Dargo2

Btw ginnyfan, thanks for the clarification regarding Chris Robinson. And now that I think about it, I don't think Chris was the one who did those "constipation aid" commercials either.

Well folks, there ya go! IF for NO other reason than to supply these little "cathartic" opportunities for the Assembled at this most hallowed of websites, these sorts of threads DO serve a very valuable service, I suppose. Sooooo...might you have forgotten to mention anybody else who you might think either "has it out for you" OR find myself thinking "they're only here to crack jokes"? I mean, I'll gladly turn to the floor back over to ya here Kyle if you think you might've forgotten to mention someone! (...but don't worry, I usually DO like readin' your stuff, and DEFINITELY in MY case anyway, DO NOT "wish to see you leave forever", no MATTER who you might next mention by name!) OH, and more parenthetical "btw" to follow here... (...the reason I dropped MY "Facebook Account" is because way too many of my "friends" there kept sending me all their ideas about their "political opinions", and no matter how many times I'd tell 'em that their opinions were full of horse-pucky and please cease and desist, some of 'em would STILL do it!...and besides how many pictures of people's kids, cats and dogs does one have to see anyway?!!) LOL Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 23, 2013 10:55 AM

Well said all around there, Sepia. Your little "confession" here reminded me of something that to this very day every time I think about it makes my stomach turn a bit in embarrassment and shame. I was about 13 y/o at the time(1965) and wearing a Little League uniform on a SoCal sandlot field. The Umpire walked up to our dugout and asked who the player "Mike Washington" was, and thinking that Mike wasn't within earshot and for whatever reason I still to this day can't understand(as just as in your case, my parents never used this word either) and maybe trying to be "funny", I replied to the Ump, "Oh, he's the "N-word" kid on our team." Well, I turned around right after I had said that to discover Mike WAS within earshot, and I will NEVER forget the hurt look Mike had on his face. I tried to then apologize to him, but I was pretty much like trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube by then. And now whenever I think of this, I always hope wherever he is now, that that incident didn't scar or harden him too much throughout his life, and hope he's somehow found it in himself to have forgiven me for that.

>Then I look at the plot summary and the genre, eliminating all juveniles, "swashbucklers", "historical" or "costume" dramas, and 90% of westerns, "adventure" movies, and musicals. If it's not in one of those categories and I haven't seen it before, I'll always give it a shot... >And the bottom line is always: When a movie is in doubt, give it the benefit of that doubt. You can always erase it or throw it out later. I don't know Andy, but those two statements seem mighty contradictory to ME?! LOL (...yeah, yeah, I know..."To each their own", right?!)

>But if there's nothing on TCM I wish to see, my cable service provides 300+ channels of crap to switch to, and I'm bound to find SOMETHING! Hey Sepia, maybe you could do a Michigan version of THIS?...

>That is a very good question, Eugenia! What I usually do is what I call a 'link'. I'll pick a star from the last film that I watched on TCM and grab a dvd with that star in it. Now that "The Searchers" is over, there is nothing else on TCM that I want to see tonight. My first 'link' this evening will be Natalie Wood. I will probably watch "Kings Go Forth". After viewing that film, Frank Sinatra will be my second 'link'. If I'm still awake, I will then probably watch "From Here to Eternity". Now tomorrow TCM is showing nothing that I want to see, so I will pick up where I left off. My next 'link' would be Montgomery Clift, so I will watch "The Heiress". Then I'll really spice things up and watch the remake, "Washington Square" with Jennifer Jason Leigh! Well GG, I suppose that's ONE way to eventually get to a movie with Kyra Sedgwick's husband in it, eh?! And now, here would be MY "method" in this regard... I would rummage through all those DVDs that Eugenia mentioned in her set-up here, and pick the ones I've heard from a few reliable sources(such as many of the folks around here) are a "must-see"(and btw, REGARDLESS of genre or who's starring in them) but for whatever reason have never had the opportunity before TO see.

HA! You don't know the HALF of it, LADY! (...but if I knew how to type in that there Cyrillic stuff, I could spell it all out for ya so it'd just be between you and I...oh, and yeah, anybody else who might be from the old Eastern Bloc TOO!)

ROFL!!! Now Char, YOU know that I can present as "studied" and "dignified" a response as ANYONE around here when I WANT to. (...it's just that I DON'T want to most of the time, THAT'S all!!!) LOL

Actually sfp, that was "All My Children"'s Peter Bergman here... I believe Chris "starred" in a series of some kind of "Constipation Aid" type commercials back in the day, but I don't think he actually says that infamous line in 'em. (...btw, I believe it was that series of commercials that Johnny Carson once spoofed, where he says something to the effect of, "Let's talk about constipation", and then he gets hit with a whole bunch of pies right in the kisser)

Thanks clore. I do often get those mixed up a bit. (...as our friend James would say, "I should of known better.")

Well Brian, maybe he got scared off by "some" of the more "weird" people around here, such as "some" crazy dude who can't help but find a joke to be mined in almost every posting at this place! Word IS, ya know, that "that guy" more than occasionally gets that sort of response from more than a few newbies! Yep, scares 'em off, ya see! (...well, it's either THAT, or maybe unlike "that guy" and few others around here, Jymn actually HAS A LIFE, and so doesn't feel compelled to spend as many of his waking hours of his busy day here at TCM.com as those "other folks" I was talkin' about here!!!!) LOL

>Asked if she used the N-word to describe those waiters, Deen replied: "No, because that's not what these men were. They were professional black men doing a fabulous job." And in the vein of "I CAN call MY kid stupid, but YOU better not!", Deen's above response to that question reminds me of an old and very famous and VERY "ribald" comedy routine from the late '90s of Chris Rock's, and in which he uses the "N-word" SCORES of times to pretty much say or at least infer the very same thing as Deen did there. It's still currently on YouTube if any one has never seen it. Just type in "Chris Rock" into their search feature, and it'll come up on their listings.

>It was my understanding that Deen had the party similar to the picnic in Gone With The Wind, and was able to hire an all black serving staff. If they did have this party I hope the cooks didn't use Deen's recipes! Eeh! Ya know James, it REALLY all just comes down to a matter of "Portion Control", don't ya?!. (...and the PROBLEM in this country REALLY is that too many of Americans can't wrap their fat heads around THAT simple FACT!!!) (...AND thus creating a whole "cottage industry of charlatans" who keep coming out with books that tell people that "THAT'S the food ya gotta stay from to be skinny like me!") Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 22, 2013 5:45 PM

>I doubt if she would be able to find African-Americans who would be willing to participate. She most likely would have to hire non-A-As (perhaps ones not here legally) and have them work in blackface. Uh huh...especially 'cause Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Larry Parks are long gone now!

>The story is the plot plus the characters plus the setting. The storyline is the map of the story. Saaay, didn't Danny Kaye have to keep repeatin' somethin' just like that to himself in a certain movie about some Court Jester??? (...oh...wait...never mind...on second thought I think I might have my wires crossed here...sorry)

>I think my biggest problem trying to understand "Plot" "Story" and "Storyline" is that they're sooo intertwined with each other that it's like trying to separate a handful of worms that are all wrapped around each other in a ball.Darn near impossible to do!! Well jr, ya see right THERE ya got yourself a "plot", and NOW all ya need is a "storyline" and who knows, maybe some Hollywood bigwig MIGHT take a fancy to that! (...though they say you better have yourself a good Agent too of course)

>...the next door neighbor Pete, Harry Morgan, and his unseen wife {shades of Norm on "Cheers" and his unseen wife Vera} Gladys. After "Bride" ended its 5 year run they created a spin-off of "Pete and Gladys", but this time you saw her in the form of Cara Williams. And what a "form" she had, eh Fred?! (...you should know I can't resist set-ups like this)

Yeah, well, for SOME reason the American public seems to like the occasional obnoxious New Yorker TOO!!! (...weird, huh!) LOL

Well, once again gentlemen, as was the case of that cut footage near the end of this picture, Wilder DID film a take of that very scene where Chandler actually sticks his legs out and trips MacMurray...but Billy would decide during the editing process that all it did was slow down the pace of the movie. (...besides slowing down Fred's pace a bit too, of course)

>. . . err, never mind. GOOD!!! (...I was just about to order a couple of gopher suits online, but I didn't know if you wanted to be Mac OR Tosh!!!) LOL

>Her diabetes scam was even more outrageous. Hid the fact that she was diabetic while serving up all those sugary treats, then when she finally admitted it got a deal as a spokeswoman for a diabetes treatment. Nice work it you can get it. Yep, it sure IS alright, I suppose. But, ya DO know the whole "secret to success" in a case such as this is, don't ya John?! Well, the American public has always just eaten UP all that "folksy kinda charm" like that! Yes in-dee-dee! (...I mean how the heck to ya think that 'Good Ol' Boy" Dr.Phil, who in that "folksy" little drawl of HIS does nothing BUT dispense common sense that any layman with an I.Q. of about 90 could ALSO do, has stayed on TV for so long, HUH???!!!)

Well, how very perceptive of YOU to notice THAT! (...ya know Tom, we better stop this right now or else people might start thinkin' we're now sidetracking THIS thread by doin' some sorta "Mac and Tosh" routine here...)

>Dargo, there are times when I really am impressed by your perceptive powers. Well, given the fact that you and I seldom if ever disagree about things around here, it's only NATURAL that you would feel this way, Ol' Boy!!! LOL

Not sure if this fits completely into all the parameters of your question here sfp, BUT how about one Chris Robinson here... ...who was a semi-regular on the '60s TV program "Twelve O'Clock High" based on the WWII movie of the same name, and who had a guest starring role in one of the episodes of "The Fugitive", which would of course go on to become a star vehicle for Harrison Ford in 1993. (...but IF this DOESN'T quite cover all those parameters of yours here, if it'll help ya feel any better, I'm SURE given enough time I COULD eventually tie Mr.Robinson here to Mr.Kevin Bacon!)

>That only shows just how much subjectivity there is in all of this. Some people can't sit through silents or foreign movies, and you couldn't pay me enough to sit through any "swashbuckler" or historical "costume" drama. The very word "swashbuckler" makes me instantly roll my eyes, sort of like "perky", "steamy" or "quirky". And thus explaining in one swing of the chandelier why Errol Flynn never received the credit he was and is due as a pretty darn good actor! (...ain't that right, Tom!) >But all this means is: Different strokes for different folks, and the glory of TCM is that it gives all of us opinionated curmudgeons plenty to love. In full agreement here, anyway!