Dargo2

Hmmmm..."cop/adventure/comedy" series, eh?! Am I close in thinkin' this guy was a regular in one of those "B.J. and the Bear/Sheriff Lobo" programs?

Yeah, a little Miles, but mostly just the same smile, I think.

ROFL!!!! Great one, Rich! (...and oh so topical, to boot!)

TCM recently showed a nifty little B-movie thriller made in 1945 titled "The Power of the Whistler" and starring Richard Dix as an amnesiac who learns about his past through the help of an amateur fortune teller played by Janis Carter.

Sorry Miles, I haven't a clue about this guy. Were those TV series you mentioned of the sitcom variety?

>To me, this is the best movie about Hollywood. In my view it's a close second to Robert Altman's 1992 film "The Player". (...aaah, but then again because THIS one was done in '92, by some folks' measure around here it would be an oxymoron to think a movie made in, gasp, 1992 could be good at ALL...but of course I'm not gonna name any names here as to who some of those folks around here might be!!!) LOL...derisively...though of course NOT at you, ol' buddy.

I'm pretty sure this guy got his "kicks on Route 66"...when he wasn't gettin' his kicks by havin' the good fortune to be married to the sultry Julie London, that is. (...that of course would make him one Bobby Troup)

LOL Well first finance, of course I knew why and how Audie got into movies, but secondly, and while very few people have made it the level of Larry O. acting-wise, Audie wasn't bad at all in a few of his films, particularly in Huston's "The Red Badge of Courage" and in his portrayal of himself in "To Hell and Back"....which of course means when it comes to an actor being able to "stretch", Audie wasn't capable of it all that much, if at all. (...maybe it was that baby face of his that he was saddled with all the way to the unfortunate ending of his life)

It's been quite a while since I've watched this one, but I do remember liking it quite a bit and marveling at how well Greene's story foreshadows a soon to become very contentious era which would have a profound affect upon America's foreign policy. The only letdown for me was Audie Murphy's stiff performance. I also remember thinking that Greene must have had a rather cynical view of Americans himself, what with his character of Holly Martins in "The Third Man" also being written as the na?ve sort in order to move the plot.

>Certainly one for me is The Wild Angels (1966). Even with Roger Corman, Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, and Diane Ladd..it's just bad - in the worst way. Ah c'mon now. Kid! Doncha wanna be FREE?! FREE to ride your machine without bein' hassled by The Man???!!! (...btw...I often wondered if the first time Hank watched his son deliver those lines like that if he winched just bit and thought to himself somethin' like, "Well, I guess sometimes the apple DOES fall far from the tree, eh!") LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 10, 2013 11:23 AM

Yeah, that was the prophet and religion to which I was referring. Btw, TCM presented "The Message" a few months back, and I have to say I thought it was very well done, and is maybe a decent introduction to the history of that religion. (...though of course those more familiar with Islam might disagree with me.....hopefully peaceably!) LOL

Yeah...or on a certain shroud, Rich??? Btw, while I thought it VERGED on feeling like a gimmick, on the whole I also thought not showing Jesus' face was a nice touch in all the films you've just mentioned. (...though I have to admit it DOES kinda start remindin' me of ANOTHER certain religion's practice of never showing THEIR prophet's face!!!)

>....not for someone who can remember what movie he saw Jan. 22, 1960 ! HEY! I remember the movie I saw on that date TOO, Twink! It was "Journey to the Center of the Earth" at the old Rodium Drive-In on Redondo Beach Blvd, with my parents! (...I remember thinkin' as an 7 year old that it was probably THE greatest movie I ever saw...though I have to admit I wished they would've left out the part where that weasely little Count Saknussem killed and ate that poor little duck Gertrude...I HATED that part...Arlene Dahl was sure a doll, though...I think that's when I started havin' a thing for auburn-haired women...YEAH, at 7 years old, believe it or not!) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 9, 2013 12:29 PM

>She always had a sad look about her, to me. I don't mean that in a disparaging way, more that her face looked as though she had seen some troubling things. Aah! So THAT explained the cross-eyed look, EH?! (...sorry, couldn't resist yeah, I know I'm bad...and now to make amends for this) >I always liked her, and if I saw her name was in something, I was always interested in seeing it. Absolutely. Couldn't agree more! RIP Karen.

>I think they worked out some plot details better than the 59 version and a couple worse than it Yeah, definitely. And while I greatly enjoyed watching this 1925 version this evening, and especially listening to the brilliant score by Carl Davis, AND while I thought the chariot race was as well done as the '59 remake, I have to say I thought the more low key and much later presented conversation of Judah Ben-Hur of the remake and the healing by rain of his mother and daughter's leprosy seemed more believable...if that sort of thing is believable at all, of course. This is because first, I've never heard of Christ bringing back to life a dead baby and/or curing any diseased person with the wave of hand while carrying that cross of his, and secondly any word that "two legions of rebel troops in support of Jesus" were ever amassed by anyone just before the Passion Play took place...though I'm certainly no biblical scholar, ya know...which means I COULD be wrong here, but I doubt it. AND, while I really hate to bring this next thing up here again about the whole idea of what male actors are "handsome" or not, but GEEZ, what was with Judah's housekeeper telling Francis X. Bushman's Massala that he was still "bold and handsome", 'cause once again I gotta say I THINK Francis X. was a bit on the HOMELY side if ya ask ME!!! (...though I suppose we COULD just chalk THAT all up to his rather unfortunate choices in the shade of his eye-shadow and lipstick in this movie!) LOL (...OH, and btw Twink, and just for future reference...ya see that picture of Francis here?...well, THAT shade of film is known as "sepiatone"...and no, it has no relation to our mutual friend around here from Michigan that I know of!) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 8, 2013 9:35 PM

Looks like Lavender was right here, finance. But don't feel TOO bad here, Bro. It COULD be much worse, ya know. (...Uh-huh...Sans COULD have found you once stated you thought Bobby's cover of "The Beer Barrel Polka" was his "best recording ever"!!!) LOL

(heavy breathing)"Did someone mention 'Blue Velvet'? Play it for me! I love that song."(heavy breathing)

HEY! Speakin' o' "Arizona", has anyone in this thing yet mentioned Steve as the title character "Junior Bonner", filmed in Prescott AZ ? Pretty good, if a bit slow moving character study of a soon to be over-the-hill rodeo cowboy and the prickly relationship he has with his family. It's a film that if you didn't know it already, you'd never guess it was directed by Sam Peckinpah. (...don't ya love how I got this baby back on track?!)

Well, the closest one to me is the Verde River. (...which of course to you folks back east accustomed to rivers like the "Delaware" would be thought of as more of a "creek"!)

Hmmmm...ya know, come to think of it finance, you might be RIGHT! In fact, just this past week I was involved in TWO such incidences. (...good thing I now live in Arizona where such things are less frowned upon than in my old home state of California, huh!) LOL

Just read your conversation with crazyblonde over there, Gorch. Loved the meeting McQueen story. (...and btw, coincidentally, as a kid I too owned that very Mare's Leg toy gun, while some of my friends owned those very cool Mattel "Shootin' Shell" Colt .45 revolvers...though somethin's tellin' me here I might have mentioned this all to ya before around here)

HEY! I'm pretty good, huh?! In '96, SoCal real estate had reached its nadir during the previously bursted bubble of '91, due primarily to the closing of many of the SoCal defense plants at that time and which many people didn't realize supported a lot of the local economy. In fact, I remember in my neighborhood I could walk down my street and it seemed every third or fourth home had a For Sale sign planted in its front yard. It was just after that when home prices began increasing rapidly again and once again got ridiculously out of hand until the latest bubble burst.

>Only drawback is it seems to sit on a small lot. Welcome to the world of Southern California real estate, Hibi. My house there sat on less than 1/4 acre. I often felt like this guy in that old Right Guard commercial who opens his medicine cabinet to discover his next door neighbor(Chuck McCann) saying "Hi Guy!" LOL (...btw, I wonder if we Zillow-ed that address if we'd find its present market value...I'm guessin' it's at about $1.5M to $2M)

Oh, okay, THAT'S what I missed then, eh?! The interior is done in Art Deco style. (...thanks for the clarification)

>... (And will likely feature prominantly in my therapy, should I ever avail myself of it) LOL Funny line there, Tracey! (...oh the baggage we store over time, eh?!)