Maybe you already know this, but Pacific Ocean Park closed YEARS before that crazy little Minnesotan twerp wrote that little ditty about Cocaine usage! (...and trust me here...I know EXACTLY how crazy that little Minnesotan twerp IS, after boarding the crazy little twerp on many a Northwest Airlines LAX-MSP flight over the years and before I retired!!!) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on May 23, 2013 10:43 PM

Just a few points about this whole thing which I think have yet to be made... First, it is a grand old Jewish tradition to make light of or humor about sorrowful situations.This practice has been a comfort and coping mechanism used by Jews for centuries if not millennia, and is most likely the reason a sizable percentage of the great American comedians of the 20th Century have been Jewish. Secondly, it seems it's often forgotten that without Dick Shawn's pitch-perfect comic turn as the Nazi dictator in "Springtime for Hitler", the play WOULD have been a flop, and thus Bialystock and Bloom's scheme would have worked. (...you folks remember Dick Shawn, don't ya?.. he was doin' Robin Williams' shtick in nightclubs when the latter was still in short pants or MAYBE even when Robin was still smarting from his bris!!!) LOL

Okay, maybe it's just the signature glasses, but... Harold Lloyd ...and... Larry Blyden (...whaddaya think, folks?)

Yep, I think it was probably P.O.P., slayton. I remember it well, also. As a kid growing up in the South Bay section of Greater L.A., we'd often take our relatives visiting from "back east" to that amusement park, along with of course to Marineland of the Pacific which was located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, not to mention Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm "way out there" in Orange County when it was TRULY a county filled with orange groves. (...and btw, you probably know that P.O.P. was where the "one-armed man Fred Johnson" finally received his just deserts on the final episode of "The Fugitive")

Well, speakin' o' Madonna... I'd like to have dinner with HER! (...if for nothin' else, bein' in close enough proximity to rap her knuckles with my butter knife from across the table every freakin' time she'd attempt to do that lousy British accent she sometimes affects!)

I always thought Steve Forrest would've made a great Steve Canyon...he of the square-jawed look, just like his brother Dana. (...which I'm somewhat shocked to learn that some of you otherwise very knowledgeable cinephiles around here didn't know that Steve and Dana were bros...and I don't mean that in a Captain Renault fashion, either...nope, they're certainly not twins, BUT they sure did look a whole lot alike!...oh, and btw, R.I.P. Steve)

>I'm not so sure about the choice of Kay Francis for a romantic evening. I can hear her saying 'hey, don't mess with my dress!'. Ahem...I think you meant to say: "Hey, don't mess with my dwess" there, didn't ya James? (...what?!...you're not doin' impressions around here anymore or somethin', you cwazy wabbit???!!!)

> to me she doesn't look like the offspring of two english parents. Hmmmm...well remember James, not ALL Brits look like Terry-Thomas(could never understand that whole hyphen thing there???) and/or Margaret Rutherford, dude!!! LOL

Yep, word is her Boer War veteran father taught her how to throw that vicious right-cross she landed on Linda Evans in that pool!

>The shadows aim northward. Well, maybe northEASTwardly, anyway! (...like I said Fred, on the whole I think your contention is probably correct and well explains how these sequences were filmed)

Hmmmm..."went off a bridge", ya say, huh?! Soooo...did Ted Kennedy have anything to do with this ALSO???? (...sorry, couldn't resist...yeah, yeah, I know...I'm one sick puppy, huh!)

>Perhaps the original poster was thinking of the hilariously bad movie Bop Girl Goes Calypso. Saaaaay...wasn't that the title of the first cut on Mitchum's album here??? (...well, if it WASN'T, it SHOULD'VE been anyway!!!)