Dargo2

>For some reason, at my gym, which has elevators in two different places, most of the guys let women off first. When I get off first, I feel as if I'm going to be discussed all over the gym as a rude, boorish Neanderthal. Wow finance! Gotta say, with you actually writin' TWO whole sentences about this scenario here, this MUST be a major concern of yours, ol' buddy!!! LOL Actually, here's MY "pet peeve" in regard to present day "manners".... Why in this day and age do I still run into situations where a woman will be three of four paces ahead of me while we're both on our way towards a shop or any other business establish's door, and as she opens it, she will NOT look behind her to see if anyone else(such as ME) is maybe only 2 or 3 second to said door ALSO, but instead she will just blithely walk through said door and not hold it for me??? Because, I ALWAYS hold the door for ANYONE and EVERYONE, regardless of the person's gender who might be coming up behind me! In FACT, there have been many occasions where I'll almost act as a freakin' DOORMAN and hold the sucker open for 3, 4, 5 or maybe MORE folks so they can get inside or leave the premises. 'Cause like I SAID, in THIS day and age, AND with the idea that women and men are "equal" or at least should have "equal responsibilities", then what is with these women anyway, HUH?! 'CAUSE, it's just COMMON COURTESY! And I seldom if ever observe a guy doing this(blithely walkin' through these entrances, that is), as MEN will almost ALWAYS hold it for me. (...okay...sorry...rant over) LOL

>If I knew how to post the image here I would show you the difference. Here ya go, crazyblonde. This is what you're probably talkin' about here. And while maybe his lady costars might've fallin' for the guy (I'm thinkin' more because word was Cagney was a very likable and ingratiating fellow) sorry, I never thought of the little fellow as the "dashing"sort. Nope, a GREAT little fast talkin' wise guy type, but DEFINITELY not "dashing", and THAT'S what a lead in a Swashbuckler calls for.

Yep slayton, I'll take some of that action there. (...'cause yeah, my money's on somebody eventually "losing it" and saying the wrong thing TOO on this "ship")

Yeah, well, I suppose I do have to admit that those presentations of letters representing what to be "wary of" ARE pretty vague and really don't clue in the audience much beforehand.

And a "au contraire" to you THIS time, Twink my dear...but seriously THIS time. Remember those little passages TCM runs right after Bob speaks about the movies and just before you see Leo The Lion roarin'??? Uh huh..those things that show a "V" for violence, and/or an "L' for language, and while some dude with a kettle drum is bangin' away 5 times? (...yep, there's warnings for those old movies around here too, ya see...it's just that nobody really ever pays much attention to 'em, that's all)

Au CONTRAIRE there, Jake my man! If memory serves I THINK I heard somewhere that Paula got her start by catering the set of "STEEL MAGNOLIAS"!!! (...hmmm...or was it "THE COLOR PURPLE"...no.no..definitely the first one...sorry...y'all) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 23, 2013 8:31 PM

Yep VX, back around his "Come Monday" days.

>This is like saying, what's more important, the chicken or the egg? How can one exist without the other? Hmmm...well TB, I take it you're not an adherent of Hitch's own person view of the movie making process then, eh?.... "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle." (...'cause while yes, a collaborative environment IS always conducive to a successful film, c'mon now YOU know that the cinema is ultimately the "director's medium")

Why Eugenia! You've never told us before that you were friends with Chita Rivera!!!

...and "pickpockets"! (...and you probably know, a very famous quote of Alexander Pope's)

>She could always reinvent herself as a touring foodie, with a new TV show: Plantations, Roadhouses, and Whistlestops. She could ride around in a carriage, with footmen and groom. LOL Ya know, it appears my "poor taste" in humor has been a "bad influence" around here after all! (...you better watch it my dear...the next thing you might find you'll be doin' is lookin' to make bad puns when that's all they give ya to work with!) LOL (...btw...one never knows where they'll find a "phoenix rising"...just look how Martha has successfully rehabilitated HER image!) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 23, 2013 7:03 PM

This subject brings to mind something I've noticed a lot of recently...ESPECIALLY. And that is that it seems there are a lot more British actors who can perfect a fairly decent American accent than the reverse of this. I'm talking more of the standard and classic and fairly nondescript "Midwestern" accent, NOT the stereotypical "Southern" accent...that one is fairly easy to pull off. I can't recall any Yank actor really pulling off the Brit accent very successfully. I know on the other side of the Pond, Dick Van Dyke's accent in "Mary Poppins" is still to this day pretty much laughed at. And speaking of "Robin Hood", Kevin Costner's attempt at it when he played the part is pretty much held in the same low esteem. And yet conversely, presently we have a number of actors on American television, such as Hugh Laurie("House")and Damian Lewis("Homeland"), and a number of others who if you didn't know they were British, you'd swear they were from Omaha Nebraska. (...bottom line...as great an actor as Cagney was, I don't think he would have pulled off the accent, and thus praise be to providence that the Tasmanian-born Flynn would eventually be chosen....."you dirty rat!"!) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 23, 2013 4:59 PM

>"BORROWED FOR EXTENDED RESEARCH" LOL Gotta love a man who knows the precise euphemism to use at the appropriate time!

Ya know, with all these picks of "Casablanca" here, I'm startin' to wonder how my of you REALLY know all the words to "La Marseillaise"??? (...'cause ya know ya MIGHT'VE been asked to least MOUTH that tune in the background!)

Good point, Eugenia. I also think the contrasting physicality of the two men perhaps DOES help give the audience a subliminal feeling of the contrasting personality types in question, also. (...kinda like "the little bull dog vs the long slithering snake" scenario kinda thing, I suppose)

Okay RR, fess up. The REAL reason for that is 'cause you think after your scenes were shot you could somehow spirit off either a Mauser Gewehr 98 or Winchester 73 to add to your collection, isn't it?! Don't worry though, in MY case(other than that whole "Give 'em Hell, Harry" thing I mentioned earlier on a lark) I suppose I would've liked being an extra in "The Wild One", and so I could maybe "spirit off" one of those cool ol' Triumphs or Harley motorcycles in that baby! (...btw RR, I was kiddin' here of course, as I know you and I would never do somethin' like that) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 23, 2013 3:21 PM

Well BFSR, I'm not disagreeing with you here, but considering that kind of role back then would usually have gone to somebody like Wendell Corey or say Leon Ames, both fairly decent actors I might add, though in some regard could be considered rather "bland", I STILL think Eddie G gave a performance that wouldn't and couldn't have been bettered, or maybe even have come close to his by another actor usually associated with that kind of role. (...he just breathes life into it somehow, that's all)

Yep Tom, as you probably noticed down there when I got all mushy , I listed "comedy" FIRST as to the "attributes" of how I feel about this superior piece of cinema. (...though that probably wasn't a surprise to ya EITHER, was it!)

Ah yes, TB. To this very day, when I hear Ludwig's 6th "Pastoral" Symphony, I'll occasionally think of Eddie and how well he performed his "swan song" during that otherwise less-than-memorable movie.

John Lund ..and.. John Sutton (..."wish I had a pencil-thin mustache, the Boston **** kind"...and no, its NOT just 'cause they're both sportin' one there)

LOL (...could be worse, ya know...at least their names aren't "Vito" and "Sal"!!!)

Thanks! Yep, I hope so. (...btw...have you received my check in mail yet???) LOL

I have to say I'm really not all that big into Musicals myself, Eugenia, but the funny thing is almost every single time "Singin' in the Rain" comes on TCM, and no matter if I happen across it at any point of its showing, I am suddenly captivated by the thing and very often end up watching the rest of it. It's just perfection, that's all. And by the end of it I get this almost overwhelming feeling of pride in the human spirit that there were people in the world that could reach such heights in comedy, dance and the musical arts and mix it all together to make that concoction. (...and gettin' to watch Cyd Charisse throwing those long luscious legs around yet again is always an added bonus TOO, ya know!)

Oh Eugenia, I never knew it(err, I mean you) could be like this!

Hmmmm...good question. Aah! I've got IT! 1975's "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" Yep, I always thought there was somethin' missin' with that one-man show...He had nobody to give Hell to! (...and Lord knows I've always been pretty good at receivin' that from folks, 'cause I can TAKE it, and so I would've been GREAT as an extra in THAT..and besides, I always DID like James Whitmore)