Dargo2
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She was always good, though I might add she always reminded me a lot of Claire Trevor, maybe because they both often played the same type...tough world-weary dames who had been around the block more than a few times.
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Yeah. Now who was it years ago on SNL that played the reoccurring character of "Mr. Short-Term Memory Loss"???
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It's also quite interesting that Robert Horton's role as the scout on the old "Wagon Train" TV series would be taken over by fellow birthday boy Robert Fuller.
(...and thus leading to a lifetime filled with people often confusing the two actors)
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Yeah!
"You're drivin' ush crazshe, Flyback!?"
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Yep, that's it alright, Dothery. Betcha can still see in your mind's eye Dick Van Dyke usin' that blackboard to explain to Richie about how they came up with his middle name, can't ya!
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Cool!
It's probably been about 17 or 18 years ago now that my wife and I saw The Who perform "Quadophenia" at The Forum(the old home of the L.A. Lakers) in Inglewood CA. It was a good show. And, we saw them again at the Hollywood Bowl a few years later and just after John Entwistle's death in 2002.
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Yeah...MAYBE James, but in the back of my mind here I'm STILL thinkin' Fred's pick of "Opera" as his allegorical musical model to represent 1930's and '40s movies instead of picking a more appropriate model of, say, "Big Band" music, was his way of stating he believes his preference of movies from that era should somehow be placed on a "higher register" than of any other era of film making.
(...yep, sorry, but I'm still thinkin' his pick of "Opera" in his analogy was purposely used, and whether a conscious effort of his part or not)
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>Any thread can disappear but first the thread must truly want to disappear.
Kinda like the ol' joke about "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?", eh Sans?!
(...only one, but FIRST the light bulb must truly want to change)
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And Sepia, five extra bonus points if you can state little Richie Petrie's middle name.
(...it was the subject of one of the episodes in that classic sitcom)
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Yep, I too appreciate movies made in every era, however IF I'd have to pick just one era of American films that I find I especially like, I suppose I'd have to say it would be films made between 1946 and 1963, and during the time in which the Second World War had instilled a sense of "reality"(for want of a better term) in a world-weary American public's consciousness, and yet NOT so "world-weary" that the typically American trait of "Optimism" had also been completely washed away in the process.
And so, I believe THIS is why my top two favorites films have always been "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "The Apartment", which of course are films that while are very observant of the realities of human failings ALSO have uplifting and hopeful endings.
(...well, it's either THAT or I've always just been a sentimental young and now OLD fool)
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>Conrad is the one with the deeper voice
I suppose you qualified this JUST in case someone might not be familiar with those gold tones of Conrad's voicing that famous opening to a particular '60s TV series, "The name: Dr. Richard Kimble. The destination: Death Row.....", eh Andy?!
(...to say NOTHIN' of course of his role as narrator of the adventures of a certain moose and squirrel)
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Thanks for the validation of MY observation of Fred's little "analogy" as "misplaced", MissW.
However, I asked YOU and a few others here a question, remember?
And so, what say you to THAT?
I mean, c'mon now, you(and the others) HAVE to ALSO "validate" my OTHER "observation" that what you folks are once again attempting to do here is "an exercise in futility", and much like Spence tryin' to get Fredric March to understand that the world IS much older than 6.000 and change years old, AND to have THEM understand that great films HAVE been made during ALL decades!!!
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OMG!(as the kids all text today!)
Some of the misplaced analogies that Fred uses to press his points(and I'm stating this in the third person format because he has me on ignore) are JUST unbelievable!!!
For this gentleman to even suggest that the High Brow culture of OPERA is correlative in ANY respect to the mass produced for public consumption films of the Studio Era, be they pre-code, post-code OR post-NO code is beyond the pale here, and appears to be an oblivious attempt to place HIS preference for '30s and '40s movies on some imagined "high ground" and above any OTHER era in film making, and of which they do NOT belong...PERIOD!
And so, WHY are the few of you again attempting to change the minds and/or broaden Fred's and Twinkeee's appreciation for other era films? Because once again, all you folks here who are "debating" THIS topic with them MUST know by now and after all the PREVIOUS "debates" with them about this issue, that it is nothin' but an exercise in futility, don't YA???!!!
(...AND hence MY previously stated little analogy earlier that I AM the H.L.Mencken-inspired Gene Kelly character in "Inherit the Wind" 'snickering in the background" while all this has been goin' on here!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 28, 2013 7:09 PM
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Hmmmm...looks like somebody might've missed TCM's month of June "Friday Night Film Noir" programming and when host Eddie Muller advised us that Noir movies don't have to make to total sense in order for 'em to be enjoyable, eh?!
(...'cause while I too can find many a thing to criticize about this "Western Noir", I've always found it somewhat enjoyable and never a waste of MY time, anyway)
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Well James, while overall I'm not nearly as cynical as the Mencken-inspired character that Kelly played in that flick, I definitely identified with that character quite a bit.
(...and maybe why I actually love the dressing down he receives by Spence at the end of it, 'cause NOBODY should ever be THAT cynical...RIGHT?!)
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Yep Sepia, gotta agree. Almost every bar/street fight I've ever seen or been involved in goes RIGHT on the ground within the first two minutes, and with the two participants rollin' around and punchin' at each other.
Yep, the idea of two guys throwin' and connectin' haymakers at each other while they stand toe-to-toe is soooooo unrealistic in real life, alright.
(...oh, AND contrary to how the "good guy" in the movies never throws the first punch but always wins the fight, in REAL life almost without except the guy who throws the first, aka the "sucker" punch will almost always win the fight...be he the "good guy" OR the "bad guy"!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 27, 2013 4:32 PM
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Ya know folks, I gotta say readin' all these exchanges between the adherents of "newer thought" and that of the "more traditional" in this thread is ALMOST as fun as watchin' THESE TWO go at it!!!...
_Spencer_Tracy_Fredric_March.jpg)
(...but in the meantime, just envision me as the Gene Kelly character snickerin' in the background at all the goin's on here)
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Nah, that wasn't a typo, Twink.
Ya see, MY old Captain Midnight decoder ring was one of the very rare decoder rings which also featured a vibrating function. And thus, not ONLY could you decode mEssages, BUT you could give really nice mAssages with that baby TOO!!!
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(..and now if you'll excuse me, I'm about to indulge in a little late night desert...err...I mean DESSERT)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 25, 2013 10:18 PM
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Coincidentally wouldbe, I had one of those Captain Midnight decoder rings back in the day, and as I recall, ironically, one the my decoded massages from the good captain read:
-Buy a Red Ryder BB Gun-but always wear protective eye gear-sold separately
(...though of course this was long ago, and so my memory of this "may be" a little fuzzy here)
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And btw Sans my dear...after reading your supposition of whom would "win" between the Canucks and the Aussies...
>It would be a war between the brave but naive against the amoral and sly.
...I'm not so sure the reasoning you used to come to your conclusion holds up to scrutiny here. Ya see in THAT case, allow ME to ask YOU a question here then. And that question would be:
Then WHO the heck won THE COLD WAR????
Uh huh, wasn't it us "brave but na?ve" AMERICANS?!!!!
(...and lady, you HAVE to know that there very few countries in the world that contain a higher percentage of "na?ve people" than right HERE in the good ol' U.S. or A, don't YA???!!!)
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Well, ya know Sans, all you're missin' here is that old joke about the British traveler who as he hands his passport to the Customs officer at the Sydney Airport is asked, "Have you ever been convicted of a crime in the U.K.?", and the traveler replies, "I'm sorry. I didn't know that that was still a requirement to be admitted into your country!"
(...I love that one...and some of the Aussies I know think it's hilarious too!)
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Yeah, I'd say Daniela would've been a great pick.
Julie Christie probably first came to my mind because of her playing Lara in "Doctor Zhivago".
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Aah! And yet another example of why Politics and Religion should never mix!
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Yeah, what WAS the original point of this thread anyway, HUH?
Oh yeah, wasn't it that we Boomers are pretty much just a bunch of self-centered malcontents who will leave the world in worse shape than how they came into it, and their kids will have to pick up the tab for all of their Boomer parents' misdeeds?
Yeah, I think that was it, RIGHT?!
Well then, to tell ya the truth here Sans, all things considered, I think I'd rather keep the humo(u)r flowin' and the party goin' here instead, my dear! And so, in THAT vein, how about a little ol' Miss Peggy Lee tune to set the proper mood here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9mVi2KQXg
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Yeah...maybe.
Saaaay, I'VE got IT!
HEY FlyBack! Wanna make yourself REALLY useful here, dude???
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