Dargo2
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>...and let's not forget the lovely home occupied by Dana Andrews' father and step-mother in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.
LOL
Or as Bette might say: "What a dump!"
THOUGH, ya have to admit it's the perfect setting for the scene which establishes Fred's(Dana Andrews) humble roots, and in which his father shares his pride of his son's war record while reading his USAAF citation.
(...brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat every time I watch it, anyway)
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Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing as I typed out the word "home" there.
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Definitely, Char. Just let us know when you're planning on being out this way again.
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{chuckling}
(...and I'm sure somewhere Chuck Jones is chuckling in approval too, Fedya)
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TB, first, I've always felt the whole thing about no men being in THE WOMEN was sort of a "gimmick", such as how I feel that whole "one continuous take" thing in Hitch's ROPE was a similar example of such...though in either case here, it has never limited my enjoyment of them.
Secondly, I have to disagree with you about the absence of women in Huston's TTOTSM, as first, did you really expect to see women out prospecting for gold, and especially in the era of time depicted in this film? And considering most of the film takes place in the outback of Mexico and not in a more "civilized" town environment, I think this point is especially valid.
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A few more instances of this immediately came to my mind in which recognized "classics" of the cinema(by many people anyway) almost solely contain "two-dimensional characters" in (especially) satirical comedies meant to press more serious points:
THE HOSPITAL
M*A*S*H
NETWORK
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Btw, anybody notice how in these series of credit card commercials currently running on TV which star Samuel L. Jackson, in the very first of them, Sam says something such as "...every damn time...", however since then and in later commercials, the word "damn" isn't said at all by him?
(...think the easily offended out there might have had something to do with this change?)
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OOPS! Sorry mark. You're right.That would be Antarctic climes to be sure, wouldn't it.
(...though you're STILL "a better man than I" there, Gunga!)
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And which now reminds me of the Hollywood Urban Legend that says in one of the movie costumers he starred in early in his film career, young Bronx born and bred Bernie Schwartz, aka Tony Curtis, says, "Yondah lies da castle of my foddah".
Curtis never uttered any such words: not in The Black Shield of Falworth, nor The Prince Who Was a Thief, The Vikings, or any of his other movies.
The closest match to Curtis' apocryphal signature phrase occurs in the 1952 film Son of Ali Baba, during which he (as Kashma Baba) informs Piper Laurie (as Princess Azura of Fez), "This is my father's palace, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun" ? with an inflection markedly less than the pronounced Bronx accent of legend.
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WHOA! 120 FEET of snow a year, huh?!
Well mark, as I can say here is that thing that Brit military officer says during the burial service of the character Sam Jaffe plays after he bites the dust in valiant service to the British Raj:
"You're a better man than I, Gunga Din!" LOL
Though, regarding THIS part of your reply:
> We like to rib our downstate friends and say that when we get a foot of snow it's nothing more than a "minor inconvenience" but if they get four inches they call out the National Guard.
I DO have kind of an idea of what you mean here. You see, having until fairly recently lived my whole life in the L.A. area, it HAS become the joke that as soon as the first little raindrop falls in The City of Angels, the lead story on all the 6 o'clock news broadcasts are blared over the airwaves as: "STORM WATCH, 2014 !!!", or whatever year it happens to be, of course.
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LOL
I've always loved that story of Niven's, Tom.
It's always reminded me of a friend and fellow coworker named Ada, who at the age of about five fled Cuba with her family, and would end up in the L.A. area.
She's told us that her parents, to this day, primarily speak Spanish in their home, and so even though now as an adult and being very fluent in English, having grown up in that sort of home environment, tends to mangle the language of her adopted country on an occasional basis.
Some of her most common malapropos being: "I know that. It's right on the tip of my 'brain'!", and, "Well, THAT sure takes the 'pie'!"
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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?!)
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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)
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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.
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OR, as they say, "Two wrongs don't make a right, BUT three rights make a left"???
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>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
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>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)
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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
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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!
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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???)
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>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
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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?)
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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???)
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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)
Escape from New York/The Super Bowl
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Hmmm...perhaps the downward slide of the Seahawks defense as Peyton Manning so skillfully and methodically shreds it with his passing arm???
(...well, unless of course the Broncos offensive line doesn't protect him like they did against the Patriots, anyway)