Dargo2
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Sepiatone wrote: "Sounds like another thread...What younger actor/actress looks like another older actor's "love child"?"
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Well Sepia, if you DO decide to start a thread like that, then how about starting with an observation which I've mentioned a couple of times in the past around here and which always seems to garner a lot of responses such as, "Wow Dargo! You know, I never noticed that before, but you COULD be RIGHT!", and that observation is:
Joseph Cotten is REALLY David Letterman's dad!
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Yeah, but gotta admit he was pretty darn good at eliciting hisses from the audience when he played the ultimate onerous skinflint in a certain Christmas perennial, though! ;-)
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finance wrote: "Funny, on these very boards, I got Carol Lawrence mixed up with Vicki Lawrence of the Carol Burnett show. I understand that Vicki Lawrence had an affair with Lawrence of Arabia."
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Well, you're CLOSE there, finance, but actually the ONLY connection Vicki ever had or has with T. E. Lawrence is that she owns one of his old Brough Superior SS100 motorcycles...like the one he was killed on.
(...word is that just that first test ride on that old British bike and the vibration it gave off, had her hooked for life...if ya know what I mean!) ;-)
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LOL!
Ya know finance, after seein' a few other posts of your's around here about Drew's hosting skills(or lack thereof), I'm startin' to get the impression that you're not exactly a big fan of hers! ;-)
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Oh, I see. Ya know I've never thought of that before, nor does that really ring a bell here, BUT the next time I watch "TGE" I'll be sure keep my ears perked to see what you're talkin' about here.
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Yep ginnyfan, I'm with ya there about how watchin' "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby" all those years ago and thus makin' it hard for me to confuse Robert Young with anyone else, too.
(...'cept in MY case, I'm old enough to remember watchin' those shows when they were first run....you friggin' PUPPY you!!!)
LOL
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Hmmmm...interesting, clore. I just YouTubed-ed the trailer for that old James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl film from '59(which I remember thrilled the heck of this then 7 y/o here at the time), and at least from the music in that trailer, I'm not hearin' anything that's close to "The Great Escape" theme there.
Nope, what I heard actually reminded me more of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor...you know, that old standby they always play in spooky movies., and which coincidentally as I recall, James Mason as Capt. Nemo in Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is shown playing on board his ship the Nautilus in one notable scene.
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Yep clore, you and I are just about the same age, then. I was 11 when this film first hit the silver screens.
Ya know, while watchin' little Maggie escape there, it got me to thinking something about which somehow I've never really noticed before...how Elmer Bernstein, when he was composing the score for this film, seems to have been more than a little influenced by the "Colonel Bogey March", which of course was featured in that another similarly themed epic of a few years prior.
(...yep, it's kinda funny that after all the many many viewings I've had of both of those two films over the years, I never noticed that before)
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misswonderly wrote:
"'Course it helped that Jason Robards was always flown to Canada every October to judge the annual Canadian beer competition. He was the one dressed up in the hockey outfit. Word is, they had to negotiate with him to take away his hockey stick ( possibly dangerous when too much beer is imbibed."
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Yep MissW! Then maybe you ALSO know that somethin' along these very lines was the primary reason that that Robards/Bacall marriage didnt't last.
Jason was a dyed-in-the-wool old Red Wings fan from WAY back, but Lauren, thinking Detriot MUCH too provincial, never traveled with him to see any of the home games, and thus sadly and eventually realizing their separate passions in life, they grew steadily apart.
So yep, t'was Hockey the very reason for yet another failed Tinsel Town union, alright!
(...kinda ironic, ain't it?!...I mean it appears it was the "influence of the Heartland", Michigan in this case, which caused the breakup of a Hollywood marriage!!!)
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LOL!
Yeah clore, and the young ones would probably just fast-foward "The Great Escape" to the part where McQueen(actually Bud Ekins) tries to jump that barb wire fence and right past all that "talky stuff" before it, huh?! ;-)
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Yep, I watched Bill on Kelly's show this morning, araner.
Gotta say I think he's done very well in his role as host of Essentials Jr. so far. One can always see his enthusiasm for this venture.
However, I just noticed that the film for June 3rd in this series is "Twelve Angry Men", to which I have to say...REALLY???!!!
Now, perhaps I'm not giving enough credit to the kids out there in Television Land today, BUT do the programmers REALLY think that there'll be all that many kids today who would sit still for two hours of watchin' a bunch of middle-aged men sittin' around talkin' TO and AT each other in a somewhat stagebound production which was filmed in B&W???
(...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)
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Oh and Lori...
I WISH I could find a certain tirade of mine that I posted here at this website a while back and post it again here for ya. It's about a scenario in which I were in front of that committee, and where I pretty much give it to those lameass Congressmen back then with BOTH freakin' BARRELS!!!
(...and to tell ya the truth, I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY think I WOULD HAVE done JUST that in "real life" TOO, if it came to that!)
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Tom wrote:"...A Hollywood right winger like director Sam Wood was disgusted with Cooper's appearance because he got away without naming any names. Others, however, thought the seemingly unsophisticated Coop, however, was brilliant, saying nothing while at the same time seeming to be on HUAC's side."
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Now Tom...how do ya think Ronnie got elected and became known as the "Teflon President", HUH?!
'Mericans just EAT UP that "Ah shucks" stuff, dude!
I mean, why do ya think I do this here "Good Ol' Boy" routine on this here computer a lot o' the time, HUH?!
(...uh huh...by watchin' HIM get away with stuff, Ronnie taught me everythin' I EVER needed to know 'bout how NOT to ruffle all that many feathers while sayin' somethin' ya might feel strongly about...uh huh, 'cause the LAST THING ya ever wanna do is come across as one o' them there "eggy headed in-tie-lect-chu-alls"...the locals ALWAYS hate THAT!!!)
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Very good "bring up" here, allthumbs!
However, I mostly think of Gig Young more as the guy who often came in second when it came to gettin' the girl in more lighthearted fare, whereas I mostly think of Robert Webber as a little more "slimey" and underhanded in darker themed films, though as I recall Gig could be pretty good in that kind of role, also...as in the role he won his Oscar for in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
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LOL! Yeah, actually I get that all the time...the "JAMES Coburn" thing, that is.
(...and I suppose even if I DID look like ol' Quasi, I could ALWAYS take comfort in knowing that my "gentle ways" could melt the heart of that hot babe, a young Maureen O'Hara!)
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LOL!
What a great sense of humo(u)r you have, Tom...for a Canuck, anyway. ;-)
And, just as long as you never confuse CHARLES Coburn with JAMES Coburn, then I suppose all is well with ya up there north of the 49th.
(...'cause for the LIFE o' me, I just CAN'T imagine CHARLES as Derek Flint ever doin' those karate kicks at those messengers of evil out there among(st) us!)
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...or pretty much ANYWHERE anymore in this country, ginnyfan...as I'm sure you know. ;-)
(...of course THAT doesn't stop some folks in the rest of the country who've been divorced once, twice of more times, from somehow blamin' "Hollywood's influence" for the failure in this whole marriage thing nowadays, instead of maybe lookin' in the mirror, huh...but I digress!)
LOL!!!
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Yeah, I suppose I can kinda see that whole Robert Young/Montgomery thing, AND maybe even that whole Brian business here too, but I'm havin' a hard time tryin' to figure out that Powell/Wyman thing here...'cause MY issue was usually thinkin' of Jane Powell and Kathryn Grayson and confusin' THOSE two.
(...seein' as how they were both great singers, tiny and kinda cute)
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Mongo wrote: "Yeah, Dargo, I wanted to show that the talented O'Brien was not always a schnook."
Oh, I see, Joe...and like when we wasn't ALSO smokin' that there Mar-ri-ja-wa-na which SOMEHOW made him act like he had just done four lines of Cocaine, eh?!
(...uh huh...okay...NOW I get it!) ;-)
LOL!
Edited by: Dargo2 on May 31, 2012 2:32 PM
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Sorry Arturo, but I think you might be using "selective reasoning" to make your point here....especially about L.A.'s freeway system.
Don't forget there's ALSO the 4-0-freakin-5(note this ex-Angeleno native's disdain of that "parking lot") which runs right through the westside of the L.A. Basin, and which as ya might know is NOT exactly a Hispanic enclave. Add to THAT the 10, aka The Santa Monica Fwy which of course flows to and through the Westside, AND the 101 through the entire length of the San Fernando Valley which at the time of ITS making ran through mostly white bread Middle and Working Class neighborhoods.
And so, while you MAY have a point about Chavez Ravine and how the idea of "Urban Renewal", or as it's called today, "Re-gentrification" might have been misused in regard to how the Dodger organization obtained their property, PLEASE do me a favor here and acknowdge that it WASN'T just "those poor Hispanics" in La La Land who got screwed because of the lousy urban planning which has almost ALWAYS been the hallmark of L.A.'s history.
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MissW wrote: "...Van Heflin and Arthur Kennedy."
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Yeah, I can kinda see that, MissW. However for me, and for some reason which once again I can't quite point to, it was Arthur Kennedy and Edmond O'Brien.
(...hmmmm...maybe it was 'cause they both often played characters with sharp wits and sharp tongues)
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Well ham, my comment was MOSTLY done in jest down there, and so I really don't wanna get into that whole "2nd Amendment" thing here...which I'M SURE Michael the Admin around here would greatly appreciate.
Btw...I thought that was a good point you made, and well said, about war's effect upon people and their families....especially about a war that by far took more American lives than any other in our history.
Edited by: Dargo2 on May 31, 2012 1:08 PM
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Gotta say Joe that that photo of Dave O'Brien down there is somewhat out of his normal character mode, wouldn't ya say?!
Well, I suppose that IS unless one can hear the voice of Pete Smith in their heads sayin' somethin' like...
"WELL, well. It appears THIS shnook has never taken a course in gun SAFETY!"
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Ya know ham, I keep hearing this thought that it was "a pig which started this feud", however don't you think this film made the point that that pig was just an excuse for Randall McCoy to seek his revenge about his feeling betrayed by Anse Hatfield during The Civil War(sorry Jake in the Heartland if you're readin' this..."The War Between The States"..hee hee), and of course that crazy freakin' Psycho Jim Nance's murdering of Randall's brother.
Ya see, THIS was what I took from this film...the idea how some folks will rationalize their hatred of others by using some of the most dumbest and lamest excuses which they can think up, and that even though this whole mess took place well over a century ago, some people, no matter if they're livin' in some rural locale OR in a more urban environment, haven't really changed all that much in some ways, unfortunately.
(...well THAT, and the idea that there were some real freakin' morons back then, AND in fact, some real freakin' morons to this VERY DAY, who should NEVER be allowed to own firearms...and I don't give a rat's patootie if THEY think that they're usually "good God-fearin', law-abidin' citizens" OR NOT!!!)
LOL!!!!!!
Edited by: Dargo2 on May 31, 2012 12:14 PM
Time To Confess
in General Discussions
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Ya know Sepia, earlier in this thread when I saw lanceroten's pick was Yvonne Craig, I was going to say that she was probably my first crush too, or possibly Stephanie Powers (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.), but now that I saw your mention of Shari Lewis here, that brought back a memory which pre-dated even those crushes.
I couldn't have been much more than 7 or 8 y/o at the time and I remember walking up to that old Philco B&W TV set one Saturday morning while her kid's show was on, stopping for minute in order to look around and make sure no one else was in the room, and then planting kiss right on the picture tube as a close up of Shari was shown, and most likely while she was talking to Lambchop.
Yep, now that you've brought up her name, I have to say I think Shari probably was my very first crush, too.
Btw, years later, when I was around 40 y/o and working the boarding gates for an airline at LAX, I had the pleasure to board Ms. Lewis on a flight, and while doing so, I couldn't resist telling her this story and saying that she was probably my first crush.
She was an absolute doll about it, smiled that lovely smile of hers that I remembered from over 30 years prior and replied with something like, "My! What a great story! Thank you! You just made my day!"...and I felt she really meant it.