Dargo2
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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?!
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(...juuuuust kiddin' here, of course)
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mongo wrote: "Close, but no cigar."
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Yeah...well...my eyesight isn't what it used to be, ya know.
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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.
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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)
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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?!"
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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!!!)
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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.
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ROFL!!!
(...I can't believe I never heard that one before...wait, maybe I did, but that was loooooong time ago, ya know) ;-)
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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")
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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?)
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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!!!)
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Yeah, actually VX, I didn't think you were kidding, BUT that one pick there, *The Taking of Pelham One Two Three* (1974), ummmmm...don't ya think that that might be a tad too intense and violent for the kiddies???
(...oh wait...never mind AGAIN...I just remembered that by the time the "little kiddies" out there are 10 years old nowadays, they've probably killed AT LEAST a thousand poor souls on those freakin' video games they're playin', huh???!!!)
LOL!!!
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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.
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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.
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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?!) ;-)
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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")
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Yeah Jake! Good point...though I had ALREADY mentioned "Midnight Cowboy" here, dude!!!
(....oh...wait....never mind)
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Well Iz, then all I can say here is..I HOPE you're RIGHT!!!
BUT(and there's that word again, huh), from the conversations I've had recently with EVEN the 30 and 40 somethings out there, who would be the parents of these kids, it seems EVEN the vast majority of THAT demographic is now so adverse to watching almost ANY movie in B&W and/or which contains more dramatic tension than "action", that once again, and call me a major league "Cynic" here if ya want, but I juuuuuust don't see that many young families with children watching AND enjoying Lee J. Cobb verbally brow-beating others inside a jury room in glorious B&W!!!!
(...though they MIGHT like that scene where Henry Fonda pulls that other knife out of his pocket and stabs the table with it...'cause THAT is "action"...and THAT is what it appears just about everyone UNDER the age of, say, 55 only enjoys watching in their movies anymore...a bunch o' TALK?..No way, Jose...except maybe for those few 'cognoscenti" which you talked about here)
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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".
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clore wrote: "Yes, I was kidding."
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Yeah, I was pretty sure you were!
(...and so I was wonderin' why you didn't include "Midnight Cowboy" on your list there!) ;-)
LOL!!!
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And Kyle, about your take on this, I'll just reiterate what I said at the very end of my first post in this thread:
" (...well, I suppose it would be nice to THINK so, but somethin's tellin' me here that THAT'S just not going to happen all that much) "
And ah Kyle, just one more thing here...
While I fully understand those great "family gathering around the TV set" experiences of your youth, as they ARE pretty much the same experiences I had with my family back in the '60s and when I was your age(especially that part about 'ABC's Sunday Night at the Movies), I guess I need to remind you that UNFORTUNATELY it's a MUCH different world today than it was when your house and my house had that one Zeith(or brand of your father's choice) TV set sittin' in the living room and which was the ONLY "visual" form of home entertainment available to us back then.
(...in other words, the VAST majority of these little freakin' know-nothings about the world before they born and proud of that fact nowadays have WAY more options available to 'em than WE ever did back in the day, and so the idea of this happy little 1950s/60s "family unit enjoying the same things" is, once again, UNFORTUNATELY far behind us it seems)
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You guys WERE kidding with those picks here, RIGHT?! ;-)
(...especially you, clore)
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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!"
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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!)
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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!)