Dargo2
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>4:3 photography would have given us the full image, such as with Gone With The Wind. and The Wizard of Oz. We would have lost half the image (the top and bottom) if The Wizard of Oz been filmed in Cinemascope.
Would someone please ask Fred for me if he thinks his above "theory" would still be valid IF my following question is asked:
Would not all Victor Fleming needed to have done IF the process of Cinemascope had been available to him would have been to just pull the camera back a bit and for that wide-screen format to have not cut the top of Olivia and Clark's head, OR for that matter, to not cut the top off of Judy, et al's heads in the Oz flick?
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Well, ACTUALLY it's more a "Romantic/Drama/Comedy/Travel/Adventure" movie!
(...what?!...don't you folks remember the boat scenes in it???)
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>This funny bit from Bill Cosby, when he asked a coke user just what cocaine is supposed to DO for you, the guy told him, "Well...it INTENSIFIES your personality." Bill then asked him, "Yeah, but...what if you're an A**HOLE?"
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That's a great line, alright!
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>Congrats on your sobriety, Dargo!
Why, thank you, GG! However, as I mentioned down there, I really can't take ALL the credit for this.
(...my enormous ego played quite a big hand in all of it, remember?!)
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Oh, yeah, I think I remember that scene in "36 Hours", midwestan.
As I recall Garner's suspicions are piqued when after he asks that guard the question, "Who won the '46 World Series?", the guard replied, "Why, the Berlin Bears, of course!"
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"Bookmarked"???!!!
Dude, don't worry! I'm sure YOU'LL especially be glad to learn that I don't ever plan of runnin' for ANY public office in either the near OR far future!
And so any thoughts to share this little bit of personal info of mine later on with any news organizations(and I got me a feelin' I know what YOUR favorite one is) would be strictly a waste of your time!
(....and besides, my wife of 22 years knows ALL about my days as a "player" back in the day, though I DO appreciate your apparent "concern" about my "reputation")
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Btw Jake, don't I get ANY props from ya for stoppin' my used of that there Cocaine??? OR, are you still so mortified to learn that some people actually learn from their mistakes?
(...so what YOUR addiction here, Jake?...or are YOU too freakin' "righteous" to spill the beans on that, and thus holdin' all that inside ya, might be the reason YOU are the way you are around here???)
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Yeah, it was a "sorry existence" to be sure, Jake in the Heartland.
But then again, YOU know how us crazy Californians could be, RIGHT?! Out there on the Left Coast enjoying life, and while you poor slobs on the farms were doin' all the heavy lifting!
(...and which must be why YOU are just such a "ball o' laughs" NOW days, huh!)
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I don't KNOW about this, Ham!
That Cocaine ad there sure looks suspiciously as if it is set in "The Heartland"!!!
(...and where of course not only do 99% of the people there NEVER do drugs, but haven't a freakin' clue who this Hoffman guy is EITHER!!!)
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I kinda know what you mean here, Palmerin, though in MY case it was dabbling for a short while in the late-'70s with Cocaine.
(cue the Clapton music here Maestro, while we take a little stroll down Memory Lane)
Some of my friends at the time gave me a few free lines of the stuff a few times to snort, and I have to admit I thought it was amazing how that stuff would make you think you were "the best lookin' AND wittiest SOB in the Disco". And so eventually I would end up purchasing a couple grams of the stuff...at one hundred bucks a gram.
Well, one night after a few hours after snortin' the second gram that I would ever purchase, and while suffering from that nasty "post-nasal drip" which always accompanied its use, I kinda sorta had a little "epiphany" about this whole thing.
Yep, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't need to spend one hundred smackeroos and the money I could use to purchase stuff for my motorcycles or cars, AND in order to make me THINK for an hour or so that I was "the best lookin' and wittiest SOB in the Disco", when in fact I already KNEW I usually WAS "the best lookin' and wittiest SOB in the Disco" and could "get" almost any woman I wanted in the place ANYWAY!!!
And so I stopped usin' the stuff 'cause I really didn't need it!
(...see how a "well developed ego" can be SUCH a good hedge against addiction?!!!)
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>A couple years ago, enroute from Monterey to Anaheim, my husband and I were actually driving on Highway 41 (or 46, I don't remember), but I saw the sign saying "Chloame, pop xx" and I was like "oh, this is where James Dean died!" I was looking for the James Dean Memorial sign; but I think I was on the wrong side of the highway. I was heading west toward Anaheim, I think Dean may have been heading east toward Paso Robles.
Actually speedy, Dean was traveling west on CA State Route 466(now just named CA Hwy 46) and Donald Turnupseed(yeah, really) the driver of the Ford sedan traveling east on the same road. Turnupseed, by all indications, failing to see the small Porsche mid-engine race car, attempted to make a left turn onto CA State Route 41 which intersected at a diagonal to SR46 and to continue on in a northeasterly direction and on to Fresno. Unfortunately as we know, his maneuver impacted Dean's Spyder.
Btw, the Dean monument you sought is located in the parking lot of a roadhouse dinner located in the little town of Cholame, CA, and which sits just a few miles west on Hwy 46 of where the accident took place.
As a side note here, on Sept.30, 2005, the 50th anniversary of Dean's death, I traveled to that little dinner in order to glean some information on purchasing a replica 550 Spyder (they go for about $40K and as compared to the approx 45 of 95 ever made and remaining in existence of the real model, and which are now valued in the millions of dollar) as I had heard many people who owned them would be there with their replica Spyders while at this tribute. I would end up purchasing one a couple years later and still own it to this day. Man is it ever a beautiful AND fun little car to drive, but I ALWAYS remember that just like whenever I'm riding one of my motorcycles, "NOBODY sees you out there" and thus always drive VERY defensively while behind its wheel.
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Yeah, I suppose so, Arturo. Then what would be the correct term for how Ringo fractured the language? Is there another and more specific word for that?
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So, in other words(and in keeping with this whole "baseball" thing here), Ringo was the Yogi Berra of the Beatles, right?!
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Very true, slayton, though I think what always gets to me most about that film is the idea that all these poor souls in it feel stuck in that small dying town and just can't think of a way to extricate themselves from it and their "lot in life".
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OR, maybe Tarzan think: "Why you no wear bullet bra no more? Me always like!"
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>Clooney has also cited The Great Escape as another film that influenced The Monuments Men.
Which I would suppose would be an additional sticking point for the Brits, because as you probably know Iz(and maybe the reason you mentioned it), the actual "Great Escape" had no Yanks involved in the stalag escape at all. And thus, would be a similar "rewrite" of history and a similar case to what RMeingast mentioned below here:
>One perspective from Britain: "How Hollywood wrote the real Monuments Man out of history: British academic gave his life to protect art from the Nazis... but he doesn't even get a mention in the new George Clooney blockbuster".
Edited by: Dargo2 on Feb 8, 2014 6:39 PM
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>So if I am seated on the 50 yard line I will feel that I am right in the middle of the action but still must basically keep looking straight ahead to keep a proper viewing. On television viewing this effect is largely negated, right?
Unless you're in Canada, and then for your scenario to be correct, you'd have to be seated on the 55 yard line, Mr. R!
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Well actually NONE of 'em anymore...and once that doctor schooled in that there Lasik contraption did his thing on me!
(...sorry)
Okay, the one movie I always mention about being hard for me to watch is "The Last Picture Show". A slight touch of melancholia always kicks in every time I see Timothy Bottoms consoled by the equally unhappy Cloris Leachman at the end of it.
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>What I want to know is why Ringo didn't use his real name, Richard? You know, John, Paul, George, and Richard . My name is Richard, my youth could have been cooler with a Beatles connection.
Yeah, well, MAYBE, "Richard". BUT remember, there was ANOTHER "Richard" making a lot of news just about that time in history too, and HE wasn't ever considered very "cool" now was he?!
(...so count your blessing here, 'cause AT LEAST all your friends back then didn't "kick you around anymore" for that, RIGHT?!)
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Well, I'm sure you know the reason kwai..err..why THAT bridge failed wasn't because of any structural issues, but because that darn Brit Hawkins talked Holden into "helping" it fail.
(...and what did poor ol' Holden get for his troubles?...yep, riddled with bullets from a freakin' Kyūroku-shiki Kei-kikanjū machine gun!)
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>Wasn't there a scene in Battle of the Bulge where the German (disguised as American) at the checkpoint screws up the baseball question?
Speakin' of the "Battle of the Bulge", Mr.R...Did ya hear they're making a remake of this movie? Yep, though it's set in present day NY/NJ, features a certain bridge(no, but KINDA like "A Bridge Too Far"), and is actually titled what it is because of the weight issue a certain governor in that part of the country is battling right now!
(...yeah, yeah, I know...ya saw that one comin' across the G.W. Bridge WAY before I even got half-way through it, didn't ya!)
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>how do the Beatles figure there are 8 days in a week ? I know of only 7. PLEASE EXPLAIN if you can. Eight Days a week makes no sense, but it's a pretty good song.
Well ccf, tell ya what. I'm a little busy right now, BUT If you'll remember to get back me later this month of February, say around the 30th, I promise I'll fill ya in on how all that could happen!
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Thank you, Fred!
Yep, it's a shame "O.S.S." seems to be M.I.A., alright. I'd love to see it again, and just to see how that vague memory of mine about that scene actually plays out.
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Yeah, well, tell ya what Andy. After you find out the answer to THAT whole "WWII Movie/Dodgers/Yankees/Will Bendix" thing, I've had a question that's been drivin' ME a little nuts(okay, nuttier) for years now myself, and it too involves WWII and how a certain inadvertent message gives away the character to his enemies, though in THIS case it's the reverse and about how an American is discovered to be a spy by the Nazis while undercover in Germany.
It involves a scene where while eating dinner at a table full of Nazis, the American is momentary and purposely distracted by the lead Nazi officer who has suspicions about the American being a spy, and the Yank begins to cut his meat and then switches his fork over to his right hand in to bring to his mouth as most Americans do and unlike the European manner in which to dine.
So, what movie is THAT in, huh?! Anybody remember this scene at all and what movie it's in? 'Cause I remember seeing this as a kid on TV and have been unable to get the definitive answer to it for years now.
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Good one, slayton!
I'm going to assume this process will work best with actors and actresses 6 ft and over, right?
(...and so people would be advised to not look forward for any movies filmed and released in new Vertiscope starring one Thomas Cruise, right?!)