Dargo2
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Yeah, that's what I figured.
(...though I DO have to admit your joke gave me the..ahem.."Ho-Hos" and ha-ha's a bit, anyway)
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Now c'mon here, MissW! YOU know this ..ahem.."Ding Dong" of a scenario of yours here hasn't got a..ahem.."Snowballs" chance in you-know-where of being true, now don't ya???
(...yep sorry, but I have to..ahem.."Wonder" where you come up with this sorta stuff sometimes, Lady!)
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Maybe not the same kind of thing here, as this instance of course sounds more accidental than anything else, BUT this brought to my mind an incident that happened back in the mid-to-late 60s in L.A. and when I remember one movie being started but during the broadcast and halfway through, was then replaced with another movie entirely.
It was during one those TV "Afternoon Movie Matinees", and the first film shown was Joseph Mankiewicz's No Way Out, the racially-charged 1950 thriller starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sydney Poitier. Yeah, the one where Widmark's character calls Poitier character every name in that ugly ol' book.
Well, I was really starting to get into this one(I'm about 14 or 15 at the time as I recall), but after a commercial break at around the halfway point in it, the host of the program appeared and said because their station had receieved so many calls of complaint and even a few threats, the channel was going to suspend broadcasting the remaining of the film and would begin showing another film entirely....which they did.
I can't recall what replaced it, but I'm sure it was something much more lighthearted in tone.
(...which of course would've been pretty easy to find in their station's film library, I'm sure!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Feb 9, 2013 3:58 PM
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Man! You guys are just bound and determined to get Michael the Admin to "nuke(cu-lar)" this here thread, AREN'T ya???!!!
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I don't know, Max. I'm just seein' two older guys who maybe eat too many donuts, and with the same hairline...with the one on the left I hear having been 'surgically enhanced'.
Oh, AND with the guy on the left actually doing something with the talent he was given, while the guy on the right throwin' HIS talent away at every turn because of his apparent need to 'self-medicate'...WHICH the moron handed down to his children!!!!
(...nah, actually at THIS stage of their lives, I suppose there's a bit of a resemblence there...however, considering Shatner is 10 years older than O'Neal, one can see what drug abuse can do to a guy, huh?!...sorry, but I ALWAYS have state what a freakin' LOSER O'Neal is whenever I can, and you've just supplied me with yet another opportunity here, THAT'S all!!!)
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Edited by: Dargo2 on Feb 9, 2013 3:05 PM
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Yeah maybe Mr.R., though I'm now wonderin' if that was your reference to Shatner's turn in the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" as "Big Giant Head"???
(...it was, RIGHT?!)
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Well, you two be sure let us know how this all turns out, okay?!
(...'cause "I gots to know!")
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Yep, among many other highlights, I'd say.
Once again, I thought Lancaster was excellent, especially in the final scene when Tracy refutes Lancaster's rationale for his actions before and during the war...Dietrich's representing the "homefront" attitudes of the German cilvilian population...Schell's Oscar winning turn as Defense Counsel...Widmark's zealousness as the Prosecutor in making somebody, anybody, pay for the war crimes...and well, as I also said earlier, I thought EVERY actor was at the top of their game in this one.
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I don't think we should go there on this thread, ol' buddy. 'Cause ya KNOW where THAT kinda discussion might lead to, RIGHT?!
(...let us just say that I find your supposition not out of the realm of possibilites)
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Well, there are a lot of "6's and "7"s in that ranking graph, and so I'd say on average it would probably fall around there.
However, I think you DO make a valid point as to the "Intellect Factor" among all the POTUSs ever.
(...but as you know, our country has seldom valued the "intellectual type"...unless of course they can ALSO consistantly hit for average and/or move the runner into scoring position whenever called upon to do so, and/or any other feats of athleticism!)
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So Jake, no response for me and/or any of my earlier points, eh?!
Soooooo, I take it you must have me on your "ignore" function, then.
(...well, I suppose all of my keyboard strokes have been in vain here then, huh....typical)
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Not too sure about that, finance. Ya see, just about every ranking shown for Wilson on this graph located on this Wiki page, shows him anywhere between the 4th and 11th "Best", and this considered by a number of different sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
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Yep, Rich got it right. That's Lawrence Montaigne, alright.
(...but at least I got ONE person to say it was Nimoy, anyway...'cause I knew I would...yep, there sure is a good resemblence between the two of 'em...fake pointy ears or not!)
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Well, I really hate to further sidetrack this thread(yeah, like THAT'S ever stopped me before, HUH?!
) but speakin' o' Paul Winchell, maybe the best ventriloquist ever, but as a kid I too loved watchin' "Winchell-Mahoney Time"...Maybe all of you know this already, but unfortunately Metromedia Corp destroyed almost all the tapes of that program while in some apparent dispute with Paul Winchell over the syndication rights.
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Good one, heuriger!
(...though once again, I don't think I'd be spreadin' THAT around EITHER!!!)
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Nice find, Fred. Nice voice ol' Woodrow had there. In fact, while he didn't have quite the same resonance, I thought I heard a bit of Alexander Scrourby's rich tones and phrasing in his voice.
(...oh, and while listening to his words, I thought about how little things change sometimes, too)
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Admittedly a reasonable assumption on the face of it, Jake. However, if you have read the last sentence in my previous posting(especially the part where I said "proudly state one's religious and/or political opinions") , then in the instance of your posting the Dodge Ram Super Bowl commercial the other day, I felt the manner in which you prefaced your thread, you did exactly THAT! I do not think anyone, INCLUDING myself would have objected if, say, you JUST would have used something such as the following thread title instead: "I Really Liked This Super Bowl Commercial".
You see Jake, while I realize it's often hard for people who like to "wear their religion and politics on their sleeve" to restrain themselves from interjecting their opinions about such issues during a dialogue, MY point was AND is that I find your wearing of these topics on YOUR sleeve just a little too often around HERE....and where it is frowned upon.
(...ahh, but I have a sneaky suspicion here that you'll probably just ignore what I've just said and just chalk this all up to that now MUCH overused excuse of: "Political Correctness gone amuck", won't ya!)
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Very good question here, dark.
In most cases I'm pretty much "disappointedly surprised" whenever I find the Admin has felt the need to delete individual postings or whole threads.
In THIS case, and in Jake's thread's case, I suppose you might say I have "mixed emotions" about it.
(...bottom line here though, and as I've pretty much already stated in this thread, I just don't understand the concept that some folks appear to occasionally hold that the Admin or Admins at THIS website is/are somehow "Big Brother and at the eveready to squalsh Free Speech", and when it has been plainly stated by them many many times in the past that TCM.com's message boards are not the place to debate and/or "proudly state" one's religious and/or political opinions)
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Well, to be honest with ya heuriger ol' buddy, and while I don't disagree with most of the opinions that have been expressed in this thread by some of my friends here about all the aforementioned "radio blowhards", I have to admit that I've been somewhat surprised that the Admin has allowed this to go on for THIS long, especially considering how quickly the Admin deleted Jake's thread the other day.
(...I mean as they say: "Fair is Fair", RIGHT?!)
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Actually Jake, I was hopin' you'd say somethin' more along the lines here of...
"Remember when I said earlier....
>Ahem, make sure you and your buddies adhere to that policy in every possible way going forward.
Well gentlemen, you've just proved my point here."
Uh huh Jake. THAT'S what I WISH you would have said here, AND that's what you SHOULD have said here!!!
(...because gentlemen, ranting on about all the political blowhards that you've been doing in this thread is pretty much doin' what Jake occasionally does around here, and THAT'S what I was talkin' about earlier MYSELF, if you recall....the idea that the TCM.com boards are NOT here for this!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Feb 8, 2013 6:56 PM
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Ya know Joe, everytime you post one of these Sid Grauman pics like this one, I always wonder if Sid ever might've attended any Hollywood Halloween parties dressed up in a trenchcoat and a battered old top hat?
(...'cause nobody to me EVER looked more like Harpo Marx than THAT guy!!!)
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Good one, finance.
However, to get back on track here...
Yep JSandtcm, I watched "Judgement" a few months back on TCM for the first time in many years, and was once again impressed with the film.
I always thought Burt Lancaster's performance as the conscience-stricken German ex-judge was one of his very best, among all the other great actors and actresses who also seemed at the top of their game.
Wilson on TCM today -- a premiere!
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Maybe Swithin, but I have a feeling "folksy-ness" has always played into the American electorate's consciousness.
I mean, I can't image one of our highest "rated" Presidents, one Mr. Andrew Jackson, ever giving a stirring speech that the fellows at Webster's, let alone at Oxford, would have ever found total approval of.
(...saaay...did I just end a sentence with a preposition there???)