Dargo2

Karl-Otto Alberty. I doubt anyone ever played a better Nazi on screen. From The Great Escape... "Hands...UP!" (...and speakin' of that movie...Happy Birthday today, "Cooler King"!!!)

Hey Fred! These "brick houses" you're talkin' about here. Is it true some of 'em are "mighty mighty", and "built like an Amazon"??? (...sorry, couldn't resist)

While over the years Letterman MIGHT have toned himself down a bit or as you said "gone Corporate", I think for a 65 y/o guy he's still pretty "edgy" and "hip". And the reason I say this is because even today he doesn't seem afraid to disagree or "get into it" with some of his guests, whereas Leno has always come across as if the last thing he wants to start is a "controversy" of any sort, and which of course usually plays better in "The Heartland", and thus as the linked article in this thread mentioned is where Leno's stronger ratings have always been located.

I'm not so sure that even that's true, finance. And the reason I say this is because in a world where it seems more and more people know less and less about what happened in the world before they were born, and once again seem to take that "perverse pride" in that fact, AND because both Steverino and Johnny are now so long ago in the past that many out there only know of and remember Leno hosting "The Tonight Show", then I doubt one could even say what you said about the "history of TV" being knowledgeable in general would be correct. (...and btw, and speaking of "Steverino" here...as you probably know, Letterman's show from the very beginning and all the way back to his NBC days, always had a decidedly "Allen-esque" flavor to it, such as those "Man on the street" segments)

And Sans, speaking of some of Leno's ongoing segments... I have to say I won't miss his "Jaywalking" segments all that much...and their constant reminders of how clueless so many Americans are about the subjects of History and Geography. (...'cause I'm old enough to remember a time in this country when people would've thought twice before signing some release contract to allow a program to broadcast nationwide how utterly ignorant they are, and whereas now it seems so many Americans take some sort of perverse pride in their ignorance) Edited by: Dargo2 on Mar 24, 2013 10:57 AM

...yep, and never a very good interviewer either...at least in my estimation anyway.

How about: "Is that the best you have?!" (or ..."ya got"), which is a line that ya might see spoken in a film while someone is shopping and/or might often see spoken as a sarcastic retort. (...and speakin' o' which Sepia, I LOVED your sarcastic retort in that courtroom!...BRAVO!!!)

Uh huh...it's Morgan Brittany. (...and who Courteney Cox always kinda reminded me of)

And now your post has made me think of a song here, TB...and my fractured lyrics TO that song go somethin' like this: Oh, the knife, babe, cuts so deep, dear When you find out, she's your mom Not your sister, as you've been told, babe Since you were, but a tyke

Aaaah, now here's..ahem.."the thing", slayton....I believe that that's Kenneth Tobey.

That's the lustrous Meg Foster, slayton. How could anyone forget those eyes, huh?! (...oh and yep, Fred got Dolores Fuller correctly down there...though I'm dyin' to know if he used that "trick" of his to get her, or if he recognized her from maybe one of Ed Wood's films) Edited by: Dargo2 on Mar 23, 2013 10:05 AM

Right back atcha, Bro!

LOL Ya know Sepia, it seems you and I are spreading that "20th Century Vole" thread into other threads here, huh! (...and just like that George You-Know-Who's **** thread seems to do occasionally TOO!) LOL

I hope you probably figured out that I was jokingly and allegorically referencing the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes here BigFace, and that with my parenthetical addendum at the end was my way of saying that I've always thought the director of the sequel, Jack Nicholson, could have made a much better film IF he would have edited it a bit better, as I always thought there were way too many scenes which dragged on much too long and thus slowing the pace of it a little too much.

Nope, sorry Twinkeee, It's not Pamela Britton. (...btw, have I ever told you that I used to get Pamela Britton and Marsha Hunt confused together a lot?)

Uh huh Swithin, but how about that even LESS remembered SEQUEL to Pericles, Prince of Tyre to which The Bard put pen to paper, HUH?! Yep, I'm talkin' about the play, The Two Pericleses ! You remember that one too, RIGHT?! That's the one where one of the Pericleses goes into the spec real estate market on the island of Mykonos, but is crushed to death after the roof of the model hut he's sittin' in collapses during an earthquake and just after he tells the other Pericles about all the corrupt activities he was involved with in Athens. (...yep, and word is even Shakespeare himself thought this play of his needed a heck of lot more editing TOO before its VERY short run at The Globe Theatre...yep, it wasn't nearly as big a hit as people thought it could have been)

LOL Okay, here's a hint... Another and more modern actress plays her in a comic biopic made in the '90s.

True, but then there are those times when the cast lists are done by the size the egos involved. (...or alphabetically if all the egos involved are somewhat of the same scale, of course)

Nope dp. It wasn't there for the reclining actor/actress. It was there so that any other actors standing NEXT to the reclining actor/actress could practice the line... "IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!" (...well, that's MY guess anyway)

Nope twinkee, it's not Ms.(so, whaddaya wanna do tonight?) Marty. (...sorry, couldn't resist the Borgnine thing there ...but no, it's not Syra)

Okay Char, I'll admit I made up that whole "Duke playin' with his kachina dolls" thing, but tell me, was that U.S.S. Enterprise coffee table really YOUR'S??? (...'cause yeah, like dp here said, this IS pretty cool!)

>And on the opposite coast, same era (isn't it great to be old, Dargo? ), Yep, willbe, it sure is. I've said it many a time, but I wouldn't wish to be a day younger than I am, and probably because we grew up in an era when kids didn't have to have three college degrees and the subsequent student loans that sometimes reach into the six-figure range just in order to land a job that MIGHT give you a livable salary. > I was hooked on The Million Dollar Movie (never knew it was Tara's theme until my father called Channel 9 to ask) and The Late Late Show (ditto on The Syncopated Alarm Clock). Funny how the themes of these shows made their ways into the brain as much as the movies they programmed. Run of the mill b/w classics, btw, but thankfully b/w classics - but oh the humanity, didn't they have comMERcials? Then there was PBS (13 here then, now also 21 and 25), where I remember being transfixed by Ingmar Bergman and the like, sans commercials. Ditto on channels 5 and 11, where when I wasn't grooving to offbeat children's programming, I was catching movies, mostly monster flicks I think. And your recollections here reminded me of that great scene in that great movie, The Apartment, where Jack Lemmon settles in to watch the tube while eating his TV dinner and when the TV movie host(Bill Baldwin) starts his introduction of, "Tonight's movie, starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore. Joan Crawford and Wallace Beery in GRAND HOTEL", and with the smile on Lemmon's face getting wider and wider as each of those star's names are being rattled off because he thinks he's in store for a good time to come...but THEN announcer Baldwin says, "But FIRST this commercial...". And of course, this goes on twice, and at which point Lemmon in frustration just turns the TV off! (...that scene cracks me up every time I see it, 'cause Wilder knew it was SO true...well, that is before Ted Turner started up this little shindig around here, of course!)

And so, while we're waiting for darkblue to confirm to Rich that that is indeed Steven Keats, allow me to try and make a few folks scratch their heads with this one here...

>Mickey Rooney - 335 (And Counting) >PLEASE don't give TCM any ideas. I'm already starting to have nightmares of a Mickey Rooney SOTY. So Andy, I see you don't share Larry Olivier's opinion of Mickey's level of talent, eh?!

Very true, finance. Not only is there now that proverbial Springsteen phenomenon of "57 channels and nothing on(TV)", but any potential audience now has so many other personal options in which to entertain themselves, also. (...and thus, the old concepts such as "Did you catch The Beatles on Ed Sullivan last night" talk around the water cooler the next day, is a long gone proposition, isn't it!)