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HEY!!! What the heck happened to my Steve McQueen picture down there??? Well, I suppose you folks can see the resemblance Lansing down there might have had to "The King of Cool", can't ya?! (...just image Lansing with that mole Steve had on his left cheek)

AND, Lori is gonna REALLY hate me for THIS one, BUT... John Garfield ...and.. Moe Howard (...minus the bowl-cut, of course)

Robert Lansing Steve McQueen

So you're sayin' you thought it too "neatly packaged" at the end there, eh Jef? Yeah, well MAYBE, and though while the following could possibly be attributed to my limited powers here, I think if Lynch didn't kinda sorta do that with this film, then I probably wouldn't have had ANY idea of what that film was supposed to be about!!! ;-)

Nope, I don't think you're wrong here, LP. I think you made a VERY valid observation there. Now, being the "Gearhead" that I am, I'm gonna present this same thought of yours in the context of automobiles here. Ya see, while the automobile cognoscenti among us might say that there certainly were a lot of a "Classics" being produced some 50 years ago or even longer back than that, many if most MOST of these same folks today would call, say, an extremely modern Bugatti Veyron as an "Instant Classic" also. (...so how was THAT analogy, huh?!...pretty darn good, huh!) ;-)

Ooooh..."yule" rue the day you said THIS, finance!!! (...uh huh...just SEE what Santy puts in YOUR stocking next December, dude!)

Hmmmm, well MM, by MY calculations of using the standard airline weight & balance figure of 6.7lbs per gallon of fuel at sea level, I think Ryan could have AT LEAST saved Beulah Bondi withOUT having to dump ANY of those 50 gallons. (...but she definitely would have STILL had to redeem at least 10,000 of her frequent flyer travel points for THIS to happen!)

Yeah Michael, but don't forget that THAT opinion was brought to you courtesy of the same group who ruled in the Dred Scott case AND this LATEST one which will now result in an onslaught of those lousy freakin' political commercials that'll be poppin' up on your TV screen from now until November!!! And so, what the heck do THEY know, HUH?! ;-) (...juuuuust kiddin' here, of course)

mongo wrote: "Close, but no cigar." -------------------------------------------- Yeah...well...my eyesight isn't what it used to be, ya know. ;-)

As I hadn't clicked upon your thread for a while, I had some catching up to do here, TB. However, and as usual, Agee's writings had me alternately intrigued and laughing out loud...that second mentioned reaction of mine being spurred by his short and sweet review of "Tycoon" and his words: "Several tons of dynamite are set off in this movie; none of it under the right people." And so, keep up the good work here, TB. Your thread is much appreciated by me, and I'm sure by many others around here.

Funny you should bring that up here, Fred. Ya see, word is that some of those scintillas they raised in the former Soviet Union were from the Chernobyl area, and so one must ALWAYS be careful whenever purchasing a black market scintilla coat. Those will often have a radioactive half-life of 200 years. (...but the GOOD THING is that they will glow in the dark, which is always kinda fun)

Wow! Just look at how clean cut and well groomed birthday boy Bruce is there, Joe. Whenever I think of Dern, I usually think of him as bein' all scraggy and unkempt, and so when I first spotted that picture of him there, I thought to myself..."Hmmm. So it's Bradford Dillman's birthday today, huh?!" ;-)

And of course VX, there's that striking resemblance between Robert Walker Sr and Jr. (...and of course, once again, that striking resemblance between David Letterman and his REAL DAD, Joseph Cotten!!!) ;-)

Yep, I remember "Time Tunnel", MissW. Back when it was first run and I was in my early teen years, I was a fan of that show too. And, I'll betcha anything that Donald Belisario was also a fan of that program, as he would of course go on to create "Quantum Leap" a couple of decades later, and basically "perfect" the concept by adding a tongue-in-cheek element to it, making his production a much more fun and entertaining program to watch.

ROFL!!! (...I can't believe I never heard that one before...wait, maybe I did, but that was loooooong time ago, ya know) ;-)

Btw, you MIGHT think this is kinda weird, but Screwball Squirrel always kinda reminded me of a young Mickey Rooney! (...especially that part he played in "Boys Town")

Yeah, Tex was probably pushing the envelope more than anybody else back then, alright. His "Little Red Hot Riding Hood" maybe being a prime example of that. (...btw, I didn't know he hated Screwball Squirrel...do you know why that was?)

Yep VX, after I watched the film, I also searched the internet to find some of those explanations submitted by others in order to confirm what I had thought was the meaning of the film and the reasons for the plotlines. Funny, but as "weird" as David Lynch's films are, they do have a way of sticking in one's mind for quite a while after viewing them, don't they?! (...oh, and is Laura Elena Harring ABSOLUTELY gorgeous or WHAT???!!!...OH BABY, do I ever love that kinda look!!!)

Funny VX, but I always thought Daffy didn't really hit his stride until being paired with Bugs, and they became the Hope and Crosby of the animated set. Now, for MY money the craziest and zaniest cartoon character ever might have been Tex Avery's(THAT dude was a GENIUS!) short-lived and now little remembered Screwball Squirrel. As you may know, Avery created him after moving from WB's Termite Terrace to MGM's animation dept.

Btw Jef, I very recently caught "Mulholland Drive" on the tube for the first time, and I have to say that I found it a weird(well, it's a David Lynch film, so what did I expect, eh?!) but extremely fascinating film, and thought the ending actually quite well done and not a letdown at all.

Couldn't agree more with ya, Eugenia. In fact, I dare say that it's almost "common knowledge" that "Suspicion" might be the "poster child of weak endings". (...though I DO remember having a heated debate with a particular long-time TCM member about this very subject a while back...isn't that right, Fred?!) ;-) LOL

Yes, but don't forget that early on in "his career" and before being paired with Bugs and becoming "neurotic", Daffy actually was the foil in many a cartoon. (...of course, Daffy would probably tell you that his neurosis all stem from the fact that Bugs' behavior is "Dithpicable")

And don't forget "Falling Hare" there, Tom. You know, that one where that little gremlin dude gets the best of Bugs through the entire cartoon, on and over a WWII airfield in a "B-19".

Yep dark, and one of the reasons might be that Bugs "borrowed" one of Groucho's more famous lines a couple of times in his cartoons shorts: "You realize, of course, that this means war!"

Casablancalover wrote: "Though it is true that James Aurness (actual spelling) was the brother to Peter Graves." ...who's british cousin was Peter Cushing, who ironically enough played many a role digging up graves! (...small world, huh!) ;-)