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Hmmmm...and NOW I'm wonderin' IF it's JUST a coincidence here that Fred posted somethin' right AFTER finance mentioned somethin' about bein' "stuck in the past"???? LOL (...sorry Fred, I just couldn't resist...you know I love ya, RIGHT?!)

LOL Ummmm...will ya give me three guesses here, ol' buddy??!

LOL Yep fred, there's another "flash from the commercial past" there, alright!

Hmmmm...now WHY is it I suddenly have a urge to go purchase a pack of Mr. Wrigley's gum here, Joe???

REALLY?! Wow, I would've SWORN that rosebette got it right here, Dothery! (...okay, could it REALLY be "Jimmy Crack Corn" THEN?!)

Yeah, well, maybe THAT, and their "three-pack-a-day habit" maybe! (...'cause I don't think Bogart was in that movie, was HE?!) LOL

>Johnny Mack Brown ...and I don't care. My master's gone away. (sorry, couldn't resist...and yeah rosebette, I think you're right)

Yep, absolutely one of the best and funniest nights ever on Carson's show alright, willbe! I remember watching this the very night it was first broadcast. Yep, maybe this one and the Ed Ames tomahawk throwing("Gee, I didn't know you were Jewish!") exhibition! LOL And, don't forget the other big laugh Gobel received that night was the telling of his "war experiences" during WWII...

And Sepia, you could also add Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and of course Joan Rivers to these attempts by other networks at grabbing some of Carson's ratings. (...that latter of course which would bitterly sting Carson and create the "feud" between the two which would last until Johnny's death)

WhyaDuck, while I agree with almost all of your assessment of Carson's great and special talent for hosting "The Tonight Show" and your thoughts about the present lack of a "training ground" for hosts of these sorts of programs, please don't forget that toward the end of his 30 year tenure as host of his show, there was the beginnings of a feeling within the entertainment community and even in the minds of some of the viewing public that Johnny had "overstayed his welcome" and had become a little too "vanilla" and a little, shall we say "passe". In fact, just a few years before his retirement this idea had been presented as fodder for a semi-reoccurring comedy skit on "Saturday Night Live" which featured Dana Carvey performing his Johnny Carson impression and with Phil Hartman as Ed McMahon, and with the comic premise that their show was stuck in the past...to which I remember Carson later making a few offhanded remarks on his own show in reference to that skit and which seemed to sting him a bit. The only reason I brought this up is that I feel that after this same amount of time(30 years) in which David Letterman has hosted his late night programs on both the NBC and CBS networks, I've never felt this point could be applied to Letterman at all, as I think his more acerbic style has helped keep this whole "vanilla" aspect from ever becoming a factor in his case.

Richard Kiley

Well twinkeee, it is a rather sentimental film, what with little Donna Corcoran doing an excellent job of tugging at one's heartstrings throughout, wouldn't ya say? (...that's pretty much all I meant)

My very first thought after reading your question here WhyaDuck were these two scenes in the great The Best Years of Our Lives. and which might not have been quite as emotionally moving without Hugo Friedhofer's stirring score being played during them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0d3DVcKoY And my second thought was this closing scene in The Apartment, with Adolph Deutsch's score playing while Shirley MacLaine is running down the street and toward's Jack Lemmon's place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKj6G3RPAg (...of course this could be 'cause these two films are probably my two favorite movies of all time...yep, I'm just a sentimental ol' slob, I suppose)

Just wanna say here TB that after I watched Scandal at Scourie last night, I've NEVER felt SO manipulated by a film in all my life! (...and loved every minute of it)

Now Mark, wouldn't ya say Tim's performance as the shell-shocked soldier who gets slapped by George C. Scott's Patton in that movie about the egocentric "Old Blood and Guts", makes his turn as FDR seem almost pale by comparison??? (...btw, my dearly departed father who served in Patton's Third Army almost throughout the war, told me as we walked out the theater after viewing this film together back in 1970 and during its initial release that he always thought it was miraculous that the guy made it all the way through the war...and PRIMARILY because not ONLY did the Germans want the guy dead, but that probably HALF the Americans soldiers who served under him wanted to take a shot at the guy TOO...which was probably the first time I had ever heard that old joke) LOL

Well, yeah, SURE you're say this NOW, Sepia! (...ESPECIALLY after goin' directly from a shot of Mia to a shot of Cliff here!)

So Joe, I take it that unlike the rest of the Birthday Boys down there today, try as ya might, you couldn't find a picture of a 30 year old Will Wright, huh?! (...but then AGAIN of course, I'll bet ol' Will probably pretty much looked like THAT even when he WAS 30 years old TOO, huh?!...yep, kinda like Walter Brennan, huh!) LOL

Alyssa Milano ?

Nope Addison, other than the loose association with the Jerry Lester hosted program previously mentioned here, Steve Allen was the first host of the program we've come to know as "The Tonight Show". Parr took over in '57 after Allen left and then for a short interim a number of "guest hosts" which included Ernie Kovacs took over before Parr's 1957-62 run.

Aah, so finance was referring to the old "Broadway Open House" program...not "Broadway After Dark" btw, allthumbs. Yes, I knew of that show and it "kinda sorta" bein' the precursor to "The Tonight Show". And yep, I also knew of "Darmar", though being a "car guy", my first "introduction" to her(or at least a reference to her "attributes") was when I was a kid, and people would call the bumper protrusions on cars such as on this '55 Caddy here, "Dagmar bumpers"....

Hmmmm...sounds like you're tryin' to lead me into a trap here, ol' buddy, 'cause as far I know it was Steve Allen who pretty much began the program as we've come to know it, back in '54.

Actually, I was thinkin' more that a title such as "Best Food Forward" sounds more like it might be one of those Ealing Studio comedies made in the '50s and starring Alec Guinness as a chef who gets fired("sacked") from his job and thus turns to robbing the Bank of England in order to make ends meet! (...btw lydecker...sorry about the sidetracking here...ol' chap!)

LOL Soooo...how 'bout Chuck Norris then??? I mean, there MUST be SOME underlying and subconscious reason why lydecker here spelled it "food" instead of "foot" here, ya know! (...uh huh...what was that thing Freud said about there being no such thing as accidents?!)

I've heard it said before that, "The pioneering Hollywood directors such as Wyler, Wellman, Ford and others knew more of 'real life' than of cinema, compared to the film directors who would came later and who would know more of films than of 'real life'."(or something to that effect, anyway) And so, if this statement IS true to any degree, then this phenomenon we're talking about here makes perfect sense, of course.

Aaah..."Foot", NOT "food", huh?! Soooo, I take it there wasn't anyone like THIS guy here yelling out... "FOOD FIGHT!!!" ...in this one, huh?!