Dargo2
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>Ideally, they should have disappeared into the musical ether BEFORE the big hit.
Aah, but finance, where would we be without the Norman Greenbaums of the world??? Spiritually speaking that is!
(...I'm talking about the One Hit Wonders of the world of course, NOT Dr. Norman Greenbaum D.D.S. who runs a thriving dental practice at his office along Santa Monica Blvd!!!)
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Beat ya by 1 minute here, Swithin! LOL
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Oh! So you didn't mean like this, eh?...
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That would be Patty Petersen, younger sister and the spitting image of Paul Petersen, and who was ironically added to the Stone family of "The Donna Reed Show" after Shelley Fabares left the series, and as the..ahem..'adopted child'.
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Sherry Jackson...who yeah, would grow to be quite the beauty...
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>Didn't a young Hemingway kinda look like Peck?
I'm not seein' it at all...
But I always thought a middle-aged Hemingway reminded me of actor William Conrad.
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(...and now going from the somewhat sublime to the somewhat ridiculous...)
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Sounds like a great home theater setup there, Gorch.
All I own is a lobby card of "It's a Wonderful Life" which my wife's sister gave me as a Christmas present probably 20 years ago now, and depicting Christmas Eve in the Bailey's kitchen with Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Larry Simms(son Pete) and just before George goes into nightmare mode and meets Clarence.
It is autographed by both Stewart and Reed, and both signatures seem legitimate.
(...I often wonder what would be its present market value, even though I'll probably never sell it)
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>Dargo, not so much the visual look of Macomber Affair as much as Joan Bennett's character made me also think of film noir. Her character could very well be out of that genre. Poor Robert Preston, a noir victim.
Yeah, good point about Bennett being the noir femme fatale. I suppose there were subtle suggestions in that opening scene that we would soon discover she would fit that profile, huh.
(...yep, maybe that was more it)
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>PS That's why we have "Deer Crossing " warning signs on the highways .... (not that they help any when they do dash out. )
Now THAT reminds me of THIS!!!
...and Part-2...
(..OMG, I STILL crack up BIG TIME whenever I think of this!)
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>And sadly, perhaps because of his distressed state or in spite of it, Hemingway chose to kill himself just that way, perhaps life creating art and then imitating it.
And you may recall in the little remembered "Bambi II: Revenge of the Cervidae", this very scene WAS left in(unfortunately garnering it an "R" rating for violence) and then showing much rejoicing among the local woodland creatures after word spread among them that there would now be one less "real manly" hunter stalking them!
(...and of course that "R" rating killing ANY chance of getting the family audience the Disney people has hoped to entice, and thus the very reason for this film now being "little remembered")
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>Well, I'm sure the deer's a tad rattled, as well. I can just image him getting back to the doe and fawns, and telling them how he just saw another one of those freakin' dumb guys on a motorcycle again.
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Ya know, I think I've heard that that very scene came THIS close to bein' in the final cut of "Bambi"!!!
(...and I think Walt had his boys draw the motorcycle as a 1936 Harley Knucklehead before it was left on the cutting room floor...hmmmm, or was it '39 Indian Chief?...no, DEFINITELY a Harley, THAT'S right!)
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Yep, true, BUT I gotta say what with the runaway deer population we now have in the States and I'm gonna assume up your way too, I DO have to say I DO really appreciate every one of those traffic endangering varmints that all those fat beer-bellied out-of-shade camo-wearing "sportsmen" with their 30.06's bag while acting like "real men"! AND, most of 'em ARE "fat beer-bellied and out-of-shape", ya know!!! LOL
(...'cause there's NOTHIN' scarier than ridin' over a twisty mountain road on your motorcycle and suddenly havin' one of those freakin' dumb deer jump RIGHT OUT in front of ya and outta nowhere, ya know!)
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And pretty much how I felt about this film, also.
Ya just have to accept the idea that "real men" back then(with "compensation issues" evidently, 'cause remember, this was YEARS before the advent of Viagra...LOL) acted this way, and then just go along with its premise.
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>It's still an excellent film noir, however...
While I know you're talkin' about "The Killers" here Tom, what's kinda funny here is that the opening 10 minutes of "The Macomber Affair" tonight also gave me the feeling of a Noir film until it turned into an outdoor adventure/drama film.
Maybe it was the dark toned cinematography of that opening segment, but did you get a little feeling of this also?
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Well of course, Tom. Everyone knows that back in the day, "Real Men" not ONLY shot lions but ALSO chucked a spear through 'em TOO!!!
(...just ask Mr. Macho Man Hemingway...well, if ya COULD that is!)
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Moral of the story: Never p*ss off the wife while she has easy access to firearms.
(...'cause it would be like taking Lorena Bobbitt to a cutlery store)
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I'm glad you brought that up here, Swithin.
Ya see, even though there were only six of 'em at these Tuesday night poker games, they would always pull up a seventh chairs...with of course the extra chair making TWO chairs to seat all of you-know-who's bottom!
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Eeh! Contrary to all reports, all it was was a standing poker game on every third Tuesday night of the month with Tracy and Hepburn, and Cooper and Neal.
(...albeit STRIP poker, but then again because she was SUCH a great poker player, the most Bette ever had to remove after a hand were her white gloves after that unfortunate time where her Full House of Aces over Eights were beaten by Brent's hand of Four Kings...now HEPBURN was such a BAD player that she would often be down to just her panties and bra before the game would break up!)
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Well, I suppose he COULD have had Fonda wear a red jacket throughout the film and retitled it somethin' like..."Rebel With a Cause of Liberty for the Crew"!!!
And then having him driving a '49 Mercury on that island with all the nurses on it would have been a nice touch TOO, I suppose.
(...wait...this flick was supposed to take place in 1945, huh...make that a '41 Merc then...and chopped and channeled)
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Thanks for providing the actual connection to at least four of 'em there, Fred.
Your post enticed me to further research the original Broadway play version, and while I now previously recall hearing that Nolan won accolades for playing Queeg...Oy Vey...I was mildly shocked to learn that Henry Fonda played the part of Barney Greenwald! I would've thought Fonda once again would've been better cast as the second in command(Lt. Maryk) on THAT ship also, and the cause for the court marital in this play.
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Yep, that's all them, alright!
And who all starred in that little remembered movie titled, "The Two Mister Lincolns Witness the Prosecution of Eve Harrington for Murder My Sweet."
(...well, everyone but Nolan and Hodiak, that is...I figured this dumb joke's punchline was already too long, ya see!)
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So Andy, did watching Bette open with the Southern accent on that old Dick Cavett interview segment shown last night prompt you to post this?
(...btw, while I enjoyed the Carson interviews TCM showed, you can't beat those much longer Cavett show interviews for many more insights into those stars of yore, can ya!)
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Sorry Sepia, but I've never read those series of stories.
So tell me, does Hemingway also cover Nick's years at the Toho studios outside of Tokyo or just his years as Johnny Yuma in that old TV Western series???
(...sorry, couldn't resist)