Dargo2

LOL Don't forget to mention the Income Property which sits just down the hill from it, RR. That always adds value to ANY real estate, ya know. Not to mention the "handy-dandy out-of-sight-out-of-mind" trash disposal area conveniently located on the grounds! (...I take it you're fairly new to the R/E Biz, eh?!)

OOPS! You're right, Lavender. Sorry, I should have said "grandfather". I'm sure the docent said that and not "uncle". (...but hey, it's..ahem.."All in the Family", isn't IT?!...and which brings us back to Ham's favorite house again...loud toilet and all)

I'm not sure, BUT the docent during that tour I mentioned DID say that she would often visit her uncle there and do a lot of horseback riding in the area.

OR, as they say, "Two wrongs don't make a right, BUT three rights make a left"???

>If you're looking for stability in storms and earthquakes, Mason's home in NBNW may not be the answer....... True...but with a bit of a caveat here, finance. Even taking into consideration that South Dakota is not an "earthquake zone", because the MGM set designers of the scale model of this house(nope, there was never actually a real house made of it) were asked by Hitchcock to design a "Frank Lloyd Wright style" of house for the James Mason character, and because many of Wright's otherwise distinctive designs had been built using materials and techniques ahead of their time and thus often pushing the limits of known structural engineering concepts of those materials available to him at the time, many of Wright's designed structures would over the years become somewhat deficient structurally and later require quite a few dollars in retrofitting costs to make them more structurally sound in the present. The recent amount in costs to do just this very thing to his masterpiece, "Fallingwater" located in the state of Pennsylvania, being a prime example of this. Having ventured through his Scottsdale Arizona retreat and teaching campus of Taliesin West myself, I have seen firsthand, and the guided tour docents emphasize this point about Wright's designs. (...and if anyone around here ever finds themselves out in AZ, say, if perhaps they're attempting to escape from the bitter northern climes right about this time of year, I would heartily endorse a visit to this location even if they might only have a fleeting interest in architecture) http://www.franklloydwright.org/about/TaliesinWestTours.html

>I could imagine her saying. "And your damn dog, too!" Now, that has cadence. Well actually slayton, I understand that that WAS exactly how the original script read. (...but unfortunately for Ms. Hamilton, there had been an established allotment of the word "damn" being used in any movie made in the year 1939, and as we know, Clark Gable would get first dibs at it)

Yeah mark, very true. I too have been to your part of the country in my many travels, and it IS as you said very beautiful there. However I gotta ask: How's that whole "Lake-Effects" thing workin' for ya right about now, HUH?! (...Dargo signing off now from Sedona Arizona) LOL

Gotta say you MIGHT have a point here, fx! I mean, where would the lexicon be today if some WWII G.I. hadn't come up with the acronyms "SNAFU" and "****" in order to make those thoughts a little more palatable for public consumption, huh!

Yes, but Ham, word is the walls in Archie and Edith's house there are SO paper thin that one can hear the upstairs toilet flush no matter WHERE they happen to be in the house at the time! (...and so, would you REALLY want a house like THAT???)

>It was never acceptable for any "decent" person to use those words, only low lifes spoke that way. Yes, but Tiki, remember, this whole thread was started about all the swear words uttered by the characters in "The Wolf of Wall Street", wasn't it?! And so, THINK about the locale AND the characters a movie with THAT kind of title would have in it, RIGHT???!!! LOL

I dunno, Morris. For some reason I just don't see Ms. Hamilton sayin' somethin' like: "And your little #$%GD*^%^#$!, %$@MF%^! dog too." (...it's all in the cadence, ya see...and besides, isn't that movie already pretty long?)

Well, GOOD then! It appears we have a consensus about this in that case. A Coen Bros' production of "The Petrified Forest" has now been seconded and passed by all hands, (...anybody know Joel and Ethan's home phone numbers???)

Yep, ol' buddy! You set 'em up, and I knock 'em down! (...don't worry though, NEXT time I'll let YOU hold the rubber chicken)

Well Mr.R, AT LEAST you didn't end your post here by saying somethin' like..."And now in sitcoms this has become the 'American Standard' "! (...though as you'll note here, it wouldn't be past ME to say it...and primarily for all our plumbers out there...don't THEY deserve to laugh TOO occasionally?!)

Oh, mi amigo...FerrrrrrNANdo was SUCH the cool(well, just don't get him angry) and self-assured Latin lover in MANY a flick! (...and the chicks just ate it UP!)

>a married couple, especially when one half of the couple is Latin, would NEVER have sex. Whoa! Slow down a second here, speedy! Wasn't THAT Fernando Llamas' whole SHTICK??? (...'cause it certainly WASN'T because he was such a great ACTOR!!!) LOL

>I did not know there had been a Maltese Falcon remake and as Bogart is close to Godhood in my opinion I don't want to see it. Actually RR, I was referring to the superiority of the Bogart remake as Sam Spade and in comparison to the '31 Ricardo Cortez starring version. But...hmmmmm...a Coen Bros' version of "The Petrified Forest" DOES sound like a rather interesting idea, as I also think they're pretty much geniuses. However, knowing their movies and how they CAN sometimes be "a little" over-the-top, I have to say this idea of yours somewhat surprised me, because as I recall in that other thread, you listed examples of "over-the-top-ness" in modern movie-making as the very reasons you'd hate to see a remake of "TPF". (...in other words, I'm gettin' mixed signals from ya here, my friend...please elaborate)

LOL Yep, for the LIFE o' me, I TOO can't imagine that Matthew's performance in that will ever be written about as rival to Preston's Henry Hill, clore.

WEEEELLL, I sure wish Fred here didn't have me on this "Ignore" function, as I'd sorely love to ask him how all his reminiscing about the Southwest(and where I currently resist, myself) has any bearing upon my idea that an updated "The Petrified Forest" COULD be very well done, AND possibly even BETTER done that the somewhat stage-bound 1936 version of it. And like I mentioned in my reply to RR a few weeks back in other thread about this, and which I HOPE he's now read, noted in my opinion in that thread that "True Grit"'s remake AND "The Maltese Falcon"'s remake in fact BEING superior to the original. And thus, that remakes aren't always inferior to the original...whether or NOT they starred Bogie or John Wayne. (...yep, it suuuuure is once again a shame that good ol' Fred has me on his "Ignore" function, alright...eeeh, he'd just probably think I was "pickin' on him" again by disageein' with him, and so maybe it's NOT such a shame after all)

Have to say here that whenever I think of "'70's movies", and which often presented the idea of "a lost generation of adults struggling to come to terms with The Establishment", a la, say, "Five Easy Pieces"...I MOST often visualize Karen Black's crossed eyes! (...and so for ME anyway, I guess it would be HER...I know, I know...weird huh!)

Well, it was either THAT, or I was momentarily..ahem.."comma-tose" when I typed that all out the first time, dark! (...your guess is as good as mine here, ol' buddy!)

No problem, clore. Now that I've re-read my own text there, I too can understand your confusion. I should have stated that as follows: "...and during his initial time as host for that recent Friday Night Noir series, didn't sound as if he'd rather be anyplace ELSE than in front of that TCM set camera..." And of course, meaning I got the impression he relished his turn as the presenter, and I also felt his delivery in service to it was first-rate and not, as I've felt other guest presenters to be, rather bland and uninspired, and as if they were reading it off a teleprompter...and with no INFLECTION in their voice at all! (...sorry, I just HAD to use that word "inflection" again!) LOL

Yeah...well...IF they'd wanna REALLY class up the joint around here, they'd re-name it...."Turner Classic Cinema"!!! (...and pronounced: "sin-NEE-mah"...and just like how ALL us classy people say it!!!) LOL

Wow, and rightly so, clore. There is indeed quite a resemblance between the two. Though as I recall, didn't Mr. Moss usually play a little more "sinister" roles than did Mr.Abbott?

Yep, she at least has "personality" alright, finance! I'm glad you noticed. In fact, almost everyone living within 5 miles either north OR south of Ventura Blvd ESPECIALLY thinks her personality is just FINE, thank you very much! (...figured you'd like this one)