Dargo2
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>I'm sorry. I'm new here. I didn't realise you were ribbing me.
Eeh! Don't worry about it, cb! I knew you'd catch onto this eventually.
Yep, I somehow knew from your very posting at this website that you were a person with the ability to take a joke in style.
(..and something of which I sometimes think we need a whole heck of a lot more of around here, btw!!!)
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Oh c'mon, James! SAY it..."FRISCO"!
It DOES trip off the tongue MUCH easier than sayin' "San Francisco", ya know. Uh huh...kinda like sayin' "L.A."!!!
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(...oh, and btw...I DO have to admit that "Frisco" IS probably THE most beautiful city in all of these United States...just in case people think I have somethin' against the town, which I don't...I just have somethin' against pretentious folks no matter WHERE they reside, THAT'S all)
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Once again as a hetero male, I have to say I can definitely see the attraction of the three guys you picked here, LP.
Except, while Jack Lemmon has always been close to the top on my list of favorite actors(the guy could deliver a comic line like nobody else) I'm havin' a little difficulty thinking of him as being "sexy", as Jack often played the befuddled "doofus" in many of his roles...certainly not a "sexy" trait to most women I would think!
(...but hey, like I've been pretty much sayin' around here...we guys have absolutely NO idea how you women "reason" sometimes!) LOL
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I was actually thinking this very same thing earlier myself, LP. Yep,there ARE many subtle and overt differences between the north and south portions of my old home state.
Take for instance how movies made in and around "Frisco"(yeah, I know how much that upsets some of 'em up there when someone has the "audacity" to call their little city that, and so THAT'S why I LOVE to tweak their snobbish little noses by callin' it that...HAHAHA...ah, but I digress) differ from those movies made about my old home town of L.A.
(...it IS perfectly acceptable to abbreviate the name of "Los Angeles", ya know!)
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Well, I DO hear that having a minimum of 7% body fat DOES help in keeping a body afloat, ol' buddy!!!
(...saaaay, maybe if you'd start eatin' a MMMMmmmm FATBURGER now and then, you might find yourself a little more competitive in that 1/3rd of the Triathlon events you seem to have a little trouble in...oh wait, that's right...they don't have Fatburger stands back there in Philly, huh...sorry)
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Well cg, did I NOT admit much earlier in this thing that when he was younger I also thought he was "a cute little guy"?! Oh, and yeah, "fiery" TOO!!!
(...though CERTAINLY ill-suited to play ROBIN HOOD...though now that I THINK about it, that might've been in another thread somewhere!!!)
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Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 9, 2013 3:17 PM
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Hmmm...I didn't know you couldn't swim, finance!
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Yeah, I was gonna mention Elvis too. I think he sold more than his share of those round vinyl little numbers too back in the day.
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Nah cb, I know that Der Bingle was one of the biggest stars and the most popular singer in that era, and the only reason I kidded you about him and called him "the old man" was because in those Road Pictures the inside joke was that Bob Hope would often refer to Bing in that manner, and so I was just playing off that.
HOWEVER, your comment about "nobody being as popular a singer as Bing since" has me wondering if you've ever heard of one "Francis Albert Sinatra"?
(..I mean, I'm pretty sure not only was Frank a pretty good draw at the movie box offices also, BUT I'm pretty sure he sold a heck of a lot of records after Bing was a big hit with the mothers of the bobbysoxers who went wild for Frank a little later on...OR as Bing says to Frank in "High Society" after Frank mentions to him he "doesn't dig that kinda crooning"..."Oh, you must be one of the NEW boys!")
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Speaking of which, and the fact that more than a couple of times in his introduction, a second camera was used to do that thing that seems so popular today...showing the person talking to us in semi-profile and looking at the "first camera" and instead of talking directly to us the audience.
Now, first, call me "old fashioned" here, but I JUST don't get why this seems such a popular visual to do now days, as I find it slightly off-putting and a mild distraction. And secondly, I wonder IF they're doing this for "Essentials Jr" because kids today might not find this practice as much of a distraction as this old goat here does, and might think it makes it "hipper" somehow?
(...the "old goat" would be me, of course)
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Yeah, there's nothin' that'll usually kill a thread quicker than talk of electrocutions, ol' buddy!
(...well, unless of course the thread might have been originally about "The Green Mile" or maybe "Man Made Monster"!!!)
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>For me, Monterey will always be 'Monterey Pop", as depicted by Eric Burdon's "Down in Monterey".
Well, of course you would, finance!
THAT'S 'cause you're just an ANIMAL!!!
(..or at least a fan of 'em, anyway)
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Sort of the same take as when Olivier once supposedly asked Dustin Hoffman just before the "dentist' scene in "Marathon Man" was filmed "if he had thought of acting" instead of staying up all night before the cameras rolled that morning, eh Tom?!
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>I didn't get to watch Monday. Did Ed McMahon get even one second of camera time? He didn't the first week, which I found more than a little odd. I assumed there was some legal reason he couldn't be shown, or the Carson estate just wants to make sure the focus is all on Johnny, all the time, and screw Ed's legacy. Did he appear on screen at all this week?
Well sewhite, IF ya wanted to see the jovial Ed, then here ya GO, dude...though I DO have to admit Johnny somewhat upstages Ed a little in this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8O1zi2FYQs
(...boy, I sure hope these folks are appreciatin' all I'm doin' in this thread to give 'em their wishes!)
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>I'm doing a lot of anlayzing here, though.
Yes Tom, indeed you were. BUT once again, I can't argue with you here 'cause I think you NAILED the reasons for Cagney and Bogie's "appeal" to some women.
(...uh huh...in Cagney's case, some women just can't resist the "Bad Boy", and TO their very own detriment occasionally, AND in Bogie's case, "The Cynic" HAS always been able to hold the interest of intelligent people, but in MOST cases those of BOTH genders)
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>Didn't TCM already show Dick Cavett episodes a few years ago (also, why don't you ever see full episodes of his stuff)?
parvulus, I hope you received my underlying message when I kiddingly presented my little "abridged version" of the Johnny's old "Tonight Show" down there earlier that I feel showing just these interview sections of his program is probably already "stretching the TCM envelope" a bit, though is something of which like mrroberts stated here I feel is "acceptable" and unlike some others around here such as willbefree who feels this is not.
You see, my reasoning here is once again much like mrroberts and that I also don't see anything wrong with presenting ONLY these interviews because the interviewEE is someone who might converse with Johnny about classic films.
However, I'm sorry, but I feel to show the COMPLETE "Tonight Show" episodes in which these old stars would have been guests would give our friends such as willbefree a legitimate reason for their concerns, because as you might remember, most of what Johnny did back then was "topical humor" which would seem very dated today, and in most cases really wouldn't have anything at all to do with the topic of classic movies.
(...btw, I have a theory here that the REAL reason willbefree doesn't like these programs shown on TCM is because Warren William died in 1948, and thus there would be NO way that HE could ever sit on that couch opposite Johnny...'cause if he WOULD have lived long enough to have been a guest of his show, you can almost BET willbefree would be singin' a different tune here!!!...ain't that right, willbe?!)
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Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 9, 2013 9:07 AM
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Gotta say, as a straight male, for the LIFE of me I JUST don't see how any woman could think of ANY one these very talented actors as "sexy"???
(...ahhh, but then again, "they say" women "have always cared more about what's on the inside of guys than how us guys fall for the outside appearance"...and to which I SAY, that's okay, I'd GLADLY take JUST the OUTSIDE of Ava Gardner ANY day of the week!!!)
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>I wish TCM would show Orson Welles on Carson. I don't believe he is scheduled. What a shame. Orson and Johnny were magic.
+1 to that, heuriger!
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I've spent many a day in Steinbeck Country myself, clore. For about 12 years every summer and up until just a few years ago, a bunch of us guys would ride our motorcycles up from L.A. and to the Monterey and Salinas area and where the Laguna Seca Raceway is located, and in order to watch Superbike motorcycle racing take place.
As you stated, the central CA coast and the immediate inland area is truly some of the most beautiful sections of our country.
What might be especially noteworthy is that while the Salinas Valley is still primarily as Steinbeck would have remembered it with a population of low-rent homes inhabited by farm workers, the Monterey area which of course was the location for his stories of "Cannery Row" and some parts of "East of Eden", is now a very expensive location to reside.
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>This puts a whole new spin on "The Grapes of Wrath". (Isaiah 63: 2-3)
Hmmm...sorry MissW, but Isaiah was only 6-1 when he played for the Detroit Pistons, though yeah, his free throw percentage WAS usually about 2 for 3 from the line like ya said here.
(...finance is gonna LOVE this one, seein' as how he's a big NBA fan TOO!)
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>I want Spielberg to remake that movie THE COBWEB, aka THE DRAPES OF WRATH. The plot will have the Joads finding shelter at a Los Angeles psychiatric clinic where the staff and the patients are all embroiled as to what fabric will be used for the drapes. The Joads decide that Southern Californians are crazy, so they decide to go north to the wine country where they make their way picking grapes for Ernest and Julio.
Ya know clore, I actually LIKE this proposal of yours here! Yep, I think it definitely has potential!
(...and who would know better about all those crazy SoCal-ers out there than ME, considerin' that I spent most of my life out there in La La Land, AND the fact that all ya have to do is read almost any of my postings around here to get the sense I would know about all that craziness out there TOO, right?!) LOL
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Fred?! Fred?! Are you still out there, ol' buddy? I asked ya a question here, dude.
Yeah, that one about how easy it really is to not get all defensive at the drop of hat after you mistakenly believe you've been "insulted", and maybe bein' able to laugh at yourself now and then!
(...eeh, maybe Fred's tucked himself into beddy-by for the night, eh?!...well, I'm sure I'll get some overly defensive-minded reply by tomorrow, so no big deal)
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(...oh, and btw Michael the Admin...PLEASE note that all I'm doing here is asking Fred a simple little question after he very cleverly mocked by comment about the Holocaust survivor I knew and in regards to Spielberg's "Schindler's List"...and thus if you would PLEASE allow Fred and I to discuss this further and NOT mistakenly believe I was "zinging" him and then place him and I on that "detention list" of yours, then I would appreciate this EVER so much...now THAT'S not too much to ask, is IT?!)
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Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 8, 2013 10:21 PM
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>Well, FlyBack, I know a lady Osteopath out in California who says she knows exactly what His greatest movie is, and I suggest you call her any time, night or day and ask her. You can reach her at the Hong Kong Oriental Massage Palace in Encino. That"s in the San Fernando Valley just Northwest of Hollywood. Ask for Susie.
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Now THAT was actually a pretty funny and clever mocking of my earlier rather serious take about Holocaust survivors maybe knowing about the validity and accuracy of Spielberg's film than Roseanne Barr does and as TB posited, Fred!
Yep, I have to say that wasn't bad at all! Yep, that was pretty funny and clever, alright!
(...now, SEE how easy it is to laugh at one's self instead of gettin' all defensive and callin' people "cops" for askin' 'em to explain somethin' that they said???...uh huh, it's pretty easy after all, ISN'T it Fred?!)
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"McQUEEN", ya say?!
Well I certainly hope the pic you're tryin' to post('cause it's not showin' up yet)is THIS picture of him astride his Triumph motorcycle while he was participating in the 1964 International Six Day Trials race in East Germany!!!
(...'cause ya KNOW, only us really COOL guys ride TRIUMPHS, while the wannabes of the world ride them there Harley-Davidson motorsickles)
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>Okay, now that I've said my piece, any brickbats?
Nope. Not from THIS quarter, anyway.
(...but then again, what ELSE is new, EH?!)
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